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_ You see, folks, like most women, my partner is a good dancer. = f Page 2 Well. . . we were dancing the other nightâ€" the first and last time for a long while, 1 hope. 5 Yet . . . I know there‘ll be mymm“’uu‘m dance a turn, or twoy. So, I‘m â€" ing to learn ... . a little more iboltlhmthnlkuowno'.'( any rate. s SMART SET? ... But, like most men, I‘m not a good dancer. Never preâ€" tended to be. Never hope to be. Haven‘t the time. __Now dancing with the soâ€"called "Smart Set" (a friend calls them the "Dumb Set") should be fun. But, to the writer, it isn‘t. What 1 dislike most about outâ€" ofâ€"town country,club dances is the orchestra. I‘ve yet to attend a dance at a club (you name it) where the band is good, or solid, as teenâ€"agers like to call skilled musicians, playing HICHLAND PARK PRESS 616 Lawrel Ave. Phone 657 LIKES BENNY, TEX. ... Now I‘m all right (though many partners of mine will disagree flatly with this statement) when I‘m dancing to Benny Goodman‘s or Tex Beneke‘s band. CHARGING MENACES And there‘s somthing else that bothers me when we‘re out adanâ€" in‘. And it happens at the best clubsâ€"Highland Park‘s included. But these jumpy society bands, with squeaky violins, extra loud pianos, stock arrangements and too many rhumbas, cause me much trouble. ‘ . I think, under dance floor etiâ€" quette, we‘re entitled to an apolâ€" ogy, particularly when my partner suffers a severe gash in her ankle. Emily Post should put her peneâ€" trating spotlight on dance floor Tnanners, in my opinion, _ It‘s these people who bump into me . . . and never say â€"‘"Excuse Me," or "Pardon Me," either one will suffice. ON LEADING . . . But back once again to my own Lake county and its principal muhicipalities ~received ~$198,814 in allotments from Ilinois state gasoline taxes in the first six months of 1946, compared with $187,387 in the same period of 1946, according to a statistical analysis prepared by Barcus;: Kinâ€" dred & Company of Chicago; speâ€" cialists in municipal bonds.. This was an increaseâ€"of $11,427. Now I readily admit I‘m clumsy on the dance floor. A; lot of soâ€"called society folk need polishing on their dance floor etiquette. Lake County Receives Increase In lIllinois Gas Taxes But surely when I steer my part ner way over in the corner to get away from other dancers, and then proceed to struggle through a dance . . . then suddenly get hit from the rear by some boozedâ€"up, hipâ€"wagging character and his tired out partnet..... The increase was due to rising gasoline consumption which â€"boostâ€" ed motor fuel tax receipts, the finâ€" ancial firm declared. If the presâ€" ent rate of gain isâ€"maintained, total 1947 distributions to Illinois counties and municipalities may Now â€" for the first time engraved Ti mrinage o ieh out 500 Business Cards, engraved plate included . . $10.95 $00 Hammermill Bond Letterâ€" heads, (8* x 11 or 7* x 10%), engraved plate inâ€" AYÂ¥â€"Hâ€"Lâ€"Tâ€"Fâ€"â€"DNâ€".â€"_ S _.Câ€"_H_LU.â€"L T Zâ€".. Let‘s Take a Look (Special to The Highland Park Press) be had at the By Strictly Personal _ And this frailty is frequently disastrous. dance faults . . . I find it hard to keep my mind onâ€"dancing when I‘m dancing. _~ Now ‘I know a man should lead â€"there‘s nothing worse than a woman who leadsâ€"and he should do it firmly, yet ‘gently. onds of a tune Then my mind wandersâ€"and it‘s not because my partner isn‘t pretty or entertaining; or bubbling over with personality. A'I"TlgTION NICOTINE SLA C a % It‘s just because I have otherâ€" matters on my mind which seem more important. ... . a ‘ : Well, anyway, I‘m willing to learn how to dance better. But please, Dear, don‘t expect me to be an Astaire over night . . You nicotine slavesâ€"or, better, you folks who like to burn up mon ey while you suck a deadly poison â€"will wince at the new song, "Smoke, Smoke,Smoke," now get ting ready to sweep the nation. The time points out how smokâ€" ing interferes with daily living. .. and how it wastes time. ~Ever figure the number of men â€"and women! hours lost each day while smokers light up? f "Or, did you ever realize that the money spent each year on to" baccoâ€"a weed that does nobody any goodâ€"would: * 1 Feed starving Europeans. _2. Build" homes for relativeâ€" weary vets. $ 8. Hike teachers‘ salaries from coast to coast. S Too bad, isn‘t it, that smokers are so stupid, throwing away milâ€" lions yearly, when they could use their money for building, improv< Wonder_when they‘ll grow up and realize how non-tia' it is to burn money?â€". . . The 1947 halfâ€"yearly allotments to other Lake county municipaliâ€" ties, with increases over 1946 shown in parenthesis were: Highâ€" land Park $15,269 (1,059) ; North Chicagoâ€"$8,480 (599); Lake Forâ€" est.$7,312 ($506); Zion $6,648 For Illinois as a whole, allotâ€" ments to counties and cities from gas tax receipts in the first six months of 1947 totaled $12,508,â€" 848, â€"compared with $11,609,508 Lake county‘s share of allotâ€" ments distributed locally by the state was $125,836 in the first six months of 1947, a gain of $6,325. PARTING "Act as if it were immpossible to fail." exceed the allâ€"time high recorded in 1946. Waukegan received $35,269, an increase of $2,470. the year before a rise of $899,â€" 340. & ments," a statement by ‘Barcus, Kindred & Company points out, "should show further gains during the remainder of 1947, as car us age increases and more new autoâ€" mobiles go into service. The added funds will benefit Ilinois communâ€" ities receiving them. Such revâ€" enue helps meet expenses of muchâ€"needed street and highway side of the , and be Nflmm ‘t:-afigm R. B. Olson, Réditer. $ improvements." ($468.) Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the Post Office at Highand Park, Minois. Subscription rates: $1.50 per year; 5 cents per single copy. $3.00 ser year outside of Lake county, publication must be written on one Issued of each week pymh‘no Laure! avenue, Highland Park, NL THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS 4. Clean up slums, America‘s “lh'!enm from allotment payâ€" for about 30â€" seeâ€" Close 13 YÂ¥ A Indiana, will be closed on Septemâ€" ber 30, it was announced today by Rlinois Regional VA office in Chiâ€" Thirteen contact offices of the Veterans Administration, located throughout Illinois and northern * Beer stated that this.action was necessary in order to remain withâ€" in the established budget and perâ€" sonnel.ceiling for the 1948 fiscal Contact offices in Illinois to be closed by this reduction are Litchâ€" field, Waukegan, Metropolis, Jackâ€" sonville, DeKalb, Oak Park, Efâ€" fingham, Dixon, Carbondale, Freeâ€" port and Champaign. In Indiana, the LaPorte and East Chicago ofâ€" fices will be discontinued. Glasses and other food vessels in your local restaurents, ice cream parlors and drug stores will be considerably less laden with germs in the future under a revolutionary sanitation program which has been launched by the National Sanitaâ€" tion Foundation public health official in Toledo, Ohio, the idea of establishing for the first time recognized standâ€" BETTER SANITATION ards of sanitation was warmly apâ€" proved by Drs. Henry F. Vaughan and Nathan Sinai of the Univerâ€" sity of Michigan, and the organizaâ€" tion of the foundation was affect ed, according to an article in the August issue of the AMERICAN DRUGGIST. ... When a doctor called to a house to attend a confinement and had been . upstairs a few minutes he came cown and said to the husâ€" banc, "Have you got a corkâ€" screw"" ~He was given one and went upstairs A few minutes elapsed . . ._he came down and said, "Got a screwdriver?" He was given one. Again he went up. A few minutes and he was down for a third time, asking for a chisel and mallet. *""Good gracious, dot tor," the worried husband. said, "Is it a boy or a girl?" "Don‘t know yet," replied the doctor, "Can‘t get my medicine case open."â€"Gilcrafter. Dorothy Smoler Graduate Of Chicago University Fortyâ€"one northside~ residents were among the 554 gtaduates in the University of Chicago‘s 230th convocation one of the largâ€" est convocations in the 55â€"year history of the Midway university. As the patter of little feet was heard at the head of the stairs, the hostess motioned for silence. "Listen;" she said, fondly. "The children are going to deliver their goodnight message. It always does something to me when I hear them." Representing Highland Park was Mrs, Dorothy M. Smoler, 310 No. Linden avenue, who received her B. A. degree. ‘_ NEWCOMERS Mr.â€"and Mrs. S. Meyer, who built a new home at 1564 (?.vq land, took possession about the middle of this month~ They are former Chicagoans, and Mr. Meyâ€" er is an insurance broker, associâ€" ated with the Harrison Brewster Their son is a senior at Ohio State university. There was a moment of hushed expectancy. Then, in a small voice from the head of theâ€"stairs: "Mommy, Willie found another bed bug." 4. Conceived by Walter Snyder, a ' 50 fl”' $12.95 INCLUDING &&g ewvs be LNGRKVED: Arour low prices you uon tend wedding mhmmuuhw--fl“ .dfl[usuâ€".. Woo;fih epars Mwmdmu-MnmJ-: THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESs WEDDING WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES §16 Laurel Avenue WEDDING INVITATIONS or ANNOUNCEMENTS * T HE P RES $ First Shipthent of Midwest Wer Dead To " Re‘urr In October Escorted deliveries of an estiâ€" mated 37,000 casketed remains of middleâ€"western servicemen . who were killed overseas in World War II will"begin late in October with 500 bodies from Hawaii,â€" Lt., Col. Carroll J. Grinnell, Chief of the Chicago Distribution Center of the American Graves _ Registration Division, announced today. the Colonel Grinnell added that alâ€" though no rémains would be reâ€" turned to next of kin. for final burial during the holiday seasonâ€" December 18 to January 5 a steadily increasing flow of deliver ies will be made during November and early December. The peak load of deliveries will be reached durâ€" ing the fall of 1948. Each of the remains will be acâ€" companied by a specially selected escort from the branch of the serâ€" vice in which the deceased man or woman served. These escorts are now being assigned and will reâ€" port for duty the first week in October. The gequisition of a fleet of forty former Army ambulances, now converted into mortuary veâ€" hicles, will greatly speed the deâ€" livery of remains from the Chicago Center as the vehicles will be util< ized for deliveries within an apâ€" proximate 100 mile area of Chicaâ€" go. It is estimated that one out of three bodies will be returned via these Government cars. Rail transâ€" portation will be used for more distant points. Morton Arboretum ~ Arnounces Fall Program His monocle screwed in his eye, the visiting Englishman stared in fascinated horror at the ugliest inâ€" fant he had ever seen, held in its mother‘s arms on the opposite train seat. His fixed gaze attracted the mother‘s attention and excited her indignation. "Rubber®‘ she said, wrathfully. "Thank God for that!" exclaimâ€" ed the Englishman. " I fancied for a time it might be real!" of the outdoors is offered in the Fall courses at the Morton .Arborâ€" etum. Trées, shrubs, flowers, birds, rocks, ferns, mosses, will be includâ€" ¢d as subject matter. Each meeting consists of an hour of lecture and two hours of field trip. Each class meets once a week for ten weeks. The classes starting during the second week of September sre as « 1. Wednesday morningsâ€"9:30 to 12:30â€"starting Sept. 10th. â€" 8. Tuesday afternoon and evenâ€" ingâ€"4:45â€" to 8:00â€"starting Sept. (Advanced group, open only to holders of one or more Arboretum certifjcates). be Saturday afternoon lectureâ€" field trips from 2:30 to 5:00, and lectures for garden clubs on Tuesâ€" day and Thursday afternoons. There is li charge. For further information, or for advance registration, address the Registrar, Thornhill Building, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, or call Downersâ€"Grove 74. 2. Mn‘l‘y m;nlnc-'â€"éjo to 12:30â€"starting Sept. 13th. : A soldier went to his colonel and asked for leave to go home to help his wife with the spring houseâ€" cleaning. * "I don‘t like to refuse you," said the colonel, "but I have just received a letter from your wife grigc 'h! you are no use around two persons in this regiment who handle the truth loosely, and I‘m one of them. I‘m not married." hhtz, the soldier turned go. At the door he stopped. A friendly firstâ€"hand knowledge INVITATIONS there will also of to Jfllâ€"hn.on“u- ‘ion will probably reguit in greiter effort on the part of ,.‘nhamlul- inclined to believe that this is a matter of the pattern to . wiilth they have been exposed ~rather than something basic. I am quite sure that children can get just as much fun out of enjoying a mutual task, and seeing that task succeed, as they can in achieving personal MOVING & PACKING of HOUSEHOLD GOODS 374 Central Ave., Highland Park. H. P. 181 I| R ED A L E S T O R A G E LARSON‘S STATIONERY 37 South St. Johns Ave. HP. 56 â€"Paul Hill, psychologist Back To School â€" Supplies of the Winnetka Pubâ€" Agent Allied Van Lines KINDERGARTEN SUPPLIES Thursday September 4 1947 lic Schools, on WGN‘s Northwestern Reviewâ€" ing Stand. "A person who can save money these days isn‘t a miserâ€"he‘s a . ‘"The secret of remaining eternâ€" ally youthful is to â€"keepâ€"looking forward to happiness, not backâ€" Covers, Pencils, â€"â€"Dr. George W. Crane on his daily WGN proâ€" â€"â€"Jay Walker on his daily WGN program.