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WILMETTE LIFE June 22, 1928 ILMETTE LIFE U8UBD :PJuDA.Y OP BACH 'WBBJ[ b:r . 'LLOYD HOLLISTBB, INC. lt3Z-1236 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Clalcaco omce: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel State UJI Tilepioae ........................... : .. WllJDe&&e OM i'UB8C&IPTION P&ICB .···...·.·.... tt.H A TBAB All communications must be accompanied by the D&me and address of the writer. Articles for pubUcatlon must ·reach the editor by Wednesday noon to luun appearance In current laue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other a1faln where an admittance charge Is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. The avowed aim of the late war was to make the world safe for democracv. Whether it did make. the \vorld safe f~r den1ocracy must be deHow to Save termined by the happenings of a much Democracy longer period than has yet intervened since the war. Is democracy now, in 1928, safe? Man\' of the world's sanest thinkers have their. doubts. The war rendered the world at least safer for democracy than it was before and during the war. That tnuch seems to be generally belieYed. But there is another agency that has been and will continue to be more eHecti\'e than . war in ~avina detll.Ocracy. and that i~ education. That a democrac,- may continue to flourish . in cl i "i <.lu a Is in that cl em ocr a c v n1u s t be educated. IThe :danae1·s that threaten n. den1ocrac,- can be:-~t be attacked bv an eel. ucated bo-dy of citizens. The probl~tns that confront a democracy can be adequately 5oh·ed only by '"ell educated citizens. In order that education in our .o wn America hall be universal and excellent, those who form and administer educational plans must know the best and tnost scientific theories in the field of education. And the one science that is at present contributing the most valuable knowledge is psychology. The whole North Shore, not only the vi1lage of \\"innetka, should congratulate itself on the donation bY AI fred Alschuler which 111akes it possible~ to build a nursery school addition to Skokie School and also on the gift of $15,CXX) frotn the Rosenwald fund and generous contributions frotn the \\oman's Club which make it possible to apply the ~esults of science to the education of those who will later be American citizens. It is hoped that this good work will spread throughout the entire United States, making it truly safe for democracy. Some years ago. nothing stirred the rebellious spirit of the high school youth so completely as the suggestion that he go to summer school. It Ever to seemed . to him a ., suggestion only a Summer School. shade less hateful than that he memorize Paradise kost or doubl.e the assignment in Caesar. Ho\v anyone could be so cruel as to suggest summer school was far bey.ond his . c omprehension. But nowadays sun1mer school is really very attractive. The reason m~y be that summers are not so hot as they used to be. It may be that the work itself is not so n1uch like drudgery as it used to be. It may be that such side-activities as swimnlit;g and tennis make it look less repellent than heretofore. Whatever the reason, it is a fact that manv now attend the sum1ner "ession who. s.o~me years ago, could not have been bribed to go. Summer school offers several very real hL- ~ Ieflt~. :\ student 'vho during the school year ha~ fallen behind in his studies can ~·atch up in July and August. A student " ·ho desire~ to c mplete his four-year cour~e in three ,·cars can make up a year in three summer ~c~sions. Finally, a student " ·ho would like to engage during his senior year in ~ome extra-curricular activity like editing the ~clwol annual can provide the neccs:-~ary time hy cotnpleting a senior subject during the prc,·ious sumtner. There i. , mureon: r. in the summer sehoul an carne~ t in ten tiun that i ~ positively contagiou~. The shurtn<..~s of the term and the select nature of the student body combine to create an atmosphere of activity that stimulates the ambition of eYen the most indifferent. The verY fact that signing up for the summer ~ession is largely optional appeals to the. prid~ of the. student and gives him the mcenttve to wn1. . \Ve advise the st udent who is in good health to in,·est part of his vacation in the summer school. SHORB LINES WE DON'T WANNA! Mique · Are you planning to go ' to Europe? Do you wan.t to go IMMEDIATELY? . Hop a car out to Glencoe and arrange yourself m the landscape about our house. If I ~appen to fall in love with you it's as sure as m~ht. and day .that you'll' be l!eading for Europe withu~ a fortmght. Five have alreadv departed ot:t their ways after such a test. '\(~LL YOU BE THE SIXTH? Sir, we are selling no nostrums, ~or. are we foisting upon you unsalable wares. This 1s ABSOLUTELY FREE. The (doubtful) pleasure is all m-m.ine, she sobbed. -Wickie Go P. S. The only "catch" is that it has to be a one-sided case of love at first sight. Let's Give 'em a Big Hand! Lest we overlook an important detail in this week's colyum of chatter, my dears: Won't you step up and meet our latest ~ecruib to the inner circle of the editorial sanctum sanctorum, both just emerged from the . gre~t ~ounts of ~earning and, armed with the mevJtable sheepskm, prepared to ente!' upon . the task of gr:'dual!y sup planting those of us whose sheepsknw (·f any) have long sin.ce faded into utter illegibility? This trim little Miss is Betty, of Winnetka, and that handsome fellow yonder is Paul, no re~ation to the gentleman of Tarsus. Add-Foes of Divorce \V c were particular!~- imprc ·sed by the comment concerning the Yolmnc "Pencil Bridge," just off the press and guaranteed to prcser\'e dome stic tranquility. It reads: "In the day of mu sic boxes and spelling bee s, the woman's wail was- 'He broke my heart~· This radio' and bridge game age finds the same sex wailing ( \\'ith Yenom)-'Ilc trumped my ace~· .. But, What of the Crops? Dear Mique: Back here in the "Queen City of Egypt" taking another vacation. William Jennings Bryan got his start at being a Democrat and a Great Commoner about seventeen miles from here. I understand his father was a Republican and believed so firmly in willow switches as a cure for all evils that Bill turned Democratic just to be contrary. His father also believed in the evolution of great ears from little grains of corn. That's where Bill got his great abhorence of the theory of evolution. At any rate a walking plow· is a good atart for anyone who wishes to be a commoner, either great or mediocre. Tried to sleep past 8 o'clock this morning. As in days of old, I arose after three rounds of the lawn mower and thirteen tapa of the hammer on an unruly garage door (actual count). I repaired the garage door, mowed the lawn, fixed all of the leaky faucets, stopped up a hole in the porch roof-in fact every thing I could find wrong with anything. I hope to sleep longer tomorrow. Hub, Centralia, Ill. Know Their Groceries As a mayor Big Bill qualifies nicely as a chef de cuisine, according to some of our north shore municipal officials who, last Monday, attended that notable's banquet at the new Chicago garbage plant. When the assembled guests had finished, there wasn't enough left to give a decent demonstration of the disposal plant. This being the month of brides, our Soc Ed has all but taken the count (pugilistically speaking), what with entire pages of our illustrious· publication devoted exclusively to items anent this storm and atrife business. We have been akeered moat to death leat some of the matter ooze onto Fil's stampina grounds and thence into our very own pillar of p~rsiflaee which, at this writing, atill remains the atronghold of bachelordom. younger we never had the chance to live in ~a boys' camp f.or the summer. We spent many long vacations at a summer resort, filling up our Boys' Summer clay~ with ~~immi~g, rowmg, sathng, htkCamps ing, eating, and lying around. But a real boys' camp we never attended. The result was that we learned little about how to pitch and strike camp, ho\v ~fo. t dri\'ers believe that the n1ajority to cook over an open or enclosed fire, ho\v of accidents occurring on the auto highto tie ..knots of all sorts, how to sail c,orways are caused by the "weaver," the man rectly, how to swim all the various ways, who is constantly driving in and out of line how to dive, how to shoot straight. ln in his endeavor to get ahead. No .objection short, we did not learn the dozens of things can be Inade to the autoist who takes adthat are taught in every well-organized vantage of a clear highway on hi~ left to modern boys' camp. get ahead of those who are sauntering or One of the greatest benefits that a sum-spoonit?g, but the fellow who recklessly · . mer in a good up-to-date cawp can confer 41 weaves" ought to be assigned f.or a n1onth upon a boy is the cultivation of desirable or two to a purgatory where he will be consocial growth. In his own hon1e, where he tinually dodging in and out an1ong massive may be the only child, the boy gets all concret~ columns. warped out of shape. If the mother loves him too much, the father dislikes him too When the weatper gets warn1er; if ever, n1uch. If the father is easv on him, the hordes of urbanites and suburbanites will n1other disciplines him to.o r~gidly. Or perseen fleeing frotn the homes that kept haps both parents fail to deal with him in them warm and generally con1fortable the best way. If such a boy comes under during the winter and spring and hurrying the supervision of a good camp director, his back to nature .or as close to nature as their whole life may be, and often is, changed age, sexJ and individual nature urges them decidedly for the better. to get. Sen9 him to a boys' camp. \\~' hen be Latest word frog1 The Old Plug is to the effect that he'll probably cut short his vacation, which has been spe!lt largely at the Arlington track. The answer is obvious. MIQUE.