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36 W I L M E T T E' L I F E June 7, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EA.CB WEEK ' by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1232-1%36 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago otftce: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 63!6 Telepltone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmette 41H SUBSCRIPTION PRICE . ... . . . . . . .. , .. 11.80 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pubUc!atlon must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to lnBUre appearance In current , Issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, 'O bituaries notices of entertalnmentl!l or other a1falrs where an admittance charge is published, wlll be charged at regular advertising rates. Grade Separation will save life Lefs have immediate action! Tune is the month of graduates, ColJege graduates, high school graduates, Grammar school graduates, kindergarten graduates, Facts A bout Pre-kindergarten g r a cl uates, all kinds of graduJune ates; June is the month of weddings, hridcs dressed in white. Bridegrooms, negligible and lad in conventional hlack; In June · we ha ye Sunday School picnics in · Pottawatomie P ;trk. Picnic trains stopping at eYery country road, lemonade, Peanuts. popcorn. sanclwiche.s. amateur basehall. Tired mothers, weeping babies. empty baske~s; June is the hlOnth of pupils' recitals, hegtnnings of Yacations. Boardings of the big hoats for Europe, arnvings at summer resorts. Regrets at haYing left behind all the comforts of home; June is noted ior containing- the longest da~· of the year, c'l11C] <' !.!"OCS to \\'hen t 1 1e sun gets 111) ","l'lt'est '-'l bed latest; \\'hat is so rare as a daY in Tune l·nle;;s it it-' a · day 111 .'(.Hllc ~1ther month? \\'hen dogs are running about unmuzzled whose health and happiness arc most endangered? The health and happiness of children. especially little Sat-'e Children's L·hildren. Older hoys and girls and adults Lh·es can. to some extent. ' protect themseiYes ag·ainst animab \\'ho may harm them , The,· can either a \·oid them or oYcrcome thelll. i~ut those little childn:n who. onh· a short time ago, \tcrc infants in arms. . . . . ,, wh;tt chances ha\·e theY? l\ahies is a frightfuf disease. and it js these same little children \\'·ho cannot r<'sist its attack:--. F11r this supreme reason J.;:ccp your doo· at h()lllt'. ur if .You \\·ant tl) .kt . him run ~ about tht: :-.tn·ets. put a muzzle on htm. ln the must ef11cienth· managed business a di11"trenrc bet \\"ccn c~tim~itcd and actual rectipts of only 1.2 percent and_ between e. timated and actual expcn~es ot only 1.() percent is r.e garded as a most \Yekome fact. indicating a n~ ry high degree of success. ~iHce these ligures ,,·ere taken from the annual report c>f 11. L. \\'oolh.is~r, \Y.innetka Yillage manager. the admmtstratwn of the business aJYairs of tha, Yillage mnst be rated as exn:lknt. lf the p<'rrentag~s of difference had been any smaller we might have thought them too good to be true. New Trier high school students, a~ you may learn from our news columns, wm many prizes. Prizes for various achiev~mentsfor excellence tn .essay N. T. Students writing, in producti?n ~f poetry, in scholarsh1p, 1n U' in Prizes effort. in debating. If con1petition is the life of trade, and it certainlv is it certa)nly spurs on the student to exceilen~e in school activities. One may regret the fact that cooperati01~ cannot equal the feats of competition, but while one regrets. the -victory is lost. \Vhat ~ould one accomplish · in a field where there were no competitors? He would be like a clock with a mainspring hut no escapement de,·ice. Such a clock. after the mainspring has been completely wound, has plenty of power, hut whe~ allowed to act: spends its energy in one smgle gr~nd hursL of speed and then stops. .A man with l?lenty of power when engaged. 1n a work without rivals attacks the job w1th great energy ~Jut soon feels the lack of n1otive and incentive. School prizes can be prod~ctiYe of mnch (Tood. Indi,·icluals who, without the prospe~t ~f some reward, would not put forth their hest efforts, participate in con~est~ and P.erhaps achieve success. R~gul~nty 1!1 . offenng of prizes induces regulanty m stnymg, and this in itself is no mean result. Pride has ~lone some bad things but on the other hand has stimulated many to high aiming at~d noble persisting. --- - -- ~------------ SHORE . LINES TO SUMMER . <'p,·,.,- 1 of S'l.t'crt Summer mysteries, F azr ,, . f ld' W I1C1!Cl' C0111CS tile f ragrance of the U1'£ o · mg rou, The tnmced beauty of yonr blue streams dMclose, Mula.t ions illfinilc of 'lt:ind and trees. . 'I . Alld' l?ll ynl!r lurking gladsome melo~ws. vV !trrc do yozt arl ::nur 'l'arird hues drs pose, . H hrn 'lc·irttrr's 'ZC'il~s ynur lovclit~css ~p~ose And fitful [,fasts _ dzstort :!;our lrarmomcs. Where 7.('afts )'OilY sweets when da}'S of sztm;ncr swooH Into tht' ('oicrlcss ('ale of days tlzat were. Can \'0" lint lca('l' bchilld one parting boon, One .hnllmcwi churm, nne breath of )'OUr sweet cheer, That bri!Jlltcucd afl the jo}'Oits sunny June, '! A Jl(/ 'made yonr Ircasllrcri Hzemor)' so dear. · -Laura Rathbone. From, "On \Vings of Song." A BURNING QUESTION \\. hilc \Vilmctte ofti cialdom is pondering the llr"l'llt problem of establishing its contemplated in~inerating plant in a location that \\'ill .not. he offen i\·c to its more or less esthetically mchned citizenship. Glencoe throws wide the portals of its newh· completed garbage disposal edifice, inviting · '- · 1 · 1 ·11rr its m\·n and ohtcta s o t. netg 1 I)Ort t-> communities to cnt er, make a tour of inspection and actually enjl)Y a sumptuous repast therein. Xo we're not spoofing. dear reader, that very thing transpired bst Wl'Ck and what's more, they macle 'em like it-both the plant and the food . Befort proceeding further into this discussion, however, vvr hasten to oreassure all ·whom it may concern, that th food came not from the source the wisecracker might nln·iotisly suggest, but , rathrr, was preparecl. conveyed and ·served under prescribed culinary regulations for humans by an eminent Glc11coe catLring establishment. And when the diners had ate their fill there weren't enough leavin · to propnly demonstrate the incinerator . Bei!lg uttnly uninformed regarding the outer and inner beauties of the modern incinerating plant. certain \Yilmcttc citizens have been heard to voice indigant objection to a location oi a proposed disposal plant in the vicinity of their home s. · . \\'c also arc di sinclined to favor placing such an edtfice on residential property, and. accordingly, offer for \rhat it is " ·orth the suggestion that it rise in all its majesty, etc., on public ground. preferably in one of the mnre spacious parks where it might serve the purpose of an excellent banquet hall. ;1s \\Til as that of a dispn~al plant. \\ ' innctka police han~ their troubles. not th e least oi which arises from a complaint submitted by an iniuriatL·cl cit1zcJt \rho demands · a la\\" prohibiting the setting ol rat traps in places where cats abound. Said i. c. ha ~ tcns to cxplai1, that two oi his highly prized fl·lin cs limped home the other clay with rat traps attached to their respective <'natomies . .r\ o\\" ,,·hat do _\"till make oi that, \Vatson? Humor in June the annual report sulnnitted recently by the Yillage manager of \Vin~etka, ~Ir. \.V?olhi~er, to th~ \\ innetka Vtllage. board 1~ a paragraph whtch w~ ta~c Taxes and the liberty of quotmg m full. heca use it empha·sizes Suburban a fact that should be conLife ~iclered seriously bv eYery north ~hore resident. The parag-ra-ph fnllo\\'s: "lt should he rcc<wnized that there is a :-, di rcct ' relationship Let \\"ccn the IJeve 1 o f taxes on suburban property and the chara c t e r o f t h e co mm t 111 i t y . \ Ylw n t a x e s i n crease to a point \Yhere it becomes a burden to earn· unimpron.:cl property, the pressure to dev~lop such property for intensiv<'. re . ;:idential and business uses increases, \\"tth a rcsultino· tendencY ior the communit~· to become t-.cungcste<i and commercialized and to lose its attractire and distinctin· rural cl1aracter." ::\lr. \\"oolhiser esti111ates that 1<)2g ta:'\e . " \\·ill sho\\. an increase oi -+5 pen.·tnt. To matt\· this incn·ase \\"ill make tlw carrying ui u.nimpron·d pr()perty a 1mrden. If the reasoning in the ahuvc par~graph is sound. and it ~ecms ron~crvative and car\?iul, then this incrc;1sc ,,·ith its in,·olYcd hurcl<' n will tend to\\"ard~ the congestion and rtll1lll1Cr cializat ion of uur Ycry pleasant ~11h1trhan nJmmnnities and the loss ·of their "attractin: and distincti,·e rural character". ~nrh a chan<r~ will certainh· :-, . he . mo< tll1desirable. Cungestion and commercializatilln do not improve liYing conditions . . \ir. sun] igh t, trees, flo\\·ers. grass, unocn1pied spares- all these arc \\'hat han· made the north shore a ha vcn for those \\" ho want health and happiness for them . elve~ and their children. · Perhaps this lo\\'ering of li\'ing conditions \\·ill not come so soon as to affect (tltr children and g-randchildren. Perhaps the ranses uf this increase will he carefully scrutinized and some means of preventing further increase \vill be discovered. J11 ··1 guc~s that out -uf -town friend of Jack's l.1.acl nt\Tr been to a wedding where they had ushers. "\\'hy ? .· "I heard him asking one of them for a progrant." Our Aabbng2.stC'd contemporaries on the Atlantic Sl'aboard were so busy scanning the heavens for a glimpse of the Lindbergh honeymoon craft ~l~ey utterly overlooked the modest little ship crmstng along the shor<'s of the sea of matrimony. And now, my dears; we proceed upon exodus to parts unl ·:10wn, entrusting, the columnar swirl of swish and swash to mercies of The Old Plug, "incorpolatcd." hut not adi'eu. our. annu~l wht!e, th.I.S the tend~r Au revotr, -MIQUE.