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30 WILMETTE LIFE January 24, 1930 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH ·WEEK by . LLOYD HOLLISTER INC. 1232-1236 Central Ave., Wilmette, IlL Chlca~ro office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 TelephoDe .. . ... SUBSCRIPTION ·q; ... .... ..._ .. ...... .. .Wllmette flO! RICE . .. . ... . . ... . tt.OO A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence. cards of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at rt>gular advertising rates. in ~our walks around the village. Say to him, 'I am going to let you be the leader today and decide when it is safe to cross the street.' Keep this up, and he will forn1 the much-desired habit." If training such as this saves the lif.e of one child, isn't the result worth many times what it may cost in time and energy and patience? Allen and ~lark had never read vVordsworth's ode beginning "The world is too much with us," hut by sad experience they arrived at the poet's con"The World Is viction. They too Too Much" came to know how effectively Hthe world" can force an individual to do its will. \t\ ordsworth felt that the world was forcing him and his contemporaries into a life of mere getting and spending. Allen and :Mark, two Wilmette school pals, also felt the force of the hostile \Yorld. Ever since school opened in September . Ben and ~lark had been the closest of friends. In a communication addressed to the Junior section of his community newspaper Allen remarked, ~~For the first few months everything \\'aS fine." Then the \\'Orld in the person of the teacher intruded. "Now when \\'C \Yalk into a room with our arms locked, someone, usually the teacher, has to come along and separate us." So far has the world gone in its determination to break · up this companionship that the boys walk together only outside of school and, to quote :\lien again, "even then we're afraid someone is going ,to yell, ~~:lark, don't hang on Allen.' " What a universe of sorrow, despair, and disillusionment is summed up in _ \lien's final comment, "That's what comes of heing friends!" Years ago we knew an individual who pleased himself by calling a pipe-organ a chest of whistles, or, in this man's own words, a Hkist of whoostA Chest les." Doubtless when reo/ Whistles duced to its simplest terms that's just what a pipe-organ is, but what n1ighty harmonies roll forth fron1 that glorified chest of whistles when played by a 1naster! Ourself, when younger, played a pipeorgan, not in a n1asterly style, but good enough for the pay we got, which was exactly nothing. It was our privilege to play the organ when for one reason or another the regular church organist was absent. That was shortly after we graduated fron1 the worthy, though humble, occupation of organ pumper. The louder the organist played the harder we pun1ped. If we didn't pump hard enough during one of these fortissimo passages the passage itself would dwindle away suddenly into a most inappropriate and distressing whine. As we grew less inexpert as ·a pumper and more proficient as a pipe organist we began taking lessons of Dr. Louis Falk, organist of what was then the Union Park Congregational Church. For some reason, best known to our teacher, we never gained the skill necessary to control satisfactorily the pedals, the stops, and the keys, all at the same time. We were more interested in .causing strange noises by means of the Vox Humana and a cheese box partially filled with shot, which latter device when iP operation sounded like a baby cyclone. SHORE LINES· RUMORS IN SEASON HESE bleak winter days would be less be~r able indeed were it not for the moderatmg blasts of rumor usually t~pid, occasionally hot, concerning the ~pproaching political wars sc~ed uled to flare out with the first semblance of spnng-. like atmosphere. While the muddled tax situation has provided preliminary workouts for some ~f our best "soap-box orators," we must remam patient until the powers that be elect to pry off the Village Caucus lids in our New Trier communities, thus permitting the sidewal~< philosop~ers to rend asunder the various carefully contnved slates of prospective municipal directorates. Whatever rumors have thus far reached the burning e-ars of the sanctum's political dopester, appear to indicate an all too mild election campaign season for 1930, we of · the north . shore being unfortunate enough not to be too dtrectly affected by the somewhat soiled behemoth to the south. Of course we shall have the privilege of joining wi.t h others in deplorinJ: cooditions in both city and cqunty, and waxing warm over the matter of our imminent entry i,nto the World court, which. as many will assert, is by way of passing into the League of Nation~ through what in preVolsteadian times was happily termed the f amity entrance. But, as for our New Trier municipal households, we frankly despair of more than cas_ual interest. \\' c are. as a matter of fact, becommgso efficient and fundamentally honest that the spasmodic yowls agin' the government can be diagnosed as nothing more serious than slightly disarranged digestive · apparati. True, we sh~ll hear (in Wilmette, for instance) that the "flats" menace, like the poor, is with us always, and that fitness of every aspirant for political favor shal1 be determined on the basis of his private opinion concerning that much mooted question. Similarly Kenilworth, Winnetka. and Glencoe will experience slight eruptionscauses yet to be determined-and we shall pass through another voting spell with but faint ripplings of discontent. Maybe we're wrong! Meanwhile, if one should observe two or more specimens of His Majesty the American Citizen, stealthily concentrating upon secret conclaves, be assured that they comprise either a Pre-Caucus nominating committee or an auction bridge party. T Grade Separation will save life Let's have immediate action! The Citizenship School held at New Trier high school on Friday, January 10;-- under the auspices of the Women Voters Leagues of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Citizenship and Winnetka was indeed a school. It '"as a School genuine example of adult education. Those who attended the school heard half a dozen lectures on an interesting variety of subjects-civic, political, educational. And not only were there lectures hut also question-and-ans\\·er discussiOns. The hope of our country lies in a better education of its citizenry. The more the citizens know about their country, about its problems and their solutions, the more enlightened they will be, and the more successful wi1l their country be. What's the · matter with Chicago? Is there anything wrong with its geographical location , its material conditions? It does not seem so. \Vhat's wrong- is its v·oters. l f they were better citizens the city itself would be better. And the best me.ans of bettering them is education in civics. The day of schooling at ~ew Trier is but a sample of the training that our women citizens are receiving. That they will know more about racketeering, the Forest Preserve. school systems in Illinois and England, the tinanl:ing of schools, and the governments of Chicago and London and · that they will vote n1ore intelligently because of this increase of information, arc inevitable conclusions. Gratitude is due New Trier high school officers .a nd teachers for their willing and hearty cooperation in thi praiseworthy and patriotic enterprise. Superintendent Harper of the \\'ilmettc schools recently called attention to the fact that the automobile is today a greater menace to the li \'CS of onr Any Cars children than any one of the Coming' diseases of children. He · also laid emphasis on the fact that all of the ten children involved last year in Wilmette auto accidents were under 10 years of age. The reason as he saw it was that very young children had not yet formed the habit of stopping and looking up and down the street before crossing. This led !vir. Harper to tackle the question, 11 How to Help These Very ·YoungChildren to Form This ~lost Useful Habit?" His answer is of vital importance, not only worthy of careful consideration but of being put into practice immediately. Read his answer: "Let the child be the leader Midwinter Musings In a little less than a month St. \·alentine's Day will be here. And about four weeks after that comes the first day of spring and the spring holidays. Wouldn't it be lots of f.!:!n to pile a very few personal belongings into our very useful, though !!Sed, "WK" and, with our brother' sister-in-law, proceed south again to welcome Spring on her way north? By that happy tim_ e the snow and ice will have departed from. the smooth concrete highways, the air will have lost most of its unpleasant sharpness, all danger of freezing up of the radiator will be · a thing of the past, and maybe a few robbins will be revisiting the north shore. In short, nature will be inviting us, and we'll accept. We are of the firm conviction that man ought to play more than he does. At least three full days of every week should be dedicated to recreation. That strikes us as a good proportion-threesevenths of the week to play and four-sevenths to work. Judging from what we have read of life in the old world it's taken easier over there than it is here. We work hard over ·here ~md make more money than the average European, but he has a more careless time than we do. And then not many weeks after the spring vacation comes the Ion~ summer vacation. That's the time when we mot.Qr with joy · up into Michigan, there to recuperate for about ten weeks. Brain work uses up an alarming amount of energy. -Fit Ossifer. This, dear ones, is the season, when popularity contests, destined to provide personnel for summer expeditions into Europe, have their being. So far, the degree of our personal popularity promises to permit a mere jaunt to Florida, contingent upon whether or not we remain sufficiently popular until the sailing date early in February. Said popularity, however, does not take into con sideration the attitude of the bill collector. · -MIQUE.