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up te the people, you are flot going te promote good feeling; you are, *net going to promote cooperation, and any policy aftccting tbe Vil- lage as a whole should be put up to tbe people. - Take these cases wbcre we held public meetings and just analyze tbern a moment. Is it a progressive, definite-way to bandle it, or is it a case of confusion ? You bave got to bear this. picture, in your mind that I bave. You are busy with your work; you corne home, and you have mcii in there as representing you who arc entrusted' with your interests. It is -sacred, and you expect tbem to take care of tbem'just as _youi do in any corporation. If there is soine question cornes up that, it is proper for the, people to vote on, tbey can be inforrned. and it is the officers' duty 'te se inforrn them,. I tbink a hundred dollars Wôrth- of postage stamps wiltake it te every bouse and give tbern the opportunity to. study it, consider it, and make their election. Wben I refer to a referendum. it doesnot bave to be strictly an order; there are znany ways te do it, and you can'obtain the opin- ion of the people and, bc guided accordingly,. and I say tbat, any pro- cedure. that is flot along the. unes of a referendum is neot promoting the best harrnony; it is paving tbe'.way for a great deal of misunder- standing, and it is probably going to involvea great deal of expense. There are seine improvemnents that have to be made that wijl barm. a few,. but tbose are rare, and youi bave got te bear this Jn mind. Yeti cannot faily say, wben you take a man's prqerty, or you are going to put an improvernent 'through, tbat lie bas bis day in court; wbat you really say to hirn is: "We don't care wbat -you think; if vou want te, go te the expense of defending what you think is right, aIl right.' At the saine turne you are adding to tbat nrian's taxes for the expense of fighting hum. Now, wbat we stand for and what the Wilmette Welf are Party advocatçs is purely and simply a referendum on ,things affectingthe Village as a wbole.. We do not mcmi that currenit Village. affairs sbould be referred te referendum. It is the duty of the officers to, discharge tbesematters eficieîîtly and to the bcst of their ability. I want _you te think about that; I want youte toget these points clear. Would the World's War have existed had it been put up Io a referendum of the people? I don't tbink it woùld bave. Now, as I said before, we are at a stockholders meeting liere anid I just ivant toeniake this rémark in closing, tbat personally I would like to sec Harry Miller continue in offic. I think there is'no better man, and I tbink hie is entitled Ito a great deal of appreciation. (Applause.> And 'I do not mean ini any way to reflect on Mr. Riley. That is ail that I will say at this turne, and I tbank you. ADDRESS BY F. J. NEWEY BEFORE WILMETTE CIVIC, LEAGUE, MARCH 27, 1931, AT THE BYRON STOLP SCHOOL Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:, I have been getting a little nervous for the last 'f ew minutes,, or for the last haîf an hour or so beicause I1tbougbt witb this great nurnber of candidates, I was going to be losf ini the shiuffle. I knew of a large political meeting in one of our large cities sorne years âge in which they bad a great number of candidates -sucli as we ioui J4I wiin8 ineir wUnDie jWKL8uoi The purpose of a pian- is to forecast the future, or sSe what will be the neural anid logîcal developrnt of the village, and to indicate what streets may at soine future thue become heavlly travrcee uad if that condition arises, maybe at sorne future time, requiring widening, whether that be five years, ten years, fifteen years, or whether it wilI ever arise is a matter that only the future -càn determine, and every town that, has had the. progress in thé -last twenty-fivc years bas had a village plan.: For anyone to stanid u'ptoday ini this intelligent and enlightened age and condemn the ýtown plan shows that, they have neyer given the matter a, mornent's sericous study. (App1aunse.). And then tbey corne in and say it.is a cloud on the title, and they didnt know the plan .had been ini effeet for two or three years. Have they heard of anybody saLying,. when tbey tried to sel! propet i il-ý * mette, that there was 'a cloud on the title? It is vicious.* You cai go down town and get any. lawyer's opinion for any price who will say wbat you want hirn to. I arni sorr to say that we have lawyers wbo %vill, put out that kind of an opinion. Chicago bas had a plan for twenty-five years, and bas anybody beard that a real estate deal bas flot, gone tbrough because of the. Chicago plan?' I don't know how, tbey can bold up their heads ini an intelligent commtrunity and, ask tbem to believe such stuff. If we ever, have any widented streets, the plan commission will bave nothing to do with it. It is under the control of the village council and. before the village council. can ever widen the streets they have to« caîl you in and b ave. a public hcaring, where you can expres s youir views as to wbether the time bas arrived for the widcn-" igof the, Étreets or iiot, but notwithstandjng these facts, niy oppon- ents have seen fit to broadcast tbroughout the entire village that we were defending a program of widening the streets and unless every- hoy got up in arms their streets would be widening.Te a h whole community, f rom Asbland Avenue, saying that we see you are going to widen the streets to eighty f eet., Whcn we asked them if they bad ever stopped to find out the width of. the street, if. they didn't know their street is iiow eighty feet, and it 'las always been eigbtv f cet, tbat the width of the streets are f rom lot fine to lot fine, wbich includes the pavement, and the sidewalks and about, eigbteen inches between the lot fine and the sidewalk, and that nearly every street witb the exception of Greenleaf and Washington are Al eighty foot streets, yet they bave been circuiating that propaganda, getting everybody to believe that the streets will be widened. It is a -false issue. They know that they cannot win on their record; tbey bave no record before the coi»munity. 1 arn talking about a public record. You can searcb the public records f romi A to Z, and I don't thinlc you can find one of my opponents has ever turned bis band over in a public way:for the benefit of tbe village, but seeing that tbey have nô recordof their own to comrnend thewn, they tbink that tbey can get votes by casting discredit on a splendid group of men that for hersbve given their timne unselflsbly to, the welfare of Wilnette,, witbu a penny of comnpensation, and then they get the ingratitude 6f a srnall élément of tlhc citizen$. If tbey bad any serious objections to this plan, wby didn't they briiig them forth, three years ago? At that tirnethée plan, commission was seeling . light' f rom every source f rom anyone wbô bad any criticisrn or any suggestions of any kind. We beld public hearings ail over the community wberever we could get a crowd of citizens toneher.we u laiethe on12n and i f thev ha<I nnv ritIiism tný sue is That is flot the issue ng uscd to throw dust oW yoti before I get n, but let us take up ui pia ura 8minute; I want to eniphasize the f oct that the plan commission neyer advocated any program'of street wideiiing. Tt bas .absolutely no Power to 1 =.en asy >street, that it is merely an advisory board. My OPPoilents entirely ,misconceve the conception of the plan; aparcntly, Uia 4 aIjonIFA7 Ninoeii the entire improvernent. over the entire city. improvents. There through if te people Buýt, as I said before, L It is a club t It means stagu is not a public in one block cà the, planis not issue ýi ni s (Condird en Next Pager) I