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WILMETTE LIFE December 14, 19Z8 De - WILMETTE LIFE 111110&» P &IDAY O.P UCB WBBK LLOYD BOLLI8TBa. DC. WJ-UII Central AYe., Wilmette. Dl. ~ omot: IN. Klehlpn AYe. Tel 8l&te Uft .,. ........................ .................... iiii ifiiscaiPTIOlf PatCB...... . . . . . . · ...... A. UA& All communleatlona muat be accompanlecl b)" tbe · aame and a4drea of the writer. Artlclea for pubheatlon muat reaeb the eclltor by We4nelld.,- noon 't o la.ure appearance In t"Urrent 188Ue. RM01utlona of eoD4o1ence,. earda of tba.nJm, obltaut·. notlee. of entertalnmenta or other afrall'll when an admittance ~Ju·rc· Ia publt·becJ. wiD be ebarlrecl at ~r advf"rttldnllr rat· As tlw nopulation of communttles increases. it is only natural that they should huild larg-er churches. The old edifices become poorly adapted to Church the need<; of orogressive Expansion neig-hborhoods. fail to ac~ commodate new people wh·~ have come from other towns and cities, or cannot keep up with the development in new tnethods and new equipment. There are n1any outside the church who believe that ideas and activities in the church are as they used to be years ago. They foolishly imagine that the church of to.d ay is exactly like the church of twenty years ago. They make a great mistake. The church in progressive cotnmunities has kept pace with the forward tnoven1ent outside of the church. Enterprising business men have worked out plans for improvement, plans to stin1ulate buying, and .p lans to n1eet the greater demands. In the church also, tnen. probably tnany of these same business men, and women, many of them active in other social organizations. see the needs of the church and looking into the future get a vision of a greater church which theY work to materialize. No one thing ~ffers tnore weighty evidence of the realty of the religious life than church expansion. Saturday. December 15, the "new and attractive hotne of the First National Bank of Wilmette will be thrown open to the public." So reads th<' announcetnent New First and invitation. As National Bui·l ding you already know, this fine new hon1e of the First National Bank is on Wilmette avenue where the Village theater used to be. Elsewhere in this issue you will read complete details of this epochal event, of the edifice itself with its up-to-date equipnlent, of the many facilities provided for the patrons of the bank, of the thousand and one ways in \\·hich it will minister to the banking needs of the comn1unity. We congratulate the directors and officers of the bank on the realization of their ambitions. We congratulate those who do business with the bank. :\ progressive bank in a progressive con1munity! M.o nsieur Coue, who came to us from France, and told us much about auto-suggestion, and also exhorted us to when desiring to improve, to say to ourselves, "Day by day, in A Little every way. I am getting Every Day better and better." Monsieur Coue has returned to France long since and may even now be where there is no need for improvement. But the idea of a little every day is a grand one. We can think of no better. That's the way evolution is getting ahead. A little .every day. It's a good deal better than the idea of a great an1ount at long and irregular intervals. Read a little good literature every daydon't miss a day-and you're bound to inlprove in literary taste. Exercise a little every day-just like President Coolidgeand you're pretty sure to keep fit. The influenza is coming, and it will get you if you don't keep fit. A little food three times a day is all you need. Think a little every day about your experiences, and by the end of 365 days you will have accutnulated quite a little ·wisdotn. Little by little every day I an1 getting better and better. There are two ways of studying ctvtcs. One is front a book in school. The other is frotn life in your own neighborhood. The 11rst way is to take civics as a part of your regular school Practical course; to study every day Civics · the lesson assigned; to recite on it the next day. That's all. 'I 'he second way is to go with a group of companions to the village hall; visit the police station; listen to a little talk by sotne \.umpetent village official. '1 hat the .second way is the better there can oe no doubt. To study with an expert a machtne in operation is a better way of UIHterstanding tt than to read about it. To ~tudy government machinery and see ho\\. the various parts interact ts much better than to read about their interacting. We hope son1e day to hear that a group uf school children. have attended a session of the village council and listened to legtsIators dtscussing and settling local problems. SHORE LINES SOMETHIN~ SHOULD BE DONE! The valued suggestion that ornamental bridges (of sighs) be installed to help Wilmette's walking population across the peril?us stretches of th~ new Main street speedway, m1ght w~ll be constdered in official quarters. Failing to prosecute such an humanitarian improvement, an alternative that suggests itself at the ,~oment to~~e~plates ~he dig~ ging of numerous shell holes mto whtch the stranded pedestrian could dive at the approach of the ominous motorist. Collapse of above mentioned suggestions will no doubt result in the formulation of a new civic enterprise bearing the title L. 0. 0. H. P., or Loyal Order Of Harrassed Pedestrians. Membership would be graded, with especially designed .medals designating the various ranks, as for example: leather medal for first scare, tin bar for each additional scare, bronze trophy for partial or permanent disability and a decent burial and suitable epitaph in the event of total eclipse. Gold medals would be presented, with c,eremony, to motorists registering in excess of ten direct hits. As winter advances and the cold grows tnore persistent and more intense, the poor sllout<l be retnetubered. Lack of warm uotnmg, lack of fuel, lack uc too<1-all these make it Remember harder for the poor to bear the Poor! up under the attacks of \\·mter. They tnust be helped by their more fortunate brothers and sisters. Food, fuel, and clothing must be given them. · vVhen contagious disease comes near, the poor, less able to resist, will fall victims unless \\'hen you are fed up on the movies, the aided. Food, fuel, ano clothing will help funnies, and the radio, read that section in - them to resist. our north shore papers which ·is produced .Help the welfare organizations in your by our school children. Don't skitn it. Read own town to do this n1uch-needed work. it thoughtfully. Read it as if you. were a child again. It will help you to renew John, the beloved dis~iple, spoke of the your youth. Does the following little incibirth of Christ as if it were the shining of dent remind you of ai1 experience you had years ago? "I-It~len Anne 1\lcCiure went to a great light upon a dark place. We like to think of Christmas as the birthday of a Racine. When she got there it was ninehelpless infant and also as the anniversary thirty. In the morning her Uncle Jim woke of the sudden shining upon the world of a her up and said, 'Arise and shine!' wa·s n't divine light. he funny?" Wasn't he? Episode 111-Revised American Hiatory Chillhvack, British Columbia-Hogan and I arrived in Chilliwack at 4 :30. Frank Bogan is to the Pacific Coast lumber world what Tito Schipa is to the musical world. Bogan is king of timber cruisers. He can cruise up one side of a mountain and down the other and tell how many million feet of lumber the stand of timber would make, and be right. We walked the one block to the hotel and passed five drug stores. "How many drug stores in this town?" I asked. Bogan pulled his eyes down from the timberclad and snow-tipped distant mountains and sur-· veyed the block with keen eye. Figuring quickly on a pad, he said : "In this quarter section, estimating the run to be uniform, there should be 1,250 front feet of drug stores, allowing twenty-five feet to a store, leaves net fifty drug stores." "But," I said, "How can a town of 3,000 support so many? " "You doubt it? \York it out by algebra for yourself," he said. "Five drug stores equal SX to one block. Ten blocks of business equal lO(SX). Result, fifty drug stores. Proves itself! Now remember this, basin valky is fertile and well settled outside the town, and then thirty acres of what was Sumas lake has been diked and drained by the government. Pumps of capacity of 500,000 gallons a minute in flood time pump the water from ditches into the Sumas river. That flows into the Vedder, and the Vedder into the Fraser. That's how the town gds its name-Chilliwack-'Valley of many rivers.' Settlers in this added land buy at $200 an acre from the government and have twenty years to pay. The settlers all trade at Chilliwack. The valley is r.easonably healthy, but the number of prescriptions Idled at these drug stores is something terrible." Bogan was no different from other people to look at, but he had a great head on him for figures. -Hoyt King. . (No.te: Hoyt King, arch nemesis of corrupt ·o fficialdom m state and county, and champion vote-booster of the north !Shore, is still resting from rigorous effort:;; expended in the recent election campaign. Other "Episode~ on Revised American History" will follow apace). Make No Mistake! There is absolutely nothing in a name, we hasten to explain, in the event you may haYe heard that Mrs. A. M. Crook of Mr. Yellowley'a anti-likker staff gave a talk before the Wilmette- Winnetka chapter of the W. C. T. U. Anticipation Must be getting nigh unto Yuletide-and Wickie is responsible for the attendant demoralization within the confines of the sanctum sanctorum. Adhering literally to the exhortations of various merchandising emporiums, she rushed in and out early this week laden with potential gifts designed for delivery to a host of deah friends. Result: Every member of the sanctum has submitted an appeal for. at least one pre-Xmas holiday spell during wh1ch to engage in orgies of gift-buying. Net result: we confidently expect many, many nice things for the high throne of the sanctum. (Note by Wickie herself~ Heh, heh !) See next week's Shore Lines! -Mique.