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TWO DOLLARS A YEAR News miaterial yMut reach editor by Tuesday noon- Contributions should bear author's name, requsred for reference and flot necessarily for publication. AUGUST 17, .1939 àVilwauhee Has Slipped in an, editorial on July 29, the "Milwau- kee Journal," commenting on the fact that thatcity has slipped from first to fourth place. m traffie safety, points. to careless-, ness as the prime- factor in its -flU. At the same tin e it, directs attention to what is probably the only.solution of the problemn- drastie traffie law enforcement. The situation of which the. editorial treats obtains all over the country, inciuding the North Shore, and for this reason excerpts are ~herewith presented,. Asserting that there is no purpose in at- tempting to fix responsibility on either. pe- destrians or motorists, editorial continues: "Motorists and pedestrians generally, have been getting more and more careless. Se hâve the police. They have been letting. drivers get away with dozens of minor vio- lations, aIl contributing to traffie hazards. "Double parkin -Y las become more or less general,. with -nothing done about it. --Arterial jumping bas become common, with no special police effort te stop it.", After listing other violations that are be- ing constantly winked at by police, the meat of the traffic safety problem is given in these words: * "Unless and until this town gets a real *dose of trafflc law enforcernent, its safety record won't corne back to former levels;- its people will continue to be injured or lilled in traffie accidents." Rigid law enforcement will reduce traf- IPJVE CENTS A COPY Criminal Carelesanes The unforfunate accident which befell little Joan'Schaefer of 'Wilmette on August .6, when she was struck .by a random:. bullet- which :passed, through her brain. and lodged in the'.skull, rivets attention upon: the jeopardy in. which humnan lives.,are placed by: the. carelessness of, irresponsible persons. That thé. child, is still -alive is one of, those- miracles of nature'-which no one cani explain. It also emphasizes the lenien- cy . with which minor violations. of village ordinances are too often regarded. Like other villages, Wilmette lias an or- dinance prohibiting the -firing of -guns with- in its limits. [tis resented by some citizens, a s an invasion of their personal rights, and is frequently violated. The -dcaim is 'set up that the municipality lias no authority t o restrain a person fromshootlng on his own property,, yet the fçcts. in the presenpt inci- dent show that the provision is wise and fully justified in the interest of public safe- ty. While no evidence has as yet beeri given in court, a neiglibor lias confessed that lie shot at a squirrel just before the victim was struck by a bullet. Unless ballistic ex- prshave an opportunity to determine from what gun the bullet whicli injured the child was discharged, actual proof that it came from the neighbor's gun may be difficult to present. In any event, the patent fact is that somebody vioiated a village ordinance by fring a gun within the limits of the munici- pality; that the bullet struck an innocent Ittle girl at play;' that she now lies ini a hospital with the outcomedecided.ly uncer- tain, while an entire community prays for lier recovery; that lier parents and broth-, ers and sister are grief-stricken but cour- ageous and hopeful and eminently fair t o the unknown gunner, recognizing that there was no intent to harm any huinan being. The carelessness was criminal. While the in priyng 1098e à ne' coi re of t] ni theiri maintainéd. to the proper o: r that purpose. Gee! It's swell to higli-hat 'the reSt of the of- fice force and kick the alarm dlock i the face. YeP. Vacation! THE PHANTOM REPORTE lead one to ponder why law enforcing agencies have not previously looked into their activities. Your old uncle seemingly has noworries about how they got it. What he is interested in is get- tmng bis "cut." ýOur' congratulations, to that Laporte, Indiana, j3ublisher wh o has just finished his fiftieth year of. newspaper work.. That boy is- certainly a glutton for'punishment., A: CIO. official suggests that the President cali a conférence of "the best thinkers" in goverri- ment, labor and'industry-,to seek a 'solution of the unemployment -problem. [s there anything left to.be, tried? And after the maulings of thé past ten years, are thereany thinkers, best or worst, to put on the job? "Small tropical storm crosses Iowver Florida," reads a Saturday headline,. "Small" is good. The wind 'or rather gentle'evening zephyr, was traveling not a bit faster than 60 miles an hour. Nothing to worry about. Building trade workers at Atlantic City have been ordered back to work. Hfow could they go back to work when there isn't any work? Roque, game fashioned after croquet, is r ap- idly gaining popularity in Chicagoland. If >it threatens to supercede basebaîl, fans* of the national sport are wirned to be on guard. Reading about ahl these camping trips, lake cruises and. other recreations now being en- joyed by Boy Scouts brings us to the conclusion that we miade a colossal mistake when we step, ped beyohd the Boy.Scout age limit. A congressman Who doubles as a professor of philosophy at a prominent university, thereby holding two jobs 'and doing his bit to rehieve unemployment, says it is the governmen t's ob- ligation to provide all citizens with opportunity for reverie, which he caîls the "dessert of life.ý" The prexy should step carefully. Rever e is a sort of meditating, and if bis constituents should concentrate on meditation of sorne of his philoso- phies, there, is a possibility that he miglit lose one of the jobs, and that would slow up his ef-