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34 WILMETTE LIFE November 29, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER INC. 1232-1236 Central Ave .· W~lmette, Ill. Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmette 4100 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .............. tt.OO A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and addrP~s of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to 1Psure appearance In current Issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other affairs where lln admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertl~in~ rates. Grade Separation will save life Lefs have immediate action! \Ve've always been s~rong for the Hoy Scouts, but we're t>ven stronger now that we have found out that a Scout can save a life. We arc thinking A Scout. about the wav Billy Saves a Life Lardner, a Glen~oe tcn~ derfoot Scout, saved the life of two-year old Virginia Dean, after older people had g-iven her up for dead. \\' e know of nothing so \\'elJ worth ~a\· tng a~ human life. \Ve may Sa\'e time. money , and energy; but in so doing we sa\'e in each case something that is by tw means so valuable as human life. -.:\nd somehow the life of a two-year old child with its promise of many happy nseful year~ seems especially precious. Little Virg-inia had apparently been drowned. Older people had worked over her. doing . their be~t to revive her. But they couldn't do it. The tiny light seemed to have gone out completely; not even the !aint~ st glow was present. The Scout put tn Ius appearance, applied what he had learn ed, and saved a life. If Scout training can accomplish such a wonderful result as this, who shall dare say t hat t h c training is not \\'or t h a 11 it m a" cost? · Banks in our north shore villages seem to be growing, judging from the fact that there is never a time \\·hen some one of them is not putting up · a What .Good new and larger building Are Banks? or adding a ub stantia l section. Thev are ol)\·iously expanding, never contra~ting. This mu st mean growth. \\'hat good arc banks, anyhow? The\· never have done much for us, except tak·e our nHmey, write down the amount in a little book, and on certain occasions hand us out a dollar or two on our demand. Of course they have got us into the useful habit of giving them a dollar or two every week to save for us. Several times our savings have helped us to get something we couldn't have got if we'd had no savings. \Ve had almost forgotten that they also take care of our checking account. They furnish us with check-books whenever we as~ for · them. Then we pay our bills by filhng out and delivering these checks to our creditors. At the end of each . month the bank gives us a nice little package of endorsed vouchers, and we hold them as receipts. T~is method helps us to keep our trade accounts straight. Besides if we didn't get monthly reports from our bank we shouldn't be sure just ho\v much we had left or how much we'd overdrawn. Of course our bank is glad to do all this for u s because we deposit our money there. Once or twice our bank has loaned us some money at six percent. \Ve were glad to get it , needing the money at just that moment to buy a fe\\' shares of gilt-edged stock. We didn't buy it on a margin. We've often used the safety deposit vaults. Some friends of ours borrowed mone\· from their hank \\'hen they made arrangements for building their home. They gave up their apartment \vhen their children were old enough to play otttdoor~. and they're now living in their 0\\'11 hom('. 'fhe children are happy and healthy. After all we do believe that hanks are 'g ood for a g-reat many things. vVe sometimes wonder how our 0\\'11 bank ran afford to do as much for us as it docs. Four classes of persons can \\'ell cooperate tu decrease auto accidents. lf these four clas~es \\'Otdd cooperate actively and persistently, there is Decrease Auto 1111 doubt but that the number of auto .4ccidents! accidents, tt s u a 11 y serious and often fatal, would be very perceptibly diminished. These four classes of persons are ( 1) village trustees and other ri vic authorities, (2) property owners, ( 3) clri vers, and ( 4) pedestrians. \'illage authorities have done, and arc doing, tnuch to decrease the number of auto accidents. They have cut back many sharp corners, thereby not only making it possible for drivers to turn the corner with cars under better control but also improYing- visibility. They have kept in good repair streets and alleys. They have closed up hazardous passageways such as the \ Villo\\' Street viaduct in \Vinnetka. They arc now discussing the advisability of closing the fiazel Avenue viaduct in Glencoe. I\'[ uch might be said of the good work done by uur police departments in preventing auto accidents. Property owners can help in the protection of limb s and lives. They can trim do\\'n shrubs at corners where traffic is frequent. Property O\\'ners can also co?JWratc in the prevention of opposite parkmg. on n_arro\\' streets. They can also keep the1r rhddren out of the streets. Drivers and pedestrians \\'ill aid hy exercising jnst common-sense precaution. From a st udy of the literature se nt out hy the Chicarro Tuberculosis Institute to whom will go all the money realized from the sale of Christmas Bu.v Christmas Seals we have learned Seals! the following facts: The seals are to be sold through . the schools by the children directly to their own families and friends. There will be no prizes for largest sales made. Knowing thes~ facts, there is little n1ore we need to know except that we should SHORE LINES CHEERS AND TEARS NNOUNCEMENT that Wilmette n:mnicipat authorities have at last tossed aside whatever sentiment they may have possessed and sternly issued the command for complete demolition of the town's old fire barn (long since abandoned for that purpose), has been greeted with widely diversi6cd expressions of opinion in the sanctum sanctorum, whtchl in case you do not know, is !'ituated across the street and almost due north of the doomed landmark. The police reporter, for instance, whose business it is to collect varying degrees of sensational bits about town, bemoans tl~e fact that this sole remaining source of a potential all-night blaze, or victim o£ a devastating wind storm, should ·he wiped away bv such prosaic means as the wrecker's axe and sledg;.. (His story relating either or both of tht·sc pros pective circumstances has lonR since rested in the archives, awaiting only the scream of the fire siren to be unleashed and given its place of t·mincncc.: on the front page, Our society editor and her first assistant, on tlw other hand, glcef ully anticipate the prospect of an early erasure of the crumbling relic and the suhsl'quent erection on the site of a noble structure that will bring icc cream cones and kindred delicacil'-. a hit nearer the habitat of the ultimate consumer. . Tl_1e art ~nd mitsic critic deeply dep1orcs tht· 1mmmcnt raz111g of tlw artistic old edifice since, a:-. shc .has so oftt-n remarked: "its leaning proclivitil':rcmmd. one so much of the Tower of Pi sa, and the wmds that howl (free translation) about ih caves have many, many times rccalltd to one':-; sensitin~ auricular cayities the doleful chantings oi a race of men long smce gathered unto its fathers." The real estate editor, with sense's sharply attunl'd to the march of progress, envisions the prospect here of ~ soaring apartment hotel, or, perhaps, a ne\r movte place (providing g-ratis admission to all mem bers of the fourth estate). Fil, the Filosofer regards the entire ~~tter rather in the light of its psychological effect upon posterity, with particular reference to the truism that nothingcan stand in the way of the unceasing advance , 1i humankind to\\'ard a loiticr estate. "Surely it i.., for the hest," is his sage and practically irrcfutaldt· contentilln. And we-we sha ll sorely miss the old fire barn. \\'hat a remarkable example of architecture, embodying as it docs, in its various aspects a veritahll· profusion (or confusion) of designs all beautifullY worked into a single edifice that can never fail t;, command the undivided attention of the passerby~ Pray do not expect minute details from one so utterly unversed in matters of architectural appoint ments. You've simply got to see this treasure 111 fully appreciate · all we 'vc attempted to conwy in these most inadequate lines. A Help! Help! After vic\ving last Saturday's Notre exhibition we are constrained to suggest to Major Griffith that hereafter the Irish permit his Big Ten to assist a distressed brother by loaning at least as many first string reserves as King Knute can muster at any given contest. Substitutions came so thick and fast we were inclined to suspect the water boy and band leader of executing some Lon Chaneys. Notre Dame classes must be pretty skimpy when the football squad goes on tour. What a team, oh, what a team t BUY EARLY FROl\1 SCHOOL CHIL- DREN. \~' e learn that homes may now be eqmpped with ascending stairs. Doubtless, tl:ey. wil~ also descend, but anyhow, how mce tt wtll be to be carried upstairs after a hard day's work! Sounds Plausible "A bald-headed man," quoting a contemporary journal, "hearing that the hairs of our heads arc numbtred, wants to know if there is not some place where he can get the back numbers." What now shall we grid fans do with our Saturday afternoons? -MIQUE . ....