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36 WINNETKA TALK May 12, 1928 WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK 'by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, IIL Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone........... Winnetka 2000 or Wilmette 4300 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.............. $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub- lication must reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obitu- aries, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Next Sunday, May 13, is Mother's Day. Throughout the United States sons and daughters will be sending to mothers tokens of sincere love Mother's Day and gratitude. Sons, especially, knowing th Next Sunday specially, knowing the impossibility of dis- charging the great debt they owe their mothers will take ad- vantage of the occasion to tell their moth- ers by letters, gifts, and visits how deep and genuine is their filial love. "Mother" is the most sacred of all names. So far as we know it makes a universal ap- peal to all that is best in a man. The surest way to insult a real man is to show disre- spect for his mother. The surest way to gain his friendship is to respect and admire his mother. The mother of Jesus is the type of all that is most self-sacrificing in humanity. The greatest gift that a mother can give a son is sympathetic understanding. GA father, occupied with providing financial support for his family, lacks the intimate contact which the mother experiences. Therefore it will probably always be true that a son will find his mother's ear open to all his trials and triumphs, little as well as big. Remembering her quick and ready sympathy he loves and reveres her to the very close of his life. The soldiers and sailors who, having fought our battles, are now either financi- ally or physically unable to fight alone and successfully the Helpin i battle of life need bing Disibled the help of their Comrades more fortunate comrades. Most of these disabled ones are in hospitals, bear- ing their hardships as best they can. Life cannot be so pleasant to them as it is to those who being physically fit can go back and forth to their various occupations every day and can live at home. A hospital is not a home. Moreover, it is sometimes hard for those who live in homes to realize how much flowers, tobacco, and visits mean to those in hospitals. But every week we learn of societies of various kinds, one of whose privileges it is to do what they can to make the lives of these disabled boys less monotonous and tiresome. Perhaps the most prominent of all these relief agencies are the Legion Auxiliaries, composed of women who are directly interested in the soldiers who fought in the late war. We recently read a report of the Wilmette Auxiliary, and were struck by the enthusiasm of its mem- bers and the pride they took in being mem- bers of such an organization dedicated to such a work. Those of us who are neither ex-soldiers nor relatives of soldiers are nevertheless under deep obligation to those who made up our army and shed their blood on our behalf. They are also our comrades. When Tenth Street is paved, auto traffic will have a first-class entrance into and exit from the busy town of Wilmette. Drivers speeding south on Sheridan Road from Kenilworth and points north can, just at the entrance to No Man's Land, turn slightly to the right and find themselves on an improved thoroughfare leading via Wilmette Avenue into the busi- ness center of Wilmette. If these same drivers desire to continue southwest through Wilmette they can do so by simply following Wilmette Avenue. Traffic desiring to get from Wilmette to points north can easily do so by reversing the above procedure. Heretofore the only northern exits from Wilmette east of the tracks have been either Sheridan Road and, five long blocks west, Cumnor Road. We wonder how many hundred motorists driv- ing west on Chestnut Avenue from Sheri- dan Road have come to the conclusion that there were no streets connecting Wilmette with Kenilworth. We understand that the Township High- way Commissioner is actively considering the paving of this now unpaved portion of Tenth Street. He can't start the work too soon to please plenty of autoists. A Good Exit and Entrance A student employment agency is con- ducted at New Trier High School under the direction of O. A. Oaks. The object of this agency is three- Student fold. (1) to find for stu- dents work that will en- Employment able them to complete their high school course; (2) to find for students work that will enable them to complete their college; (3) to find for students work that will enable them to earn their own way both in and out of school. Many of our high school students are obliged to pay their own way partly or completely. If we may believe the state- ment of numerous superintendents and principals self-supporting students achieve as a rule more satisfactory results than de- pendent students. Their very independence, as well as the experience gained through self-support, causes them to set a higher value on education ; therefore they do their school work more thoroughly and earn- estly. It seems to us very likely that helping these students to help themselves will bene- fit not only them but also the one who helps as well as the community. The bright and industrious sixteen New Trier students who will complete the high school course in less than standard time are to be congratulated. Their ambition and ability and perservance established a record that the entire township may well be proud of. Poppy Day is the last Monday in May, the 28th. The returns on that day ought to be so big that the boys who have sacrificed so much will have reason to know that we have not forgotten. If the causes of fires, trifling and import- ant alike, could be discovered and made known, the number subsequently might be greatly diminished by eliminating the causes. SHORE LINES I'm Homesick for the Country 1. Oh, I'm homesick for the country, aw' I'm wishin' I was back : Livin' on some farmland in most any kind of shack; With a stream down by the garden, aw' some trees to shade the door, Then once more I'd be. contented an' I'd never ask for more. 2 There'd be birds in trees aw' meadow, aw' they'd sing while I would plough, Aw the chickens all would follow when I went to milk the cow; I'd have a gun above the fireplace where I'd keep a cheery blaze; Aw' a fish-pole in the wood shed just to use on rainy days. 3 I'd have bees to make me honey, an' my wife would make me bread, Aw the katy-dids would holler 'neath the window by my bed; I'd go to sleep at nine o'clock in the good old fash- ioned way With no worries 'bout tomorrow nor regrets about today. 4. And I'd spend the winter evenings in the village on the hill, Where the strangers call me neighbor, an' the neigh- bors call be Bill; Aw we'd talk about elections, an' of politics an' such An' we'd make the store look busy without ever spendin' much. 5. Oh, I'm homesick for the country, aw' I'm wishin' I was back Livi' on some farmland in most any kind of shack; With a church on yonder hill-side, an' its grave- yard by the door, And a place beneath its cedars for to rest when I'm no more. --D. K. Grant. Waddyameanoldtimer ? Dear Mique--I've been thinking! First you laugh at me, and then end your column by say- ing that contributions are coming in thick and fast again now. Guess I can take a hint, old- timer, three times, and out. Well, it was nice while it lasted. Bye....see you again some- time. ... maybe. --DPeggy. She's Gone to Texas Seriously though, while we're most grieved to have lost the aid of Peggy--pray that it may be but temporary--we simply must continue as a slave to our temperament. At least we've been told that all good column conductors must have temperament and we're, oh, so very ambitious. Says What? Dear Mique-- HAVE, you ever NOTICED that when NOTHING more remains TO BE said, some BOOB always says it? : --Simplicity Just Try and Break In : Chief Charley, who in the past fiscal annum has played host to some eight hundred well-traveled lodgers in the Wilmette municipal gaol, vows he will quit the hotel business and reserve the hoose- gow exclusively for duly accredited miscreants. The Yellow Streak : Not that we aren't heartily in accord with every movement to better control the ever-increasing mo- tor traffic, but somehow, we just can't quite adjust our temperament to the flare for yellow now extant in the Wilmette street painting department. Golf Note 5 % Lee Adams, Winnetka's most ambitious, if not best, golfer on the north shore is still working on that wager of last summer in an effort to get a card of 85. Several importations of 'furriners to help him out in the foursomes have thus far proved Slowing: And he's got just a month to go, were told. And, so, to Cubs' Park. -- Mique.