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WILMETTE l. IF.E June 28, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED F.RIDA.T OF EA.CB WEEK by LLOYD BOLLISTEB., llfC. 1%32-1%38 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill · . Chicago oftlce: I N. Klchlgan Ave. ·Tel. State UJI TeleJilo·e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmette fiM SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ... . ........ . . ti.H A YE..l.B used in your last yehr's course. Pursue the studies which interest you most. Don't give up yot!r systematic studying. SHORE LINES All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles tor publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to IIUIUre appearance In current Issue. , Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obttuartea, notices of entertainments or other atfatrs where an admittance charge Is publlshed, wlll be charged at regular advertising rates. Grade Separation will save life Let's have immediate action! Gunpowder. hy far the commonest explo . ive. should not he played \vith by any. body, old or young. Of course gunpowder is a valuable agent f o r accomplishing Don't Play such things as the With Explosives! death of mad dogs and the firing of salutes for returning heroes, hut razor blade. are far safer to play with. \Ye are told on good authority that in the la st 20 y('ars 61,000 people in the United States have heen fatalh· or scriouslv wounded hy playing "·ith- that particula-r form of gunpo\vdcr kno\Yn as fireworks, and the big majority of these people ,,·ere children. Our north . hore communities have passed and puhli. h<'d. plainly, ordinances against the sale and use of all form s of fire\vorks \vithin the corporate limits. Fireworks can e~sily be secured outside the corporate limits. Al1 concerned to c nserve the happiness and health of human beings, especially of the children, wiJI cooperate cheerfully and actively with the police of our villages in rigidly en forcing hoth the spirit and the letter of these ordinances. You have completed the course laid down for you. You have been given a diploma to show the world that the work prescribed for you has been done. If Advice to you are a gramn1ar school Graduates graduate yon will, of course, he planning to enter high school and get the four years of training given there . If yuu are a high ~chool graduate You ma,· not , for lack of monev or of de . i~e. contrnue on into college. 1f ;·ou arc a college graduate, the probabilities arc thnt your formal education has ended. Throughout th sc 16 or 20 years your education has not a11 been of- the formal or school sort. You have hecn within the walls CJf a school onh· fl\·e or six hours of every 24. The remair~ing 18 or 19 hours have hec~1 spent at home or with your companions. Thi s la~t is your informal tducation. and is having more effect on Yon than your formal education. 1I as it h~cn as good for you as the formal schooling? \\"e advise and urge all graduates to continue their formal -.education. \Ve urge them not only to take college work hut also to keep on studying along some definite line even after their graduati >11 from college. Don't put your school hooks way up on the top shelf in the closet. Leave some of them on the living-room tahle. Your mother will not object. Reread some of the books yon RAVEL is indeed a liberal education, particularly for desk-rirlden column conductors. To Even a pessimist could have a good time be specific, may we comment concerning that at Ravinia. It's possible that the trip out grand commonwealth, \Visconsin, home of true . there, supposing he came from the city, law enforcement. and famous for bathtubs, sausages and.- we11 they don't make the other anywould not be delightful more-not much. Happiness enough to remove his But 'w hat impressed us mos.t forcibly ' in our most and Ravinia grouch. But we're quite recent expedition into the neighboring state was certain that a s t r o 1 1 the apparent divisi on of its population in terms of around the grounds either alone or in the nationa lity. For instance, a tour along the Michicompany of an o rdinaril y nice young gan ho re reyeal s the fact that Milwaukee, woman. would start the process of liftin g Port \Yashington and Sheboygan are predomihis face muscles. nantly German; a bit further north we encounter Let us now as sume that the afternoon is the tO\Yn of Denmark, settled and profusely popuabout to begin and that our gloomy indilated by Danes. both great and small, while invidual is seated in the re se rved section halfquiry divulges the information that Swedes and \vay down the middle aisle or one of the Xorwegians are fairly plentiful up Ephraim wayside aisles. The director raise s his batoQ, the ummer population having been richly augand the concert is on. Then, if the mos- · mcnt<:d by Yarious north shore Scandinavians. quitoes are under control, natural or artifiGreen Bay retains its plentiful strain of French cial. and if the li ste ner has no unseatable with a good sprinkling of the sons of Erin. trouble on his mind-then our pe imi st is Then. of course, there are the Indian reservain for a genuinely good time. tions. T If the gentleman in question is accompanied by the afore-mentioned nice young lady. he wiJl most likely plan to get dinner in the park and stay through the evening performance, probably some one of the grandest grand operas. Tf von Havinia. \\·ant summer happin ess, tn· Swat the tnosquito that light s on your sensitive forehead and you accomplish very little. You <ion't e·;cn know whether you've ki11ed a father or Don't Let a mother and as In Reverse Dear Mique: What are we going to do 'about this "lovely" thing? Can't some way be found to electrocute or hang it? Every time a feller steps out and hooks up with a gal, the sassiety reporter writes: "It was a lovely wedding." Guess they ain't no wedding that ain't lovely. Well something's got to be done about' it. Why not try changing words around a bit and say it was a "brutal wedding/' or, if it happened to be a murder, why not say it was a "lovely murder." ·Just can't seem to get away from that "lovely" thing. -The Old Plug. M osqttitoes Breed! far as knowing whether your victim is the culex pipiens , our deadliest mosquito foe, or the culex salinarius, a comparatively friendly chap, you remain in dense ignorance. \\'e returned just in time to learn that Fil the Filosopher had departed on his major vacation spell-which continues from now until late in September. \\' hen our favorite nephew inquired as to the meaning of the term "Plutocrat," we mere(y pa sed along a mental portrait of Fit. Glimpses Along the Motor Trail Oshkosh-A busy town ~'Gosh-where cops \vrite tickets that are flaming red. (That's a gentle tip.) J J \\'hat you had hetter do is to prevent the pipien s from breeding. How can you do that? \Veil. one very good way is to dispose of all breeding places in your immediate vicinity. If there is in your yard or at yrmr hack-door step an old tomato can partly fu]] of water. pa and rna pipiens will find that can :1nd start raising a family therein. . o empty nuL the \\'ater and get rid of the can. .'\l so eli . pn sr of the water standing in your rain troughs or in depre . sions in your yard. Ci1tting down tall \\·eeds or grass " ·ill help to rid y our <:ommunity of this pestifero t'1 s hu m mer. Sheboygan-A youngster chanting "Eins, Zwei, Drei, O'Leary." 1!arinette-Proud possessor of "The \Vorld's Biggest Store located in a Little City." ~fenominee (Mich)-Across ·the river from ~Iarinette and not enjoying the proximity one bit. Green Bay-:\ splendid hotel where the traYeling gentry still use the sidewalk for a front porch. Two RiHrs-Coolcst spot along the lake. ~fanito\\'oc-Hiding place .for marine construction engineers. Observed a Scotchman last Sunday turning off his radio when Mr. Voliva ordered the Zion tabernacle sealed pending the inevitable offering. 1t is unfortunate that there should he . harp corners at the intersection of life's highways. In attempting to make a sudden quick readjustment at such a corner man\· an unfortunate man has hroken down elltirely or been badly injured. · \Yhy not preYent casualties by tnaking the corners rounder and hence the readjustment more gradual? \Ye love nature, hu·t \\·e are irritated bv the sentimental gush that is often ,,·ritte~ about nature. Such stuff is appropriately produced by little girls. but for gro\\'n people to allow their own creations in this field to see the light of day is to us incomprehensible. :\.lthough we shall inflict seyeral demerits upon The Old Plug for rubbing it in al]out our peculiar ·Cubs. \\·e neYertheless are inclined to be merciful. \\·e shall not even wish upon him a single flat tire when he embarks upon that second honeymoon journey to the Falls. Oh, yes he's taking the ~fis s us along. Hub of Henderson, Ky., ambled into town the other day with the announcement that he's weary . of waiting for a "colonelcy" and will henceforth take his chances along with other Chicagoans. Solemn Indeed "It's always in order," comments the gentleman to our left. "to point out the solemn fact that one way to increase your bank account is to spend less money." To which we rise. to reply that we'd be happy to spend less if we could get any. -Mique.