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fa 14° WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1925 Winnetka Weekly Talk| A LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette. IIL Telephone Telephome .'. Winnetka 2000 Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. - Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where n"admittance charge will be made or 'a collection taken, will be charged at 'regular advertising rates. | Entered at)the post office at Win- metka, Illinois, as il matter of the Second class, 'under the act of March SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1925 Depress the Tracks. Give the Business Men Fair Play. Build a New Village Hall. Enforce the Traffic Laws. Build the Truck Road. AIR PLANE EXPRESS Daily air service between Lon- don and Paris and between other large European cities is an estab- lished institution. Business men and tourists avail themselves of this service, the former for its speed and the latter largely. for its novelty. The business man with interests in widely separated centers thinks no more of taking the plane from Brussels to Basle than of going by fast train. Why is there no passenger plane service between Chicago and New York, Chicago and Mil- waukee, Chicago and north shore towns? An express plane carry- ing a dozen passengers can easily cover twenty miles in less than fifteen minutes and longer dis- tances in proportionately less time. And even allowing for tak- ing off and landing, a large plane can make three hundred miles in three 'hours. Planes are now so well built and so well operated that the margin of safety is comfortably wide. Air accidents do occur, but I running under block signals nd on terra firma. 'and under other carefully worked out safe- ty devices now and then go wrong and cause loss of life. When a plane crashes to the ground the report of the accident is unusu- ally readable news. As a result it gets space on the first page. In fact traveling by plane is as safe as any other mode of fast traveling. Having flown once we prefer to keep on the earth, but we know that we are exceptions. Plane service would be weéll-patronized. FLIRTING WITH DEATH Of all the modes of flirting with death we know of none so dangerous as that practised by boys, of hitching on sleds behind autos. Human beings have in- vented several ingenious ways of committing suicide, but this 'one of hitching on sleds behind autos is one of the most effective. Even a person of weak imagin- ation can easily imagine what would happen to a boy on a sled attached to the rear of an auto, traveling at twenty or twenty- five miles an hour. Suppose the car is on a boulevard or a busy thoroughfare and turns a corner at ordinary speed. What will happen to the sled behind? It will be swung over onto the other side of the street directly into the path of another car. The driver of this car, not expecting this to happen, cannot turn aside in time, and a serious accident occurs. If the boy is thrown off the sled he will almost certainly be run over. Tt's as if a bundle were suddenly thrown into a street on which many cars are traveling. Its sudden appearance is unex- pected, drivers are taken off their guard, and the bundle is sure to be run over. It may be that the boy is hitch- ing without the knowledge of the driver. Not realizing that he is pulling a sled with a small boy on it, the driver may step on the gas; the boy may try to loosen his rope, but it catches some- where. Imagine the rest. The responsibility for this suicidal practice must be laid on parents. They are the ones that must stop it. DAILY READING Read the first two chapters of the New Testament on Monday, January 5. Read the next two on the next day. Keep this up and by May 15 you will have read | the entire New Testament. It is likely that every member of the Sunday School and con- gregation of the Wilmette Bap- tist church will adopt this daily reading plan. It would be well if every dweller on the North Shore--men, women, and children --would do likewise. Many of us have read portions of the New Testament at vari- ous times. Few have read it as one would read a novel. At Sun- day school and church we have heard it read in fragments. But there are not many who have read it continuously. As a result we do not know the New Testament as a unit. We do not know even one gospel or one group of letters as a unit. We have missed the effect which a reading of the book of Revela- tion or of the life of Christ ac- cording to Mark might give. How many can tell the biography of Jesus? Read the New Testament five months. in TRIAL BY JURY A Wilmette driver was arrested for speeding. His lawyer re- quested a jury trial. Before the jury the lawyer advanced the argument that his client was us- ing due precaution. The jury ac- quitted the driver. This method of trying a person charged with speeding is unusual, if not entirely novel. The usual mode is to prove simply and solely that the person arrested exceeded the speed limit. This done, he is fined a fixed amount. This way is simple and rigid. But jury trial introduces a flexibility into the procedure that appeals to us as reasonable. In this 'present case the jury took account of traffic conditions, possible injury to pedestrians, damage to private property. Why shouldn't conditions be taken in- to account? Why shouldn't every case be decided on its merits? Appeal to some fixed rule often works an injustice." We shall probably, in the near future, hear of other speeders re- questing jury trial. REASONS There's something funny, not to say frivolous, in the recent ac- tion of the "The Port of Missing Men," the caravel now sitting on the bottom of Wilmette Harbor. According to the report of the president of the Buccaneers' Club the ship is "perfectly sound." We are therefore forced to conclude that the boat sank on purpose. This curious incident reminds us of other striking instances of the purposeful action of inanim- ate things. Isn't it true that the coffee always boils over when nobody is looking? Doesn't the coldest day always come when you're just about out of coal? Who ever heard of a collar-but- ton rolling anywhere except un- der the bureau? If one may justly give reasons for a human being doing things why not give reasons for the ac- tions of inanimate things? Per- haps the tree knocks your hat off because it doesn't like your looks. The button comes off at a most inopportune time not merely because it happened to be loose at that moment, but be- cause it was becoming bored by the ordinary run of events and wanted to play a cute little joke. We're quite certain that the Buccaneers' boat sat on the bot- tom of the harbor to celebrate Christmas. Are you one of those envious suburbanites who think that village officials are continuously happy in their exalted positions? It's sad but true that None think the great un- happy but the great. oS En BOB WHITE Blossom Shop FLOWERS OF DISTINCTION End of "L" Phones Wilmette 3388-2909 Very special for Saturday, Sunday and Monday, fine potted heavy 2 For Cleaning and Repairing Rugs Call JOHN NAZARIAN Plant 578 Lincoln Ave. WINNETKA Phones Wilmette Winnetka ! 27 = Special Prices During January blooming cycla- men, in white, pink, 'red and scarlet, $1.00 each; FG $2.00 value. None delivered. hoses supreme, $3.00 per dozen and up neatly packed with flat ferns and asparagus, deliv- ered quickly anywhere. Phone us, or come and gee for yourself Gasoline and Oils Tires, Tubes, Accessories Hood, General, Goodyear Jobbers for Wadham's Oils Three Stores BRAUN BROTHERS 723 Oak St., Winnetka 1565 621 Main St., Wilmette 3243 Ridge and Wilmette Aves. Wilmette 290 re ill i= > > N47 NH 7) EO 2 Idd wi aA ; i My id a SSiss Thorens 0 AI fi \N Whatever the Circumstances the same courtesy--the same helpful service in managing all perplexing details--are ac- corded you whether you desire an unlimited expendi- ture or whether circumstances suggest that you refrain from undue costs. 1 RAR UHH i] if thst] alyssa in i AOL (hi A ILE Conk ie yi} ne RD Phone Wilmette 654 : 1124 Central Ave. Wilmette North Shore Merchandise Despatch Over-night service for shippers between all important points on the North Shore Line. Through service to Sheboygan, Burlington, Watertown and all points on the Milwaukee North- ern R.R.and T. M. E.R. & L. For rates, deliveries, etc., write or telephone local North Shore agent, or Traffic Department: Chicago office, 72 West Adams Street, 'phones State 5723 and Central 8280; Milwaukee office, 403 S ity Building, 'phones d Grand 2762. T is the silent code of the lineman. When sleet storms pile tons of ice upon the overhead wires of the North Shore Line, the lineman is out at the height of the storm, fighting the weather and keeping the power lines open. It is heroism and devotion to duty of the highest type for a lineman to climb poles, change insulators and strengthen sagging wires in a snowstorm. In desperate emergencies of weather, linemen will stick to their jobs for forty-eight hours continuously, if need be. The trains must run. At every season of the year there are linemen on duty available at any hour of the day or night, making sure that the power reaches trains on every section of the road from Chicago to Milwaukee. The maintenance of the trolley wire, the high voltage lines, and the telephone system depends on these men. They are highly skilled workers with full technical training. The lineman is an important unit in the field army that is on guard along every mile of the North Shore Line, assuring fast and faultless service. From the rank and file of the road comes the inspiration to serve that has made the North Shore Line a remarkable factor in North Shore transportation. Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Company Winnetka Passenger Station Elm Street Telephone Winnetka 963 ORTH SHOR LINE