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i | | | i | { | i 36 WINNETKA TALK ; November 10, 1928 i A ------------------------ ER EE i. -- Ee --_-- WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Ill Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 _ Telephone........ ... Winnetka 2000 or Wilmette 4300 Ll dati BA Rete. itil od BS BRA ok Bi SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.............. $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub- lecation must reach the editor by Thursday noon to Resol tl re - -- ot thanks, utions of condolence, o obitu- afes, notices of I or thar where an admittance charge is pu! 1 be charged regular advertising rates. 3 ey The American people have chosen Herbert Hoover to lead them through the next: four years. By his actions and words he convinced them that he was the man for Our New Se Supreme. position of presi- ent. uring a campaign p resident arousing perhaps more intelli : gent interest than any previ- ous one, his character and ability were mi- croscopically inspected, and he was found fully up to the exacting requirements. ~The pre-election battle is over. The dust of the conflict is settling. What are the duties of the rank-and-file citizens? Their principal - duty is to carry on their daily activities steadily and thoughtfully. Having cast their votes on November 6, they should now go about their tasks with the intention of standing by the man who is to be not merely in name but in fact their national governor. No more modern street can be found than newly-concreted Main Street in Wilmette. Embodying as it does all the best features in solid road building, it , T affords an excellent means A hopough! Yr of speedy and safe traffic. Modern treet Its exceptional breadth : --52 feet--and uniform smoothness put it easily in the class of best streets. Such an ample breadth makes it not only a highly valuable thoroughfare but also gives it dignity and sightliness. Its smooth- ness makes it unusually agreeable to drivers f autos and trucks, who heretofore had the ughest of times jolting between Wilmette Avenue and Central. aa When the entire stretch of the through highway, of which improved Main Street is a part, is completed between McCormick Boulevard and the northern limits of Glencoe, jd when McCormick Boulevard is well con- ted with Chicago roads, we shall have a direct inter-community highway that will great- ly relieve Sheridan Road and consequently re- duce the number of accidents on that over- crowded boulevard. ; _ Our ingenious head-line writer represents Frotsnr Ludwig Mueller, exchange profes- sor at Northwestern, as implying that N. U. : co-eds are "queer but capa- ( ueer ble." Now, if we know the Q But modern young lady, and we're Capable doubtful as to whether we do, she would rather be classed anywhere else than among the queer. She' would not object to being called distinguished, but to be labeled odd or queer really hurts. A queer girl wears queer clothes, uses queer language, and acts queerly. In short a queer girl is a mild lunatic. She is half crazy. She wears hats that were in the fashion last year. She uses language that was approved in 1927. She acts six months behind the times. We advise our head-line writer that young ladies don't care how incapable they are if 6nly they shall not be thought queer. Being called capable doesn't make up one little bit for being called queer. SE ------ November Sunday touring in our own and adjacent counties will refresh both body and soul of the human animal who for six days has been pur- i sued by his daily Our Countryside dozens of duties. In Autumn And even though the day is Sunday, and the tourist is accompanied on his little tour by plenty of others who also want to get away from home for a while, still there will be room on the concrete for temperate drivers, and the forest preserves are num- erous and of fair size. Besides if all con- cerned mind their own business, as they usually do, their presence will add to the pleasures of the day. We found it so. Last Sunday we motored out along Touhy and Higgins Roads to the rather old-fashioned Fox River town of Dundee, pausing on the way in a Forest Preserve to dispose in our car of a satisfying lunch. The flies, though uninvited, sauntered into our lunch-room by dozens. These little pests were of the sticking, biting variety. We left that spot as soon as possible. Next time we intend to cover our open windows with netting of some cheap sort. Leaving the flies, we rolled on westward. The gorgeous fall garments of the tree had faded somewhat, but there was still enough color left to make pictures that were full of vital appeal. In fact as the foliage takes on the hues of old tapestry its attractive- ness increases. Returning, we took the northern route past Barrington, and past farms, old and remodeled. Some Sunday we'll see what Roselle looks like. There are few improvements that would en- hance the appearance of our north shore towns so much as the placing of all wires in under- ground conduits. No one Underground ever believed that wires s strung along on poles con- Wires tributed one atom of beauty to the landscape. Everyone has always regarded them at the best as necessary nuisances. Nobody ever made the slightest attempt to make poles and wires any less ugly things than they apparently must be. Some poles are painted a sort of sickly green, but this has little or nothing to do with their looks. The ~ paint merely helps to lengthen their lives. What a difference if all wires were placed underground, never to be seen except by re- pair men! We trust that at some not far distant date the Public Service company and any other organization engaged in a similar business will decide to bury these useful but homely things. Where'er we go on the north shore we seée streets torn up and paving or repairing in progress. What especially concerns us is to find out just why this particular fall there is so much of this kind of activity going on. What is there about this time of this year that it should be attended by so much street work. In simple language, why so much road work this fall? Now is the time of year for touring. Drive to the west or south in Illinois, to the north into Wisconsin. G@ round the foot of the Lake up into Michigan. Where- ever you go you will see nature gorgeously arrayed. Solomon in all his glory is out of the competition. If you wait, you may have to return in a blizzard. ---- SHORE LINES IN RETROSPECT And the next day it rained. The sun shone brightly, just as it always does on a Republican Day. If it had rained it would have been a Democratic Day. But it didn't rain rain, it rained votes. Even in Californy where they say it never rains. Herbie must have thought it was a snow storm. Even in Californy where they say it never snows. But why pick on Californy Wasn't Al snowed under everywhere. It's a wonder he wasn't frozen Because wasn't he wet anyway. But how about Dear Old Broadway? There won't be even a dry eye In the Roarin' Forties. But they'll have to have their roar. They've got that coming to 'em. And the roarers will have to be lubricated. They've got that coming to 'em, too. Even the Republicans admit that. It was a great battle while it lasted. Herbie said this and Al said that. Some of the voters said things That won't be printed here. But now that the excitement is all over Maybe we'll hear people talking About something that "ain't" politics. Anyhow politics is politics. Herbie says he's glad he's president And Al wires his congratulations. Al smiles and says. it's O. K. Herbie smiles and says it's O. K., too. That's the ways of politics. And the voters will say the "raddio" got a great workout, And they'll get ready for four years hence When a return match will be staged. (Contributed by a Wet Republican) SMILE AN' PLAY DE GAME Hey dah Sam, what's on yo' mind? . Round de conah you will find Heaps o' folks worse off dan you; Say you all am feelin' blue? Well smile aw' play de game. Sometimes de road am dark an' gray, Aw nothin' seems to come yo' way, But if you'll do yo' level best De good kind Lawd will do de rest, So smile an' play de game. Some clouds am black, some clouds am blue, But sho's yo' born I's tellin' you De sun was made fo' ebery one; Shake off de blues, stop lookin' glum; Jus' smile aw' play de game. It's pretty fine, dis game 0 life, Heaps 0' joy aw' heaps o' strife; Heaps o' worries old an' new, But happiness? that's up to you, So smile aw' play de game. --Olivia Kingsley IT'S A HARD WORLD Ad in North Shore newspaper :--'"Young couple liv- ing with her parents wish to find a suitable residence." Au Revoir Dear Mique: November 8, Limited) Goodbye. Deny for me that I leave to avoid Crowe's next and last Grand Jury on charge of conspiring to cause more than a 100 percent vote in Wilmette. Wire me if Homer Galpin is home or not. --Hoyt King (aboard Portland In all the confusion over Hoover's landside vic- tory we haven't: discovered = where "Dingbat" Oberta ran. Did he or didn't he? ..It is a strange world. First we were all fussed up by that six-day bike race at the Broadway Armory and then along comes election to get us steamed up. Now with election over there comes another six-day bike race to rob us of more sleep. It's a tough world. a : Good bye Cal; Hello Herbie. MIQUE.