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34 WILMETTE LIFE September 13. 1929 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUl:D FltiDA Y OF EACH WEEK by J,J,O\"D JIOLLISTER INC. 1232-1236 Central Ave .. W:lmette, Ill. Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmette 4300 Sl BSCJUPTION PRICE ............ 12.00 A YEAR . All communicatlohs m'u st be accompanied by th e name and addrel"s of the writer. Articles for publication must rt'ach the editor by Wednesday noon to i!Jl'ure app<>arance In current Issue. R<>solutions of condolencP., cards of thanks, obituaries. notices of entertainments or othf'r affairs where an arlmlttance charge is published, will be charged at r t"gular adnrtlslng rates. Summer colonists are returning to their homes on the north · shore and elsewhere in great droves. The highways are cluttered with autoReturn of mobiles loaded to Summer Colonists the ,gun wales with bulky bundles of camp stuff, such as tents, hammocks. and tin-ware. The running boards are so thickly occupied with sumn1er nece ssities and luxuries that the passengers . of said cars mu st climb into their tnachine s and get out again as be st they may. Even the front and rear bun1pers are carrying their share of the big .loads. ~-\s · one sees these freighted cars butnping- along, he imagines the activities involved in pitching the se temporary abodes. IT e thinks of the weeks spent beside some lake or river. the days of living in the open. the nights of more or less peaceful slumber. The last hours «t the camping spots must surely have been hectic with the children bewailing the sad fact that they must leave the se wonderful woods and waters. a nd with their elders somewhat glad to he getting back to hair mattresses and gas stoves. SHORE LINES THIS IS HEAVEN! O LONGER is it necessary to avoid the broad highways of the north shore to escape the arch enemy of dogdom. September 15 ~pelts t~e termination of mt1zzle and leash season and G~n, the Type-eating Terrier, breathes freely agam, N Grade Separation will save life Let's have immediate action! ~Iatn· residents of vYilmette were disturbed and doul>tless annoyed. ,,·hen aroused fr~m1 their sleep early ·\\' ednescby morning- of la~t \\'cck Thanks for J,y emJ)loyes of the Public ~ervice comthe Annoyance pany who went from how.;e to house in ccrti1in sections of the \·illage \\'arning people tu inspect gas pilot lights. \~Vhile annoying at the time. the public should appreciate the service that the Service company rendered . Officials of the company knew that the gas pressure in sotne districts had dropped ·and many pilot lights necessarily had gone out, so at considerable effort and hy keeping a crew of their employes working much of the night they warned their patrons of the danger. Undoubtedly the annoYance to those disturbed · resulted ·in preventing- many accidents and perhap~ e\'en some deaths. Soon these summer spots will de deserted except for the natives who will stroll down to the shores and see what can he justly salvag-ed. Flying as a means of getting about is upon us. YesterdaY there were in the skies only two or three daring bird-men. Today there are swarms. Progress in Yesterday if a tnan flew from Pa;is to London he Aviatjon made his flight the subject of long and detailed accounts. Today a flight is made no more of than a trip by rail. Nowadays when the drone of a plane is heard ove;head almost nobody looks up, except perhaps to dodge a wrench. looking forward joyfully to a glorious autumn and winter of unrestrained peregrinating over the length and breadth of his reportorial domain. It's "Dcr Tag" for Gin, and what could be more to the point than to accord him the position of honor in this more or less illustrious compilation of what-not. Here he is l \Ve, too, were duly shocked to learn that the gallery at the U. S. Open Golf argument wa s not as . respectful an9 courteous as tradition demands. However, being by persuasion a baseball fan and inclined to become just as rabid a partisan ·as the bleacherite regulars, we suspect that the only marked difference between the baseball bug and the golf enthusiast is that the b. b. says it out loud. Might we Yenture the suggestion that the vanquished gentleman was a willing victim. "The party of the first part," dictated the lawyer , "agrees with the party of the second part." "I'm gonna like this job," said the new steno~. "it's all about parties." Darlene Mak~ the Line Seven-year-old Darlene who lives across the way, was overcome with curiosity the other day when our radio friend hauled out the old-model set, which had just been replaced by a 1930 design. "What's the trouble," said she, "did that nice gentleman forget to pay his bill?" qua~ifying One of the most noticeable signs of the expansion of \Vomen 's club on the north The world is getting smaller every day. shore is the new building of the \Vilmette The Zep ha~ made truth stranger than \\'oman's clubs at fiction. Endurance and speed tests have Expansion of Tenth s t r e e t and e~tahlished ne\\' records. Continents are Women's Clubs Crcenlea f a v e n u e. heing spanned in a few days. Not long \Vilmette. The erecago the same distafltc could not be covered tion of this new home for the club has been · except in months. truly called a "hig for\\'ard step." inasmuch .-\nd with this amazing- progres , as as a new house means not only past atnhi tion and success hut unusual enterprise a ·Hl might ha \'<.' been expected. has come a mul~ courage. titude of problems. The noises in the heaycns have become nuisances to many. The progress ·of clubs for \\·omen began Property Yalucs are beingaffected for betso long ago and has been so rapid and wideter or for worse. Laws must he thought spread that to call attention to the obvious out and fo rmulated to regulate air traffic. fact is a 1most wasting time. Hut when ·one \Ye must quickly. but effectively, adju st our r c ' · i c n· " t hc act i "it i c s u f t h c s e c 1u h s he i" liYes to a new and rapidly growing order rcalh· amazed to see ,,·hat they have dime of things. and .\\'hat they are now doing: .:\I ere n1an goes to lmsiness in the morning-. leavinghi s wife and dau.ghters at home to clustdhc furniture and wa"h the dishes. Hut during the day the wumen get together at the cluhhou:-.<' and make life more \\·orth liYing hy :-;ocial intercunr:-;c and the discussion of current problem~. \\.(Jma n has arcompl i shed a t remcndotlS amount in the fie·}c] of politic:.;. tl'he country i!-o better for her participation in public life. She has alwaY~ been a better talker than man, and she ;1ow use . that power in work out:-iide of the home. The sad fact H' mains that Darlene jus t as an accuratt" first guesser . e~ca pPd Is it surprising that the new Viking automobile has taken the Scandinavian population by storm? The rest of us can't afford 'em. The "auto whoopee" form of recreation which invaded the north shore thi summer will probably be no more exciting than a ride on the North \Vestern or North Shore line if \Vilmette fails to join in the grade separation program. Three Chine se gentlemen, sauntering lei su.r ely through \Vilmette's c<.:ntral bu siness district one day last week coaxed ,the interest of a group of sidewalk debaters. The question before the house became: Is \\'ilmrtte to have a new restaurant. or just another laundry ? One uncharitable onlooker commented sarcastically: "Lord knows she ne eds both!" "Li i c without bhor is g-uilt. Lahor without art is hrutal. " Tnhn I{ us kin said this. and we han.' here repro-duced it for the henefit of the laz" and artless. ~ f nst Americans are not open to the charge of laziness. but certainly most of them do not read. talk, or practice art. :\cc~)rding to Ruskin the)· arc no better than brutes. · Incidentally, it was a big \\'eck for \VilmeHe's curbstone sentries \vhat with thr moving of a new and gigantic vault door into the Wilmette State hank and various gentlemen of color laying several tons of hot asphalt on a nearbv business street. A good excavating job would ha~e rounded out an ;1ll but perfect \veek. ·who; Indeed? . ":'ho cnr('s !'bout a little cla~h or two b('tween Snv1et and. Chmt'S(> when the ('ubs and Pachyderms are preparmr; to declare war at Wrigley Field? \Ve congratulate the \Vilmett<.. \Voman's dub on its progressive spirit and prophesy years of ever-growing prosperity in the new building. l t is a matter of cong-ratulation to the north shore that its · hz~nking facilities are constantly being improved. Surrounded with an unusual number of sound banks the north shore resident has opportunities of itnprovetnent that less fortunate com.munities lack. -MIQUE.