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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Feb 1935, p. 26

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CICAGO Chicago Offsc 7I An. communications and c ontributions intended for Publi- cation muet bear the naine and addrcsa of tu.e'author, ýnot nmeesarily for Publica Ition, but for Our le. Sucli material muet reach the editor by Tueàday noon to bce.in time for the. current i suer' S K A project now being discussed by the Village of Kenilwortb, but. in which sister villages also h :e ninterest, is, the proposai to construct a subway to pass under the two. railroad -properties andGren ayroad, t a pon-appr>xinately op- posite the joseph Sea7rs school. TJhe objeçt is to give. passage fromn the east to -the west side for' both school children and, aduits,' free, fiom-the dangers" oi train or automobile, accident. While'thè ialiprov'ment lu i that stage where cohferteices betweene Village officiais >sad Tep- resentatives of the Siate Highway department are beiug liéld.a-ud detafis are fiot dacirtinnd, £11' can join itr the hope that a conclusion 'wiil be reacbed that 'will permit construction *ithout« delay. Persou al safety alone deauands that some meseis be ptoo'ded by which the bazards of three higli speecl travel' systems may be overcomne. Other villages will wish Kenilworth success in the uudertakld*,~ February 18, is of vital importance o i ett interests ail along the north shore. As now set up the board, whicb will be known as the Evànston- North Shore Real Éstate board, lu- the largest' lu the state outside of Chicago, and -wil possess a» prestige second tohnue. The advautages of. the mérger are as great for the property owner as for the realtors. It wili [ permit a unified, improved service to botb 'the seller sud buyer of real estate, which cannot but be hèlpfu.1 and of financiai benefit. It is a. long What has happened in the past quarter of a~ century to number among those, rejoiciug at his continued presence not ouly the members of lis. own cougregation but of other congregations as well, not ouly bis own village but other villages as wè1l, not ouly' foliowers of bis faith *but those of no professedfaith whatever?ý The answer does not lie in tbe fact that hie is a preacher, nor in tbe p.nquestioned fttbat ie is an exééptioually good, preacber.. It does flot lie in the rare quality of his pulpit utterauces, It-can, we tbink, be-attrib-' uted onily to -the lifée he haslived since coming, to *the uortb shore twenty-five years ago. That lfe las been Oûne of service, and altbough- Dr. 'Corneli would probably minimize. the. extentý and importance of bis contributions, lie would be the firat to impress upon others tbat'service to fellow-men is the very essence of rigbt -living;ý that service is, in trutb, tbe only worthiWhile tbingý in-"any lifé. Eutering upon bis cburch duties and always loyal totbem, be fell quietly but effectively into every phase of community activity-social, civic, educational and religiôus. if it were pos- sible foenüumerate aIlof lis sevices in the arious endeavors tbat have claimed bis attention, the list would be a sufficient reason why sucli a multitude of frieuds tbroughout the nortb shore, and espe- *ciaiiy in Glencoe, are appreciative of thie part he bas played in community growtb, sud join in the hope tbat bis stay will reach far into the future. YFA vs. NAY An' intetesting dèbate iu' the current Roarian magazine hrinp 'out points onunue rn-pl-iýyment in- surance not geherally understood. Virgil Jordan, distinguighed ecouomist, makes the broad state- ment that sucli insurance would' not add one cent to the purcbasing power of the United' Stateýs. while Secretary of Labor Frances 'Per- kins contends that had it been in effect several years prior to 1929 it would. bave heiped mucb iu stablizing industry aud reducing tbe severity of tbe depression. Iu normal times, Mr. Jordan points out, the un- employed faîl mainly into four groups: vagrants, tbe incompeteut, the chronically unenipioyed, a 'nd the indigent. If these are taken out of the pool For real reader interest 'Vox Popper lias the high-priced advertising copy writer backed off the board. One of the craft recently indulged in ad- vice tQ ladies seeking jobs. "Doli up like a moru- ing, glory," reads the letter, "and breeze into the office like cooling zephyrs from the west, 'and let the big businhess man, taik. When he, reaches the subject-of age, cross'you r fingers and Mumble, iclose to 25." Goodadvice, too. It works in our Piice. Press dispatches state that. Rear Admirai Byrd has returned to civilization. (You may recali, that he has been vacationing- down arou-nd--tbe-south pole.) hat do they mean, "civilization?"0 It's ,a safe bet that, after the AdmiraI has caught up on bis sieep and had time'to- look about him,ý and discovers that the civilized (?) portions of -tbe e arth are p re- Î paring witb great haste to fly at each otber's tbroats; that residents of the. Saar, after viewing what bas happened iu Gerniany ini tbe past--coupie of__ years déiiberately cbose to tell Hitler to do it .to 'them, too; tbat the long, sharp claws of Tammiauy now reach into every corner of America; that one man is to be given $5,000,000,000 to spend as lie lilces; tbat automobiles are' eacb yerkiiling more people in this country tban were rotitehcriegwar; that the unholy alliance of rottn cimeandrottener politics s still endured; that judges can still be <reacbed," if acts are evi-~ dence; that we are a strictly law-abiding people, 'provided sufficie*'t police are close by to watch us, that eneinies of representative goverumeut are still 'permitted to preacli sedition; when be finds out tbese tbings, we betcha, the admirai will hot-i foot it back td thie land of icicles and 'peuguins, wbere Mother Nature, gavage at times. in ber moods, is still kinder to man than. is nan himself. Our dollar is as good today as it. was Mouday morning, 'tis said. Wbat consolation is that '*ben some other fellow bas it? rAm M., -- ------- - -- - ...- --a. ----.--- esu ýôS and suggestions' are The cost of unemploymeut insurance, she be- idiepçe. Each session lu lieves,- sbould 'be cousidered a necessary part of d *aule of kcitcben prob- the overbead cost of production, spd it would be og a liberal edocation iu a' charge relatively so small as to be alrnost 'negli- of 'domestie Science. gible. lor science h~a nocked tue' everlasting-daylights. out of the old Biblical limitation, and at 70 men are just 'beginniug to live. Tax. PxArNTOX RZpOIYE

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