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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Nov 1937, p. 38

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rate i 'wes a deht Two APALS,, * At this season of the year tWo appeals are mia( *l to thé generosity of ail Americans that are Wortlby o0.f special mention. One is the Arnerican Red Cross mnembership drive, (conducted locally only in Kenil- wortb). and the other is the annual Christmas Seal sale. The former opened on Armistice Day anud will contiine until Thanlksgi in. he latter opens on Thatiksgiving. and coèntinues tintil Christmas. The 'Red Cross bas established itself permuanently as an agency, for the relief of suffering hurnanity everjywhere %when fire,. or stormf, or flood. or contagion renders outside hbelp essential to the preser vation of. lufe and the provision of fond, clotbing and shelter. *It is atways ready, always on cali. Its .orgaiizati(iiiI is 90 complete, its machine ry so effective, that lio matter from wbat part ofithe country the call cones. %vitb almnost tinlelievable prornptness it is on the ground, with nmoney, materials and, above ail, knowledge, to succor those in distréss and bring relief measures out of chaos into intelligently cirected efforts. Its continued support is essential te its continued service. The Christmas Seat, that brightly colored littIc harbinger of bealth. and happiness. bas al-so heconic -% fiture inn dithesharitiea<of Anerica. an~d 'FiINc, TICKETS, The practice of "efixig* traffic tickets', once s prlevalent. *bas of late ycars heen steadily on'1 the decline. Neverthelcss it ahouiïd- in sonie places stilIT and, bas engaged the attention (f J. Eàgar Hoover. head of the Bureau of Investigation of the Federal Department of Justice, who in a meent address said: Tt nMay seem far-fetelied that such a minorý thlng as a traffie violat ion c4n he bhetp for the system by whieh major criminalas smetinies escape ninlshment. Nevertheiess, there lsaa You, drive psst a' red, iit; the criminiral robsaa <bank. Thé offenses may be as far apart-'as night and day-but the method of gottintr them:"flxed" Is exactly the anme. Both get aid froin sonieontî with poltical pull. A political monkey wrenrh must be thrown Into the machinery of juàtice. Tt will nnt be pomsible for honest aw-enforeil- ment men to smash the influenée of the mièder-' *1W Itju>s am 'lnk at bur- Froit lFargo, Northi Iak-ota, conics.the, newb that a girl baby disttictly spoke ber lawtt iarne wben l 1 thrce (layýs. 6>1. Isuît the word '*irl" ii]the report Gýlencouelbas imany things oi which sl îay wcell be. prolid-nany tings, in itrth. iin wbjch the Ïwholc. Qporth shor'e iay well. take prid(le. But the -fact: that she harbors tie l.owestm%-dw niîefttlet, iflost Coiu- temptible demion in h urnati shape that aiiy coinmut-, nity ever had the rnisfortune to iiinmbùr aniong its citizenship is flot one of *bm The tenwut head is hanginig iii, shame. :and cvery mn, woman au ad childi is, vowiig. vengeance. upon the monister whl1uCO)ifl- Iinitted the mnost dasýtardly. heinious crime agaiint : helples-, do.g thatlbas, cver corne t i.ur ;tittimi. A week ag-o Siuday it was that a ~iîte' o strayiçd froin oinc., rutiuriug an liitmr <ir sub latur witb ail of the toues eut froin verv. fio t. atmnost dea froin 1oss if .blood, staiggerinig and stunibling î,ît tht sttinip., of feet lvft to luini v the minattirai and iii- hbuman fiend %vhlifad evd the tocs , iit a sharp, instrument. Trhe tiff(-riiig,aniiail .was liastil:v rc- inved te) au animal lh,,,, pitail. werc bis voild- were dressed and the diuh victinii made a-, coinfort- able a~ sibl. Vhat, <'PCqueries. inst lie in tdie black depths cof the becart of a heing who 'c <nd d so *lainnable a thiîîg? Wliat ;nust he is attitude ti'- untry. Since this plan of providing finiances ed -thirty-one years ago, the deatb rate erculosis has declined approxi:nately 70' throughout the country. ;erted by those i charge of the sale that money securedi New Trier township is e i combatting tubeculosis, and that it ràprpqà v o secre fnnA.from tm iher com- meana ion net oniy represents no aiiswer cornes. The brute inay evven now bw(le- unty, but a foolish ind luding hinself ini the beliei that lie is a mnan, flb îieh he will be cauglit. ut there la every likeli- conipalnion for other men and wcrty .of the, love utto ie lightest provocation. chldren. entitled tii the respect (of neighbor. s and 1 if caught he wiIl tust "*drag" to -44 out (of' accel)tauIce intoa the h)rottbcrhio,,î of iaer.Mn a mental gnome inakc.. the saineie mstake. -lTie police. Intelligence or slirewd- aetnteltn o h i4raibtpoal wl 'e every trafflc law 't-t aeo h utfrtemscenbtpual v 1upon breaklng a traf- 'not ind Ibii-he is a rnigjity >înallthting fo-r .whiclbto 11-1- ru -1--o liiO' oo~k. Besides. baving comrnittvol the dastardly dued. Tint PHANrox Ruu'oWut out the c was ad( f rom t per cen It is. ail of -tfi 1 »

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