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WILMETTE LIFE M;Ly 25. 1928 WILMETTE LIF· E ISSUED FBIDAY OF BACH WBBK by . LLOYD BOLLISTEB, INC. . 1232-1236 Central Ave., Wllmette, Ill. Clalcaco oftlce: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 1111 tilep,oae ... . ............ .. ...... . .... Wilmette fiN IUBSCBIPTION PBICE .·.·.....·. . .. tt.t8 . A. TB.Hl All communications muet be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In ~urrent fgue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other atralrs where an admittance charge Is published, will be charged at re~rular advertising rates. beautifying spots in the respective communities that · are now somewhat bare and unattractive. For · example, the funds r~ sulting from last year's garden market. tn Winnetka have gone far towards rendertng the grounds around the public library pleasing to the eye of the passer-.by. I ' SHORE LINES JL N'Y A PAS LA MORTE For thou ·u.1ho ore uot ·with us here to-day T-V c u·reatlzc i11 flo7.(J l'rs tht· dust whence they Have been reclaimed. H c is uot dead 0, do tJot think he lies asleep In deep moist earth, But forward gone to ucw life Glorjfied, immeasurable rcbrrth. The things he did we do, So grown a part of us. We oftel~ think The thi11gs he thought about and said. He is uot with us here, B11t 0, .Ire is not dead. Whom we have knoom. ODE How sleep the brave who sink to rest Bq all their country's wishes blest! When Sprinq, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall find a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, Bq forms unseen their dirqe is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey. To bless the turf that · wraps their clay,· And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. -WILLIAM COLLINS Next Wednesday is Memorial Day. It used to he called Decoration Day, but that was an inappropriate name~ suggesting as it dtd an occaswn Memorial Day, . when so I d i e r s' graves were merely May30 to be beautified by flowers. The deeper significance of the day did not appear in this former name. No person who had not been told would _have guessed that May 30 was dedicated to the memory of America's fighting patriots. But the meaning of the term Memorial Day is obvious. It is a n1emorial to those President Mason of the University of of our soldiers who have died and been Chicago resigns as head of that institution laid to rest not in a cemetery but in a memto become head of the scientific research orial garden. The name 9f the day calls work sponsored by the on every one of us to remember with gratiScience and Rockefeller F,0undation. tude those who fought for our freedom Naturally he is enthusiasfron1 oppression. · Politics tic about the possibilities Flower~ have come to be the accepted involved in his new work. }anguage of our gratitude on ·Memorial Backed by a fund of over $600,000,000 to Day. Their fragrance and beauty are a expend on undertakings whose sole object token of · our sincere thankfulness. The is the benefiting of hun1anity, how can any~ounds. under which the soldiers are sleepone connected with this important organitng thetr last long sleep lose on this one zation be other than enthusiastic and hopeday .o f the year their sober mantle of green ful? and take on a fresh loveliness such as only The statement of the aim and the acJiving flowers possess. tivities of the Rockefeller Institution . ~s the ~reat war fades into history there , tempts one to imagine what would happen ts mcreasmg need for every American citito this vast sutn of money if it were placed zen, present and future, to revive in loving where politicians instead ,o f scientists could memory the deeds of our veterans, dead and lay their hand~ upon it. · \iVhat would the living. The children especially should be crowd defeated at the April primaries have taught the sacredness of ~Iemorial Day. done if placed within reaching distance of $600,000,000? The answer is easy. Every year in .o ur North Shore towns a And yet both politicians and scientists certain 1-fay day is set. aside as a garden are human beings with much the same market day. The day this year is Saturday, physical equipment. As children they probably looked tnuch alike. The cli.fference very ~lay 26, in both likely began after they had con1pletcd their \Viin1ette and \NinAnnual Garden high school courses. \\'hen tnanho.o d was netka. Such a day Markets was held in Evansreached what a gap there was between th~ ton on Saturday, two groups. In aims how diametricalh~· May 19. opposed! · Not only flower are displayed and sold We drean1 of the day when politics will at these garden markets, but also foods of be so scientific that tnoney will be regarded various kinds, pottery and glassware, garas only a means of achieving social welfare. den equi1 ment, and balloons. Luncheon i~ served, < nd arrangements are made for Retnember that Poppy Day romes next spending all day at the tnarket. Monday, ~lay 28. Pay well for your poppy As usual the proceeds will be used in and remember the veterans, your comrades. Of a.Jl the big voting percentages heaped ' up in the recent April primaries Kenilwor~h piled up the biggest-83%. In 1926 Kenilworth's percentage was 47, only a ~ittle more Big Voting than half .of the 1928 Percentages showing. . Doubtless the dotni-Rebecca Anthony nant cause of this recent tremendous vote was the indignation of the North Shore Have One on the House, Boys citizens against the Crowe-Thompson poMr. Yellowley's more or less alert mmtons litical ring. The events leading up to and swooped down upon the north shore last Saturday night shortly after some particularly vigilant villager occurring immediately before the day of had dispatched word to the effect that there were the primaries aroused the voters to a pitch strange goin's on in t~e new store just opened by of hostility against graft and crime that AI Wolff and his partner Ernie Griffis. Arriving swept even the most indifferent to the in due time, after greeting a few dozen of the beer polls. But there was another powerful flat dwellers on the north side (just by way of bolstering their annoyed spirits) the expert testers cause of the record vote, namely, the ac·charged with a solid, albeit slightly wavering front tivity of ·the Local Leagues of Women and there, right in the middle of their new store, in Voters. No one who · has in the past few full view of all who chanced to pass that way, they years become acquainted with the activity found AI and Ernie opening a brand new keg of tenof these leagues. their high ambitions, their penny nails. thoroughness, their persistence. their paWomen in Politics tience, their skill, can doubt that they had And while we're in the mood, mention should much to do with ro1ling up such a big pribe made of the Northwestern co-eds who are mary vote. determined to beat friend AI (not Wolff) by electKenilworth came first with a record of ing Nick (not the Greek nor Longworth), thereby 83% of her. voters at the primary polls. Win- effecting a simple scheme of keeping the wet netka came second with a percentage of 81. banner waving high and with the same stroke save the Repqblican party. Having won this contest, Kenilworth received the Izaak Walton American flag. If Add-Politics this village receives the flag in 'the fall elecIt is not improbable that the G. 0. P. will employ tions she will keep it permanently. There the Flood Control weapon in their effort to trounce friend AI. is every indication of a great cr.o wd at the po1ls. May the best village win! Fil an' Me· Co Fishin' I got a letter the other da· y From til.\' frie~rd Phil who 7.f.'rote to sa._v That rummagitt' · 'round thrortglt a. lot o' junk, Stored au:av ht a box er some old trrmk Up in the dttic where it ortt~'t to be, He'd found his tackle a.n' thol4ght of m.e. .Vow Phil 01,/y writes 'bout Ollce a year An' when Ire writes l'lJ:.'ice I get an ideor That he's workin' too hard; mt' I know about What_hr's hintin' at; so I ask him ou.t To spe~td a. jl!'lv da:ys-just · urh<rt he's wishin', An' we spend the time at restin' an fishitr-'. 1¥e light our pipes. ott' I call my dog An' set out fer the crick u·lzrre a fallen log Is stickin' 'way out in the midst of the stream, An' bass at"' crappies jest glistett an! gleam In that heavenly mixture of s11n an' shadder, An' we fish 'bout as hard as if we had fer. Er perhaps we all git in 111)' old boat, Push her out in the stream on' let ,cr float, Fast er slow cr how she tvill So long's I c'n sm.okc an' jest set still; Ph£! i1J one end an' my dog in the other; J{e at the oars, mt' no room fer another. Phil an' my dog are 'nqu..gh fer me When fishin' er huntin', for they don't be Allus talkin' er barkin,, when we're out 'Less there's somethin' ·u:orth tal kin' cr bar!~ in' abnut: There's man}' a thing said better in smo!.·e Than the finest words that's ever been spok{'. .·1n' I j{'st set an' smoke an' fish, .-ln' maybe do:::e, mt' almost wish That notlzin'll bite-an' noihin' does 'Cept an ornery skeeter with an orneY)' bu:=:= ; .ln' I wake ttP an' see the s1m has set, .·In' it's time to go home, an' we do, you bet. -D. K. Grant The Old Plug ventures the guess that the fol~s who bet on Dowagiac in the recent Church11l Downs canter must have been armed with Michigan bankrolls. Come to think of it, D. K., it Is most time for F'il's vacation. He ain't had none since the first u' May, or thereabout. .. -------------------- -MIQUE.