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WILMETTE LIFE June 29, 1928 { . WILMETTE LIFE U8UJID PJUD.AY OP li.ACR WBB][ b,. 'LLOYD HOLLI8Tll&, D'C. ].JSI-US6 Central Ave., Wilmette, Dl. Clalcaco offtce : 8 N. Michigan ATe. Tel. S~te 1111 ~ioae ·· . ...···...··.·. . .····· . ..·· 1tm5Dette fltl iti'BSCBIPTIOlf PBICB .·..·.·.... . .. UM A. DAB All communleatlona muat be accompanied by the ume uc! a4c!reu of the writer. Artlclea for publication muat reach the editor by :Wec!neac!ay noon to bllnlre appea~nce In current laaue. Reeolutlona of condolence, earda of thanka, obituaries, notleee of entertainments or other afralra where an admittAnce charge Ia publlahec!, will be charged at I'M'11htr adverthdn~ rates. Everv intelligent person will adn1it that of all the gems of civilized life courtesy is one of the most highly prized. Even in the middle ages courtesv was the foremost of all the Courtesy more refined ·vi r t u e s. Et~ery Time Moreover, kindly manners will always be at a premium in social relationships. It is therefore to be regretted that in America courtesy is not practiced so commonly as it really ought to be. To many it seems a waste of precious time to spend it in saying such phrases as Thank you or Beg your pardon. The make-it-snappy ways of n1odern business life leave no room for any but the bare essentials of intercourse. This being the case it is pleasant to record the few exceptions to the.rule. There exist in these hustling United States individuals, and also organizations like the Rotary Club, who deliberately take time to be polite. Some have seen. that the socalled amenities of living together are more than mere decorations, useless embroideries. Forced by the rain some weeks ago to seek temp.orary shelter in the lobby of a small but up-to-date hotel we noted the following sign suspended over the cigar stand: "Your purchase free if we ever forget to thank you." We were tempted to make an experiment. Approaching the comely looking young lady hehind the counter we bought a package of gum. "Thank you!" was her quick .reply. We suspect that it is not the owners of stands of this sort that pay the penalty of failing to thank the purchaser but rather the salesperson. The following facts regarding 300 employes of the Chicago and North Western Railway are significant. Each of the 300 has to his credit at least 25 years of active service on the North Western. Most of them have at least 35. Sotne have been ac·· tive for as long as 45 and 50 years. The length of these periods and the number who have completed them, ,indicates an unusual degree of mutual satisfaction. Though there seems to be an abundance of water on the North Shore for watering, washing, ~and drinking purposes, still }it seems advisable to be temperate in the use of this valuable .liquid n.ot for drinking and washing purposes but rather for watering purposes. Human health first. Human happiness second. No matter whether you are or are not a resident of Winnetka you will find it profitable to study the annual report of H. L. Woolhiser, village manager ,of Winnetka. One interesting and significant fact is the almost 1~ similarity between the budget figures and the actual expense and receipt The school boy as he reads his history now and' then comes upon some individual SHORE LINES who is called great. One of the first to catch his eye is AlexanTHE GARDENER'S LAMENT . W ho Is the der the Great. He finds I wish I had a lot o' grass, too that Julius Caesar . A-growin' it£ my >·ard,· Great Man? was called great. And But gu.ess it ain't a bit o' use, For I've tried it mighty .hard. ·also that the title was applied to .Napoleon. consults t,he dic- I got some dandy catalogues, tionary and there learns that common synoAnd read 'em through and through; nyms for the word are important, signifi- Then batltght some fancy high priced seeds, 'Twas all td have to do. cant, outstanding. Later his curisoity is stimulated to know 'Cept sow 'em in the springtime, the essential attributes that go to make up · Or better, in the fall, a person who may correctly be called And get a lawn of velvet green. Th ey didn't come 1l-P at all. great. Was Shakespeare great? Lincoln? Beethoven? They were all important, but !Jtstcad of grass, I got a crop, may not some line be drawn between the Of myriads of weeds. near great and the truly great? Has not I didn't 'spect to have Sitch luck, With them there fancy seeds. sotne able writer and thinker worked out a fairly final definition of the term? Accordin' to the catalogue, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ·American poet I needed fertiliz er; and essayist, presents in his essay, Self-Re- So I doused 'em with a ton of it. With a patent atomi::er. liance, a definition of the g;eat man, which although not comprehensive, still is enlight- The staff was simply wonderful, ening and suggestive. "The great man is .he (So said the catalogue), who in the midst of the crowd keeps wtth 'Twould grow 'em all from btt.tfercups, To whiskers on a frog . perfect swee.t ness the independence of solitude." He is self-reliant, trusting his own ,\Tow, I think old scout Munchausm, powers and trusting these powers even An01zias and King Ben, though' he may be in a crowd. But "with Compared to the g1ty that wrote them . books, JiV ere modest, truthful men. perfect sw:eetness." No doubt En:erson -1. M. B. rates independence, · self - trust, htghest among all the attributes of the great man. · Yea, But We're Going He must work otit his own conclusions Dear Sir: I now rate your august column ~ith s.uth effectively and responsibly. But he must life-savers as S. S. S., Paris garters, Lydta Pmkhave a further attribute, namely, "perfect ham, Ivory soap and Fischer b?dies. . No sooner ~ad article anent my automatic dev.tce for sen~mg sweetness." Emerson would not call the my timid swains to Europe appear_ed . m . ~hore . Lmes bully or the tyrant great. last week than a certain influential mdtvtdual m our He During the winter Near East representatives were appealing to congregations in Kenilworth, Winnetka, and Glencoe for financial support of the work now being done for needy human beings in Greece and her islands, Armenia and Persia, Syria Near East and Palestine. This work Relief is aided in Wilmette by contributions to the Comtnunity Chest. Near East Relief, an organization chartered by Congress in 1919, has saved from starvation more than a million women, children, and old men. It is now giving orphans a simple schooling and training f.or selfsupport. It is caring for 32,131 children in Near East Relief orphanages. It maintains 45 hospitals, and in 1927 gave 1,963,246 clinical treatments. In addition 350,000 received clothing in 1927 in return for work or by free distribution. Near Ea~t Relief is now engaged in a drive for $6,000,000, which should be com. pleted by June, 1929. This sum will care for its present commitments in the Near East and will enable it to "finish the job" and outplace or provide for the 32,131 orphans still under its care. We trust that the relation between our papers and the communities which we serve is in some large measure like that indica ted in the following words uttered by the Ptt~ident of the National Editorial Association: "Every editor and publisher should be an outstanding factor in making his community what it is or what it should be, and the time is here when communities, towns. and cities are largely judged by the character of the newspapers which represent them." household said, "Hm, do YOU want to go to Europe?" I turned a few somersaults and cartwheels in my eagerness to say, "Yes, of course, sure, certainly I should say so!" "Well, then," the pusson said '"I'll see that you get to go next year!" If this' isn't a testimonial-! Excuse me, I have to pack my trunk- · -WICKIE. "Say It With Flowers" J. M. B.'s lament concerning this gardening busineaa would seem to be in striking contrast to the attitude toward that same avocation as epitomized by a representative of the Wilmette Garden club who allows that "whatever one ia, one's garden is likely to be," and continuing"gentle souls make gentle gardens: kindly souls make kindly gardens; great souls make great gardens," and so on. After r eading which, our trim little Beth crashes through the Line portals with the comment: "Now I know what makeR our garden so weedy." Parting In a few swift hours, this Will be a memory! Tomorrow I'll recall the sweet And muted harmony Of your voice; but now my heart Is deaf 'l.f.'ith ·misery, And I can only stare at :}'OU A little bitterly . . . -R. L. P. Little, But Oh My! And, in the event you aren't among we fortunates who boast trim little Beth's acquaintance, let us rise to offer humble apology for pinning upon her the erroneous designation of "Betty." After deftly dodging the bound files of our esteemed medium, a couple of four column halftones and the pudgy copy of Roget's Thesaurus,· to say nothing of Webster's Unabridged, we are almost constrained to supplant the "trim" with "grim"almost, we say, but no, ahe'a just smiled amiably, even beautifully. The Old Plug had a great day at Arlington last week. Taking the Missus and guests along, he blew a tire enroute and, upon arrival, followed suit with his vacation bank roll. He's laboring about the home premises this week. -MIQUE.