Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Oct 1932, p. 26

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thanhce, ob'tu- other affale's [uhed, wilh be Grade Separation Wili Save Lif e Let's Hasten«,the Day! It vould be impossible, to be -too grate- fui to those north shore citizens vho give so freely of their tinie and energy to serve their. communities in a Real Public liundred different. vays. Service 'rhey ask no pay and they get no pay except the pi e a sa nt consciousness of having helped others. If we should.try to express in words of appreciation our indebtedness to thcm we should fali far ýshort.of the mark.'. M1any of our public officiais fil effec- tively positions of great responsibility, positions callinhg for a surprising amçount of energy, without the comipensation of a singlepenny'. They literally give themi-- selves toýtheir commnunities. Many of our Village truste'es have for years discharged, duties of 'a public nature, aiways acting as. if they wcre debtors. to tlîeir félloi citi- zens instead of ceios It is unfortunate, flot to say shamneful, that we are usually forgetful of "what these men and women have donc and are doing for us a~nd others. We take their services for. grantcd, perhaps neyer once voicing our appreciation for their unsel-1 fishncss. Wc sometimies treat them as we do'the vplunteer Workerwho artcn lus -time and tas 1e,. goe 1s from door to0 door soictigsubscriptions for. somte. w rthyv caIuse. We desire to ta-ke this occasion- to ex- press strongly our real appreciation of these worthy men and womnen. We be- lieve' that the very best that we can do by way of trying to diseharge this debt is to work along with them when the mense tlurong maàde up of the millions hoclives are of the ordinary everyday sort. How very few there are who ever -evenset. foot on the stage of public notice, who are scarce.Iy known in their own illness of a year or two said good-bye' to this wortd. A simple 'and flot noteworthy life, uinless it be noteworthy fpr its , ery simniilicitv and côntentmnent. The, old caretaker's life, seems to-'us a successf ul life. And. theý lives of -millions of other equaliy obscure, men and women seem to us successful. A life may.'have ini it no notable event and yet: it nîay W'elli be. regarded as à, real life. Let us then shed notears of regret over the graves of the simple and pbscure because, they did not achieve fame, but let.us aim to gain and keep Our own self -respect. Perhaps we should be alarmned and con- cerned for the future of the American na- tion becaus e during a single ýweek there, wvere issued in the inodel «$Courtesy, vil lage1of Winea25 Tickets" courtesy tickets or tags by police to violators of traffic regulatipns. Neyer before in this village were so miany of these notices,- issued. Most of these violators of miotor laws to whom tags were given parked without lights. Either they ncglected to turn on their lights, pr the front and rear bulbs hiad burned out. At any 'rate these offend- ers did not have lights. on their parked cars. Somc of the tag receivers had no vehîcle licenses. The rest parked ini a. for- bidden location. As we read of thc misdemneanors of these 'offenders wc ivondered if we hadI. ever committed similar offenses. We were- forced.tpo admit that we had. On' several occasions wc have parkcd in a certain Io- cation longer than the iaw. allowed.' Our reason wvas that, we w 1ere detained at the bcdside of a sick friend or-didn't w'an.t to, l-eave the theater bcfore the close of an interesting picture. Even ýat the present time our car lacks a right parking i liit One of the foremost of patriotic duti es is 'the promnpt payment of one's taxes. With our schools.'and other institutions in, their present plight this payment of taxes is more than a duty; it is a most pressing patri.otic necd. ad f cars hi: 'phone rings 1016 efasit's saine one zwithab atni shrill, He dares not ope;i up his mzil, The shock may' cause his heart fa fail. Where'cr lhe turns, zwhIerc'er he. yoes,- IIe's sure ta mjeet so'nieone. hi Ces. He dares not go uipon the strect For fcar*.soine creditor he'1l mccl. 0;! friends of aid lie cannat'ca,11 For Most a ieilaelost their ail. A:thaîtigl he's broke as broke can be, I-is ficnds are ail as brake as he; And so why warry, stew *and fret, Yoi4're izat the anti'oancint debt. TIhrow ouf ýyou1r Ciiest-put on a sipile. Good limres weill greet you after while. -Ai J. IV. Your Solutio n% As Goodý As Any W.ve. Heard Dear Mique: You can't scare me about contin- ued depression if, Roosevelt is elected pregidcnt, 6e- cause this campaign has convinced me that it would spur at least one industry to instant capacity pro- dAuction. "What ho ?" youask. Get a pencil and, pad and be informed. Now, put down the total num- berý of newspapers' in this country,;1,91,462,001. Multiply that by the average number of typesetting, .machines in these plants, which is 74, making a total of 193,148,188,074 machines. Add to this figure the average number of "matrice magazines" tg each machine, which is 4, giving 772,592,752,296 maga- zines.' Now, Mique, 'you know that each "magazine" bas but one,"channel" for. each character, including the capital "I." If Roosevelt 'is elected, how is this tremendous demand for the capital "I' gaing to be supplied? It eau 6e supplied, fellow citizen, onily by adding 3 new capital "' channels to each maga- zine, a total 'of '2,317,778,256,8M. channels. Your correspondent estimates that this Wil absorb the entire unemployment, not only of this.,country,-but of ail the world. (Figures may not-be-precisely ac- curate. The, campaign has rendered me incapable of- thinking iný smalicr denonxination-s, even though I haven't the faintest idea what.the. larger ones mean.) -A., A. MC. A fter ail, wvhat's a few billions more, or Iess _so long as on e neyer gets a chance to handie the lucre.. At the tirne of cantering pressward,, we had been a few cases in point. Which we'won't. Carrying' the idea a bit further, one wonders what a doctor's degree bolds out for the aunbitious youngster. -MIQUE. 4

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