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30 WILMETTE LIFE WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by Chicago office : 6 N. Michigan Ave. LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Tel. State 6326 Telephone ............................... Wflmette t9zu SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .............. S!.OO A YEAH AU communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge Is publlshed, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Wilmette citizens should note that Tuesday, April 5, is Election Day for New Trier Township. The officers t,o be elected are one school trustee and one Election constable to fill vacancy. On the s a m e day the annual Dates Township Meeting will be held at 2 p. tn. in Community House, Winnetka. Also on April 5 one Wilmette park commissioner is to be elected: Polls open from 7 to 5. The Wilmette and Kenilworth Village Elections occur April 19. The High School board election occurs Saturday, April 9. Do your bit by v,o ting! Dirty politics are effective with a certain of people. l\Iudslinging always will be enjoyed by persons of the le ss intelligent type. "Stinkpot," "rat,H and Clean "crook " are convincing argument s for mor,ons, and nearPolitics · morons. Dirty politics create much pleasurable excitetnent for dirty people. The sad thing is that the mere calling of names often wins votes. But it may be doubted ,vhether votes won by such methods really do the candidate genuine good in the long run. Clean politics arc the source of efficient government. Candidates elected in a campaign of clean politics are likely to give good service because a good tnan is usually not willing to mix up with "dirty" politicians. No man of honor and high intelligence is willing to engage in a crooked game just for the fun of it. ~'ould YOU consent to have your name placed on a ticket if you knew that your name and character would be the target for mud and ancient eggs? Every good citizen, therefore, hopes that in the coming elections the respective problems will be carefully studied and also that the qualifications of the respective candidates will be just as carefully in-.pected and weighed; and that ·e ach and every official will be elected on his n1erits. clas~ "The poor," said Christ, "we have always with us." And in spite of the hope that poverty will some day be abolished, Christ's · statement is likely to hold Always true for several generations. There will always be people With V s · who through fault or no fault of their own will at times be destitute. They cannot care f.or thetnselves. They have no able relatives or friends. Others must lend a hand, if these unfortunate ones are not to starve, sicken, or die. And doesn't it seem logical at least that these helpless ones should be helped by their neighbors and fellow townspeople? If we are responsible for assisting the· Armenians are we not more responsible for assisting our p,oor neighbors? Shall the burden of helping the sick and poor in our own community be assumed by kind people in Chir.ago or Oak Park? Our local Relief and Aid societies are doing a much needed work. But they need your financial help. Your money will help a struggling fellow citizen. Every organization, like every organism, must have aims. If it is to live it must keep active; and to keep progressively active it must have objectives, things it wants to do. The best kind .of Aims education is that which commits the pupil to the working out of projects. We know of no social organization that is so forward pointing, so responsive to the call of the future, as the Boy Scouts. The Scouts have . accomplished tnuch, it is true , hut what they expect to do is infinite. This is as it should be, for the "thoughts of a boy are long, long thoughts." In the field of ,outdoor activity there is no limit to the · hopes and resolute purposes of the Scouts. They want especially to provide for summer outings. They desire to co-operate with churches and schools to improve the standing of any local group. They want to help all they can toward the development of good Scout leaders. Another of their laudable aims is the rendering of civic service. In many of our churches the Lenten season is now being observed. The period culminating in Easter Sunday, April 17, is being made ~n occasion of Lenten self examination and · cultivation of faith and other Sermons kindred virtues. It seems go,od that men should take advantage of certain times and seasons. There are days in the years like the Fourth of July when one's love of country should be emphasized and quickened by special exercises; there are other days like Christmas .w hen Christians should make much of God's gift to the world. Certain religious organizations like the Catholic and Episcopalian follow closely a calendar of feast days and special seasons. Of all these periods Lent is one of the most valuable to the religious person. Or rather it may be made one of the most valuable, for no season will yield value except to the one who uses it. During Lent ·one may with profit to his soul think of the days in Christ's life preceding his resurrection. The closing days of his earthly ministry as recorded in the gospels when studied contain much of inspiration. Irreligious tnen and women may with profit ask themselves what they are n1issing in not observing Lent and Easter. . March 25, 1927 -~~-·-~~-·-~~-~-_.--~-~~-·--~~-·· Ot_J_n_a_D_~I- -··-n_u_r~~.... SHORE LINES SPRING SONG ..._.+ And 0, they say that it is spring, Because, 0, just because it's spring. The earth is laughing, rollicking, There is a smile in everything, Again the grass is coming green And e'en again the robin 's song; Free waters from a gurgling stream Dance merrily, merrily along: The morn is new and the day is young. · And spring is laughing back at me, The glow of summer's just begun. And 0, it's glorious to see That spring is laughing back at me . · Life gaily leaps o'er vamped hills With glad and rapid step hi , ho: A syncopated melody, On with the music then. let's go. And, 0, they say that it is spring . Because, 0. just because it's spring . The earth is laughing, rollicking, There is a smile in everything, -REBECCA ANTHONY . LAUER, VILLAGE PRESIDENT OF NORTHRROOK. \\TILL NOT RE A CANDI DATE FOR RE-ELECTION THIS SPRING, \VRITES OUR WESTERN CORRESPONDENT. OvVl ~G TO THE lJNPRECEDENTED DE)..f ANDS OF HIS PRIVATE BUSINESS UPO~ HIS TIM E. 1N THE EVENT YOU HAVE NOT SUSPECTED-MR. LAUER IS TH E VILLAGE FUNERAL DIRECTOR. ---~-HARMONY OF SPRING In Springtime bells ringing. Easter's glad beginning. Flowers of love are bringing. Songs of joy are singing; We've no time for sighing, E'en tears betell of crying. Sing of Love, sing of Spring. Till sounds everywhere round about ring , And thousand blessings bring. Sing lads and lassies, Love always confesses, In Spring's fair time; In Spring's Jove]y time Hide your faint blushes While the brooklet silvery gushes. In Spring's own time! In Spring's blooming time. Why not obeying. Why all this delaying? Spring, oh beautiful Spring, Thy thousand blessings bring. Pauline K. Mueller (Excerpt<: from Winnetka homemade Indian love lyrics-Yaqui) R. -·----- Clarence '"' olsted, representing in India the \Vinnetka Congregational Church renewed recently his subscription to \VJNNETKA TALK. I fe regretted News From the fact that he had been obliged to be without the Home paper for a year. Anyone who has been away frotn home f,or a considerable period will readily appreciate what the lack of regular cotnmunity news meant to Mr. Wols ted. And, on the other hand, anyone who · has never been an exile in a foreign land can only dimly imagine the exuberant excitement of a Winnetkan in India who has just learned that a cafeteria has been · opened in his home town. Be sure, theref,ore, that your favorite corn1nunity paper ·follows you wherever you wander. You Would 1[ique: This headline by your alert social new s desk: "Wilmette Women Urged to Join Philanthropy Sewers" Heard about storm sewers, sanitary sewers and just plain sewers, hut wotinell are philanthropy sewers? All kinds of new contraptions around election time. -Reeltor. Tlie Wilmette Beautiful Dear Mique: A chirp for spring candidates, chirped by the ra mpaign managers: "W" is for Wilmette, A town of perfection Promised to voters Before spring elections. -·----- -·-· -·--- Where'· Your Precinct? Dear Mique: Marvin E. Nevins, candidate fol' Village tru.tee in Glencoe, ia, I note, a member of the National Poultry, Butter and Egg association. We girls hereby pledge a block of SOO votes. -Hosteu We repeat-if ----~you must write spring songs-we'd be p.erfectly ?ee_~~i~hted. --·---- -JOHN. .-MIQUE. '· '·' .:· ....