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Highland Park Press, 10 Oct 1946, p. 2

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Thank you. â€"»~Iâ€"enjoyed _ interviewing â€" Dr. Dahle. _ He surely has a positive approach to education and he‘s deeply interested in giving the youth of Highland Park the best schooling possible. : And rightly so. If they‘re to follow in their parâ€" ents‘ footsteps, Highland Park‘s children must prepare to be leadâ€" ers in every profession. ; _ Baseball. To hear it on the raâ€" dio, that is. Untidiness and uncleanliness in all their different forms and with all their ramifications. # Unpleasant buyers of merchanâ€" dise found at some of Chicago‘s : (Incidentally, one of the nicest buyers I‘ve ever met â€" and the man who gave me my first order on State Street â€" is Ravinia‘s James C. Snow, wellâ€"liked buyer of housewares at Marshall Field & Co.) SLACK SUITS ... But, to go on . . . Salt and pepper shakers that don‘t work . . . Handâ€"painted ties . . . Striped shirts . . . Itchy, woolâ€" en pants . . . Chicago‘s hornâ€"tootâ€" ing drivers whose insistent blasts indicate they believe traffic melts when a stoplight changes to green. *Wishyâ€"washy handâ€"shakers . . . Open shirts with collars laid over suit coats ... Slack suits . , . Short sox . . . Pointed shoes . . . Sideâ€" burns . . . Long, wavy hair on men . . . Ditto long fingernails. True, Sir. And I‘ve been making a list of those disliked "things" just for you. Here they are .. . ~ But that‘s enough of that kind of negative writing for a long Newspaper photos of smiling women just divorced . . . Liquor and cigarette advertiseâ€" ments. Drunken servicemen. Or anyone drunk, for that matâ€" Now and then in the past I‘ve written columns about some of the ‘‘things" I like, believing that you readers have many of the same preferences, Now this letter arrives . . ; "You old optimist," the pessiâ€" mistic pensman writes, "why not list some of the things you DON‘T like? Surely you don‘t like everyâ€" thing. ; ; . "* â€" h The way Chicago‘s irresponsible ear hikers barrel your car. Dented fenders! Pens that don‘t write smoothly . . . Dull pencils . . . And worn out typewriter ribbons. Line plunges . . . Penalties . . Clipping . . . High tackling . . Fumbling. ITCHY PANTS ... FUMBLES . .. Here‘s another letterâ€"on a difâ€" ferent subject. Frankly, we were planning to use the column this week to write about one of Highland Park‘s busi¢st and most popular merchants, namely, Albert Larson of Larson‘s Stationery store," 37 S. St. Johns. But Mr. Larson was not available for an interview this week. Perhaps we‘ll be able to write about him next week. Or soon, anyway. We hear his story is interesting. And we think you Highland would like to read it. § So . . . instead we thought we‘d | â€" mpor,: answer a couple of letters received world Bi'rht: n:::db:x";:’loi:k'.i:: recently and also chat with you * * about other matters. for ugliness. t + May I recommend. that you Okay? clean your glasses, Okay. â€" See all the beauty around yfbn. ANOTHER LETTER ... THANK YOU LETTER ... Page 2 A few weeks back, you‘ll recall, I wrote a piece about Dr. Casper Dahle, new superintendent of schools. _ I received this letter about that column. "We appreciate your interest in our schools and hope from time to time you will find items of interâ€" est concerning them worthy of publicity in your column. "With best wishes for your conâ€" tinued success, I am, f Cordially yours, > _ "The Board of Education, Disâ€" trict 107, thanks you for the comâ€" mendable publicity you gave our superintendent, Dr. Dahle . . . W HITT N. SCHULTZ Let‘s Take a Look EDNA 0. LAEGELER, Acting Secretary." (Special to The Highland Park Press) Typewriter Tappings By 10 â€"a.m, Interfaith group. Mrs. Abel Davis, speaker. Training at Gt. Lakes When he completes basic and adâ€" vanced training, he will get actual experience in the U. S. fleet as an electronic technician‘s (or an aviaâ€" tion electronic technician‘s mate), an essential man behind the butâ€" tons of the navy‘s "pushâ€"button" warfare, Saturday, Oct. 2â€" 2 p.m. Outdoor painting class 3 p.m. Saturday Evening club. Tuesday, Oct. 15â€" f William D. McLain, 18, seaman 1/e, son of llrr and Mrs. Douglas McLain of St. Johns place, is one of approximately 3000 students undergoing training in the elecâ€" tronic technician‘s school at the Great Lakes Naval Training cenâ€" "Tis Sunday. Early church has been attended. And now it‘s time to slip into some old football togs and play some touch ball with Dick Higgins, Bud Baldauf, Tom and Fred Ullman, Tom Simpson, Chuck Rietz, "Brains" _ Rollery, John Brigham, â€" Bud _ Hoffman, Dave Richman and other Highâ€" land ‘Parkers who are young and athleticallyâ€"inclined. * May I recommend. that you clean your glasses, â€" See all the beauty around y6u. And react to it with the Yesâ€"toâ€" GIVE TO THE HOSPITAL .. It certainly is worthy of ‘our support. | â€" PLAYS FOOTBALL ... PARTING THOUGHT ... ‘"He has but sorry food that feeds upon the faults of others." (Thanks, Stanley Link!)© Life approach! give money, they should give it to the ~Highland Park hospital _ _ This 'gund institution is in need of money. A most reliable scout told me that if Highland Parkers want to GLENCOE Dynamic Wheel Balancing Body & Fender Repairing Auto Painting â€" Blacksmithing 322 N. First Highland Park 77 THEATRE _ 630 Vernmen Ave. Highland Park 006 THU., FRL, SAT. _ Oct. 17â€"19 "POSTMAN ALWAYS m.unu:uumvl & DRY CLEANING CO. SUN., MON., TUES., 1 Oct. 13â€"14â€"15â€"16 Frod MacMurray THURS., FRL, SAT., Oct. 10â€"11â€"12 MARX BROTHERS "NIGHT IN D A HL S Anne Fund Campaign Opens Mrs. Sidney L. Schwars of Orâ€" chard lane, today announced the opening of the Smith éollege 75th anniversary fund campaign. The campaign is seeking $4,300,000 from Oct. 1 until June of 1947, with Highland Park‘s quota set at $10,000. All proceeds will go to higher faculty salaries, an increase in student scholarships, and the construction of several badly needâ€" ed buildings. Governor Green, in a recent telegram to President Herbert J. Davis, has stated: man, will be assisted by Mrs. Franâ€" cis M. Knight as coâ€"chairman. Othâ€" er members of the committee inâ€" clude Mrs, Julius E. Lackner, Mrs. W. L. Winters, Mrs. Moses E. Shire, Mrs. Roger S. Vail, and Mrs. R. Arthur Wood. "The current fund campaign of Smith college eonuitut{u timely and appropriate recognition both of a notable anniversary and of widening opportunities for the disâ€" tinguished work Smith is doing. I hope it will arouse a most cordial response and go on to gratifying _ A middleâ€"aged man approached a bank official, stating he would like to make a loan. The© wouldâ€"be borrower looked puzzled. Then his face cleared. "Yes," ‘said the bank official, "but you will have to take that up with our loan arranger." "The loan arranger?" _ echoed the man blankly, . ‘"Who is that?" "Why, just whatâ€"I said. . The loan arranger." _ "Oh, yes, of course," he smiled, looking â€" thoroughly _ enlightened. "It‘s the fellow on the radio who keeps saying, ‘Hi ho! Silver®‘ "â€" Tracks. * Mrs. Schwarz, district chairâ€" PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINO!IS THE PRESS Invite Contributions for Winnetka Correspondence School for the Blind school, Winnetka, IIL., is the only correspondence school for the blind in the country â€" or in the world. It serves the adult blind of North America through homeâ€" study .coursesâ€"grade, high school and college. Although there are over 200,â€" 000 blind in America, the Hadley Its services are FREE to the blind â€" and are maintained by the generosity of the public. The. school teaches the blind to read and write Braille and to use the ordinary typewriter. It offers in Braille more than Qm courses, including a complete high school program., In cooperation with the Universâ€" ity of Chicago, the Hadley school makes available in Braille certain of the college courses offered by the university‘s homeâ€"study deâ€" partment, provides students with all required textbooks, circulates many Braille magazines, including both the Braille and the Talking Book edition of the Reader‘s Diâ€" gest, lends Braille writing maâ€" chines to students in need of them, gives financial aid to promising blind in order that they may seâ€" cure college or professional trainâ€" ing, and serves as an information bureau for both the blind and the sighted, on all matters relating to the blind. â€"Write to the Hadley School, Winnetka, IIL., or, in the Chicago area, telephone Win. 805. Conttibutions. from the generâ€" ous public enable the school to serve hundreds of blind throughâ€" out America at no cost to them. Some day have me tell you about the inspirational book which I lent to a young ambitious salesman of insurance, who, after carefully reading same, absconded with the company‘s funds.â€"Anon. Salutation to the Dawn â€" Look to this ‘day! for it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realiâ€" ties of your existence: the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty. ©For yesterâ€" 550 WEST CENTRAL AVE. HIGHLAND PARK 3905 EV ERGREEN S §5 HIGHLAND PARK, ILL_ ‘‘ONE SHRUB OR 4 FOREST‘* Elmer Clavey, Inc. READY TO TAKE AWAY Sales Yard Now Open Low Prices ... Open Sundays Let us solve your Landscape Problems _A Wordini Jewelry Shop Thursday, October 10, 1946 day is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a. vision; but today wellâ€" lived makes . every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every toâ€" morrow a vision of hope." Look well therefore to this day!â€"From for quality . . . for style Gifts that reflect your thoughtfulness for years You‘ll get so much more satisfaction when buying it at Mordini‘s. Jewelry lovely beyond Tel. H. P; 4664

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