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wnat cant' *CHICAGO SUBURBAN Q'UAL1TY GROUP Chicago Offices -xoi6-xoi8 WILLOUGuBEyTowsjt SUB6RIPION$2 PER YEAR SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS cation mnuet bcar the namne and addrcss of theý author, flot accessarily for publication,.but for oôur file$. Sucb materi al must reach the editor by Tuesday noon to be in time for the current issue. VILLAGE El EGTIONS As t he -time approaches--for village elections in the New Trier municipalities, the attention of citizenishaving, the public welfare at heart should turn to the selection of Éuqch-'candidates' for the varîous offices asiiil insure the highest type of local government. An commnunities so ricli in available talent ýof the first 'order it should be possible to attract to public service men and womnen of such outstanding ability that ne mat- ter whether this faction or that loses in an elec- tien, the viliage will always win. In recent years it bas become more and more apparent that the "closed caucus," dominated by a few persons or a single individual, is ene sure way not to get the mnost capable and efficient candidates. Indeed, with sucli a citizenship 'as ours, capable of judging between ability ani m ediocrity, the best resuits are obtainable through the earnest collaboration of as many public- spirited peopie as will join in the service. '. Some years ago Winnetka, weary of the con- tinuai strife of election battles and determined to retrieve the village from the bauds of petty. poli- ticians,, formed a "village caucus" te select candi- dates. The result bas beein to give that village ____ a government that is wicieiy recoguized as a mociel This year the caucus bas been eniarged to two members fromn each of the ten precincts,,- and ten fromn the village at large. As might 4be ex- pected, the caucu.smethod is oppesed by factions that would threw the-affairs of the village back, into the maelstrom of ýpartisan polaitics. SBût thé great miajority of citizen voters, recegnizing the benefits of good governm ent, continue to loyally support the caucus plan. Glencoe adopted the idea later .with varying success, .Assaults upon the plan have been re- candiaes or the spring election. Untortunately the present administration, during the closing weeks of last year, nominated candidates, thus assuring at ieast one miore contest before the caucus plan can. bc adopted. 'X'his, in shortila a survey cf the situations as thcy now exi.ti the. four villages.- It is- te be Whiie proponents and administrators of the national recovery act may be pardoneci for the enthusiasm with which they are supporting that measure, as well as for their unbounded faith in its ability te bring back prosperity and correct ail the evils Of a complicated economic sy«stem, they. should be warned, that there, is daniger that unbridled propaganda may serve: only to defeat the purpose for wbhich the act',was c reated. lu newspapers, from the platform and over tbe radie, the statemnent is made.and overemphasized that "failure of the NRA meanscnaes a nd:revo- lution." By means cf this dangerous propaganda Our heteroigeneous citizenshïp, neot ail cf which is rooted. and grouuded in Amnerican principies, is being educated in the belief that the American people wvill, be ready and willing teo ditch repre- sentative govertiment and surrender'tbe country te the. forces Of disorder, rapine and murder in Case the NRA' fails te ac.comiplish what they have been led to believe it wiIl accompiisb. This co1 ntinuai harping upon- revolution a s the *only alternative te the, suctess c f -the recovery act, is, doiug more than any other agency to instill into the, niinds of uneducated and balfý.assinii- i1ated citizens the gerins cf revolution which might conceivably propagate so rapidiy as te get beyond ail control. Who is te be the judge as te: whether the, recovery act has succeeded or failed? It is pos'sible that a veryaàrge Conti n-> gent eof the ýpopulation miglit get 'the ides that the measure had failed when in fact its resuits were decidediy beneficiai, suad acting upon, what the adminiistratbrs. have. taught _them, start a revoiution that ýwouid lead to serions couse- quences. If there were auy definite assurances cf the success cf the recovery act the poiicy rnight be excusable on the ground that persuasion is better * hnforce in conipelling complisuce with the progrsmn. But s0 long as its most devoted spcn- sors'can offer ne guarantee that the plan wili work as expecte4, it wouid be safer snd far more sensible. te-refrain 'from instigating mental rev-o- lution. ., I a radio speech January 18 Hugli S. Johnson, chief of the administrative forces4,stat-ed- that the "NRA is à big success. and business is in for the grestest presperity it lias ever.known." A little later in the' sanie speech lie'said "I hope it -wiil succeed," and added, "I believe it will succeed." It would seeni that more assurance cf success' shouid be in evidence before revolution is heid ont as its oflly alternative. Reports .are that josephi Stalin, dictator cf. Soviet Russia, won unanimous appreval cf the congress cf the .comrnunist party of ail that he bad said and done since the previous meeting cf the congress three years ago. If we had to live ini that country we would also be unanimeus. for, Mr. Stalin. Itis a lot m'ore :pleasant than being "liquidated." There is a tang of the old west and a breath cf Zane Grey in reports cf the capture of the Dillinger gang by the police cf Tucson, Arizona. The outlaw and bis boy and girl playmates made a mistake ingoing te a country where iaw efficers believe in arresting criminals instead cof giviug them a chance te escape. The scandais in, CWA bid fair te bring that part cf the national recover.y plante a -graduai end, althougli another billion lias been asked for te keep it geing until spring. IEven Mordecai Fzekie.l. the professer wbo, witb an -imag- inary little .black bal, an imaginary littie white bal, and .an imaginary line can imagine six years before it is born hotw- Muchia hog wiii sei orwe it is fattened for market, could net, keep the politicians from getting their bit eut' cf the, "easy money" and land- ing their friends in coz'y joWs- The big eveut locslly this week is-the automobile show. now in progress at the, Coiiseum. Some, of. the new designs are, like mari,. "fearfull-.y aud' wen- derfully made," yet they will Ppelirssi te those who wauit the istest thing. The show, is well, Worthi seeing. A psy-chologist. observing a lady litigant in a divorce action, testified that she had two person- alities, ini one of which she loved ber husband deariy sud in the other hated him with great vehemeuce. The court listeued with mucli pa- tience te the testimony. And another psychologist, 'sp aking before the Chicago, Execùtives' cllub,, solemfnly avers that, 4)y the:year. 2139 w. wil ail be crazy. At the rate we are going. professor, it surely shofuid net take that long. **** A personabie young lady is pic tured in the laté ,prints. modeling, what will be vogue on the beacehes next year. To us it did net appear t be very mucli. A truck driver was reperteçi to have been hi- jacked and bis truck and thirty cases cf whiskev stolen. It just csu't be tyuie. Wliy, the eigli- teenth amenduient was repesled and ail crime ceased some tinue ago. It's just another.of tbose Prefesor Tugwell, cf the well known brain- busters, says that the present production ebb is only temporary. Now,' what dees EBB stand for? These alphaietical- conibinations bave get clear beypnd us. THE PHÀNTOM REPýORTV