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42 WILMETTE LIFE December 6, 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 Telephoae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmette 4118 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE . ............. lt.tO 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 tpsure appearance In current issue. Resolution! of condolence, cards ot thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other atl'airs where ~n admittance charge l!'l publtshed, will be charged at rf>gular advertising rates. his car? He 'certainly ought to. have ~een taking into his account the immaturity a~d impulsiveness of children. One evidently effective way of reducing the number of children's deaths due to auto accidents is the using of boy traffic patrols. It has been tried in the United States and in foreign countries and as traffic safety has proved a success. It will also work well in our north shore towns? SHORE LINES by Addison and Steele! We have discovered S a fairish modernized version of those episodes HADES of the Coffee House days immortalized a Grade Separation will save life Let's have immediate action 1 \Vith the going of Thanksgiving the stage is cleared for the approach of the greatest of all holidays-Christtnas. Not only has the anniversary of th<! Pre-Christmas birth of Christ its own Days particular glory, hut it has shed a secondary. glory over the days from December 25 to JanuarY 1. The week flanked hv Christt;1as and New Years Day is the real holiday season of the year. On Decemher 1 of this year one could hear far, far away the faint jingle of Christmas bells. Already the stores are gay with holiday wares of every kind. Window displays ·of gifts for eve.ryhody are proclaiming the nearness of the season of peace and good will. Glowing lights of festive colors festoon the crowded streets. Christmas cheer ev rywhere will let no one forge~, even if tie would. what glad days are coming. The children know .it. For long weeks. if not months. thry have been anticipating the happy day \\·hen g-ifts "·ill he distributed. \Ve can recall vividly the day just before Christmas when the air itself seemed to he . charged with some peculiar essence. The day was no ordinary day. The question coming hack again and again was. What are we going to get tomorrow? The churches and schools are preparing for Christmas. Programs a r e being planned. and those who arr to takr part are heing most carefull~· drilled. Sunday school committees are debating the question. Shall . we give presents to members of our own school as we11 as to the poor whom we have always with us? Christmas ts coming! Of cour. e. no driver would intentionally kill · a child. but the fact remains that i~1 Chicago in 1928 more than 200 childrrn were killed in automobile Do Not Kill accidents. And more than 3,(XX) were in jured. .'\ a Child! thorough study of these accidents has shown that manv of these deaths and accidents might have hecn a voided. ~fa v it not then he trut hfn llv said that dri\~ers did last year reallv kill many children? · Children are immature and i mpulsi \'t'. Every adult kno\\·s this. but does even· adult have this fact in mind when driving through a residence or school district? If he does not. may he not be justly hel<! responsible for the deaths of those children who run out suddenly into the pathway or Whenever a north shore institution makes a wholesome departure from customary practice, it deserves the gratitude of all those whom its A · Whole some activities in any way affect. Whether this Departure institution be .religious. commercial. social, political. or educational makes little difference, so long as its departure from custom is wholesome. For the reasons given above we desir e to call the attention of our readers to certain regulations announced and maintained hy the ~firalago Ballroom in "No l\Ian's Land." This ballroom permits the admission of couples only. It will not admit men alone or women alone. The value of this regulation is obvious. l\firalago allows no 'cabaret activity. Finally, it sincerely enforces restrictions against the use of liquor and against the providing of "setups." Tt is evident that ~Iiralago Ballroom really desires to keep its entertainment entirely wholesome and· to cooperate with all those agencies who are working to keep the north shore a good place in which to live. concerning Sir Roger de Coverly and his associates. It's rather an exclusive proposition, not at all in the sense of mo11etary or social rating, but rather as to personnel. No limitations are set upon membership, no gauge placed upon fitness to penetrate the inner circle of this group, no constitution and by-laws, no rules and regulations. Topics of discussion are neither prescribed nor circumscribed. Scope of thought and diversity of opinion are as limitless as the heavens above. And in this company, my friends, one encounters not world-renowned scholars and leaders of thought, though they would be welcome and, no douht, seriously taken to task. On the contrary, one finds in these noon-day discussions over the coffee cups what may be considered a fair cross-section of business and professional gentry. There are foregathered for example, the doctor, the dentist, the baker, the radio man, the druggist, the tailor, the banker, and the lowly scribe. Conversation is spontaneous, for the most part sprightly and very decidedly to· the point. Any given issue is thoroughly dissected. Politics, local and otherwise, comes in for its generous share of criticism,. constructive as well as otherwise. Discussion relative to the trend of civilization never fails of sustained interest. Are we living in the Golden Era? What ahout the next fifty or a hundred years? What effect, if any, will the so-called Jazz craze have upon posterity? Oh. yes, an~l what of prohibition and its attendant' evils or benefits? These are just a few samples in point. Then we have the myriad of two or three-man discussions. \Vherc do elephants go in search of their final resting place? How smart are ducks and dogs? Why don't they play off for the national football title? Who's going to win the National and American league pennants next fall, and who, the \Vorld Series? Inevitably, the sports events encourage some wagers astounding in nature if not in market value. And so we coulcl go on interminably, but more of this Sir Roger de Coverly stuff from time to time. · ln view of the great and growing interest in adult education manifested on the north shore, especially in connection with the Parent -Teacher The Value of n1 o v em en t, c e r t a i n · .4 dult Education thoughts expressed by the former secretary of war. Newton D. Baker. seem well worth repeating. \Ve quote below two paragraphs from an address made hy him at the World Association Conference held in Cambridge. England, last August. "The importance· and significance of adult education as expressed in a meeting- of a World Association for Adult Education are clearly apparent even to one who is not an educator. In my opinion, adult education is more than important: it is essential to our modern civilization. The . world will not continue to he safe for any of us if we do not have ready access to ali the avenues of adult education. "What is adult education doing? l t is making us all children again. No longer need we regard our education as ended when the period of youth is past. We have been told by a great psychologist that at forty, forty-five or fifty. we may continue our education where we left off as children. The adult education movement appears a" a herald of a cultural renaissance leading a tired world hack to the eagerness and the wisdom of little children." It is rarely that O!le finds in a paper. or magazine an article that provides both information and inspiration. But there may he found in a current number of the N ational l\1 unicipal Review just such an article written by Mrs. B. F. Langworthy telling all about \Vinnetka. What I Do Not Want and Why Now that Christmas is only a few weeks ahead I should like to state plainly what I do not want for Christmas and why. For lack of just such a dear: statement many an unfortunate man has had showered upon him gifts for which he had not the slightest use and for which he was obliged to express his insincere gratitude. Consequently he lost whatever Christmas feeling he might have had in his earlier years, and became a confirmed an:l cynical grouch. To avoid such a downward course I herewith announce that for Christmas I do not wantA Lar2e Can of LePage's Glue Because I alrt>ady have one which I found on the !'ltreet the other day. Becaus~ A Pair of Sox I now have plenty, new and darned. A Lead Pencil An Ash Tray Becau:->e nobody know::; just what kind I like. Becau::;e my mother trained me not to smoke. A Popular Novel Because they're unpopular with me. A Bottle of Aqua Velva Because T now have one that's almost full. A Tooth Brush Because I like to chool'le my own. Thanking you just the same, -FIL OSSIFER. \Vickie charged in upon us today heavily laden with Christmas gifts bordering upon or actually achieving the modernistic. It would not surprise us-and this is not a suggestion-to receive some perfectly practical nick-nack of fascinatingly distorted design. D. K. "Old Man" Grant, erstwhile news writer, who reformed several years ago and went to work at delivering Fords, dropped in this week to announce that he is "plugging" a brand new invention entitled a "freezeless faucet" for filling stations (or thereabout). Well, well, will wonders never cease? And now to dash off a few sweet lines to friend Walt, our perennial Santa Claus. We're expecting, if you please, to see lots of basketball games at Northwestern this winter. I -MIQUE. ·~ ·I