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WILMETTE LIFE March 8, 1929 TeiPpbone 8UBSCRI~TIO:! . . . . . . . . . . . · . . . . . Wilmette fSOO PRICE . 1!.00 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance in current Issue. Resolutions of condolence. cards of thanks. obituaries. notices of entertainments or other atfairs where an admittance charge is published, wlll be charged at r-e~ular advertising rates. · Grade Separation will save ·life. Let's have immediate action! :!\ o one can honestlv denv that the licensing of auto drivers WOttlcl go long Wa!' towards lessening the number of auto accidents. A g-reat number of incomLicenses for petent. reekless drivers A ttto Drivers would be eliminated ~nd almost as many fatrly good drivers would hecon1e more careful. Young people of tender years. classed as minors. are not allowed to vote. The immaturitY of their judgment is supposed to disqualify them. \Vhy should they be allowed to drive cars? Does not the safe .driving of cars call for just as much maturity of judgment as the voting for public officials? ~' ho can do more damage, a young driver or a non-legalized v~ter? \Ye are heartilv ·in favor of allowmg only those to dri\·e who have !)assed an adequate test. a te ·t of skill and judgment. Anyone who pas ~ es such a test. no matter what his age mig-ht be. should be given a · license. And every other person should be denied that right. a Many legislators have, through the medium of the press. solicited from their constituents opinions and criticisms of current and pending measures. Hereto.4dvertising Is fore, these solicitations Effective ha\·e appeared in the news columns of the \·arious papers. Now our state representativ.e, . Anna \ Vilmarth Ickes, has put her appeal m the form of an advertisement. She has asked the people whom she represents at Springfield to tell her in written form what they think of the proposed tax on gasoline. ~Irs. Ickes' way of getting into do er contact with her constituents · is certainly novel and will be, we ar~ confident. effective. As an ach·ertisement her communication will have a more busine, s-like tone than if it were in the form of a news ston·. It will arouse in readers a conviction that she means exact! y what she savs and will therefore call out the respon e that she desires. \ Ye unclerst.and that l\[rs. Ickes intends to adverti e agam when other needs arise. \Ve believe that this continuance of advertising her wants will create between l\Irs. Ickes and those whom she represents a bond that will mean much good for all involved. There n1av be sections other 'than the north -hore in the ~Iicldle \Vest where interest in gardening bud s profu ely in the late winter and early pring. blossoms Interest in in the spring and ~ ummer. and lives on t o make les Gardening dull the long winter m onth s. 1t ma v be that in some other suburban communit1e - there are a many thriving g-arden cluh as in our own n orth shore rommunitie.' . But we donht it. Read the roll of these duh s: \Yilmette .arden club. \Yilmette Evening .arden club. K enilw )fth Garden club , Kenilworth Home and Garden club. \Yinnetka Garden club. and Glencoe Garden club. Each town ha a crarden dub and some of them have two. Such acti Yitv manifested in zero \veather and when the- ground is still co\·ered \\~ith ire and now testifies to a deep and ntal interest in the enhancement of natural beauty hY the numberles - cle\·ices of horticultural art. SHORE LINES "PROSE VS. POETRY" (To H. M.P.) 'S awful hard To just sit do'l.~'H . And trv to wnte a po m, · 'Speciaily if. . There's some one thmg One wants to say 1 "\ll ost gracefully, AnA still not roam Or 'i.l'a1ulcr fro m his subj"ect. .Vo'lr'. I l! m·c fo~md The best 'i:('O\' to K eep up o/l c;s head, Is: Write blank verse, And thus a·void That feLirful wrse of rhymi11g. And, wlzat J started Out to say ~Vas: I ha7. 'C tried. The lh·e-lmtq day, T o thi11k of some .V n.v, clc"i.H!r ·way Of telling }'O·zt H o<.c· mu ch I care, . (I rcall3· do !), About -rou. I thought, a light And ain rh\'mc Would ;eally. tak e up J!uch less time, Thall somcthiug ratlzcr f(a~·c pro7.·cd i11 7· ain; I'll let it oo A 11d let \'O ll knrr~c· J!;,l feclitt gs true, In that trit e {'rose: I lo~·c }'nil ! Jr\' efforts. thou_(;lz, Kay Jay Ell What of That Do You Think of? Mique: We sat through a speech at New Trier High the other day and to make up for the shock of those hardwood seats we culled this gem from the speech of a prominent north shore peraonage: "a former president of which we are soon to celebrate the birthday of." -Francois. Lest we run short of space we remind one and all that Harold Hill Blossom is a landscape architect who hails from Boston. not like other ·contagious maladie5. Ha\·e them once and vou mav not have them agam. But t hou~h , .(-)lt \ ·e h~d tr<l\·eler ':-; itch ' once or a dozen times YOU Traveler's can and will ha \·e it again. and ven· likeh· each attack Itch will .he · more . \·irulent than the pre\·ious one. The first symptoms of this disease appear in late Tanuary or early Februarv. You suddenly feel res.tless ancl desirou ·of a change. Interest in the ordinary work-routine hegins to flag. and you begin to long for European sight· and sounds. If yuu are out in company when the germ begins to investigate your vital · vou turn the conversation toward the costs a~d pleasures of ocean travel. Briti h and French hotels. art galleries and cafes. As the malady progresses you neglect your accu tomed book and spend hours immersed in guide books. maps. descriptions of the vari us tran~atlantic liners. You read hooks with strange title· like "So This Is England" and "Acros: the Alps in an Airplane." Your temperature rises when . anyone mentions Liverpo 1 or Florence. In your fevered sleep you are heard to utter _uch words as gratuity and tram. On Sundav, Februarv 24. we saw the nloving pictures· of the g"'otden eagle, taken by Captain Knight of England. \\'hat impres ~ eel u e pecially was that birds do not fly instinctively. They have to practice flying· before · they bee me in any degree proficient. \ Ve suppose that when we get to heaven we'll have to practice before we ran u e our winrrs effectiv~ly. It'~ All of us must learn to live. X ot simply t o exist but to live in such a way as to merit our own approval. . nd where and when and how can we learn this We Must Learn most needed of all · lessons? to Live \\'e should like to emphasize the fact that not or:ly t.he blind but also the sighted must learn to hve tn the fullest sense of that meaningful word. Like the blind it takes us many years to acquire e\·en a decent amount of skill to live. And the great number of middle-aged peopl~ who h~ve grown tired of living and _are w1llmg to gtve up the joh leads us to belteve that few learn how to live. If it is the main purpose of the school to teach people how to live, then the Hadley School for the Blind in \Vinnetka is fulfilling its purpose admirably. Since 1921 it has given instruction to more than 2(X)() persons. By this instruction it has enabled many to be selfsupporting. It has thus helped them to overrome a handicap that is almost as serious as lark of ambition. Nuts. if one may judO'e accurately by the increasing number of stores and ads, are on the grow. lVIore and more nuts are coming into our. midst. And vet how sensible most people are ! "' Our good friend Bill Tipster crashe·.; through with the astonishing information that "Callahan and Blatz" are contemplating the erection of a magnificent theater in Wilmette. The Indian Sign Of course you listened in on President Herbert et. al.. last Monday, and, likely as not, decided, as did we, that Vice-President Curtis was thoroughly justified in fumbiing on the word "reservation" in administering the oath of office to the newly-elected senators. And now that it's all over (we mean the inauguration) we shall proceed, everyone of us, no doubt. to partake heartily of the much-drscussed wave of prosperity destined to accompany the Hoover administration. All of which injects another ·.;erious problem into our economic life, namely. that of the \vorker, who, according to the New York World, is worried lest his dinner pail become so full that it will spill over and spoil the uphols'tery in hi·s sedan. W e'r,e a Democratic Lot "And," relayed the rather excited radio announcer, "Now we see Mr. Hoover and Mr. Coolidge seated on the floor of the senate conven· ing and speaking with one another." Or Shot in the Back "Out in Chicago," comments a New York columnist, "you must pay 75 cents for a haircut, but you can have your throat cut free." At last (knock on wood) we note the Inevitable !'lgns of f1arly spring. Our annual spring cold has arrived a tun month betimes. -MIQUE.