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at 1' ations jmuet be sccompa*Iid 07 the ,ss of the wrter. Articles for pub- mob the ffdIWr by Tuesda7 noon to ce ln current issus. f condolence, carde cf taks, obitu- )f entertalinmêfts. or otiier affairs ttance charge la publfrbed, wIll be. lar advertislig rates. Grade Sepatation WUvl Save L f e Let*'Hasten the Day! Attacks upon" the WNlilniette V'illage ad- * miniist ration conicerning curtailmient of hbldget, to fit the lrestent deëflated, condi-. tion of the mnlnci- *Whates Ail the p al pockethbook Sho ting:A boutt? h.9 roughlt aboût 1w) thie coliap)se :of the tax collection nmachinerýy ýand( the acconm- panving difficuli ~i1gadéquate funids ~fromn sale of tax anticipation' warrants, are iiot onilv unwarranted, but indicative of a deplorable- absence of goo(d'sen3ýe. Our Village .administration liash1e el cn laboring unIder a terrifice'handicap for iianv, months. In recent ,weeks. particularl'Y. President Dubbs and the Village b oa rd. lia v e. employed every ineans consistent mith the best interests of the communiiiity tû slaslh expenditures. Service ha-. been * curtailed onlv %where it wvas possible and advisable to do so> withouit ser ioulsl-y jeop- a rdizing the fnctions of the variousde- l)artni1eits of local governineût. Such ac- tion is not .oui. thoroughly justified. but comnniendable., lear-thinking citizenls çan-- not fail to. agree that, in thiis particular at.Ieast, the Village. administration, .is doing the righit thing. Many nmonthis have elapsed. sifice regular 'incoie. froni taxes has been avàilable, vet'service to the taN- payer, though somewvhat- cu rtail 1ed. lh a's continued tuniniterruiptedly-. ow nimii c lh longer we may enjoy this service Ns prob- lematical.. Certainly. the p)olicNv (>f the administration in this regard does not eail ~72~ *in reviewing hi i s experi- It iveecint eliees as a1 cominuter,'I Be So reached the ainazint truith lthat for each business vear 1 passed six hundred uni maginative hours, traveled twenty. thousand i-oniotonous, mhiles, and spent a good deal of mnv of these precious six hundred o u r s in 1laving bridge he mniglit justifiably regret the loss and think the hours unimagina- tive, though we assume -tbat even bridge cails for considerable imagination. We .are. very sure ,that 'had he .uised bis twventv thousand miles5 in ýreading good books or in conversing wtith well-informed train-mates, he '%vould not have fouind t h ie journeys inonotonous. WTe know in a nvy miei who, -while :-oxwmunti"ing for ten or, twetvversbetween the north shore andi Chic ago, have found the experiencée both pleasing and profitable-ii mianv senses!. T o commuter need have experiences so uitterly gloomv as those of puir friendfronm Lake Forest.,.. For eiglit ears thc \Vinnetka Mns i 'c' club, lias been providing for iorth shore muitsie lovers recitals* 1w 7thi)est imu.sicians.1b The Bes 1ýi1 the . world. And, these TiiBesinretnrkaîle recital, havec the World l -eflg-iv * n.no butra iýîlcsa\a\ iMnChicag u in the highi school assemblv hall, a f ewý Minutes' ride or ,valk from nortii shorce homesý Moreover. the subsc'riptioni fee bas been -tell wvithin the reach of the nin of average inconme. These wonderful porm have been- sources of the keenest delight. The pleas - ure given bas been uinblenished 1w e\e the slighitest alloV of unpleasantnless Or ennui. If during- any recitals the. atteni- tion of any individtial in the audience ha, straye d, no other person. 50o far a s -\1e, kohas been aware of the strayî ng.', Each concert bias been profitable as,,wýell as enjoyable. These,,mastersin- the fields of instrumental and* vpcal art have cou- ,inced us that m iusie is the supremieat that withouit it plan would be indeed poor. In this familiar' hall vu'e have forgotteni our troubles and learnied to look at life froni a highier, a more conimaiiding. cmi- n e c e Naturallv nmati are spmewhat sorrv tco see the endl of this vear's series of recitals P ti b 1 i c institutions. and private indi- viduals, more or less crippled bv econpinic explosions are limping along. But prog- ress. is being made, even though slowly. a nd ithere's.a whisper in the air that sounds' a ittle like, returning good health. at orner tim is about to But no, the gentleman who perpetrates the col- umns imrnediately to our lef t had appropriated the prerogative that had been ours> for I, these many years, and ieft us with littie or.nothing to sayv about 'March. Whîch we have done. -Our Book Editor conveys the interesting opinion e,.xpressed in the 'Saturday. Review, of Literature, that Clarence Darrow, Chicago's own "attorney ior, the damned,"' who bas, recently completed a sort of autobiography cniitled "The Story of My Life," and shou1d, therefore, have inside information,.. *'doesn't under-stand D!arrow either." Interesting, indeed, thisintroduction to a review of the. book by Lincoln Steffenis., "That man Darrow-mthe- hunched up, dark, stra.nge figure that bas skulkedarouxid in the background %of all our, lives for decades-the attorney for the.damned, the orator of the, mindrity, who stalked out ini front, now and then, on the wronig side, aiways-the Clarence. Darrow nobody knioWs so curiôusiy bas written at last bis own troubled life and pbilosophy, and it appears, as rnight have 'been expeted that he, the insider-Darrow- (Ioesn't understand Darrowv eitber; a life which is NoNv that Mr. Garner is receiving sé many gavels -tbe 65th. came the, other day, ,and weighed 300, polunds-*twold 1ýscem a pity to bhave hirn forsake thec Speakership for a, chance at thePeidny wvhere. wve're told. gavels are practicallv tneyer mnIL clllde4 iiflitc e,ýSCntial equipmcent. Déar Mqe lfUhen. iFcbritar 'in are cold, cah! A'*nd jalkx hir dow(qita Pensat'ola, The'n bcin to p *enise" o'coal, ah, A4nd thiooPuhlx rclturn la coke or coal, ahi. -The' Stoker. Reacis a headline. "SeholsNot. Represented At Educational Meeting" BengcIssfid n dub, sa piece of réal new.s. The Sterling (111.) Rotary News sends aiong this bit of verse. under the caption "Seiected," wbicb wve *pass along -s a consoiing thouigit in these distressiug *days: "He' lias not served wvho gathers go id. ,N 0N1, las lieserved zhose life has tol!d "Right." agreed Lea. Then- "Let's see. wbat part did you take? Curtain-f or Lea. ]WtI 1et i.n:"Gin, the' Type-eating Terrier, is :con- valescing satisfactoriýly in a saniterium." -MIQUE. g