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a Kar w 8 $ § As the laws ustually are administered. there is no interference with habitual menaces to life and property until they have an "‘accident." Little is done to prevent accidents, Hundreds of "saps" could be identified when tht‘ streets are wet l? the slidâ€" ing of their cars at points where they should be under perfect control. Too much speed on wet pavements is as dangerous as driving while intoxicated. Something can be done! about it. â€" Of course, it is impossible to legislate sound sense into the mind of that type commonly called "sap." l1f we are to have the possible maximum of safety in the streets the "sap" must be legislated out of the driver‘s seat. This perhaps falls into the catagory of things "more easily said than done.‘" The "sap" must be proved before he can be deprived of his citizen‘s right. The real question is, what proof shall be required ? ' We are now in the season when the streets are quite commonâ€" ly wet andvery slippery.. Common sense tells us that an autoâ€" mobile cannot be safely driven as swiftly on wet as on dry streets. Yet too many drivers are deaf to the voice of commion sense, This type changes its habits not at all when conditions favor skidding. If it avoids collision this can be accounted for only on the ground that there is such a thing as "luck." i _ Although many people appear to be of the contrary opinion, it is quite generally agreed that "you can‘t make human beings good by statute." Is it not time to conclude that neither can people be made careful by law and to attempt to reduce the perils of street traffic by means different from those that have been reâ€" lied uponâ€"in the past? Just what will prove effective will have to be decided after thorough study of the conditions that have grown up. It seems obvious, though, that measures of prevenâ€" tion rather than of punishment will yield the greater benefits. Human nature is a peculiar thing despite the fact that all of us have it. It wouldn‘t be human nature if it wasn‘t odd. If we did everything in a reasonable and sane way we would not be human beings. We would be superâ€"human and that is too much to expect. : It is the prerogative of human beings to do as they please and of course most of us please to delay as long as we can the doing of what we cannot avoid. There may be those who are forehanded in Christmas shopping but they are rare and so different from the mass that they are odd, too. However, none but the. exceptional person thinkz of doing shopping until it cannot be put off any longer. Then it es an ordeal and is so strenuous that it tends to rob the season of the "cheer and good will" that attach to it sentimentally. The ‘"‘good will" might actually pervade the shoppers were they not overâ€" worked trying to find what they want, and struggling to get it. Yet it would not be Christmas for a lot of people were it other:â€" wise. They have become so accustomed to waiting and then makâ€" ing a hurryâ€"up job of it that they would not feel right were it done betimels. t sE « es If human nature were not what it is, the Christmas season might not be one of rush and worry over what to buy, and sales forces in stores would not be rushed to exhaustion in the two or three weeks before the event. If people did.their shopping when it could be done under the least congested conditions, it might exâ€" tendb(lwer months instead of weeks, dnd it would be not less seaâ€" sonable. ; C It is not simply a jest that father also likes to playâ€"even though he may say it is just tg test themâ€"with the toys be buys for the youngsters. Thus, while the holiday is particularly a festival for the children, emphasizing the story of the Babe in the Manger, it also has for the elders its pleasures and the wider magnificence of that worldâ€"inspiring event in Bethlehem.. While it seems impossible to say anything new on the subject of Christmas celebration, the miracle of the season is that the custom ‘of nearly 2,000 . years makes practically all things new. The aged become young again through their rejoicing in the deâ€" lights of the grandâ€"children with the things that once made their own eyes open wide in wonder â€"â€" memories of their own childâ€" hood also come back to them.: > ty? Entered as Second Claks March 1, 1911, at t office at Highland Peoeeded Povont Cokn matter Mateh 1 1070 at the post offics t HLMED The Higbland Park Press THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925 PAGE TWO By the way, we must do our shopping pretty soon. from city limit to city limit. 3 n e Widening: and repaving West Central Avenue from Green ~Bay Road west to first Skokie Bridge or Blodgett. Ornamental Lighting System all over town. (Similar to Baird & Warner‘s Deere Park Subdivigion.) ' « All Night Lighting. €330 n n tanent New Ornamental Lights to cover:the entire business zone. Widening and repaving Green Bay Road to at least 40 feet Published weekly by The Udell Printing Co. at Highland Park, x bb’w.m.w . i i OUR PLATFORM FOR A BETTER =â€" HIGHLAND PARK THAT CHRISTMAS SHOPPING MAKES ALL THINGS NEW THE SPEED PROBLEM Linpcendiaus linNinedew bAR EC ds o d T omm niiminennnysinnnie NUMBER 41 _ What a bigâ€"hearted fellow old Santa Claus is. He must have beeh a And the children begged Slnt_l,Clqu to stay for dinner. Ourions thing for him to be doing! But he stayed, and for the first time, almost since he had been a child himself, he had a Christ mas, a real Christmas, a Christmas filled with love which had driven the loneliness out! ~ . f The janitor‘s children had always been afraid of him, but not so of Santa Claus! He undid his patk, he took gifts off the tree, and the children climbed over him, kissed him, hugged him, loved him. ‘With what a splendid gusto they loved him! ® Suddenly there was a cry, a cry of joy such as he had never heard.‘ +A He had given the janijtor money beâ€" fore, of course, ‘This time he would take part in the Christmas of the chilâ€" dren of the janitor, j Christmas. morning came. Never had he arisen so early on a Christmas morning. : Dressing himselt carefully, he went downstairs. He pud worked until late the night before, decorating the tree, but he was not tired,; . ‘"Why, there‘s Santa Claus! Dear, dear Santa Claus." Tinsel, candles, red colored paper, ribbons, small toys, déecorations, oh, how much he bought. His arms were filled with bundles f just as were the arms of others. It CA was such fun to / in ’ carry bundles, too, ~ $h, _ , 2.( | # He had never | ie #acid known before the | }"**%i ‘ joy of overcrowdâ€" h ed. arms, ‘l?} /4‘[’” Home he went, . KX ., £/Zimte! carrying his beâ€" g€") \'{,sf loved purchases Tok with him. _ And Q\!}‘z then he summoned < | V ,.“'f-,/‘ K# the janitor to his _ .. {â€"f" y lonely suite, which | p â€"-fig now seemed filled es with : the Christâ€" â€" \ mas cheer. He talked it all over 7 with him, the plans $ for the tree, for 1 his own Santa Claus sulit. f He got out béfore a large store where in the window was a decorated Christmas tree. He went inside the store. No longer did he feel go lonely. He, too, had a purpose in niind. He was a part of all of this now." The chauffeur ‘was surprised, but he was too wellâ€"trained to show surprise. And yet couldn‘t it help? Suddenly be had an inspiration. He : called through ‘the <speaking tube to his chauffeur. "I think," he said, "I will get out here and walk the rest of the way home." ‘ y No, not everything! He wanted love and affection, he wanted to be a part of all this going on outside the h:: rious confinement of his car and that he couldn‘t buy. Mix with the crowds? Yes, he could do that, but not as one of them. Only as a lonely man . who had ‘a fat bankâ€" account which gidn‘t help in the slightest, His soul seemed to ache. He was alone. _ Rich,; comfortable, luxurious, ‘alone!~ No one ‘wanted him, needed hira, cared for him. He had everyâ€" thing which money could buy ; he had enough money to buy everything bhe wanted. T & Hegotlnlndmdov;nonthewtt, luxuriously ‘upholstered cushions, and the chauffeur closed the door, shutting out the clear, cold Christmas time air and the noise of the streetsâ€"the nojse of many voices of many people going shopping, with the higher volces of children rising every once in awhile above the din. 1 lonely, He would not dine at the club ; he would have some cheese and crackâ€" ers and coffee at home. His excellent valet "could always prepare a little supperâ€" for him., i Outside of the club his chauffeur and carâ€"were waiting. XE Only he had no plans to make. He gave his employees, and a number of others with whom he came in contact, . _ money at Christâ€" * ~mas time. ‘That {eafi' "fulfilied bis vv;[g% } Christmas de y ACo. {Ae A mands. (@©, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) His Christmas Spent at Club WHEN HE WAS A BOY HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS ie 'fff?'.:"-""‘}' : OsL_1P33 y Well, he would go ‘back to <his suite. He would leave the club. Perhaps among his own books, his ow n ‘things he would not feel so Other years he hadn‘t felt it so much as this year, This year‘ the loneliness seemed lonelier than ever before. : His sollâ€" tary condition sadâ€" dended him. : ‘. $ w | U AB » I We f V W & I â€" #l ‘ | @ ( â€"| 2P t I j } â€"all | 80 I 8 | @ & 1 n ds . | Hp Me | Pulae) w aJ ~| Wws ‘ k h Wa B W N ) J Wlat i l‘ Â¥ r V 1 o % dot .| We | U o J y J N % FJ ( y wl % #\ 3 o h. c# La ( j 8 * [Â¥ (4 \ (8 . ( C ( { Nt . ( L (s (S (# 1 8 ( L ( L2 J B & \ LE . ags PH. â€""ap S (< | LE ( L ¢ [ C | s s [S (a h k k :s xt | 2 L2 (« to take on about $650,000,000 of expenses, ‘ As the income taxpayers are goâ€" inité save about $325,000,000 ‘by the new law, they will probably proceed JA N?rth Carolina bishop advise all men to wear mustaches becm "it is all the women have left us." Evidently he has forgotten about the collar button. the names of 263 réal daughters as active members." » | "The insignia of the society is comâ€" nosed of gold with blue enamel, represents a star resting upon anchor.â€" The center of the star the inscription, "U. S. D., 1812." â€"|â€" T ‘r'l‘he‘ society was founded January 8, 1892, by the late Mrs. Flora Ads | Darling. In 1897, during the pregiâ€" dency of ‘Mrs. William: Gerry Slade, of Massachusetts, the society was inâ€" corporated: by an act of congress as ‘The Nptiéml Society United States Daughterg of 1812." The signing of *his bill is said to have been the 1 t official act of President William Mrâ€" | Kinley prior to his untimely death at the hands of an assassin. Mrs. 81 gave ei#hteen years of her busy life to the office of national president of l the socrety. 14 .@."This organization is nonâ€"sectionâ€" Al, nonâ€"sectarian and nonâ€"partisan, gf;s motto is "Liberty and Fraternity." m:fi:‘nflpurpouof‘thsloclety!h to, promote patriotism,. It seeks to preserve and increase knowledge of the h;tory of the American people through the preservation of the doguâ€" ments and relics, the marking of hisâ€" toric spots, the recording of family hiqtonfl";nd traditions, the celeb &# of patriotic anniversaries, and particâ€" ularly the emphasizing and teaching of hergic deeds of the civil, military and naval life of those ‘who molded this r:?ubllc and saved it from foes, both within and without, between the: cloge of the American ‘Revolution l‘*ld1 the ending of the war of 1812. 4.4 ~.‘"The National Society of the Uni::j States Daughters of 1812 is compot of the descendants of the patriots who served their country during the strugâ€" gle with Great Britain in 1812. : There are 263 real daughters 6f the war 2{ 1812 who are active in the society of the Daughters of 1812 acâ€" cording to Mrs. Charles Fisher Tayâ€" lor writes entertainingly of the society, its history and its purposes in the current number of the National Republic. 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