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December 11, 1925 WILMETTE LIFE 27 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave., Wllmette. Ill 'hieag·o ofli<:t·: fi X. :\lichigan Ave. Tel. State 63:!6 Tt"lt"(thene .....·.............·.....· Wllmett~ SUDSCIUPTION PRICE ..··........ t2.00 A YEAR By Carrier ·.....·.................. ~e a month Greenleaf Avenue IIAVE All communications mus! ".>e accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publicati0n must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to insure appearance tn current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obitua1·y, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular adv rtising rates. Entered at the post office at Wilmette, Illinois, as mail mattPr of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. W ~~Good Old Days" E h a n : b <: fore u :-~ an e (lit n ria I de preciating the joys ()f the modern Chri-..tma" a-.. rompar ·d \\·ith tht~-..(· of the (Jld-timc Christmas. "Sumeho,,· eYery VT o \,·n - up can't he I p 1> e 1 i e \'in g t h · C h r i ~ tmas dinners uf those days \Yerc superior. The Christmas eye entertainment at the c h tt r c h \\·a -.. a . ., e n j u yah k a . . . t h t' 111 () d t' r n llH1\·ie. :\nd the ride i11 a cutter ()\·cr the deep "11()\\' heat the atttiJ - trip (,f 1()25.' \\ · e r l' n H' m her t h a t 1 >I d - t i m t' C h r i :-' t m a · . \\ ·e a (h n i t i t s per 11i a r Iy j u: ·11t1 s tl a \·1 >r. Hu t we d<J not admit that th<: pka:-.ure~ of childho(ld are ~ u peri or tu our pre:-;en t plea~u re:-.. \\'e enj<Jyed our rhildhoud'..., huliday:-; and fe:'tival~. but\\'· enjoyed them no n1nrc, and prubahly le:-.:-., than the playtime-.. and worktim ~ of our middlt: life . Fifty j, a' happy as fifteen. .-\II t hi~ foolish ta 1k al>ou t the .. g-ood 0ld time~" is tommv rot! The time~ are what we 111 a k e t hem . - 0 n e o f the ~ u r e ~ t ',,a v s to make today less enjuyable than yesterday j, to overpraise the pa;-;t. The man or wotnan wh() savs, a:-- the writer uf this editorial docs. that."Chri~tma:-- is ah,·ay. chang-i n g- and ( t (I ad ul t s ) n t' '· e r f 1 >r t lw he t t e r' · 1:--; a poor "JH. ' rimen uf human it\ - aln"arh· -..(>rr,· that he was en.· r burn . . . The vou seen the red light s on Greenleaf . . avenue? \Ye were driving- south fron1 Sheridan on Fifth . treet and c0uldn't help seeing then1 the inst~nt \Ye turned off Sheridan onto Fifth. :\I or eO\' r. ho,,· anyhoch· driving south in any north an(l . outh str ·ct in ea . t \Viltnette after nightfall can exclude these light~ fr(Jm hi . sight is inrotnprehcnsihle to u~. \Ve believe tha these danger siQ"nals ,,·il! have a good effect on driYer'-'. \Ye he1ic,·e that driYers will Cr<b' Greenleaf cautic!tl..;lv and that motonn n ,,·ill he extra. cat·eful. If the nuhlir ,,·ill C()-()perate "·ith the north ~l1rd· ~ line and vice vcr:'a. ,,·e do not think that it wilt he ncce-..,ary tu make t.reenkaf a through street. ore Vol. I Llnes No.3 THE WILMETTE KNIFE Take Care ·· ~\YO cent:-. fltte 11n thi:-; card~·~ "\""o\\', wouldn't that g-reeting- from vour p >~t ma n on the da , . he fore Chri q 111 as. mr1. ke ,·qq wi~h that the. fetlu\\' tl1at ~ent YOU that rani ha(l ta krn care trJ nut the rig-ht stamp 1ll1 it? lTc might ha,·e known what YOU rlo. that all po~t c·ard~. excent th~ reguhir 1·. S. ofticial kind. require not a nne-cent stamn a' they u..;ed to. hut a T\\"0-CE~T ~tamp. .\nd much nf the Chri~tma:-; jo:· turn~ to '()rrO\\' '"hen You npen a nac kage 8 nd find that the prcci(~tt~ gih ha:-: been broken. anfl not by the po.;;ttnan\ reckle .. ness hut through the punr packing of the . ender. ThP gift that cnme:; after Christtna' brings \\·ith it a certain amount of plea.;eci . urprise, hut haven't you often felt that it might have been mailed earlier? That tnayhe 1t'. thr result (Jt an afterthought stitnulated by an unexpected g;ft frotn ,·ott? ·rf so. the gift lacks ~otnething of the . pontaneih· of the ideal retnetnhrance. A. t-houg-ht of the possible consPqttences of carele . snes. n1a,· elitninate sotne of this undesirable quality·. II I ).\1/isfits "Op"n Hou('e" SEVER.-\ L 11111111111; wav:' ha ,.e hecn de,·i:-.ed of acf}Uainting- parent~ with the srho()l ,,·ork of their children. The time-honured method of ~ending hoti1c term report~ g-ave the mother, and ~omctinH·s the father. a slight inkling- of the life of the children in the sc hoo1. :\ t ten dance at grad nat ion e~erci sr" once or twice in eight years only :->erved to increase the distance hct,,·een h()me and school. The parent-teacher a;-;~nciation ha::; dnnc much to bridge thi~ undc::;irahle g-ap. It ha:-' held meetings in the school httilding at which teachers and parents haYc been present. Tt has helped the teacher:' in tHtmhcrles:' personal ,,·ay~. like titting- up H':-'t roo 1n s . h u y i n g- pi r t u r e s a 11 d c a s ts . and g-1 v · ing partie:-; of ,·arion~ kinds for the teachers and parenb. The need fur "'..Kh a..;~() ciation:-; " ·ill ne\'er disappear. But the in-..titution caltcd · "upl'l1 hntt:'c," observed at ~C\\. Trier. \Yhile no tnore valuable than the p-t a . sociation. dnes certainly pcrforn1 a unique functi1m. Parents \\'h() att ndcd the high school un December 3. fro 111 3 : 15 to 0 : 15. taking din ncr in the cafeteria " ·it h their children. got an in,·alnahle do. e-up of their children's school life. Tf the best wa,· of finding out how the blind live is to g-o about for some titne with eve. closed, then the best way to find out ho\v ~chool children live is to go to school with them. T mure 111 is tl b t ha 11 fits. An e>verwheln1ing tnajority of men and wotnen in the l·nited States are. ~o far a. their daily \\·ork is concerned. just where thev don't belong-. ::\Iatn· business 1nen are realh·· artists. '::\[o~t safestnen and ~aleswo tnen are fitted ln· nature for sotnething_ other than selling· things. Get the confidence of the next tnan vou tneet. and vou will find that if he is. an :-tutomohile ~ salestnan he'd rather be a farmer. If you can induce the good-looking teacher to tell you the exact truth, you will learn that he'd easily g-ive up keeping school for house keeping. I-fave you ever rnet a . treet car conductor who wa<; an enthu~iastic collector of fares? :\ Chicago paper i" now running a serie=' of , tories about well kno\\·n tnen who had dream~ of heinrr ~omething other than they are. .\stcfe-irom a fe"· professionals .-\tnerica i . iull of sq uare pegs in round holes. If this large nun1ber of tnistakes is to he noticeahh· les . ened \\'tthin the lifetitne of the ne\\· generation. and the an1uunt of happines~ and efficiency thereby increased, ;nost of our young people tnust take up congt: nial occttpations. COUll try CUll ta j tb f 1T~ "Down with tht· f"ops," in<le d! And why not? 'YilmPttt· Knif, . i:--n·t on speaking terms with the t·(litorial \\Titt-1" lOt" writt·rs) to OUr l eft Since he (or thE-y) a f··w wt·t·ks ago p rpetrated that horrihlt · "f"oopt·ra t .... ·· t-11 ito rial right alongside our mast e rpi ec an .. nt th1· local minions of the law. And WP ' rt· not thl · Onl:-.· Ol1t· WhO iS perturbed and UpSet and all that sort of thing. At i ast two instances ha\'l' lwt>n brought to our attention in which that almost unmt'ntionahlt· uttt·rancf' about "construetin· criticism·· is just all torn to bits. In fact, it !-ie,...m~. somE>Ont:> has IH ···n dictinnarying again and made the rernarkablt· dis<"OVt'ry that the thing, that is to say, oh ·w~:.·ll, l'Vl'rything's gone wrong"\\·e wandt:'r:· That was it, "" 'e wander"! And ·while \\'t··rt:> on the subject, why shouldn't Joe Bigelow fae,... a._n ··unpaid, informal and impartial investigation .. '? Wny, indeed·: Let all of u.s unpaid, informal antl impartial ones rise up as onP unpaid , inffHmal and imp u·tial man andlt't's se', what wa:-; it we wPre going to do-sorry, hut "we ·wandt·r·· again. \Yell. as wt· were going to say, can any man lii'-Or i~ it lay-no, we can't us. la~·; that rt-milHls us of one of those terrible K{·nilworth poli<:t·nh· n who must also be investigatt ·<l. It must ht· lit·. To repeat: can any man lie? "·e wantt:'d to di~;<·uss that at l E>ng th but space prt'vt:nts. \Ye·r~· not lH:ing paid space rates, you know . In fa<"t. w~··re totally, dt>plorably unpaid, a. \·ou m<H' hav.- gatlwred-or perhaps you didn't, At .an,· rat·, .. wt· C'an·t keep our mind off Christmas and ttw nic ... thin~s Wt' t-XJH:ct we'll never get. Again. ··we wanllt>r:· \Yt> dematHl to know the paid dt·culation of \Yilmt-tte Life-available knowl dge to advertisers and any others who care to inquire, of course-that is. we want th e publisher to make open and public confession. Out with it! Also, anything t> ls e about his affairs-public or private. \Yhat pt>reentage of that boasted paid circulation goE's in to th waste basket'? At least one-halt of onf' pp 1 We · et>nt (liquid volume), we venture. (lt·mand-no particular value in having it, of cuurst', but. then. we must demand sometb,ing, ..-lst> what would be th' merit, if any, of this stir1 ·ing iudi('tnwnt wt·re it lackiug in at least one d··man<l. bt> it ev.~r ~o teenie, weenie a demand. ln otlwr words, w·· also hav e made a remarka hle discovery, 11anwly, that occasiona lly fairy talt':-; an' horne out in fact and that sometimes tlw littl~:.· ~hoe fits, t'Ver so snugly. \\'p dt·plore the gra tis publicity ""ilmette Life and tlw editoria l troupe is getting. \Ve are d· ·t· Pl~· g-rat1·ful, on tht' other hand, fo1· e-very little m.·ntion of our 1h'a1·, albeit, dull knife-. Lt·t us rt.'IH'at: Down with Joe B1gelow, hound iawg. that lw i~. (long may he bark), and all poli····. t'\'t't·yw lwr t·. Down: down! down! (And to think that J1h' got his picture in the Chicago 1la ily ~ews. ··~Iodest:· eh what'?) (To \), ~()T contin u d-by request.) 4 It has ju t of occurred to us, with some satishction that the joke is on the makers of the (.~overed \Vagon and other buggies of its brand. They spent a couple oi dozen years and a do~ble handful of millions in figuring out a car that dtdn·t need a radiator. and now they've had to spend another double handful of millions to figure ~:>Ut ;1 fakt:' radiator that will look like the real. thu~g that they made unnecessary, . c ·that the pub he wtll huy. Princess Punk is having a terrible time of i~. \\.c'll ha\·e to apologize for her, because she hasn t time to write a line this week. \Yild Bill, the demon make - up m~n. left i.ls to go to F~orida and make his bloomin' fortune and thr: Pnncess has fallen in love with Jerry, the Swell Sv.:ede, who now rules at the stone. The difficult_v is due to tl1e fact that the Princess can't spea k his language. She wants to know how one says "Say, sweet, Swede sweetie, swear you love little, lonesome, :amb's lettuce" in Swedish. \\'e are in doubt as to whether to strangle her or merely to push her out the winclow. THE SLAVE. It is true that in the spring Lake 1\Iichigan does delay the con1ing of n1ilder weather to north shore towns. But it is also true that in the fall the san1e body of water delays the con1ing of harsher weather. Both facts should be ren1cn1bered.