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·WILMETTE LIFE , April 26, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 18811BD PIUDA.Y OP BA.CR WBBK LLOYD RotlrsTBB, :me. 1132-1118 Central Ave.. Wilmette, Dl. Cblcaco oftlce: I N. Klchlp.n Ave. Tel. State Ute · Tele··o·e . . . · . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · · . . . . Wll·et&e fiH ltJB8CBIPTION PBICB . . . ........... ti.H A. YB-'.B All communlcatlona must be accompanied by the aame and address of the writer. Articles for pubUcatlon must reach the editor by Wedneaclay 'noon to Insure appearance In current lsaue. Reaolutlona of condolence. canta of thanks, obituaries, notlcea of entertalnmenta or other datn where an admittance charce Ia publlabed, will be cha.rce4 at regular adverttslnc rates. Grade Separation will aaoe life. Let,s have immediate action 1 In a recent editorial we expatiated on the contrast between suburb and citv, Lilac I -~ane and West Madison street. We· dwelt on the dirt and discomfort Madison Street of · life in the Clinton and Desplaines neighand Lilac Lane borhoods and on the cleanliness and comfort of life in our north shore neighborhoods. A Winnetka home-owner warns us that we will all land on West Madison street among the homeless and forgotten if our taxes are raised 100 percent. Then he says of himself, "I will be paying $500 a year taxes on property on which a hank would loan me only $3,500 first mortgage." It certainly does look as if it would not take long for $500 taxes on property estimated by a bank as good for $3,500 to reduce the so-ca1led owner to the pecuniary level of the wanderers on West Madison street. Vve hope that taxes will not be raised 100 percent and that happy residents on the north shore will not for many years be forced to change their addresses from Lilac Lane to Clinton and Madison. Like a little girl of whom we have all heard, nature at times is very, yery good, but when she is bad she is horrid. Just now nature is acting up in . a perHelping Nature fectly horrid way. Contrary to what to Be Good many have expected the water in the Great Lakes is rising. That's just what the water in the Great Lakes ought not to do. Our own usually good Lake 1fichigan has done damage to the property on its shores that will cost already overburdened human beings millions of dollars. BuHdings have been and are heing undermined. \Vork that man has done, bad nature has undone. One of nature's meanest jokes is to roll big stones into places where these same stones ought not to be. But complaining will do no good. We must repair the damages. vVe must rebuild what nature has torn down. We must do all we can to help nature be good. A thoughtless person might ask, What is the use of the police? To support the department takes a very large share of the taxpayers' money. And it is also true How the that some citizens seem to get along without the aid Police Help of the police. But note what the police do. In general they enforce the Jaws. Specifically they control and arrest speeders, thus decreasing the number of accidents and deaths. Were it not for this work of the police the citizen who thinks that he doesn't need the police might he maimed for life or his child killed by a reckless motorist. The police watch vacant houses, thus preventing loss of property of various kinds. They care for destitute persons who otherwise might cause trouble. They aid the sick and injured. They catch and impound stray dogs who might otherwise have caused disease and death. Had we no police in our north shore towns criminals from Chicago would very soon take advantage of the fact, and our home towns would become hell towns. Too much ~redit cannot be given the efficient police departments in our north shore towns for the peace and happiness ~hat we and our children enjoy. One of the most valuable and usable skills that a school can help a student develop is skill in debating. Discipline in this field is valuable because it means Training in that the student has learned to th~nk more effectively Debating and also to present his views and evidence more successfully. A good debater can convince many of his hearers. By care£ ul study and discriminating practice he can develop in himself the ability to understand situations, collect pertinent material, arrange it in most effective form, select evidence that will be most telling, and present it with clearness and force. In fact, it would not be easy to find any school discipline more valuable for the growing citizen than this discipline of debating. Our own high school on Winnetka a venue offers this discipline to its students. Any young man or woman who desires to become a good debater will find there plenty of opportunities to develop this ability. It is interesting in this connection to recall the career of Rollin Simonds, graduate of New Trier in 1928, for three years a member of the high school debating team and now a freshman at Harvard, where he recently won a prize of $50 for excellence in the tryouts for the big Harvard-Yale Princeton debate. \Ve are confident that as closing speaker for Harvard in the great event he will clinch the victory for his aln1a mater and reflect credit on New Trier. Some may have thought the Glencoe village board hard-hearted, unfair, and over-scrupulous in ref using to allow Glen Gables Te!l room to place its signs in Too Many various parts of the village. Sign Boards The hoard held that the erecting of one of these advertisements was illegal, a direct violation of the zoning law. Accordingly they ordered its removal. Doubtless the board acted completely within its rights. It is probably true that the traveling public might have been pleased to know at one time or another that there was not far away a tea room where one might satisfv his hunger and thirst. But we know verv ~well that if one private concern were given permission to erect its signs in public places a precedent would have been set up on which other business houses might have based perfectly just and reasonable claims. Even the most artistic signs cannot improve a landscape. The beauty of nature cannot be enhanced by any picture or statue no matter how valuable the picture or statue may be as a work of art. No real estate agent advances the idea that his signs improve the appearance of the natural surroundings. SHORE LINES TREADING ALONG DANGEROUS PATHS WITHOUT CASTING ANY REFLECTION UPON THE INTEGRITY OF WINNETKA'S MUNICIPAL HOUSEHOLD, WE WOUtD RISE TO ASSERT OUR VERY SERIOt,JS OBJECTION TO THE COMPLAINT ·REGISTERED LAST WEEK BY HUBBARD WOODS RESI.:. DENTS TO THE PRESENCE OF CINDER PATH SIDEWALKS IN THAT EXCEPTIONALLY UP-AND-UP NEIGHBORHOOD. NOT THAT WE OBJECT TO THE OBJECTION, EXACtLY, BUT, RATHER, THAT WE HAD HOPED SUCH EXPRESSION MIGHT BE POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER THE RUCKUS CONCERNING THE SANITARY GENTRY'S AMBITIOUS CINDER PATH BUILDING PROPENSITIES HAD CLEARED AWAY. JUST THINK HOW TERRIBLE IT WOULD BE IF A SEARCH INTO THE MUSTY RECORDS IN THE ATTIC · OF WINNETKA'S MUNICIPAL ABODE SHOULD REVEAL EXHORBITANT EXPENDITURES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THOSE HUBBARD WOODS CINDER WALKS. BUT THEN, PERHAPS THE PAPERS WERE DESTROYED IN ONE OF THOSE PERIODIC FIRES IN THE OLD VILLAGE HALL, WHICH BURNED SO OFTEN THAT IT WAS EVENTUALLY CONVERTED INTO A FIRE STATION. Hubbard Woods, we learn from the news columns, claims' possession of a considerable portion of lower (we mean southern Glencoe). Surpri·sing, indeed it hasn't annexed more of" Winnetka. Give 'em a treat, Bud! Bud Crush, the w. k. adv~rtising solicitor, was seen staggering along one of Wilmette's streets under a burden of smartly wrapped bundles. It is ·rumored that the w. k. Bud was doing his shopping preparatory to invading the effete {more or less) east. . Undoubtedly he will startle the m. or I. gay Gothamites with his satorical splendor acquired in the shops of the north shore. .J Northbrook appears to be in for a fine mess of something or other now that John W. Cooksy has been chosen the chief executive of Glencoe's own suburb. At any rate, Glencoe promise's to furnish him with a plentiful supply of water ~ith which s tart things boiling. to · Now He's A Revolutionary Contributions are prayerfully solicited to make up the deficit in Shore Line's exchequer caused by Gin's recent foraging expedition in Augie's advertising agency ·. Latest reports have it the Type-eating Terrier devoured all the visible assets therein contained, including a well seasoned font of ColoniAl type. "He ate everything but our liabilities"-quoting the infuriated Augie. "Ask Millions for Wild Life," reads a current headline-and we ·.;uspected the appended story had to do with an appeal for more "Whoopee" funds, until we hit upon the paragraph bearing reference to the efforts of the Audubon society to raise $10,000,000 to support wild-life conservation. Who Started This? A group of Australian cadets, on tour through the United States and Canada, were scheduled to find hospitable shelter this week in home'3 of north shore Rotarians whilst they were engaged in sightseeing Chicago, but failed to arrive. A message from Toronto (where they were eventually located) is purported to have brought the startling news that the spon·sors of the expedition steered shy of the \ Vorld's Fair city because they feared uniformed lads would be mistaken by gunmen for Chicago policemen. Further details emitted the information that the Ansae youths now are determined to visit Chicago if for no other reason than to enjoy a bit of excitement on an otherwise uneventful journey. .. Millions of out-of-town radio listeners-in may, after att, be jtrstified in regarding Chicago as the world's greatest crime cent~r, after an evening devoted to program·s frequently interspersed with WGN Bong ... Bong ... Bongs. -Mique.