Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Sep 1932, p. 22

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Iuuijtu nut mch the citer ny TUOBUfty Roon 1<> iMure appearance ln current Issue. Resolutions of condoience, carde of thanice, obitu- aile., notices of entertsainments or other affaira where an admittance charge la Publlslied, wlll be chorged at regular advert.ising rates. Grade Separation .Let'a Ifasten Will Save LifI t&e Dagi j The organized safety movement in America- cornes of age this year. Born0of nccessity in, 19124ôto combat. the human Sa! t y overent slaughter which ,Safty. ovementwas then- chawrac- Cornes of Age tcristic.,of indus- trial production, it enters its twcntv-first.yeaàr as.a. great and flourishing social movement working for the protection and conservation of life niot only ini factories but- inthe home. on the highway, in thé- schôol, and wherevcr *hum'an being-s congregate, to conduct their. activities. It has donc a splendid job in the indus- .trial field, the sphere in which'it,,first be- gam t fnction Industria'l.fatalities through ýaccidentai' mishap have been re- duced more than 30 percent despite in-, crcased production., Factoies which were once known as "human slaughter bouses" are now in many cases safer for the work- man than bis own home. * There are pther defluite indications of progress. AccidentaI injuries and deaths among children of school age are rapidly decreasing, doubtless through the intro- duction duri ng the past decade. of - safcety education. in the schools. Fewer persons are drowned, now than 20 years ago de- spite the fact that many niprc gro swim- ming. . There wcrc 1',000, fewer persons accidcntaliy killcd i their: homes in 1931 than in 1930. I n the field of traffic alone has there been 1J.ittie head way made.' Automobile deaths have increased cvcry year since the irst "gas buggy" appeared on the streets. *Yct evén this stubborn roblem is vielcl- Most living is just one thing after an- other.. And most of these things haven't enough emotipnal value even to be called Unûsual dam-n" things. Just one as~th.ing .after -another., We Notking get up, dress, eat, go to the, office or sbop, corne home, eat,, go to bcd.* And that's about ail., Living-seem-s to be amere.-series of unimhportant occurrences. Even, in, a long life of three score vears we've ncvcr seen a- hold-up. We've neyer seen ýan auto collision.. We've simply .seen the results.. Nobobdy ever.,cheated us. We've been up only once in a plane. The only really exciting event hi whicb we werc -personally involved wvas our wed'. ding. Our b irth was nothing to talk about. And our dcath wiil perhaps get- only a line or twp of smail print.. So you sec ouùr' life, like the lives 'of almost everybody cisc, bas, contained nothing unusual. And wë're .very grateful that ithbascon-w tained nothing tinusual. We have neyer, craved the, events that uscd to fil the lif e o 1f a man- like' AL Capone or that made Edison and Solomon noted men. Like oth er average men and w1omen our daily bread has been satisfying and we've taken real pleasure in the evcryday living. jog- ging along may flot .be treniendously cx- citing, but they tell us that as exercise it's both good and cheap. The poet, Thomnas Gray, has voiced, in immortal lines bis appreciation of those who live unimportant lives. In our hum--* bic prpse we add our appreciation. of those, in. whose lives of1 adequate content noth-. ing unusual ever happe ns. Those motorists who have flot for some years driven over the West Michigan Pike -it used tpobc nicknamed Emma Leven- 1 have trod thse Lone Trail Front the motintains to the sea;. I have lived a loitely if e 'And,.alunas I've been f ree., I, like to cimub thse mounbtains, J like Io :tramp the plàin;s I like to. face thse elements, The. lightning and thse ramn. 1 love old Nature'.s calhing And rny Soul is Ilndisng rest; Among thse many Itrailsof. hf e J ike the Loue Trait best. -+Elred: Forbis, Wil1mette. And now for a. thousand and one Presidential polls. to cheer or sadden, (as the case may be) the prospective balloteer. Ail, of course, are thoroughly, impartial and eminently fair. If you don't believe it, just take, the word, of the particular medium in question. Senator Norris, who habitually kicks over 'the traces, politically, thereby managing pretty well to keep bimiself in, the public prints, insists as, ,how hes a better Republican than President Hoover. And here we,'d suspected ail the while that, lie wvas a good Demnocrat (excepît, of course, when lie seeks to be reelected). Boy, page.Senator Moses. Mayor Cermak (a la news reel) asserts lie f ailed to locate a single person in .ailtis European travels, wvho was« excessively under the influence of liquor (drunk to, you>. He ' declares, also, that Europe seemis tm ore prosperous than our own dear, land. The good mayor, we suspect, can bie very subtie. Or canhle? The latest edition of "Who's Whô" lists more, than one hundred residents of New Trier township, Leaving a vast mai ority of us average guys to. vote 'eni down on any given issue they, or we, may suggest. Which, reminds us that Fil Ossifer -(our neighbor. to the left> revels in the knowledge, that hie, is an. averageý person *ho leads a biiss ful1 ly uneventful h fe.,Can it be that he has been* scanning the,,"Who's 'Who" hist'and is j ust a wee bit envious ?. Weil, we just wondered. Gyppipg Poor Jack zens, through discipli servance of the law iess traffic fatalities. Even in this yçàr )prpve to their citi- ine, that proper ob- will cut down need- of reduced incomes a surprisingly ripprtant part of north shore beauty. Imagine a north shore wïthout trees and shrubs and you have imagined a desolate scene. Let uts do our best to sustain the reputation of the north shore for -unusual beauty. r oure right. It was the -rattlesnake. another f rog in his mouth. Hast heard about our Cubs ? Hast a ducat for yours faithfully? .nl ne grati$scsries. 'MIQUE.'

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