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My friends call me a gadabout, But I‘ve a mind logistic. _ Since home‘s unsafe, I‘d best get "Most Accidents Occur in the Home" That "empty‘ strip of war maps, from Mainz to Coblenz, is the part of the Rhine where, riding downâ€" stream ("up" on the map) you could hardly turn your head from side to side fast enough not to miss Rhine," the Mouse Tower, the Lorâ€" elei, or some storied castle. chose to stay a little while summer at Bacharach (pronouncâ€" ed "Buckâ€"aâ€"ruck," with the "k‘s" like . strongly aspirated "h‘s") named for Bacchus, the god of wine. As the train stopped, a man who seemed to have‘ a frog in his throat walked up and down the station platform. The train was nearly ready to start again before we realized that he was not clearâ€" ing his throat, but calling "Bachâ€" arach! Bacharach!" . We pulled down our baggage and got out. ‘The Hotel had had other visitâ€" ors from Chicago. About 1905, a famous Chicago brewer had â€"stayed there, and in his honor the hotel had been redecorated. We were to have the very room â€" and the dows, and the terrace where we ate our meals, overlooked the Rhine. The river broadens at Bacharach, spreads around a little island, and near the shore it is shallow enough for a carefully roped off "Schwimâ€" bad," one of the few spots along the turbulent river safe for bathâ€" Main Street, hardly fifteen feet wide from building to building, meâ€" anders along parallel to the old Roman wall that skirts the Rhine. Each house is a fugitive from an etching; the one called "the crookâ€" ed house" is too picturesque to be a creditable subject for anything but a photograph. Atop the wall at the river‘s edge are terraces where on summer days a visitor may sip cool, unfermented white grape juice in lieu of coca cola, At the On the way down from the casâ€" tle, hidden in a patch of wood, we chanced, wholly unprepared, upon the red stone, lacy Gothic ruin of St. Werner‘s Chapel. _ Only the walls of the choir remain; the sky is the roof, and the green shadows indsofthown,thevflhm from the river and climbs, dotted with watch towers, through the steep terraced vineyards to the inâ€" evitable ruined castle on the sumâ€" mzt.‘ttonrvieeunyonthhooâ€" Thursday, March 29, 1945 tel. of trees are the stained glass for the windows. No sightseeing bus for miles around, no chattering ‘Linksâ€"habenâ€"wirâ€"den â€" Denkmal" guide at our elbow; the discovery was breathtaking. Strangely, the ruin shows on every photograph, standing out clearly on the side of the hill; it is only from near by that you see no trace of it until you are suddenly standing in the open end of the choir. Bacharach is a halfâ€"way base for trips up and down the river. Downstream ‘to Coblenz, you pass Lorelei again; but Coblenz is dull and commonplace, with its huge Hohenzollern monument. Bingen, bo,h-lmbln:..k-fi:;: school book poem. Its ing an almost busy, mediamâ€"siged town anywhere in the world, meanâ€" ing perhaps that it has factories, is what rated a few bombs and a line in the news when it was taken a few days ago. the river to Ruedensheim, anothâ€" er pictureâ€"book town with a wine named for it. ‘l\onv;wn‘d ‘precious arguing for a taxâ€" iab.-::'zu-hlhbh Germany when a cheaper means of transportation was available in a few hours or a few days, or when walking was conceivably possible. Finally, having convinced a driver that we understood the enormity of our extravagance in being willâ€" ing to spend 75 cents, we explored the flzmhfib and rode down river to Assmanshausen, across from Rheinstein Castle. It is one of the most terrifying stretches of the river. A few miles away is Binger Loch (Bingen Hole)\that â€"Has frightened sailors since the beginning of navigation. The river, confined between steep rocks, whirls and leaps over rapâ€" ids; the tiny boat tosses in the curâ€" rent, and catches the wake of big steamers, until, thoroughly churnâ€" The Watch on the Rhine Not content with the brief We ferried from Bingen across out SHALLOWS on dark nights, to light the ships past the treacherous rocks. The Bacharach boys were shy withâ€"the boy from Chicago. Aside from the language barrier, the boy from U.S.A. (pronounced Ooâ€"Essâ€" Ah) had hair, while their heads were shaven; and his knickers were belted ‘in at the waistline, ed, it seems only a miracle that takes you to the foot of the perâ€" pendicular rock that holds Rheinâ€" while their straight knee pants, alâ€" ways too large, were held up under their arms with tight suspenders. The little girl at the hotel told her Mamma shyly, "Der Chohn ist ein schoene Bube, und ‘chic‘ angeâ€" zogen." (John is a nice guy, and trees, high above the water, like a ‘The chambermaids in the hotel at Bacharach were doing the work as part of a six month requirement in the high school curriculum. They came from families who were conâ€" cerned enough about their daughâ€" ters to come to ‘see them weekâ€" rooms and éorridofs, and it was 8:30 at night before they lined up before the proprietress for their goodnight ~curtsies. After that there was still life enough in them to carry their "lutes" up into the vineyards for a few songs. Invitâ€" ed along, we were anxious to prove that we knew a few German songs, Die Lorelei, and Die Wacht am the hotel. The girls were up in AECEMENY. MC SEVE+ xow"* * The girls were polite, but .we could see that they thought itâ€"old stuff. It was not of the new Reâ€" gime. ‘They had been taught a lot of new numbers in Hitler‘s "Juâ€" gend." The Watch on the Rhine was corny, and we could have lt. week "National Doughnut Week." A radio advertiser calls March "Bread and Gravy Month." Nationâ€" al Red Cross Week ought to come 52â€"times a year. And mayâ€"we hope that this is "Round â€" the World Say â€" Goodbyle â€" to â€" Hitler Year?" (Say; it with the Bronx Cheers.) Without proclamation, this is "Get â€" Out â€" Last â€" Year‘s â€" Springâ€" Hat â€" and â€" See â€" if â€" it â€" Will â€" Do Rhine! Week." ~ "And it won‘t. to ~T/Sgt. Raymond â€" Stymacks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Styâ€" nounced recently. Miss Fridell, graduate of North Park college and at present army radio code instructor, is stationed at Scott Field, HI. . Her fiance, possessor of the distinguished flyâ€" ing cross and the air medal with three oak leaf clusters, who has acted as radioâ€"gunner in 25 misâ€" llonl,w-,law--hroffie first Fiying Fortress to bomb Gerâ€" many, downing six enemy craft. He is now stationed at Scott field as G. I. coordinator for radio opâ€" Miss Marilyn Fridell Engaged to Marry The engagement of Miss Mariâ€" lyn Fridell, daughter of Mr. and Fruit Plucked From Inf. Welfare Hat Tree Two big blue spruces in the front yard of Mrs. Hentry Hixson, 596 Kimball road, groaned under the load of spring hats brought by the Infant Welfare juniors and hung on the "hat trees" as they arrived for their monthly meeting on Monâ€" day. . The hat collection was the anâ€" nual one conducted by the Highâ€" land Parkâ€"Ravinia Infant Welfare genter for the benefit of the Thrift Shop chairman of the junior group, plucked two large cartonâ€" fuls of hats from the "hat trees" after the members had had the fun of bedecking them. . hostesses in the morning were Mrs. William Wenninger and Mrs. Marâ€" fon Jahn. In the afternoon the asâ€" Boyd and Mrs. David Welch. The museum inside is not as inâ€" "Rs brrrrausét ein Ruf wie Donâ€" Today it is ours, andâ€"with.it, theâ€" A . columnist‘ proclaimed last RAELIABLE LAUNDRY AND DBY CLEANING CO. What Week Is This? CUPID‘S CORNER It out Phone H. P. 178 Wisconsin Irma. 1224 Briar, Census figures gave the populaâ€" tion of Highland Park as 6,167â€" anâ€"increase of 46% â€"over.1910. Plans were being submitted for a new school building in District #07 to Rouse kindergarten and the three lower grades. Two availa~ ble sites were under consideration â€"one at Elm I Green Bay road. (Taken from April 1, 1920, issue of the Highland Park Press) Tornado at Melrose Park . . . ceived toward a fund of $150,000 to aid tornado victims of Melrose Death of Citizen . . . A. A. Moses, prominent local merchant, was.laid to rest. _An open letter written by John V. Norcross stated the need of funds for the schools. O. C. Doerriér, landscape garâ€" dener and architect, opened offices opposite the post office (then on Central avenue). ‘â€" * Highland Park Press defeated Reliable Laundry; Garnett‘s beat Tony‘s Barbers; Majestics© won from Steffen‘s Tires and Bowman Dairy took two out of three ‘from GLENCOE 25 Years THEATRE . 630 Vernon Ave. Highland Park 605 FRFI & SAT. Mar. 30â€"31 HELD OVER » Paul Henreid, Bette Davis, Joan Leslic, Robert Hutton SUN., MON., TUE., April 1â€"2â€"3 John Wayne, Ella Raines FRIL & SAT. April 6â€"7 Coming: "Arsenic and Old Lace," "Something for the Boys," _ ‘"Together â€" Again," "Doughgirls," "Thin Man Goes "Hail The Conquering Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone "Tall In The Saddle" / takes a heap of hatdware _ to operate a phone It would be easy to put another just a matter of hooking it upâ€"but back of that, many other things are needed, for instance are already loaded to capacity. Then, at the office there are Also, telephone service takes ' and TH E P RESS equipment was installed before the war to do 4 complete tailorâ€"made job for you under normal service conditions. ‘This equipment is still doing its work wellâ€"but there are definite limits to its capacity. . . . That‘s why some folks have to wait until others discontinue as many other intricate operating and testing parts. ractically all Illinois Bell c and complex equipment Dr. and Mrs. Grover Q. Grady were receiving congratulations on the birth of a son, born Sunday, March 21. lhlfi-Olnn(m'!n.J‘l- ius Lmegeler) was the guest of nett‘s, 931. High team game riesâ€"Garnett‘s, 2631. .’ ding took place the following Aug Mrs. Sarah Laegeler. (The wedâ€" t Eparl Ti Cioorgy Pag Mime Har Laads > HIGHLAND PARK Uscar Lundgren accepted a poâ€" post No. 145, on Article X of the their telephone service before the necessary facilities become available. We appreciate the patience and unâ€" waiting list. We are doing our urmost to meet everyone‘s needs at the earliest E. R. Lewis addressed the Amâ€" Little things that add so much to the new costumeâ€"a bunch of violets, a new pin or neckâ€" lace, a gay hanky, all in great profusion at our accessory counter. â€" _ To Brighten the Easter Costume which in some places garnett‘s of, various types. Costume Jewelry s100 o $1250 Handkerchiefts 50° to $150 Spring dinner dance at the club on April 7. Earl Hoffman‘s dance band will play from 8:30 to 11:30. UNITED STATES WAR BONDS 5 )c to $2.00 Dynamic Wheel Balancing Body & Fender Repairing Auto Painting â€" Blacksmithing 322 N. First Highland Park 77 it D A HL S Page . 3