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WILMETTE . LIFE September 7, 1928 ' WILMETTE LIFE IUUIID I'&ID.AY 01' · .ACB bF w··J[ LLOYD BOLLIST·a. llfC. 1111-1138 Central Ave., Wilmette, ru. Clalcaao omee : 1 ~. Klchlcan AYe. TeL State tUt · Teleplloae · · . ············..···.··.···· WU.et&e tiM 8VB8CIUPTIOlf PBJCB ·.·..·..··...·PM A. DAB AU communlcatloiUIJI muat be accompanied by the aame' and a4dreu of the wrltet. Articles for publication muat reach the editor b7 W ednelld.&7 'noon to baRre appearance In current laue. ReeoluUona of condolence, cards of thanks, ·obltuartu notices of entertainments or other affairs where an a4mtttance charge Is published, wlll be charged at recutar advertising rates. We should like to. stress the word, "our," in the phrase, "Our New School Teachers." In a very real sense they are our teachers. They have come to Our New the n o r t h s h o r e School Teachers totally unacquainted, perhaps, w i t h both people and surroundings. The north shore is very little like the sn1all towns where many of the new teachers have their homes. If we on the north shore may not be said to be Jacking in hospitality it cannot be denied that many newcomers have found us somewhat over-occupied with our own interests. There is therefore s.ome need for reminding o u r s e I v e s that these new teachers are our teachers. In the first place it is very likely that many of these strangers have had, and still are having, some difficulty in getting settled. There are few unoccupied quarters on the north shore, and rents and provisions are high. Anyone who has taken the trouble to compare the cost . o f small town or country living with the cost of north shore living has learned this fact. Let us make our new teachers fed at home. One of the best ways to do this is to resp.ond cordially when introduced. And then let us invite them to our homes. In passing, we may say that no little credit for bringing about this pleasant association between the oldtimers and the newcomers have been the numerous branches of the Parent Teacher association. By hundreds and thousands America's children are returning to school. The highways from summer camps and resorts ·have been jammed with Return of c a r s carrying sunburned the Children youngsters and tons of baggage. The trains rushing homewards have been crowded to both platforms with lambs and sheep that for eight or nine weeks have been feeding and gamboling in happy vacation. pastures. Once more our north shore school buildings-kindergarten, grammar, and highhave become the busy hives that they were in June. Last year's books, covered with the summer dust will either remain fore. ever unopened on the closet shelves or be passed on to little brother or sister. But the boys and girls with new or used books are in the school again all set. for a ·.busy . nine montlis ~ . " Begin right, boys and girls. Make up your minds to begin at the top and stay there all through the year. The machinery of your brain is a little rusty, but you can wear off the rust by a strong steady pull at the very first. And whatever you do, do this one thing-determine to like your work! It is settled that ~lain street in Wilmette wiJl b.e paved and that our s~~ ~yes and badly jounced centers of equ1hbrtum will somewhat later PatJing An in the fall get a mqst Important Street pleasant surprise. For years at one time or another almost every north shore motorist has had occasion to use this very . convenient and very bumpy thoroughfare. We have not now in mind the southern stretches of this avenue .o f industry but the two or three blocks adjacent to the North Western station. And . w hen he, the afores'a id driver, suddenly comes upon a new concrete highway fifty-two feet wide, how happy he will be ! Frotn all who know Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Rummier of Winnetka there goes to them a feeling of heartfelt sympathy. Death al. most without exception is a Heartfelt shock, but the blow is atSympathy m o s t unendurable w hen young people are suddenly taken away. And we sympathize sincerely with a ·family in which a son strong and full ,o f promise has been called away quickly and without warning. The most that friends can do on so terrible an occasion is to extend this heartfelt sympathy. It helps little. but it helps, because it is simple and genuine. or less obscurely, in the news columns, has appeared in slightly prosaic, statistical form, the closing chapter of an epic that New England Last Chapter of a ought never to forget -the epic of the Great Epic greatest and most complete, the most efficiently organized, yet the most intensely human relief movement in all its history. It is the last chapter of the gripping story that tells how the Americah Red Cross-still the greatest Mother, just as it was in war days-thrust out a strong hand to help New England back to its feet just nine months ago in the wake of a flood that shattered our communities and stunned, physically or ~onomically many of its peoples · and institutions. Now, nine months after the catastrophe, when most of us here in one of the communities that it visited, have long been absorbed in our own affairs and have . almost forgotten all about it, the Red Cross has just found it possible to withdraw, slowly and gently, the hand it thrust out so promptly a year ago. The Red Cross has written this final chapter -in a candid official report. But, New England hearts and minds, remember again the task and how quietly and unobtrusively, how efficiently and completely it has been done. That chapter will be expanded into what it really is: the most essential chapter of a great epic. -No. Adams (Mass) ,Transcript. What a ·grand muddle it would be if our streets were not designated by plainly marked street name posts. Jn some respects at least a similar predicament ensues when residences and business buildings are not indicated by conspicuously placed numbers. Wilmette has enacted tin ordinance requiring that every house and store building bear a number of size and location that is plainly visible from the street. Communities having no such regulation would do well to foll.ow the example. ~lore SHORE LINES Stranae Lantis aad Peoples September 4, 1928. Dear Mique-Took straw vote Wednesday at Charlevoix, Mich., f~r your colum1_1. Found one vote for Hoover. One vote for Smtth would have indicated town 50-50, but as I located_ ~one, the straw would indicate that Hoover wrll carry Charlevoix un~nimously. Visited southern Michigan. Find talking politics fruitless. Fruit growers have a saying: utalking politics gathers no grapes." Also, it picks no peaches. At Warsaw, Ind., it is diffe~ent .. Poets and novelists are in politics. Meredith Ntcholson deplores corruption of Hoosier officials. He te!ls me, however, that when a governor, mayo~, shenff or police chief is off color, or as you mrght ~ay, a bad egg" he is retired on a modest pensron. Board and ~lothes are furnished free. Frequently he objects to the cut o! the suit. on account of the stripes running honzontally m~tead of perpendicular. I told him when we have to try ~ gover~or, we acquit him, reelect him and make tum contmue to earn his own living. Outside of campaign times citizens of Indiana are a peaceful people. The natives do not <:o!lle out from behind trees and bark at the authonttes. When not writing books, they sit and spit and think. Sometimes they just whittle. The state is not doubtful. It will go as usual. Each voter will vote the party ticket of his father · and of his grandfather. Respectfully, Hoyt King. 14 ------------------ Many Have Done Less, Few, More Richard Aldington, translator of the works of Remy de Gourmont, the cele~rated Fr~nch figure in the world of letters, had thts to say m a survey of that noted critic and creative artist's life: "He was born, he grew up, he read_, ~~ obs~rved, uhe thought he wrote, and he dted -addmg: he was ·not' a great figure." Now, isn't that just too generous? Chalk One for Wbmetka Mique-The artist Burnhams' of Winnetka, just off on a jaunt around this venerable globe, dropped a message through the mail slot at the branch office, and here it is-Evvie. The Burnhams' Farewell Oue fotJd farewell, Wimutka, our eyes swell up with tears,· We're on ottr way · around tlze world, 'twill be about two years. Yes we'v~ been vacci1wted and i1mOet4lated, too, Agdinst the ger·ms and other things we've got to travel thru. Ot~r first stop will be Tokyo, and there amidst the laps We'll eat raw /ish and rice and soup and still survive, perhaps. The1t ·westward, ever west·ward, we'll proceed a~td parle::-vous, . . Until, beloved Village, ·we resume our ltfe wdh you. . -A. N. B. Mebbe It's Enaine Trouble Dear Mique-Man standing ~m a street corner last night listening to a political argument had his first thought in twenty years and had such a spasm over it that the cops had to send in a riot call to quell him. Seems as though he'd been considerably worried over all of these now motorized things-like fire trucks and gang plowsand figured the whole universe was headed toward the meat-grinder. Then they had , to go mention Henry Ford and John J. 'Raskob in the argument and the idea of motorized politics almost killed him. -Hub of Henderson, Ky. campaign. At any event it should develop into a rattling good Tell Us About 'Em, Hoyt Even tbouah on ·vacation bent, our dear friend Hoyt, the north shore's ardent get-out-the-votet and arch enemy of the Politico-Crime union, bas difficulty in refrainina from aimilar research work in other sectiona of our astounding nation. .It waa rather surpriaina, then, to note that be is more or le.. familiar with the art of "pickina peacbea." -MIQUE. · I