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* lUiVU A YB A IL must be accomnpanled by tlhe se Wrlter. Articles for pub- editor by Tuesday nmon to rrelit Isue. Bnce, cardo of thanitu, obitu- tàlnm*flts or othber afitairu; harge la >publinhed, will be, ýrtlalng rates. Gr ade Separation. Will Save Lif e Let's Hasten the. Day! The Miralago ire in "No0 Man's Land"p was to ýus an unipleasant sp ectacle. 'Time wvas when w-e got a. certain amlouit p The iraago pleasurable ,excitement The MialagO out of gazing ata ire:« FieBut, in( y, knowing, sonmewhat more accu- rately and, s)-impatheti-cally the sad mean- ing of those curling flames and that greedy crackling, -we. loQlk onrather reluctantly. We -arrived in "No Man's Land" very shortly1 a f t e, r the fire was, discôvered. First- we saw the 'heavy s inio k e. cloud floating off, to the sogtheast. Then on, nearer ap proach we caught sight of the hungry fiames. No -one was attemptiflg to 'ch e ck .the ire. It, wa.s "No Man's Lanid."ý and nîo man had vvate r or ire. protection.i. Later -,%e iearned a littie more exactly just %vhat had happened. No help- ful response fromi Wilmette or Kenilivorth or Winnetka. We blarne nobody. We simly set dom-n facts. *As we left t he- se n e we mIlet fi re tr 1,1cks driving south, proàbly fOrnt Evanston. L a te ërý Wilmiette. ' Winnletka. and KenÎl- %vprth, cooperated with Evanston. and the ire wasextinglished,ý but not before it bad clone an estimiated damiage of $OOO Is there n Pt a possibility that act some future date' ' rsth anothersuhfire may prove a real menace to property and lives i.ii ad- joining lneigbborlhoods? Perhaps vou think that spring lias al- readv arrived. 'Vou're wrong. The Vernal certain unseemtv ieatures vzqi'-e t critical vie,,\. Nhat a sbabbv affair.l Nature in ber fresh spring garb is a sight for sorceves. If man is to receive ber suitabhy be must .do a whole lot of cleaning up. No papers and ohd cans muptst be strewn about the. yard. The doors on Sour garage must no longer sag. sadly 'on often talked about than thé village library. b)ut that does îîot niean that these institu- 1tions are more highly The Village appreciated than the hi-1 Library brary. Comipetition for the office of li br ar y tr ustee may not be remarkabl vigorous. but that does not mean one occugvymg this office does notbing to deserve the gratitude of his fellow citizensz. In an important sense the hlibrairy is the cultural center, of the community. At first. thought one m i gh t attri.bute t.his honor to the public school. But Kpn second thought one will corne to. believe that the library occupies this positioni, for it caters not only tp the needs and desires.of chul- dren and young people but also to the i ii- terests of all ages -and classes. Froni under six to over sixty, village resMents, use thée village. library. it is* not, easy to, estimate how starve d and narrow. the lîves of human beings w1ùuld be were there no books to increase immeasurably the experiences of 1 hf e. Having books, one play stay athome. and, 1y et travel to-the ends of the earth. One may be« conlined to bis bed and yet share the. experiences of explorers, soldiers. philosophers, poets.. The village library offers opportunities of just such abundant, iïving Many thanks to faithfil hlibrarians and- their assistants as well as te) ittle-noticed library trustées! The historyo this unsettled wNorld tells of several student. uprisings. But wè doubt if -the m iost1learnied- of historianis cati lidny other, accotint tp match.th storvof bow the students of- New T1rier High school rose Up and got e.no ug h iioney together to enable their sehool to reniiain open the remaàinder ofthe scbool ea.If aàil-,uprisiings had suchi worthiv puirposes and were so stuccessfull,, N-hpt a ,vorld 'this m-ould be! *a fem- days' ago there shore a lad of 15., a y on the on the. -T - ' il difficulty.- Also they seem to love to run towards houses. We Nvould suggest that such fires be started andl carefully watched by older people. And* now heresApril, month ofel- tions, shoWers anàd prospects of summer. 1ere'shoping that it won't, bring snow. swell-headVcl soldiers at attentin. Ye the heauty; if wasn't only the orderlii whelmed us. There seemed to be a fraj ail. For the newsreel showed a youn1 ing tiptoe througb, the tulips and smc peared to be a cigar of qqality. bhat over- ýe about it -lener go- what ap-. cbrged at regular adveîi expressions as "the cat's pajamas,- LHV Lauary whiskers," "the snake's hips" andi simihar phrases, used in denoting "the height of something or other," shoulti be pleaseti, writes the Press bureau of the Fieldi Museum of Natural History, over the f act that one oi these expressions bas, been rendered mneaningless since the, museum is now displaying stiakes that actually: have bips.. *Genial Gene Morgan, in hie Hit or Miss .fashion, ohserves that ""No Man's Land" resembles HoIlly- wood. Therefore, sezzee, the name should be changed to "Yes Man's Land." Ofthave we heen in "No Man's Land," but we're no "ves" mati. We sayi "Ub hub," and that's that. If we could onlvy bring ourselves to say "ugh" instead of "ub huh,'"; we might be appointed guardian iof the'proposed niemorial to the Indins who lived. in what is now Wilmette. Think WeIlI apply for the hionor, anyway. We have one real qualification. We (editorial "'we," flot ýtwins) were born in Wapahucka, Okla.,-in ye old days' when that region wvas Indianl territory. Atiother great. humorst-have you heard of Wil Rogers. too ?-was, also born in Oklahoma'. WilI Rogers, originated'at Claremore, an insignificant vil- lage ini comiparison with migbty Wapanucka. Ttîdans! W~e just can't get 'eut off our mind. \Ve&ve going delirious over a vital question regarding Alaskan Indians.,Palefaces in the Middle West cal their -youugsters tt. Do Alaskan Indians, calil their children "totems,.? Ili the midst of ail thislevity, a sad tbought basý 1pixsses'sed: us-like -a cloud suddenly curtaining an April sun. Prepare ("Be prepàred,"' the- Boy scout s eëcho) to shed those April tears over the following SSad couiplt;- The. Une That Failed He started out to be a funster, Piut ended hf e as jut a punster.* *Njght editors note: Hie didn'tý suffer for long. 5<.}~ec.dv h hl. Q v