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24 WILMETTE LIFE December 27, 1929 aries, notices of entertainments or other atralrs where JLn admittance charge Is published, wUl be char.-ed at regular advertlsln« rates. bard Woods makes flowers out of old tin by cans. He takes these discarded tin cans LLOYD BOLL18TEB INC. and with snips and pliers 1232-1236 Central Ave.· WUmette. IlL , Chicago oftlce: 6 N. Mlchlpn Ave. Tel. State U26 Flowers and atid ingenuity transTele,llo·e . . .. . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . .. . WUaet&e fiN Old cans forms these disrepu8UBSCBIPTION PBICB .............. n.H A. YBA.B table unlovely cans into All communfcaUone muat be accompanied by the beautiful tin flowers. V\7e put this talented name and addreu of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to man into the class where is also the person tpsure appearance In current Issue. Resolutions of condolence. cards of thanks, obituwho makes the desert blosom like the rose. ISSUED FRIDAY OF EA.CB WEEK ·WILMETTE LIFE A man named Burkhardt living in Hub- SHORE LINES Dearest Friends and Severest Critics Grade Separation will save life Let's have immediate action I \Ve hope that you adniired the front cover of our Christmas number. It showed, as YOU will remember, a characteristic · scene. A man and Our Yule· Tide two children were Greetings singing and playing a good old holiday carol before an old-fashioned English home. From a lamp bracketed to the front of the house there is shed a cheerful radiance. A little dog. curious as to the intentions of the minstrels, completes the picture. Our principal aim is to keep you informed regarding the goings-on in your particular connnunitY. But we also aim to interest and pleas~ you. \Ve trust that you have found and will find the exterior of our weekly news magazine attractive. If you do, plea~e tell us so. If you don't. please drop us a line. pointing out just what it is that YOU don't like. \\ e want to improve, and you can help us. Thanks! Just after 12 .p. m., December 31. 1929. a new decade will be ushered in. 1930 will be the first Qf a series of ten years that will doubtless witA Very Happy ness many surprising New Year! changes on the nortli shore. Of t h e s e changes perhaps the most surprising will he those attendant upon the increasingly wide use of the airplane and the dirigible. Of these two means of air travel '"e believe that the dirigible will come into more common use as a general air vehicle. It may be that in 1935 matn· a north shore home· will have its a irs hip ·moored over night to its chimney. \Yhat a sight that will . he! Other and more important changes will take place. If 50 percent of the New Year resolutions are put into effect h\· 1939 the north shore communities will h~ a heaven on earth . . All the habits will be good habits. Husbands will change from business suits to dinner suit. at their wives' request without one single word of complaint. Wives will go alone to the opera cheerfully. Children wilJ obey their parenb immediately and sweetly. · Seriously, January first provides an excellent opportunity for turning new leaves. Resolves to drop some bad habits-empty resolves-can on the opening day of the year be more easily taken to heart and put into practical ~peration. ~1ay 1930 be the happiest year of your life! An optimist, as we once heard, is the man who makes lemonade out of the lemons thrown at him. Had he been a pessimist he would have allowed ·himself to be pelted with and finally overwhelmed by these same lemons. But how different the optimist! H ~ catches the lemons, squeezes out their pleasing tartness, adds the appropriate amount of sugar and water, and behold!delicious lemonade! l f one man can tnake flowers out of old cans and another can n1ake refreshing lemonade out of what his enemies hurl at him, why cannot a third man transform his unlovely 1929 self into a 1930 work of art? At this time, when so much is being said about the financial embarrasstnent of governing bodies in Chicago and Cook county, because of the delay in colWinnetka'S lection of 1928 tax funrl:;, Finances it is interesting to finci a n1unicipality t_hat is unique in the fact that the borrowing of money on tax anticipation warrants at high interest rates is not only unnec(.'!ssary but where its financial position permits the loaning of surplus funds to other taxing bodies. The Village of Winnetka, operating under the city-manager plan on a strictly business basis, does not anticipate the collection of general taxes by borrowing in advance during normal years; tax funds are not expended until they are actually received. The present tax crisis therefore found \\1innetka in a stronger position than many Cook county ·municipalities, at the outset. In addition, the Village operates its water and electric utilities on the basis of strong depreciation and enlargement reserves, which are available for investment until needed for capital requirements. .O n November 30, these reserves amounted to $471,000, of which over $125,000 had been invested in bonds at good ·interest. In addition, the Village council has authorized the loan of $135,000 to the W!z1netka board of education by the purchase of its tax anticipation warrants at 5 percent interest. At the same time, the general activities of Village government have been financed, pending the receipt of 1928 taxes, by the temporary use of these surplus funds, without jeopardizing the operation of the electric and water departments. Consequently, Winnetka citizens hear nothing of suggestions of curtailing police and fire departments, health activities, and similar most necessary public service. The work leading to the separating of the grades of our railroads and streets is going on. It's slow. We trust that it is sure. · Sincerest Wishes for a ifappy ·and Jrn!iprrnus Nrw lrar -Mique