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WILMETTE ··LIFE April 29, 19.27 ISSUED FBIDAY OF R4CH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. · 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ava. Tel. State 6326 Teleplaone ·...··......................... Wilmette lt~u SU~SCRIPTIO.N WILMETTE LIFE PRICE . .·..........·.·!.00 A YEAlt AU communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pubJfcatlon must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In current issue. Resolutions of ('.ondolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notices of enteru.inments· or other at'Calrs where an admittance charge is published, wtll be charged at regular advertising rates. The service rendered to the children of to the citizens, and to the village of \\: tlmette by these n1e1nbers of the Board of Education, whose tenns Invaluable ended at the late election, lVIrs. John B. Boddie and ·Service Herbert B. :Mulford, is in. ·valuable. Mrs. Boddie served for six years and Mr. 1\fulford for five. ~he work of both has been unusually conststent and constructive. Under 1\fr. Mulford's administration a.s president of the Board the schools of \Vilmette have made excellent progress. .A.· complete and thoroughg?ing survey of the material equip~ tnent, Including buildings, and of the curriculum has been made by experts fr,om the University of Chicago. Art, including music, has been accorded the position and support that it rightly deserves. Both lVIrs. Boddie and 1\fr. :M ulford have paved the way for the . continuanc~ of a genuinely up-to-date pro.gressive policy. \Vil~t.ette, Apdi, the opening tnonth of spring, has come up fully to expectations. The only day that surprised anybody was Easter Sunday. F,o r pure unadulterated just-as-it-should-be w eat he r Spring! that Sunday took the first prize aqsolutely. The tetnperature couldn't have been more balmy. The lack of tnoisture also was entirely welcome. For the wearing of gay gannents bv both sexes it was precisely suitable. Th~ loveliest day in the Garden of Eden was left tniles behind. But it must be repeated that nobody even hoped for such a dav. The remainder of April was of the c~n ventional kind. The mercury tried all the stops between 30 and 80. At intervals the sun shone, and at other intervals the skies wept. On one day at least the attnosphere was full of large snowflakes. Ulsters, top coats, and no coats vied for i1r~t place during this medley month. · 1\.Iay had better be a little less fickle than her sister if she doesn't want to get herself thoroughly disliked. El Teatro del Lago was opened on Saturday evening, .:\pril 23, under n1ost favorable auspices. A huge crowd attended the ceremonies; in fact so huge Teatro that many who came later were unable to gain endel Lago trance. The artistic interior was duly admired. To a very discriminating .critic the pleasing simplicity and proportion of the theater set it quite apart from the usual run of tnovie palaces with their acres of gilt and their noisy flamboyance of form and color. The management was unobtrusively courteous and obliging. Fortunately the type of perSt<>n that . believes a fight cannot be both clean and peppy is rapidly disappearing. Time was when dirty work was a legititnate part of the game, but toClean day good clean sport is demandFights ed by public opinion. This is . evidenced by the vigorous disapproval aroused all ,o ver the country when baseball players are convicted of throwing a baseball gatne; or when it is known that a prizefighter has resorted to nasty tricks to win a match. And now that the spring elections are over, north shore candidates and other citizens have no cause for shame or even regret when recalling April election days. There were no actions or words during the preceding catnpaigns that the ntost scrupulous might object to. And when one considers the unpleasant antagonisms that have grown up in political catnpaigns on the north shore and elsewhere and the reflections that have here and there been cast on decent citizens, the cleanness of the recent elections and campaigns is noteworthy. Village officials were chosen in all our north shore villages-Glencoe, Winnetka, Kenilworth and Wilmette. In Glencoe and Wilmette there were contests, party against party, but in neither village was there any open display of partisan hostility. Perhaps feelings of individuals were ruffled by thoughtless words and insinuations. But incidents of this sort were exceptions. Some outsider may conclude that the contests were spiritless and limp. Sotne may think that a ~olnpetition cannot be keen unle ss it is also ugly. Such views are err,o neous. The fights in W.ilmette and Glencoe were spirited and sharp. They were also free from mud-slinging. Intelligent and self-respecting citizens can fight vigorously and wholeheartedly and . at the san1e time keep free from petty tricks and dirty work. ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-no_.o--·-· -·-·-~~-·-· SHORE LINES O·-·-a_a_a_a_a_ LINES TO A BLIND FRIEND I love you more because you cannot see The first new tender signs of spring, The buds upon the tree. I know you cannot see the gold and green Which wakes to laugh in radiant happiness; But you can touch the violet's velvet sheen, And that will help to make the dark seem less. I know you cannot see the still blue sky Which floats upon a myriad unseen wings, But you can feel the gentle wind And let it kiss your lips As it goes by, · And here it when it sings. Perhaps the darkness which has come to you And closes out so much of other lives, May slowly lift, and lead you To rare vistas where forbidden beauty lies. A happiness of wondrous waking there, A glowing spring of bursting bloom and green: For those .to whom our buds and flowers Blossom and are not seen. -··-··---~-· -R. A. ++++++++++++· SINCE IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT NO STREET IN WILMETTE WILL \\'ISH TO BE THE PIONEER IN A GENF.RAL' REPAVING PROGRAM, MIGHT NOT ONE VENTURE THE SUGGESTION THAT PRESIDENT ORNER STAGE A LITTLE COIN-FLIPPING CONtEST IN . THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS? IT IS A vVELL KNOWN FACT THAT AMERICANS, PERFECTLY IMMUNE TO P LA US I B L E ARGUMENT, WILL ALMOST INVARIABLY ABIDE BY THE HARD AND FAST RULE OF CHANCE. ++++++++++++· Simple Reason.~n.r Dear M i(]ue: Your reasoning on the recent "Orner" (y) political situation, is rather late. We who elected him know he will improve beyond thi s present stage of perfection, for the simple reason that it is written so that all who run may read"EarJ E." -THE LADY NEXT DooR ·++++++++++++ Not 'Sprised Mique: Did you perchance read in the current notices of the Kenilworth dub that the elite of the north shore are about to dance to the music of .. Cope Harvey's Full Orchestra?" -JOHN JOSEPH Every north shore community is naturally and necessarily deeply interested in the activities and accmnplishments of every other north shore cotnmunity. Every problem, A Decade of every solution of a probGood Work lem, is shared by all north . shore citizens. Our boys and gtrls attend the same high school. There they live together, not as individuals coming from some separate towns but as one big fatnily. There are other inter-comtnunity bonds like the Theater Guild and the North Shore Art Guild. \Vith such facts in mind it will not seen1 out of place for us to call attention to the completion of ten years of F. C. Stifler, as pastor of the Wilmette Baptist church. To young and old alike the church performs a service that no other agency can perforn1. It arouses and feeds those activities that bring the individual into close a.nd vital relation with "that power not ourselves which makes for righteousness." It binds into a living unity people v;ho otherwise might go their ways alone. The Wilmette Baptist church has rendered, and is today rendering, these invaluable services to Wilmette and indirectly to the entire north shore. May the second decade of its pastor be even more beneficial to the congregation and commbnity. ·++++++++++++ Dear Mique: Relative to an Employment Agency advertisement in a recent iss ue of your valued publication announcing press ing and cleaning on the side, the thought is most violently impressed upon my mind that the establishment mu ~~ be unique of its kind. Surely the great American public realizes that employment agencies are invariably both pressing and cleaning-financially. Or mavbc it's the new advertising candor we h~ar so ;1mcli about. -LA BELLE DE NUIT ·++++++++++++ Rhyme of the Ads I've kept that school girl complexion. I've walked a mile for a smoke, I've asked the man who owns one And he tells me it keeps him broke. I know when it's time to retire. And I've heard that they satisfy. But there's one thing that keeps me guessing . No matter how hard I strive; I'd like tQ know just whether or not I'm one of the four out of five. -N. E. A. BULLETIN ·++++++++++++ . Increasingly Vexing Stgn on parkway at Wilmette Masonic temple: Please do not park only on one side of the street. ·++++++++++++ Atmosphere While sauntering along Via del Lago, the prlnclple thor?ughfare, of "Spanish Town," lately called "No ~Ian s Land, we somehow felt the urge to recline in a doorway and lazily enjoy a cigaret-but, caramba, it was cold, and not a drop of Mescat. (at least that's the way It sounds.) -MIQUE