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28 WILMETTE LIFE May 31, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 188UBD PJU.DA. Y OF BA.CB WBBK ' by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1132-1236 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chlcaco omce: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Wilmette liM SUBSCBJPTIO~ PRICE .ti.M A TEJ\R lication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In current. Issue. Resolutions of condolence. cards of thanks, obituaries, nottcee of entertainments or other affairs wher.. an admJttance charge Is ~ubltshed, will be charged at regular advertising rates. · aame and address or the writer· . Articles for pub- All communications must be accompanied by the Grade Separation will save life. Let's have immediate action! Little is said in polite society on the subject of garbage displ.)sal plants. It is not a topic which ladies and gentlemen would willingly select for a typical smallHumble But t a 1k conyersation. The Important latest noYel. the most recent n1ode in ladies' gowns, our children~ the weather, are all Yastly to be preferred. But the attaining and 1naintaining of good sanitary conditions are activities which_ . though humble, are of high importance. From one point of view the establishing and operating of a disposal plant are operations of primary importance. If happiness i the greatest of all goods, then . physical health. probably the most essential prerequisite for happiness. is one of the greatest of all goods. And health depends most of all on regular and efficient collection and disposal of refuse and garbage. \Vaste material left in the vicinity of human beings, especially children. means disease. and disease means discomfort and death. Seeds of disease and death lurk in the uncared-for garbage pail. What more disgusting sight is there than a city alley in which the garbage buckets have for weeks been full to ove~ flowing? Of a11 m<:>an!' of disposing of this unwholesom<:> material burning seems to us the most satisfactory. Not onlv is the stuff itself got rid of hut -also the sight and odor. Moreover. the resultant ashes can be utilized. Congratulations to the north shore towns tl]at incinerate their garbage! Though we have known persons, and some of ti1ern of the more refined sex, who didn't like cut flowers, still such persons are in the decided , minority and in a Flowers for certain sense peculiar. The general run of human beShut-ins ings do like .cut flowers and show sign~ of being pleased by the appearance and perfume of a bunch of blooms, wild or homegrqwn. l\1ost people easily admit that a room is improved by the presence of a vase of flowers, especially if the flowers are carefully arranged. Sick people. especially those in city ho~ pitals. are without doubt cheered and en.; couraged hy the presence of flower ~ in their roon1s. Dwellers in the cro,nled city areas feel happier and a little less crowded and herded. \Vhen on the living room table or on the windo\v sill is a cluster of purple lilacs. \Ve on the north 'hore are in some danger of forgetting what flo.w ers mean to those ~hut awa,· frotn nature, miles awav from even the· common gt:ass. Bricks,- metal, stone. hut no growing thing except a skinny alley cat. Those north shore residents who with more or less regulanty take into the noisy and tiring dtv annfuls ot lilacs and other flowers can su~ely he happy in the belief that they are brightening the lives of their less fortunate · brothers and siste· s. The hig. ugly signboards, put up at the expense of the patient tax-payer and telling the world that the near-by buildings and grounds are the possession of the Remove the Sanitary District of ChiBig Boards! c:.lgo. ought to be taken down at once. If there is any decent reason for notifying the passers-by that certain properties belong to the Sanitary District we can't figure out what it is. But we can see very clearly that the big hoards are blots on an otherwise pleasing landscape. Jt is to the credit of the new sanitary administration that soon after election the signs were n1ade impersonal hy the blotting out of the names which up to that time had g-raced the lower portions of said signs. But the big hoards still prominently remain to disfigure the oountryside and to advertise blatantly somebody\ easy willingness to spend somebody else's money. 1f President Elmore. now heading the Sanitarv Board. were to have all these eve-sores ren"1oved he would deserve and get a· special vote of gratitude not only from north shorL residents hut also f rum all who love unspoiled nature. For several years to come some motorists will continue to drive in that manner descrihed so arcuratelv as "breakneck." TheY will cannonade along- the public highway ,;l 50 or 60 per, lose control of their tnachines. and commit manslaughter on either themselYes or innoceht bvstanders. A Yiators in davs to rome oug-ht stirely to be denied licenses tinless they measure up to a remarkably high standani, if thev are not to continue this series of horrible accidents. There is one sovereign retnedy for troubles arising between parent and offspring. Have them get together. Invite them to father-and-son or mother-anddaughter dinner. Such an occasion will at least patch up their troubles and more probably .will bring about an understanding tl~ at will last for years. perhaps forever. S.HORE LINES "Such a dear tittle street it is nestled away · From the twise of the city and heat of the day, in .cool shady . coverts of whispering trees, . ~flith their ll'a'<-'l'S lifted up to shake ha· nds ·w,th the breeze Which in all its 1.cridc wanderings never may meet "THE RILEY MAN" IFitlz a rcsti1lg placr fairer than Lockerbie street." ~nd Lockerbie street, made immortal by the pe-n of James \Vhitcomb Riley, has its counterpart on the north shore-a Lockerbie street, two blocks long. winding through a woodland of walnut, oak, dm hawthorn and wild crab, just east of the Gle~ayre railway station in the southwest sectio·n of \Vilmctte. . That is not strictly news, since it was a few vears ago that Lockerbie street, Wilm ette, recei\'ed its official designation at the behest of Hoyt King, concerning whom we are about to comment. . . HoYt King, known to most of ht s fnends along the north shore as a most capable lawyer and business ·man has established a reputation (and this is news) ~s the man wl--o "~ak~s Riley's poen:ts liYe for you." Aside from hts htgh standmg tn Chicago -and the north shore coml?uni_ty as _a hitter and unrelenting foe of corruptton m pubhc offic~, and energetic sponsor of the .full use of the franchise as the logical means to ms.ure hones~y in government, this gentlem~n has a~am ~nd_ ~g~m thrilled (and convulsed) audten.-:es wtth hts tmmttable portrayals of Riley verse. Mr. King was really "discovered" about three vears ago when, quite unheralded, he appeared on a prog_ram in his nativ~ Ho?sier-lan~ under _the rather unpretentious destgnatton of The Rtley Man." Matter of fact, the principal speaker of the occasion, to whom had been assigned the t~s '< of arranging the program, had placed Mr. Kmg ju!'t ahead of himself on the proP..fam ~s a sort of filler-in to the main event of the evemng. And Mr. King, quite unwittingly of course, "kill_ed" the main event. In the vernacul<!r of the vanety stage, "he simPly stayed 'em-knocked 'em out of Lheir seats." This audience, mind you, was made up largely of genuine Hoosiers, scores of whom boasted intimate acquaintance with the immortal Riley, and Mr. King's impersonations were so effective as to bring this comment from one of his listeners: "I knew James Whitcomb Riley, as we were horn only thirty miles apart, and Mr. King, while much smaller in stature, has the same coloring, the same peculiar half squint of his eyes, the same Hoosier drawl, and so many other peculiarities that he makes the most perfect double imaginable." No less a personage and world famed Hoosier than John T. McCutcheon recently said to Mr. King: "One can easily imagine it is Riley himself who is before you, and that is as great a compliment as I could possibly pay you and your reading of his lines." And so, Lockerbie street, located in a subdivision opened by Mr. King some few_ years ago, becomes something more than merely another street name to residents of the north shore. It represents. in fact. _9.11 enduring monument to America's most beloved poet, whose characteristics, personal idibsyncrasies and gestures are being perpetuated hv a fellow Hoosier long since transplanted on our o~·n beaittiful north shore. 1t has heen disroYerecl bv scientific inre<;tigat()rs that more auto accidents are due to inattention of drivers than to any other one ('ause. Likewise the Cross Crossings pedestrian who doe~ Cautiously not watch his step i ~ Yery likely to get into troul,le. 1f a ner~on doe, not look where he is going the chances are that he will interfere with the traffic to his own detriment. Cautiousne,· s at railroad cro ·sings ha~ no doubt sa\'ed manr !i\·e and limbs. FYes were probably gi\ en ~1 s to keep us from · walking or hu1ning into l<H~umnt.in:s and f rei~~ht cars. \\ hich remind~ tb that a railroad once threatened to sue a motorist who ran his car into the tender of a locomoti\'e. .t\ow and then there is a person who shows little regard for the feelings .of an engine dri,·er. He crosses eros ·ings incautiously. giving no thought as to how an eng-ineer may feel who ~ees that he is aJH,ttt to crush out the I if e of a careless pede trian. Think of the shock to the sensiti\'e nerves of the man in the <'ah! Early Morning Humor Dear MiQue: Overheard on the early morning n. s. "Too~erville" trolley: "Good morning Mr. S:.onE, and how are all the little pebbles?" "Ah, good morning, Mr. Wood, and how are all the little splinters ?" Glenna from Glencoe. Campus News And no~· that the Des : M oines university huhhub has subsided for the nonce, how extraordinarily fitting that the Big Ten committee should contrive to direct attention to its very own Corn Beh representative Meanwhile we have been bu~y attempting to counteract the apparent quite general impression that Iowa's glaring faux pas consisted in the fact that "they got caught." It was the Good Old Book, we believe, that prescribed removal of the beam from one's own _ey~ before proceeding to entraction of the mote from a brother's optic. June-the month of brides, and another "fin" to perpetuate legal title to Gin, the Editorial Canine, alias the Type-Eating Terrier. Ho, hum! -MIQUE.