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Sgt. Gervase M. Brown was one of 2,045 army veterans returning to the States aboard the SS Sea Fiddler, which left Yokohama on Feb. 1, and arrived in Seattle Fob. 16. The Sea Fiddler is one of the merchant marine ships which supâ€" plemented the navy‘s fleet of carâ€" go ships and transports in mainâ€" _ taining supply _ lines" to island bases seited by U. S.*forces thruâ€" out the Pacific. * Gervaze, who is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Gervase Brown, 501â€" 8. St. Johns place, reached home last Saturday at 9 pm. and has received his release at Camp Grant. Plans for the future are uncerâ€" tain, but the former sergeant is _ In short, from now on I‘m going to try and tour civilianâ€"Century style and skip the troop trains. ‘There are just too many people; nnd they all want rooms." And like everyone else, I‘m wondering where all these people come from. Sgt. Gervaise Brown Returns from Japan Aboard SS Sea Fiddler CENTURY PASSENGERS was hunting for celebrities; we were sorry we couldn‘t oblige. _ The first indication that manâ€" ners no longer a part of New YorlI;' came when we attempted to get‘a cab.. It seefi® everyone wants a cab and you push and you shout and you get angry and then you finally get one; and then it‘s a beatup, war weary jalopy, and you quietly pray you get where you‘re going. STAY AT THE In preâ€"war days the Gotham Hoâ€" tel used to be a quiet, dignified spot where, 1 believe, many Highâ€" land Parkers have stopped. Well, the Gotham is still digniâ€" fied; but it isn‘t quiet. . And try as the managers do, they cannot recapture that slow, excellent manâ€" ner the hotel had in the days beâ€" fore the war. f Traveling on the Century is quite a change from soldier travel. In the first place the Century races along, stopping only six times between Chicago and New York. _A troop train would halt 60 times and each stopover would be twice as long as the Century‘s. â€"The Century is clean, ‘too. Troop trains are filthy. Food on the NYC‘s best train is delicious train chow is wholesome, I guess, but usually tasteless â€" and it is n‘t served to you, either. $ HAVE OWN BED ... On the Century everyone has his own bed. ("Natch!") On a troop train you‘re liable to sleep with a snoring staff sergeant from Brooklyn who you don‘t know and whom you‘d just as soon never see Exactly 17 hours after we left Chicago we arrived at . bustling Grand Central station. . Crowds My companions, veterans of the Century, settled back in the plushy lounge chairs in the observation car while I sat erect, noting all. This mode of travel was quite new : a few days ago I was on a troop .. Century‘s porters are polite, willing, helpful On a troop train you can‘t find a porter; and when you do, he‘s not anxious to assist NEW YORK, N. Y.â€" e s It may be glamorous. umhmmmmnuâ€"l city in the nation. But to this writer New York is just a big, overâ€" mmmmmmmmm out of the window and manners thrown in the gutter. ‘That‘s our opinion after severâ€" al days here â€" and I‘m fortunate to be touring, as the troops would say, "in style." 20TH CENTURY ... At exactly 3:30 pm. the New York Central‘s crack 20th Century Limited slightly jerked . from its stall and eased out of the dirty La Home From THE WArRs W HIT T N SCHU L T Z Air ‘s Take a Look 1 LKE HIGHLAND PARK _ (Apecial to The Highland Park Press) SO THIS IS NEW YORK! By of course, VISIT MUSEUM OF ART ... _ Our third day in New York dawned cold, crisp and bright â€" good walking weather if, you walk After ‘a tasty Gotham Hotel breakfast and a quick visit to the station to change raliroad reservaâ€" tions, â€"we went, via Fifth Ave. bus, to the world famous Metropolitan Every American should see the American Wing with its priceless antiques in orginal settngs taken from early authentic homes where gracious living was the style; the lovely paintings of Gilbert Stuart, El Greco, and Peale; the interestâ€" ing armor room packed with the cumbersome equipment worn by knights; and all the other educaâ€" tional exhibits. SEE MILLER‘S BAND . .. From this quiet, cultural musâ€" eum to bawdy Broadway to fight the crowds (noticeably absent from the museum) into the Capitol theâ€" ater to see Judy Garland and "The Harvey Girls," a gay, excellent movie; and on the stage, the Glenn Miller orchestra, a group of GIs whose music is as fine as Boss Milâ€" let‘s used to be. We did many other things, too numerous to mention.. It was a nice visit. But these days aren‘t good for travel. * Your best bet is to stay in your comfortable Highland Park homes and enjoy what you have â€" take _ New York suburban trains, like Chicago‘s shoreline trains, are packed with commuters . . . and commuters who apparently think nothing of letting women stand for hours. And what a wonderful <instituâ€" tion it is! exâ€"GI who has traveled about 20,â€" 000 miles in the last 10 months and who would just as soon never leave Highland Park again. Museum of Art. Though I kidded Judy a lot about her dollege, I must take back those friendly jibes and say Conâ€" necticut College for Women is a beautiful school, picturesquely loâ€" cated on the Thames River. . It is impressive and a grand place, I‘m sure, to absorb all the fun and knowledge that goes with a good eastern school. MEETS CHARMING GIRLS . .. * While at Connecticut College we met a few of Judy‘s friendsâ€"Nan Bawden, Elizabeth DeCamp, Mary Meagher, Jane Cope, and Nancy Leech â€" casual, fretty, intelligent young ladies who are good sports with lots of charm . . . VISIT CONNECTICUT ‘The second day Mother and I boarded the New York, New Haâ€" ven and Hartford Railway and went to New London, Conn., to see my sister, Judy. & _ The first day here was cold and slushy, poor weather for walking, sightâ€"seeing, and observing smart New Yorkers on the boulevards. _ Philip Lemmon, of Home on Leave Philip Lemmon. STM 2/c, of the U. S. merchant marine, arrived at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lemmon, 415 Glencoe, last Friday night, for his first leave since entering service 7% months ago. * us Following his basic training. he shipped "from Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., on May 8, 1945, aboard a Libâ€" erty ship, and since that time has served "in Panama, the Carolines, Pfc. James R., a younger brothâ€" er, is now stationed in Berlin with the American army of cccupation. He spent a recent furlough in the Marshalls, Okinawa and Guam. His clder brother, John E., was honorably discharged from the army in November, havimg served four years, 45 months of which were spent in the Pacific area. Switzeriand, enjoying the skiing Cpl. Loren W. Smith, 21, who has served in the marine corps for three years of his fourâ€"year term of enlistment, will end a month‘s furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Smith, 133 S. Central, Highwood, next week. * With the 1st marine division, the corporal has seen action in the Paâ€" cific at various places, including Peleliu, Guadalcanal and Okinaâ€" wa, and was last stationed in Jaâ€" pan. He does not know where he will be stationed in the future His brother.. ‘Ronald, 19, reâ€" leased from service last Novemâ€" ber, is employed. by the Western Electric Co. 5 Alvin Pantle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pantle, 828 Deerfleld road, who served in England, Holâ€" land and Germany from . July The formér lieutenant served nearly four years in the armed stationed in Washington, D. C., in ‘Tennessee and Kentucky and reâ€" received his officer training at Miâ€" ami Beach, Fia. . Since last Augâ€" ust he had been stationed at Kaâ€" huku, Oahu, H. L., where he served as adjutant for his squadron. Loren W. Smith gf'l&'hellquhn Ends Furlough _ Lt. James Garnett BUBLIC SERVICHE COMRANY OR NORTHIRN I4LLINONE Exchange burned out Light Bulbs! T H E P R ESS Don‘t let empty sockets and wrong size bulbs strain your sight and spoil your mfighh&smw%hnphuydfiwhlhmhdâ€"fiflm Check ail the sockers in your home and see how many bulbs you needâ€"in the living room ... in closets ... in the attic and cellar .. .and in stai Don‘t risk your precious sightâ€"get all the new light bulbs you need today: Fill Empty Sockets NOW! Gilbert, another brother, also charged last last year, is.now maâ€" joring in physical education at De gagements at New Britain and New Guinea, and after a leave at home, returned to take part in the battle of Okinawa. His elder brother, Clarence, alâ€" so a motor. machinist‘s mate, and back at work in the Fort Sheridan post exchange garage, entered the navy in December, 1942, and left for overseas in August, 1943. years overseas, he w at Brisbane, Austral machinist‘s mate 3/c. British Bride To William Sandberg, son of Mrs. Andrew Larson, 245 Prairie, Highâ€" wood, is spending a 30â€"day leave at home .at the end of which he will be separated from the navy. In service 32 months, and two Based on New ‘Guinea, he served bington, Berkshire, has sailed from England, with her 8â€"yearâ€"old son, Brian, and her baby daughter, Caroline, ahd is expected to arâ€" 1944, until ldst has . reâ€" ceived ~his &(O-l- seas service he ‘was "Wwounded twice, once in December, 1944, and again during the week preâ€" ceeding Vâ€"E day. His brother, Pfe. Willard, is still stationed in Germany. Overâ€" seas since â€" March, 1945, he exâ€" pects to return to this country sometime next summer. Of U. S. Navy to Be Released in March Kalb State Teachers‘ college Mrs. Dorothy F. Fremter of Abâ€" An ample supply of most sizes and types of light bulbs is availâ€"__ able at your nearby Public Service Store or light bulb agency. Standard burnedâ€"out light buibs (marked "P. S. of N. 1." or "Renewal Service") in\25 to 200 war sizes, may be exchanged for new bulbs without charge; others at a slight renewal tharge. REMEMSER OVR LIBIRAL RENIWAL POLICY after which she will join her hus band, Rudoiph Fremter, of Deerâ€" field. The two met when Fremter was stationed with the 8th air corps for two years near Oxford The couple will live, temporariâ€" ly, with his parents., Mr. and Mrs. Gust Fremter; Saunders road, Deerfield. Economy is the daughter of Pruâ€" dence, the sister of Temperance and the mother of Liberty.â€"Samâ€" Inasmuch as Judge Martin C. Decker will not be a candidate for reâ€"election as Probate Judge of Lake County, I have decided to seek the nomination and elecâ€" tion to that office. I have been practicing law in Lake County since 1917, spe¢â€" ializing during the greater part of that time in Estates and in the examination of titles to real estate. * I will greatly appreciate your vote and support at the primarâ€" ies to be held in Lake County on April 9, 1946. TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS LAKE COUNTY Thursday, Féb. 28th, 1946 Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state; as the beams to a house, as he bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. â€" Robert Southey. Are you so wise, pray, as to have missed the discovery that. above your mother and father, and all your other ancestors, your country should ‘be held in honor and revâ€" erence and holy awe?â€"Socrates.