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Highland Park Press, 21 Nov 1946, p. 2

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Page 2 wm-ma.-muwwâ€"-â€"wmm they sit down to write a summary of our age* I What will they call this period? The Atoriic Age" _ Air Age* Fountain Pen Age? â€" _ The Age of Strikes? The Age of Doing â€" Little Expecting â€" a â€" Great â€" Dea We don‘t know. Do you? QuUOTES RED CROSS GIRL ... We entered the subject, "Our ‘Times and What About Them*" at a social gathering of Highland Parkers the other evening and we came away mentaries. A pretty, exâ€"Red Lross H€ZG worker said we could classify this era as an "Isâ€"Itâ€"Worthâ€"It?" period. She explained what she meant when she told of all the battle weary soldiers she NZd. **" comfort during the war; they had won the horrible and now, after victory, how a nation, have failed miserably in supplying homes for these many heroes. = _ Miss Red Cross believes the genâ€" eral attitude of the nation is: "Is It Worth It?" She has a point â€" in a bleak sort of way. DESCRIBING OUR TIMES .. We progressed to the subject of describing the days, weeks, months we‘re.stumbling through now . . . It was agreed that these post war times are confusing â€" conâ€" fusing because we seem to have the answers, but we don‘t solve the problems.. . â€"â€" We know, of course, that it‘s most importsnt to build homes. Yet we go right shead building cocktail lounges, race tracks, suâ€" perâ€"super planes and the like inâ€" stead. ; ‘The Age of the Big Three? â€" The Age of Davis and Blanc We know our divorce rate is at an all time high. Yet‘our movies play up divoree, loose living, and all the other ugly troublesâ€"in our nation. We know.there are millions of alcoholics. We know drinking is jm:hutthoflo.luâ€"quht up homes. Yet almost every hour of every day we can hear gushy, persuasive liquor advertisements on the radio, see them in our slick: paper magazines, our newspapers, and look at them on eyeâ€"catching billboards. W HITT N. SCHULTZI our Chilled Grape Juice Chilled Grapefruit>Ju ._ Chilled Tomato Juice Chicken Rice Soup Roast Tom Turkey with Dressing and Cranberry Sauce â€" MHalf Fried Country Chicken Roast Leg of Lamb â€" Prime Ribs of Beef Whipped Potatoes will the historians of the Post Atomic Age write about us ‘Thanksgiving Day Dinner What Will They Write About Us? with some pithy comâ€" Candied Sweet Potatoes Harvard Beets Butte: Red Cross field (Apecial to The Highland Park Press) By PARKSIDE Choice of Appetizers a Look Choice of Two '.'n.l.‘dllflll,lnm and I imagine the historians will report just that. _ _ * It was a time, they‘ll write, when a bushyâ€"eyebrowed _ man could laugh at the United States Government and threaten a strike that crippled the nation, _ _ _ $1.50 our count coln were _ Yes, they‘ll go on, the World War II post war era was the time when incompetent leaders headed It was a fime when millions of people were more interested in the Northwestern â€" Illinois . football game than they. were in the United Nations Conference. FIRST THINGS LAST ... It _ was a time, they‘ll _ write, when persons were putting first things last and last thinp first. It was a time when high school students, copying their parents,, went on strike, laughed . at disciâ€" pline, and killed a school caretaker with their roudyism. â€" 4 It was a time when 700 men were tossed in jail for stopping a few men from working. It was a time when good sense, good breeding and Christian prinâ€" ciples were tossed into the gutâ€" ter; a time when people wallowed in the ugly. & READY FOR A Te CRACKUP .. . * f How was it saved? Read how in the hi text‘l books of the 000. . } We‘ll wager that mberet along the line religion stepped in, | pnhdmtoonrifl.fl.“‘ll"'d us on a road of straight, practical, | o cleanâ€"cut living gand thinking. ; t=. CLEAN UP OUR STREETS! ... We had a talk with Andrew Beck, Highland Park‘s superinâ€" tendent of streets, over last weekâ€" end and he reports that Highland rubbish cans and that we are beâ€" coming less careless about tossing rubbish on streets. °_ But we‘re still a long way from being perfect. * 7 Look at your streets, Citizens! Pretty dirty, aren‘t they? Hope that happens soon! Chilled Grapefruit» Juice Buttered Squash French Fried Potatoes when men like Linâ€" TAKE HEED! ... I don‘t know about you, Highâ€" land Parkers, but I surely don‘t another Rogers Park. F With all due respect to the Rogâ€" ers Park folks, I want to see Highâ€" land Park a town of pretty homes. Let the other towns have their farms, apartment buildings, and what have you. PROGRESS?. NOPE! .. The reason I‘m bringing all this up is that there‘s a certain eleâ€" ment hereabouts interested in of ‘This element says, Iâ€" hear, that it‘s progress to ch:L-. 6 As the capable editors of this newspaper warned irf a front page éditorial last week: "Property owners who wish to protect their homes and their inâ€" vestments should move without deâ€" lay to see that further hearings (regarding zoning) are held and that alternative _ proposals . for change be formulated where it apâ€" pears that the changes now proâ€" posed are not to the best ultimate interests of Highland Park and its Well . . . let‘s clean ‘em up! By the way, a correction is in Let‘s leave Highland Park as it Granted â€" but change for the PLAN TO ATTEND THE VICTORY INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK V« go upâ€"toâ€"date on the About You and Your House page with tantalizing Christmas tree and table decorations. Here are Angel their paper drinkingâ€"cup forbears. Here too are Mr. and Mrs. Snow, a not too substantial couple really, with marshmaillow anteâ€" cedents. Yes, there are complete howâ€"toâ€"make instructions included for all decorations shown. Designs by Eleanor Hedrick. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS THE PRESS BeEteiidy ECw Pn ECCE Te "outâ€"ofâ€"towners" to put something At noon on Nov. 26, several hunâ€" dred Jewish women from the North Shore will participate in a donor brunch at Northmoor _ Country club, in behalf of the Jewish Welâ€" fare fund campaign for $9,1750, 000. Heading the list of hostesses are Mrs. Rudolph J. Silverman and Mrs. Milton Klee, who &re serving Randolph _ Churchill, _ son of Winston Churchill, will be the principal speaker at this Northâ€" moor meeting. . Mr. _ Churchill knows the needs of Europe‘s Jews, who, in his extensive military servâ€" ice in Europe and the _ Middle East, played an active part in reâ€" lief work. _ ‘This event, ‘sponsored by the This event, sponsored Woman‘s division of the Welfare fund, . headed by Mrs. Benjamin F. Goldstein, of ‘Winâ€" netka, and Mrs. Walter E. Hellet of Highland Park, is one of many scheduled for the busy months of the campaign, _ Jewish women of Chicago and suburbs have pledged to raise at least $2,000,000 as their share of Chicago‘s _ $9,750,000 goal. Seniors Top Student _Vgerving as coâ€"hostesses will be Mrs. George Block and Mrs. Sam Wulfsohn. The seniorsâ€"lead the schoo} in scholarship by 11 students, accordâ€" ing to the honor roll for the first six weeks grading period, which has just been â€" released by Mr. Pertz. _ With this comfortable margin, the seniors lead the honor roll with 63 students in comparison to Let‘s be alert â€" and keep our h This Month _ l in Your _ : ' Serviee BULLETIN . the juniors‘ §2. are represented by 50 students, and the freshmen 46. : Â¥ body, 9. 22 per cent of the students are on the first honor roll and 9.21 per cent are on the second, making a total of 18.53 per cent. New Daughter for The Leo Labudas On Tuesday, Nov. 19, a baby daughter, Barbara Jean, was born at the Highland Park hospital to the Leo Labudas, of Central aveâ€" nue. Weight 8 pounds 1% ounces. Thanksgiving ; ~Flowers 3 Get Your from EXPOSITIONâ€"NOVEMBER 30â€"DECEMBER 7 Ange! Pin Up Mr. & Mrs. Snow Thursday, Nov. 21, Science is very resourceful. It could not open a Pullman window so it airâ€"conditioned the train. 535 Laurel Avenue

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