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PAGE SIX ' Tcl‘cphone 110 â€" fi Children‘s North Shore Gas Company _ Ask an glad to giv nearest offic Lack of funds need not prevent you from taking advantage of our offer, In case you wish to save and invest while saving, we have a plan which you will find most convenient. â€". |8 ! * ol _ §if | a . _ Ask any of our employees.and they will be glad to give you full pafi::glars or call at the nearest offi¢e of this company. _ e . This offer is open to every business men and others on , terms. :: [ ; 1| We are now offering the ;it zens of the North Shore an opportunity to share in the ownership of this companyâ€"through the investment in the 7% Preferred Shares of this company and thus also share in the earnings of our company on a safé and satisfactory basis. || . â€"~ ~ [ _ The holders of the 7‘?hj’ref rred Shares of this Company will receive their regular quarterly dividend checks on October 1. | __ . _ § . IP Ese > ~§" s This isflzn mvegtmeni,({)pp/)rtunity,m your own communifty. &.â€"â€"=! / / 008. 0}. 0.0. FU See Our 9 onder Sizes 6 to FB co ouncement C NE CO ful 14 years LLAR / indo~ ne, wage earners, exactly the same $ > THE® HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS Free Delivery oats UeESs it3 Trash £rpwn near the fences by the noonday picnicers has also de stroyed ‘many thousands of blooms Papers that wrapped lunches have settled ‘down on tender young plants 'A(:. least a dozen of the Red Bu« trees he planted near the road sid: have gone because each spring van dals drove up, stripped nearâ€"by limb trmq the} rees and eventually kille« them, Eiemrsmoremdthekec‘ Bud. will be a memory. The Dog. woods have been nearly eliminated jr the last five years. A dozen varietie: of wild flgwers which made the ph‘g: rare have also gone, and their place: have, been taken by weed flowers thai never h.gx a chance when the wood: bl@med lotously, say 10 years ago . ‘"Never pull up roots. Break or cu the stems, for roots pulled up will no grow again from nothing. Even i you just want to come back in a yea or two to see this beauty again, | careful, for the rare varieties are fan from hardy and a: few years hencé theg will be ‘gone unless we. practic« flower conservation." _ § f ’ ted Bud Trees Killed < â€"_ F?rtu itely this flower lover cn4 one of the earliest reforesters of ou: midc#le country passed on before th« desq‘ncti became so evident. H will inever know the destructive pat of vandal motorists through this lovely "thicket thatâ€"owes its certain spoilation to the ruthless h des w descend upon it in‘ the spring time." R + * His ca‘gtiom to flower pickers n:'nj well be considered by every moto who picks flowers . pccasgionall ‘Never tike all the blpnog:l of clun;p, however small. The flowe you leave will seed themselves and ‘th ;v“ifiwood;{ will â€"become more bélnfii Never (did the. owner : obejet flower pitkers® who tgok a . few an left blosgoms with every origin clump ) seed the nearâ€"by . groun He did not object to those who dug u roots of wildâ€"rare flowers he had ca fully. transplanter and taken care at considgrable cost and years of votion. || i ‘ With dare and thoughtful picking it would have gone on f ever inctéasing in. ch&m in rari and in beauty for all who cared t come and look. But the vandals scendeéd in carloads and pulled u flowers by .the <roots. Those would not dream of burglary or 0 stealing. (ame hnd dug up what t wanted in spite of "No Trespass signs which the owner felt forced t erect a few years ago in the hope: saving some portion of its beauty fo the future generations. toeq The old sugar trees which gave eatly 1. are: passing. Young forest trees, many of themâ€" plan by the tmhan who practiced refo tionmore than a generation agofi, fore the term was invented, are tal ing their places. |The lover of fi and trees and nature, who took ca of it for years, planted here wil flowers ught from all parts of state.. It had more varieties per a than any other section within a h dred miles, according to the testimon of experts in this line. ~This dâ€"flower preserve is sitQâ€" ated within ten miles of a big mi west city, Nevertheless in the 1 five yerars the wildâ€"flower varie and (qugntities have diminished : least 50 per cent. Angther five yea at this rate and none but the â€" monest gorts of flowers will be 4 The â€"plage will have lost almost i entire charm. â€": : a . _The Ruthless Flower Pickers ‘Many yearsâ€"ago the farm u which this wild flower preserve situated was bought from the © ment. has remained in one famjily for gonerations. Most of the w land was cut, but more than ter ac bave preserved for trees flowers, | In the wildâ€"flower secti cattle h. never been pastured. family calls it "The Thicket." ‘ It is ptomatic of what will ha pen to the whole countryside if hi motorists do not exercise more ca ahd discretion in picking flowers, stripping redbud blossoms andâ€" do, wood branches, for instance. 4 "Next year there will be fewer flowâ€" ers. Next year fewer still, â€"and weed flowers will tome, which no ohe wants. In the end the woods and fields of the countryside will be |a hundred times less attractive than they were. The picnics will be laks alluring, and the week end trip to woods will not give néar the pleasute. This may seem a dire idle predicâ€" tion of ‘one who does not we the Sunday ‘motorists to the fields and countrygide.~ It is a solemn fadt, based only on reports from m parts of the country, but on carefpl study and exact knowledge of whit has ‘alréa y hlppened to one of t most attractive wildâ€"flower p in the middle west. 1 The motor car has introduced milâ€" lions to the nearby countryside a the woods. Spring and summer | millions of picnics that were = ble until the motor car came by millions, | Nearly every car that goes to then&%r.\:ntry in the early spri brings back great heaps of d flowersâ€"armsful that will wither a die in a few hours.> ; Careless and Wasteful Motorists Threaten Their Extinction; A?ppeal Made to Stop s â€" _ Destruction VANDALISM MENACE TO RURAL BEAI WILD . FLOWERS SUFF . [It‘s mighty lucky for some of us and sh t they only call for the first verse flict t "Ametica." e : a ‘It is believed the bridge was swept away and swallowed up by quickâ€" ‘An invéstigation will be startâ€" as soon as the waters recedé. gfore the: stream was transformed ito a raging torrent by the excessive rainfall. ‘The bridge rested on steel ibes but following the, deluge no trce of it was left. [(The most uncanny of all the freaks of the storm which visited this secâ€" tion last week was the complete disâ€" ' of a concrete bridge which spanned the creek north of this city BRIDGE DISAPPEARS |~ _ DURING RAINSTORM ) Plans| were formulated for the $1,000,000 Jewish city Chicago to Nt uilt ir Palestine in five years by the lewish committee of the Zionist orâ€" ization and the Palestine foundaâ€" lJon found at & joint meeting of these es in the Hotel Sherfan, Chicaâ€" , last week, > j The city of Chicago is to be built a colony to provide â€"a home for e Jews in Europe and for those who h no longer enter the United ates, ‘and . who â€"would otherwise ve to remain in a land infested with rorists and at the mercy of poli« 1. and social persecution, accordâ€" ing to Dr. S. M. Melamed, chairman the| joint committee and initiator ‘the movement. 4 f ’,JDAtter'all it is our land, our home ‘country . and countryâ€"side . and each .fian help a lot in bringing about a ‘proper respect and knowledge of our duty in helping to preserve it for ather (millions who like it. _ Today veral million cars with three pasâ€" sengers each will invade the country xdg.' The need of teaching and helpâ€" ing them is great. j ‘‘He who loves the wild wood will PLAN NEW CHICAGO _ 1 ~â€" BUILT IN PALESTINE \ Good examples taught by self reâ€" pecting motorists who carry. only small bouquets of wild flowers,. who always pick up their. lunch trash and destroy it and carry it home to the garbage can, will have real effect on less thoughtful people who often err through : sheer ignorance. Experiâ€" ment will prove that kindly advice of fellow motorists to "leave some of every clump of: wild â€" flowers" will ilso be: appreciated. by the decent }p‘e of men and â€" women, and they autnumber the. men who will knowâ€" }’ggly destroy what they love and enâ€" ‘ In the great west the careless motorist often runs across the Forest Rangers and their signs. Woe to 1’dm who is caught with the goods of fire carelessness. Forcedâ€" to it even {eh: most thoughtless motorists can learn the right way to treat nature as proved in the open forest land. zhey also â€" will have to learn it in the ttled portions of the land. \â€"Even those signs will not protect ‘ wild fiowers and the beautiful f that ~bloom so luxuriantly in kome part of our land. The fate of wild ‘beauty is in the hands of the motoring public. . If it cares a hang bout it the time has come to wake p and recognize that each one has his part in preserving it for pure joy and happiness. [ or | ‘No real lover of the open country who .happens to own fair fields and njoyable . woods cares to put up No Trespass" signs. They are alâ€" ys erected with regret by the American family, who would â€" like extend the courtesies of the wood nd fields to less fortunate city wellers. But these signs will bloom ike. poison ivy along a: neglected fence row if the mass of motorists hre not more careful from now. on. ‘ Walk alongside this road for half a Monday morning and you will ind‘ the remnants of lunch parties, banana . pneels,© pasteboard ~cartoris, artially broken bottles and the genâ€" pral signs of illâ€"mannered picnickers who uld keenly resent passersâ€"by n the city throwing any manner of smaill trash into their front yards. \ ‘The weekâ€"ender who piles his lJunch ash and burns it and puts out the re at the end so that it may do no arm is so infrequent that he need ot be counted. Once in a long while E motor party is seen that puts .its rash into a basket or bag, carries it home and puts it into the incinerator pr the garbage can. . May his habits be widely copied! * Those who will be harmed most in Jong run are the motorists themâ€" ves. It is their country, their Idâ€"woods, as far as enjoyment of it ‘s, and their roadside, «> : Multiply all this by a few millions, and recognize it is done on every clear unday and holiday (through the spring and sumnier season and you n comprehend the vast destructiveâ€" ness of careless motorists and the ay in which they are spoiling the 30(!! and the fields and t.!mi roadâ€" Hide. .: | j €~. and â€"smothered them. â€" Old ‘ papers umped over the fence have: taken heir toll, in spite of fires built by the resent owners to burn such trash henever ~found before it had done rm, elp d the wild wood will f For the first six months this | year 40,853 deaths were re in | Tllinois against 45,499 for $he | first half of 1923. With the exc of l::& the influenza . year, lity durihg the first six months | from 2,000 to 10,000 ‘greater for ‘the last six months of the six years. Barring severe epidB@mits it ,seem: therefore, thit 1924 #i1 wield \ a very low mortality rate. The Germans accepted th â€"F terms on the evacuatiom of at the London conference, to remain in the Rubr for} an vyear. t3 s 4 \ p Newspaper dispatches f larâ€" tum state that British tribeps \Gisâ€" persed a ons fiO.‘; r wrbnrlg 9, attacked a > at Pfl't Sfi‘n.‘.:; . t ‘With the idea of alleviati suffering a lot of o l ns |and individuals are devoting : rts to antiâ€"militarism. folks do not know that typhibd fdwer, malaria, smallpox, and: &, four diseases far more eagil tâ€" the United States since | of the world war than were lo@ by and shell to this country t A total of 63,215 births ported in the state durlrg half of &mmc 1 gin of over. the gri Births reported during the c« ing period of 1923 total More ~births and fewer de for last year indicate a go tion of the â€"public health,; â€" Record in State for Six â€" of 1924 Birth Total In later artitles dren‘s normal vision fl an . mic in industry,: and the abbormal tions most frequent, be dis PEATS RAFIRS'l‘m wnALF-BAIJ happiness, â€"cor entm« of our people depen servicable eves.. Unquestionably, more and mor the intnfity., ind development c national ph‘ M mfl::gltnin 0 people‘s physi¢ ion, Student general ffid‘:l will in nur We are now antering ‘fields of delicate pu?mnship. hithert« eign to us.. Aviation, which der fine vision and strains the undoubtedly W fore ‘long. > |," Happiness Depends on 3 A;wglnv.'&ne‘to preciate th ': life itself is of value, we have fMl come to realize the value of | #4 things that make life worth livimg, and when we count thoke things ; make life fine and 1 and y | we must place this function of hetk@n| vision mt the zg of list. : 1 ' Eyes Overtaxzed by Artificial Ligh In the last twenty years t ’l p mands on the eyes have great] z creased. Moving pictures, the marked extension of artificial ilumingdih complicated . laborâ€"saving . maghifhe that save the hands, but add t Ehe strain .of un.jwfi‘q to. mention| g a few factorg, all have affected sight in varying degrees. . In Mikt during this period no other org@i bf the body has had its lakorsâ€" so rR increased. . . _ e t A greater appr of may not be n ry, a appreciation of the importance care is. ° fesy <* h THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Every ' of 't eye 8+ culated to add to our, knowledge/ inâ€" crease our us . provide Mor our en 1 ‘at â€" insurdé pl safety. It is a few\y h that much attention bee ;‘ asd) to the subjects c tion of bl '. ness, defective vision the . con ho vation of vision. a HBB| : Of the :2«.. is sehses of hearing, touch knorwlodu:e se ssw | c?:j + a h E Good: Eyesight U It is the mind whith sees, feels, checks and the ie of the senses, as is proved } common expression: | "I did 6t it; I was thinkir‘g of something What gives man his f oÂ¥er the ‘beasts of ‘the fields is ng superiority : of ‘his senguous 'i ism, for it is inferigr in masy spects to that of certain beast sects and birds. He triumpH cause he is a thinking animal. All know? is ate the senses. (If any is all your judgments arg warped. â€" "SIGHT ~I8S KNOWLE Impairment: of. Any One Senses ll,enn-;,,,Wnrp-{! f Judgment EFFICIENCY ON WANE? MAYBE IT‘s YOUR | Dr 0; H. Bersch Increased AY nt w#