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J*W>5euk g XTRL 3355 SUBSRIPI'TON $2 PER. YuE*iSINGE nCOPIEsS Cvmn 'AUcoemmunicatibne and Contributions intended for publi- WOB m> iust bear lie naine and addreas of the author, not mascuîrily for puýblicat1on, but for our uo uhmtra nuit reach the editor by..Tueiday noon to be intime foi fie current isse. AN APPRECIATION 1In a Community such as Wilmette, where eîected public officiais srewthlti or no financial compensation, -an% gratification com- ing to sucb, officiais nmust be through, the con-* .cii)usness of' service weIl renderedanan words of appreciation they may receive from a grateful citizenship. Such a consciousness must be present ini the mind of Louis K. Gillson, 706 Forest avenue, as he looks backover a long and. honorable record aes presgident of Wilmnette Park board, now draw- ing to a close. It is a pleasure for WIiîiV uE to express appreciation which we feel. sure will be .ecboed by ail tboughtfui citizens who have benefited through bis administration -of that body. Mr. Gilison b as beenl president of the Park board ever since it was, organized in1908 - twenty-six,.years of continuous arduous labor in the public interest. . The tas-k before him and the, board was no smali one. The sanita rv district was just being constructed,adth dirt fo the excavation deposited oni the land along the lake shore. With vision of' what migbit be ac- complished toward niaking the entrance to the village fro m the. south attractive, they set about intelligent planning for the future. This entailed the acquiring of property along the lake front, in order that riparian rights might be secured. As years passed property after property was puirchased; until at this time the board owns.al the lake frontage between the canal and a point seventy-five. feet north of eorest avenue,- with the exception of the two lots ondby 'theVil- lage just north ofý Lake avenue, and tbree pieces, south of Lake avenue still in private ownersiiip. Some ofthis property was acquired m-hen a tax, of 2 milis siapplied the only income available to tbe .board, the balance front bonds of thec district sold for that purpose. Two lîundred and twentv*- five feet at the north end of the park was a. gift from Northwestern' university. .Wlat citizen cati view Washington l)ark todav without a conipelling seilse of gratitude to Mr. Gilisoil and his conferees for their years of toit completed. BAD PUBLICITY Minmette has recently been the recipient of. more of that1 kind of publicity whiclh does no com- munity any good aànd of w'hich this particular com.miunity has hiad far too much. Reference is to the mass meeting hield onTuesday nigbt of last, week to voicecomplaints against the Park board. Wbiie we boid no brief for that board, we do not believe that its affairs bave been mis- managed or its funds injudicially employed, nor that. charges: of inefficiency made against it çan be. substantiated,. We do believe that the mass meeting ýwas ili- advised, served only to createý bad feeling, and resulted in adverse advertisingthat we can. very. well ge t along without. Thle inexcusable breaclb of officiai etliics in.the president. of one gkoverning body castigating an- other governinig body, in.putlic, is flot the least regrettable thing about the aftair. The dissemina- tion of rnisinformation and expressing of "ctrbe- stone opinions" withou.t facts to bear thent out, inciting. citizens to anger and unwarranted charges against officiais of inquestioned char- acter, does good to no individual, -community or cause. The personal attack upon Freank J. Seng, long a. respected, pubiic-spirited citizen, -was ent irely outside the bounds of legitimiate presentation 0-L comlaints, and should cail for1 a public apol.ogy. That the. meeting was- a needless stirring up of animosities is showîi by the fact that after- ward, upon consideration of fcsa uiitdi autentc iforatin, hepoints at issue were promptly cleared ia. conference that inight bet- ter have been iield preiviotîs to. or ini place of the mass meeting -.z. 'OUT'0F REAGCH The folowing is d irecç'ted to the. attention of administrators of the New- Deal who are ýso sen- sitive to criticisnt and who jutnp'whenevýer free- donm of thie press is mentioned: "The Printer (publisher) is a faitliful. servant,, not oniy tor those connected with the business, but also for the public at large, Withou.t hint, wba.t would be the state of thie worid at large?ý Why,. tyraiits and humbugs in ail countries would have. everyth.ing their own way. The print- A fine example of "national unity" occurred at Chatanooga, Tenn., yesterday. Commander E. A. Hayes of the American Legion, spoke at a re- uîâion of confederate soldiers. Those Canadian quintuples, now st*ffering front jaundice, just, must get weIl and'thrive. ýWe want to se«e 'eni at the big. fair. Our pet robins failed to show up this year, and those quints are needed to, fil! an acbing void. Gosh! Are thiere red faces 'in Minette 'ighit niow! You should see theni. There lias been some l)listering weather of late, but even Old Sol can't impart that lobster red hue thiat adornis some visages in. ai.d arounld the V'illage hall. No, sir! It's got to be some- thing liotter than. that. Some- tliing,ý for instance, like dis- charging .a high executive for incompetence, les majesty, treason or some such crime, and thien having that samne executive step right into a position. of go..much grelater importance and responsibility that he must feel. like a man Who h las been kicked into a sewer, and contes u p with a handful of ýdiamçionds. Which .,houghts.are born of the fact that former. Village- Manager C M. Osboru bhasSében appoint- ed Illinois state, engineer of the PAVA. And that's no mean jobI. The lesson. of course, is to youtb. If you've got the stuif in. voni, somieone wili recognîlze. it soon» or late. Sixteen c Éo-cds froîùi Northwesterni and Chii- cago universities are to be married as soon as they are graduated in, june. It is to be hoped, that. their studies included hou.sehold economics., Motor butsses. rectiperating iii garages froi strennious. hourls of iinflicting torture on the help- less public, are being shaken up by.bombls. Giv-. ifl en soie f teir, own niedicine. looks like. 1 roii too reliable, those *No RESTRICTIONS Announcemnent by Village authorities that no restrictionsare to be placed upon wat er. con- 4U'Jutl IittlIC Ude 0 the Soviets became. if they were again r would refuse to bor us. .We mustcert4ii w any more y b. care'ful. at xuater zney e money from vitamines. That fiuid that darnpened the sidewalks Mon- day night bas been identiidb oa cetss as rain. t~ ylclsinit TmPsmouM REORum ~1