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XUEF CICAGO SUEURDAN QUALITY? GROUP ChcaoOffices - 1016-1018SWILLOUCiJHy Towti Tdrejihue CENTRAL. 3355 8UNSCIPTION: $2 PER YEAR SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS Ait, commnicationsanad contribution& intended. for. publi- cation muet bear the name and addrcmm of the author, not xeemaruly forpublication, but for our Mes. Such mateial. muetre*ch'-the editor by tuesday--non--to bcein dtne for the current issue. SCHOOL .ELECTIONS A statute enacted l'y.the last session of the general assembly prQvidiflg for the con soida- tion of village, parkboard and school board elec- tions' iscausing much concern among pJeople vit- aIly interested, in the, welfare -of the. schools. The stated purpose, of the measure is, to effect econorny. by holding' ail elections' on tbe same dlay, ýutilizing the samne election. macbinery, poli- ing places, etc.. instead of setting up this machin- ery on two or three.differentdays. Whi.le..adoption ,of the consolidation byany of tbree governing bodies is optional and flot matidatory, the .feari~ s expressed tliat the ecoi- omy appeal wiIl be strong enough to induce its adoption witbout tbought of wbat the more serlous effect upon the scbool system would be. The measure, as signed by the governor, follows:, "Section 1. Any village or parlc district whose elections under the statutes 'of this State are> required to be held on the third Tnesday lun'April, and any school elections which under the statutes of thle State are required to be held on the second Saturday ln April, niay upofl the adoption of this Act ln the manner provided in section 2 bereof be held on the first Tuesday ln April. "In the event two or more of the polltical sub- divisions referred to iu this Act adopt the provi-. Mtons of thle Act and their elections are held on the smre day and ln the smre locallty, they shalI bave the Fmre voting hours, saine polling places and the saine preciet. election officlis. "Sec. 2. Any village, park district or school dis- trict ma.y avail ltseof of the benefits of this Act by adopting -an ordinance or resolution to thatý effect, on or before sixty (60) days prior to an elec-. tion lu sncb political subdivision. Upon the adop- tion of sald ordinance or resolution, a copy of the Ëmre shall be certIfied to the. proper ýoffIcer :or board of election commissioners baving tîhe duty of printing the ballots for use at said elections on or before fifty (50 days) prior to the.election and thereupon said election shall thereefter be held on the first Tuesday ln April. The cost of holding said elections shall be apportioned equally be- tween the plitical subdivisions partieipating ln sald. elections." tion. The law provides that the cost of holding the electiohis shahllie equally divided arnong the participating political subdivisions. The cost of holding a' school election, with a smaller election board and only one, or at mn two, polling pl aces, is nominal. Under consolidation.'one-third of the. Icost might easily exéeed the entire cost of should be considered if and wben'* presented. No one can doubt tbat the eventual result would be the injection of politics a'nd a conséquent. degradation of tbe scbool systenis. Wbatever the cost of preventing this situation, it would be Wholly justified. UCK ROUTEËS Now tbat Sheridan road bas apparently been saved, from the freigbt truck, tbanks to tbe North Shore Property Owners association, which put up a. long and intelligent figbt against the invasion of a tborouigbfare designed and suitable onlly for passenger car traffic, attention mnust 'be turned to the necessary désignations of truck routes tbrougb the various villages. The proposed settlemnent of the long contro- versy provides for acceptance by the truck com- panies of Skokie boulevard as tbe.througb route for trucks and the creation of four.,zones to be entered by freigbt trucks only froûm that thor- oughfare. Evanston is designated as one zone. Wilmette to tbe county line at the north limits of Glencoe another, Higbland Park to Lake Forest a third, and Lake Forest to Waukegan the fourth. According to an order wbicte Illinois Commerce commisslin is expected to, enter, trucks are not to enter one zone fromi a nother, but only fromn Skokie boulevard. Should the substitute route be finally accepted, there will corne tbe duty of the varioius Villa ge boards to designate the streets over which freigbt trucks wilI be perrnitted to move from., the higbiway into. the zones. It is flot made clear whetber trucks will be permitted to traverse a zone froni one end f0 the other, regardless of necessity to wmake deliveries or pickups. For instance, it is expected tbat tbey 'will enter XVil- mette froni McCorniick boulevard. Having no stops in Kenilworth. or Winnetka, will they be permitted to use the highway along the railroad, to, reach, Glencoe, or must they return to Skok-e boulevýard:fromi Wilmette and enter ýGlencoe ove r route designated bythat village? This seenis to be an important question for tbe villages to determine. If the former is to, be the rule, then Main street, Green Bay road, Center street and Giencoe road, which constitute the A new jersey legislator sold 100-pound sacks of potatoes for Z5 cents, no sales tax, hoping to beé arrested -for violating the, sales tax law. "'The. legislature,"' he. said, "is the biggest bunch of criminials outside jail.", wisn X is v ALIny in oiaw LU i1nu5AL. *Our reply to the Tribune: "Good morning. We like your new face very much." The Plymouth Rock, upon wbicth the pilgrimsr stopped .to ýrest in 1620 has been legally declare d to be the property of ail the people. Looks like a deviish con spiracy against the.sharers f wealtb. .Wbat belongs to everybody cannot well be redis- tributed. Repercussions of the 1934 election bave been revrbrangup, and down the, corridors of the county building the past couple of weeks, causing no end-of trouble. It seems that in that meniorable contesf County Superintendent. of Schools Otto F. Aken was de- feated by bis democratic rival Noble J. Puffer. In.tbe 'spiritOr of the. best tradition of th( American .politician, wbo neyer yields anytbing once in hand, especially a' good job Mr. Aken disagreedwitb th, voters, and souglit means- of retaining biis position. HeL undertook an investigation into 'tbe. qualifications'.of Mr. Puffer, and after listening to a great volume of evidence presented by himself, lie reacbed 'the inevitable. conclusion that Mr. Puffer did not possess tbe qualifications commonly looked, for in a bigh-minded chief' educator, and rnust flot be perniitted to assume the office. So, wben Mr. Puffer went puffing' up to the offce of the county superintendent and demaiîded the keys .tbereto, be found that Mr- Aken, achin' tô keep bis job, bad retired to the innermost chamber of his citadel and refused t'O open the door even to sec who was knocking. Seeking tbe help of Jobnny Law the superi.n..- tendent-elect discovered tbat tbat. source offered no solution, as notbing côuld be done until Mr. Aken should corne out. Tbe, aroma of bot -dogs and sinkersý gave evidence, that Mr. Aken had prepared to st ay-àa long time._Finially Mr. Puffer had a brigitý idea. "0'ýf wbat us$e is a Puffer if lie can't puf?" he asked himself., and thený answered: "lil go back to that office and l'Il puif and l'Il puf and l'Il blow the door down. bim 'whether to add a picklè, sweet, sour or diii.- Don't buy any mechanical signaling device until yon bave 'seen otur inventor-society editor.-(Advj) The Japanese neyer could sec a joke. THE PHANT0m RIxpoRtim