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Words one inch high = "Chieago World’s Fair in 1933” will be carried on uutpmolrile license plates in 1932 and 1933, if a bill prepared for pre- sentation in the state legislature next month, is adopted. That will ,mean that every auto- mobile and truck licensed by the state of Illinois, will be an advertising me- dium of the Century of Progress ex- position, for the spake of two full years. Henry Sonnenschein, a Democrat state representative and secretary to County President Anton J. Cermack, will offer the bill. He also has drafted bills to abolish the biennial April primaries and restore September pri- maries for nomination of county and state offieiab to be elected following November. Sonnenschein’s bill provides that county and state primaries shall be held every two years on the Tuesday following the second Monday in Sep- tember. That provision would make primary day somewhere between Sept. 8 and Sept. 15. Politicians generally favor testam- tion of the old-time September pri- mary. They argue that the lapse of seven months between the time when candidates fpr important county and state omees ard nominated by the two big parties and the time when TO ADVERTISE FAIR ' 0N LICENSE PLATES Bill Being Prepared for State Legislature to Boost Big Exposition Thursday, Jan. I, 1931 The Howard-Udell Cafeteria Season's Greetings IN THE UDELL BUILDING We will not be open for business New Year's Day the people select their county and state oiticials from the rival undi- dates is too long. Candidates 11t compeEed to face seven months tt campaigning. The voters are expected to keep alive their interests in rival candidacies for seven months, which they won't do, they say. - Candidates named at September primaries will be able to jump It once into a six or seven weeks' cam- paign. Public interest aroused by the contests at the September prim- aries, politicians predict, will be kept afiame during the few weeks in- tervening before the election on the tirst Tuesday in November. Warrant Charges Man with Theft of Trees t On one trip, the prosecutor said, " troés were removed and on the second 14 were taken. Col, Smith said that he did not know the types of trees taken but that he was informed that all were valuable young nursery' stock. _ THE PRESS SOUTHERN lLLlNlOS GEOLOGICAL HISTORY Vividly Told Story of Formation of That Region Issued by State Survey pus of the University of Illinois. The pamphlet is being widely rend by teachers, students, and others inter- ested in the southern counties. Geological history of the southern part of the Mate is vividly told in In educationnl pamphlet, "The story of the Geologic Making of Southern Illi- nois," recently published by the State Geological Survey located on the elm- pus of the University of Illinois. The The present Illinois Ozarks are by no means as high as they were orig- inally. As soon as they were formed, nature's, agents of destruction, weath- ering and erosion, beanie active, Ind up to the present time have removed hundreds, perhaps a thounnd. feet of rock from the tops of the hills. The hills were formerly low mountains, and they formed I much more formid- able mnze than they do at present. The complete geologic history is The complete geologic history is clearly outlined in the booklet, from earliest time to the present. It in u story that is written in the rocks; I wonderful and thrilling story which the rocks themselves reveal to the student of earth history, herein trunslutod into the language of the laymnn. so that all might read the fascinating "Story of the Geologic Making of Southern Illinois." According to Associnu-d Press fut- ures released at Wilmington. D.C., the rural population in Illinois h" de. creased from 2,0il2,18, in 1920 to l,- 994,92l7 in 1930. Population in towns and cities of more than 2,400 popula- tion hug incrensed from 4,403,153 in 1920 to 5,635,727 in 1930. Illinois is Copies of the booklet, us well " other publications of the Geological Survey, no distributed free of churn for use in the public school: through- out the State. They Ire ulna unil- able, at nominal charge. for general distribution, and mny be secured by addressing the oMeeq of the State Geologicnl Survey, at Urban. Rural Population in State Has Decreased 1920 to 5,635,727 in 1930. Illinois is given I total population of T,630,664 for 1930 as computed with 6,485,280 in 1920. Exibe J. M. BILHARZ BI. Conn. New Tops. Cum-u» It'd Pink or Celluloid Windows. Floor Run. BATTERIES B E C K E R Battery Service DISTRIBUTORS " NORTH SHERIDAN ROAD Highllnd "rl Kuhn-6nd tre Nut and of Chili. Scientist of Highland I'Irk Yul are cordially invited " the [tending Room, when the IOU” '. Writ Inn Viaduct“, until Christine, North Roo- Lnrlol'u than " North M. John Avon: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM Hamill Walnut-v PHONE " IGIILANII PARK tt " B. First Street CHURCH SERVICE! luv-day “no! 0:“ " Halve-um Aun- $2. Telephone 493 A.» Trim-Inn I!!! III-ll A "no “It march-Id re.dimr only "'tdrqr mud it