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28 WILMETTE LIFE February 8, 1929 WIL· M ETTE LIFE ISSUED FBIDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER. INC. 1232._1236 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago oftlce: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 8326 Tele.llone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · . . . . Wilmette fiOO SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .............. H.H A YEAR All communications must be accompanted by the aame and address of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In current Issue. Reaolutlons of condolence, earcla of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other a1falrs where an admittance charge Is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Grade Separation will save life. Ltt,s have immediate action! T}le grades of the North Western and of the North Shore railroads ought to be ' raised or lowered without delay. Both railroads should be taken Human Life off the street level. And 1s Priceless action leading directly and quickly to that' end must be take n at once. For years the need for grade separation has been urgent. Men. women. and children have been killed at g-rade crossings. Committees to look into the · matter have been appointed. Has any progress been made? Haye the railroads taken any satisfactory steps towards a solution of the problem? Do you k~ow of any? The street grades and· the railroad grades MUST be separated . Of that there is no question. The only thing to be done is to insist that every resident of the community inform himself about this question and assist the railroads and committee in the solution of the problem. Now that the "Elevated" Road is really elevated in Evanston, drivers and pedestrians cross fr01n one side of town to another freelv and safely. That's what grade separation will do in our north shore towns. At last Febrnary is with us. and maybe the weather will be warmer. And perhaps, as the weather get s warmer, the ice and snow \vill liquefy February and and di sappear down Maybe Warmer the sewer, no t to appear agam tn 1029. It'~ hecn a long. hard winter, and we're yearn-ing for a change. \Ye've seen enough ice-slippery and treacherous sLnff! \Ye'd like to get one good look at genuine terra firma, no matter how dirtv it mav be. \Ve'd like to see once agafn the ofd gray non-skid conc:ete pavement. \Valking on the solid, level.stdewalk _eems to us almo st too attracttve a prospe ct ever to come true. But we mu stn't go ·on in this vein too long. Even while we write the weather is getting warmer. If, as authorities say, the noontide sun is the best health promoter. then all our friends and ourself are headed for the hospital, ior none of us ha · s been shone upon by the noontide sun for many n1oons. _Next Wednesday comes . Valentine Day. And the advertisements of florist, stationer, and candyman are full of pictures of .hear~s of all sizes, Cuptds tn Hearts and birthday costumes, and of Valentines flowers combined to form all kinds of romantic things like the aforementioned he.a rts. bows and arrow s, and other symbols of the we~l known passion. The me ssage s shown tn these Valentine ads are of the accustomed sort- "Won't you be my valentine?", '.'If you love me , and so on ," and "Tell it wtth flowers." · We are ghid that the giving of comic valentines has gone out of fashion. Time was when it seemed the height of · humor to send to a nice-looking girl a picture of a horrible-looking female , angular and all out of proportion, and below the picture a bunch of verses a s uncomplimentary as the hi1man heart and head could invent. The so-called "comic" valentine was about as funnv as the smearing of tar on a newlypainted house and more like a search warrant than a valentine. Send your grocer a check dated February 14, and he'll think it a fine valentine. · Regional planning is of unu sual value. especially to communitie s like those on the north shore \\·hich can grow in only one directio n. Could each of Regional our town s spread north, Planning south. east. as as west. the need of looking ahead and anticipating- future development s would not be so urgent. l\Ianv problem s tnu ~ t he discussed and tentati~elv solved bv the Reg-i onal Planning association-eleYated highway s. grade separation s. zoning. Etreet and highway \Yidening. park ". fore st preserves. and a hundred others. l~nlike Evanston. the future of whose gro\\'th we stward seems ev en nO\Y pretty well settled. the towns further north have before them all sort s of poss ibilities and hopes. It i a matter of the highest importance then that our Yilla.ges give to the Regional as ~ ociation all the encouragement and assi stance that it s \YOrk so richly deserves. - SHORE . LINES ST. VALENTINE'S DAY Well well it's St. Valentine's season-and just cast y~ur o;tics over the following, to wit: (position is not necessarily preference) . An editor's a busy man, With a busy mind. But not too busy,Wickie hopes, To be her Valentine. -Wickie H e rsel'. "Competish" is keen, I h ear, But for your favor I pine ; I'll write your news for many a year If You'll Be My Valentine ! . -Geml. Oh Philup Space, you're learned. And -that's a lucky sign ; Pray tell, can I count on you . . To be my Valentine? -W1ck1e. Just how I cannot But k eep 'Till you you learned I'm learned quite divine ; right on a-counting get one past nine. -Phil. Oh, Vera's Yerra versatile, And Paul can't p all at all, So on these two untrammeled minds This Valentin e will call. - Ru. 0 :Master, :\fine, I'd follow you Through snow, and rain, and slime I'll "woof" your praise Through hot dog days , If you'll b e My Valentine. - "Gin" Oh, R ac y P earson, you're the guy ·who writes the news of sportsIf you'll be my Valentine I'll bring you seven quarts. · - Skokie Wickie. *or J ohnson's Floor Wax *(You'll faw down) "Oof," Gin ba rked in accents sa d, A bon e for m e won't go so bad ; If y ou would be my Valentine Come on and lay it on th e line. Ich hab mein herz Auf der Vilmette Life rnd der editor h e is it. Rut, oh , he is such a hard boiled g uy That I quake s mit fear And m ~in herz you can h ear EYen now Yen I a sk him some time To plea~e oh be mein Yalentine ! Ya? - Fraulein . J. ,,·ell ... PROSIT! Xow that the Senate ha s g raci ou·,;ly compli ed hy voting- in the Cruiser Bi11, mebbe the suppre ssed majority '"ill ge t some att ention concerning an occasional Schooner. What the .. ..? Dear l\liqu c-You se edito rs got a soft j ob. Yous e boss a editorial writer, a sa ssiety ed , a r eporter and a photygrafter. You~e coitainly got a ·soft job. \Vhen the ed writer \Hites about grade separation he's thinking about a grammer school ; the sassiety ed punche s the typewrit er - for a col ahout 'Mr s. DePuyster DePuyster Etcetera givin g a wonderful cracker and chee·se lunch eon; the rep orter thinks a stick is something to swat with and the photogoh joy unconfined. " Ye s," sezzee, "I'm a go-getter. I'll get that pix if it take s from nO\\' until next Xmas and makes good on the promise. Yes Mique it's a ·sof~· ob. hut take no chances on pui-3hing your thumb against you ,bean. It'd leave a dent. · . -The Old Plug. Mr. E. W. Mique: Dear Sir: I find it unusually difficult to invent and transmit to you a Valentine sentiment, but understanding as I do that it is to be passed on to the most beautiful lady on the north shore, I will do what I can. And Shake.speare could do no more, · could he? Thus would I address her : On February fourteen, twenty-nine, When I am feeling extra fine I send you these loving lines Hoping you'll be my Valentine. -Fit, the Filosofer. The New Trier chess team is winning games, sans benefit of the fine new gymnasium. -Mtque. Having landed in Chic<igo as '"e di<i in 1883 we should enjoy r eadin g Paul Gilbert '~ "Chicago and Its 1\iakers." Not that we think that '83 is a tremer.dou sly long time ago. but that 45 years in .and about thi s center of middle \\·estern culture make s t!S more intere sted in it s history than a paltry five or ten years' residence. There is a peculiar di stinction in being a nen1ber of a small graduating class. For example, the New Trier mid-year graduate s number only 22. whereas the June graduates number up into the hundreds. Isn't it much more distinctive to be one of 22 than one of 320 who graduated last year from our township high school'? Doesn't it seem rather likely that we'll have a somewhat early spring after such a severe winter? Don't you think that the law of compensation ought to operate under just these conditions ? Neither do we. It is somewhat surprising that all suburban and town communities do not adopt the Community Chest plan that has worked so well in Wilmette · and other towns. If towns as well as individuals are to follow President Coolidge's exhortation to economize, they would do well to include in their program this Community Chest plan. It saves an incredible amount of energy.