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12 : WilMETTE LIFE January 1, 1926 WILMETTE LIFE ISS '(jED FRIDA. Y OF EACH WEEK .r by LLOYD HOLLISTER. INC. 1222 Centa·al Av~ .· Wilm~u.. Ht Chicago otflce: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telep···e ..·..·............·....... Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ·.···.··.··· · 2.00 A YEAR ·7 Carrt~r ·....··........·......... 25e a moat Ia All communications must )o accompanied by the name and address ot the writer. Articles tor publlcatien must reach the editor by Wednesday . noon to insure appearance 1n current issue. Resolutions ot condolence, cards ot thanks, obituary, notices ot entertainments or other atfairs where an admittance charge is published, wHl be charged at regular advertising rates. as mail matter ot the second class, under the act ot March 3, . 1879. Entered at the post omce at Wilmette, llllno'fs, The Onset Always the same when on a fated night At last the gathered snow lets down as white As may be in dark woods and with a song It shall not make again all winter longOf hissing on the yet uncovered ground1 almon stumbled looking up and round, As one who, overraken by the end, Gives up his errand and lets death descend Upon him w.here he is, with nothing done To evil, no important triumph won More than if life had never been begun. Yet all the precedent is on my side: I know that winter death has never tried The earth but it has failed; the snow ma y heap In long storms an undrifted four feet drep As measured against maple, birch and oak ; It cannot check the Peeper's silver croak; And I shall see the snow all go down hill In water of a slender April rill That flashes tail through last year's withered brake And dead weeds like a disappearing snake. Nothing will be left white but here a bJrch And there a clump of houses .with a church. - Robrrt Frost. to that mutual understanding between nations and governmental regard for the welfare of the individual which leads to pertnanent peace. The year has not been free from the horrors of war, but they have been more than offset by the e,fforts towards peace. If we had achieved nothing but the pact of Locarno, we should regard the balance as favorable to the cause of peace. But more, much more has been done than that. In all nations of the earth there has been a realization of the right of the comn1on man to determine whether a cause is \vorthy the sacrifice that war entails. Doubt of the glory of death on the field of battle has arisen and vvill not be satisfied with the red declaration of song and legend. Too n1any men have seen it. Too many \YOmen kno\v the anguish of the loss of tl~e soldier husband or brother. Too many children are gro,ving into youth carrying in their minds the impression of the horror that war brought to them. Experience, education, the a\vakening of t he people to their right to a voice in the making of \\'ar all go to the forwarding of the cause of pennanent peace. We cannot 1neasure their value as in the case of the Locarno pact, hut \ve can feel their influence. THE LAND OF A MILLION SMILES Do you. know of a land of happiness . Reaching far through the mtdst of the tmles, TVhere e·ucry man helps the other nta1't? (Tis the lmtd of a million smiles. (Tis a land where crt~ed .is live and let lwe, And would lift up tlze man who would fa~l, 'Tr·t.tth, justice and wisdom the wealth of thzs land, With the emble·m of love over all. Whrre forgotten, are race, mzd colo r and creed, TVIzere malice mzd hatred shall eJZd, Pnr on every door the latchstring is out A 11d ln every house is a friend. Yon will hzow this land for the la1Hl is lit Bv a million smiles each day, And a million stars of hope gi~'e light To the traveler on his wa}'· You ·will [z11d this land of va11ishing cares Rcachhzq far through t'ls sunlit miles, 'Tis tlze TVest! our West! the Golden TVest. Tlze land of a million smiles. HARRY LF.~ Bt:RG I·:ss They Mould Our Future towns and villag-es should be \veil repre:-'e nted in the Regional Planning association of Chicago. Nobody is n1ore concerned in 'vhat is done by that organization. Nobody is better f1tted to contribute splendidly to its good \vork. . Tt is a common fault of Atnerican ctt1cs and their environs that thev have been at..: !o,,·ed to gro\v up \vithout ~plan. Districts han· happened. D Yelopmcnt has been accidental and fortuitous. \Ve are only heginning to rca 1izc the waste of such a slip:-- hod policy and to try to c rrect it. The part of the etn·irons that lie s north nf E,·a nston has tH1t yet hccn g-reatly hurt l>y the failure of a consistent planning of deYelupnwnt. \\·e arc in time to control the conditions ,,·hich will dctcnninc the future of our communities and \\'e are, indeed. f ortnna t e to ha \'e 1i1en and ,·o men of the proper calibre to act \vith the Regional ! )Ianning as~ociation. I T is fitting-, indeed, that the north shore The aboyc slab from the sun burned we t came all the way from San Diego, Californi.a. 'fhc a~ thor is as sociate editor of The Amencan Patr01t and wa s kiiHl enough to se nd us this contribution. 1Ir. Burge ss ' brother lin·..., ,in \\'1 1mute and that may explain hi s knowledge of and intcrc t in this publication. \Yc take this opportunity of c·xprc. sin g our since r e thank s. Happy New Year EFOHE \\·e send another issue of this paper into the hon1cs of the comnntnitY we sh 11 have launched into the year of our Lord 1026. \Vhat it holds for you and for us \\'e can only g-ues_, and hope that it will be on ly good. \ Ye ha Ye eYery reason to be grateful for the kindly attitude of our public to tL. Vve trust that that kindliness will tnark our relation!" for another t weh·e month. and n1any n1ore. The X ew Year opens auspiciously for us all, the nation, the state, the comn1 unity. \V e have seen honor and right-dealing triumph o\·er dishonor and the abuse of a public trust in n1ore than one in . tance. As a nation we hid fair to realize the \Vish for a Happy New Year. Let us, however, add to thi ~ general assurance of prosperity and progress in all our waYs, the ,,·ish that in each individual hon1e o~f the ron1n1tt1_1ity there n1ay be the nchievetnent of \\·hatever an1bition i held. \\?e wish you, one and all, the the happiest of X e'v Years. THE VARIETY STORE Truly, a variety store is an awe ome and wonderful place! I think that up in Santa Cl:1use I 1e there is s uch a store where ~fr:"i. Saint Nicholas :·reside". Can you pirturc her counterpart here, · -~hort, shin ingly fat. n : d - cherkrd, with friendl y smi ling blur ryes? 1· , csh ginghamed, . h e waits behind the counter t o find you an oh . . olctr game r;r the latc~t magazine. Or, if your wi . . ll to un~qJrdcn vour mind of swee theart troublrs, here you wi II tin ;I a willing an cl s ilrn t con fi dan tc. . . . .\t your right, arc slwh·es oi brown and !_!.·andy p;q>nl:d boxes. Some arc ~hufflccl slrrpily to~·r th cr, :1nd some arc lraning out O\'Cr their comp;u . io tb, with their lids half dff, like mouths opening in grit,ning deri . ion of yrnt. Tn front of tht'"l' ~ helve s arc show ca c;; r~ full of tin engines <· nd wagons. paper machc do~~ s and rats, red \\·histlr-;, and all mann r of odd deli!..!ht->. waiting contrntrdlv for the whim of a dingy fin . L:cn·d rhi ld !\ t the -left arc the magazines. garish bindings flaunting hold hints of forbidden jo_, s. peaceful j;-~rkcts placidly offering the flatne ss of the con~·entional. and tempting beautifully rolorrd pictures ~ igl1ing for deep leather chairs and soft .lights . . . :\t the front is a . how case filled · '"tth a flat ~-rrav of candics,-soher licorice, stoclp_y fudge, orC'u;gc and lemon drops (like pale ~nvalids), ~tttpid chocolates shedding their hrown coats. , muQlv sugared moth-balls, panicky juju heads ;,n d f~iYolotts peppermints. \Vatch how the ryes r f a child tranc;;form them to unnameab lc heaYcnlincc;s! The next rainy day. loiter about a Variety t;fore while the narrow dank smell of rain ~eep~ thrtt. and , oon you will imagine yourself in a iair~· land of musty mystery. . . . . HE \Vno \VArTs B 1 1 1 New Trier ~ bore. a Yisihlc cYidcnce of the real com munit\· of interest. of dc~tin\· and of charactlT th-at exists here and in- hur neighbors. lt is a good thing to have this ron11ection. and o·ood to haYe occasions \\·hirh lt11J)fes . our close relationship with our ~i:-~ter vil1ag-es upon tl. . For th<." tno~t part it is in the young people of the homes of the eli . tt·ict served by the hig·h scltool that this scn~c of co1nn1on interest is developed. But frequently, as in the \Vinnetka :\[usic club artist-recital to he given at the high school au eli tbriun1 1anuarv 8. there is son1eth.ing to dra\\· fron1 qua~ters of the to\vnship.' Tt is a splendid thing to connect \vith the ~chool life of the young people, gatherings of their elders \\·ith themselves for anv occasion. To have such an occasion as the recital to he given by Dusolina Giannini is ideal. ~ N E\\. TRIER Iligh school ts a bond hc- 1\\Tc.: n the communities of the north The Year in Peace part marke~l with prosperity and progress for the nation as a \Vhole. It ha . been a year of quiet, unspectacular progre~s towards a solution of the prob1en1 . of the \Yorlcl. Success has not cotne to all efforts at a re-orientation of the various nations, but often enough to lend encouragement to further endeavor. Where there ha been failure, it ha con1e \Vithout that rancctr which makes a further attetnpt impossib le. \\,e are further along the road has come and gone. ~\n C IJRJ~T::\L\S other vea r is at an end, for the n1ost WE RESOLVE m·n·r to print any more of our own poetry (we were only guilty of this offense once. a'ld to a , ~li!..!ht degree. and might evade the charge on the te~lmicality that \\·hat we printed certainly wasn't poetry): to give Princess Punk an afternoon off c"erv two weeks, '<"au . e she's a good little girl: not slay Carl, the make-up man, as h;1d hcen our intention; and always to ha ,.c our copy in on time. all to