Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Sep 1936, p. 34

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submitted by petition hy the voters of sucli village or township, whicb petition must be filçd at least sixty days in advance of the particijiar election ai whicb the. question, Would be submitted. However. the-act furtber provided as. follows: "The preéeditig provisions of this section, re-. REGISTER SEPTEMBER, the filing'of a petition for, the submission *quiring The imiportance of the presidential.election thlis *of any, proposition referred.to.berein tothe voters. year iàsuscb that no Ameican citizen, can justify of- any political. subdivision SIXTY DAYS before failure to register,'and thus .disqualify himiself to an election to, be field in sucb politici subdivision, vote. on Noveinber.3. No matter how the citizen shall not, apply to petitions requesti ng the subàtands on the vitalissues of a campaign the results mission of su*ch- question, at the eélections. to bie of -wbich may welI de termine a change in the beld iii April, 1934.- A"petition requesting the whole courge of American governient, le owes' it submission of a proposition at said electiois, shall to himself 4nd his country- to go, to tbe poils and, be fiied on or before Marcb 1, 1934."ý cast a ballot in line with bis sentiments. W I thus becomes clear that, the legislature fixed There will be .two registration days, Saturday, MLvarch 1, 1934,as the last date upon.wbich sucb a Sepembr 2, ad uesdy October 6. The polis petition could be filed for the village and township aýtyôur .regular Yotiný. place will be openfrom, elections of- April, 1934. To, bave realuired, the 6 o'clock a.m. until,9 O'clock p.m. , on botb days. filing of sucb petitions siXty days in advance of, In order to avoid any possibilityo f interference the elections would bave been unreasonable, the with registering, voters should. register on Sepact havinig gQne mnto effect only about tbirty days teInber 26. '1hat W'ill be playing safe. before the élections took place. Some voters have the idea that they do flot Error on tbe part of Master Sullivan, and even have to register in north shore villages if tbey. of counsel for Smith" migbt easily bave occurred bave registereci previous to tbis year. That is not in reading the revised statutes for 1935, for the true. Every, voter wbo desires. to vote ini Novemnsimple reason that the paragrapb quoted above, ber must re-register on one of the above dates. being included as an emergency measure, is flot Otberwise be will iiot be permitted to vote in the contained in the printed revised statutes. presideiitial election. The petitions for the New Trier township villages, as well as for the unincorporated areas, it is said, were filed on or before Marcb 1, and it seemns entirely probable that when these facts "Bicycle Crashes Into Car; Boy on Handiebars Dies," read a Sunday beadline. Seei editorial to the left. Herr Hitler is, teiling bis subjects what. wonderful tbings he ciould do if only. he hada good big slice of Russian. territory. We have ofteni we could do if thought what wonderful tig oniy we,*had, John D. Rockefellers moniey. But John dloesn't seem anxious to help. We are no-end proud, and our'delight, is withou .t bounds, al becau.se an erstwhiie collaborator on this. Paddle Wheel of Progress mùakes .the 'Une o' Type",'column,,made famous by the late larnenteO QIT B. L. T. He precede.d us ir this space with "Shore. Lines," using the, pen namne"Th( Night Editor," and is a smarý boy, a very bright, smart boy, Ranking hîgh, asiaperpra tor of pungentpuns, heisas a creator of rollickiing, rip pigrhymes, than whicl there is no whicher. Just nov hie is engaged in writing serious literature for an encyclopedia,, thereby robbing the newspaper fraternîty of a brilliant star. Just why- he should thus bide bis light under a bushel is a, puzzle. Who ever reads an encyciopedia, anyway? And why should 26,' and stucients,. but more tnan tilis, it attorus uppurtunity for friendg of the schoois and parents of pupils to show a real interest in tbese local educationai institutions. This interest cannot be more appreciably expressed than by con.tacting, the teachers in charge -of the various grades, asweil as the superintendents and principals, and letting them K-now tbat they may expect fuit 'and free cooperation iin ail tbeir efforts on behalf of the cbildren an d the public. It may be tbat some things were done better in "thegood old days," DEATH RIDES ON BICYCLES We were just on the point of writing an editorial so white-hot that it would burn into the intelligence of parents, that death rides with their boys and girls who persist in riding bicycles in traffic at night witbout the safeguard of rear iights, when the folloming froux the Peorh- (TII.) Transcript. relayed by the Chicago Daily Tri-,une, must~reformed, bave or the statute of limitation mun, for bis contributions are fearlessly signed "Ralpb Noel," and tbat is bis honest-to-goodness name. Our congratulations, Ralph, and more power to your clever pen. But we would just love to be one of a.committee to welcome you back, to, newspaperdomn, wbere you belong. W ashington "efforts to buy votes go on apace. Joliet, Ill., bas just been advised of a grant of $78,000, but no one in that town knows wbat it 1- sought an injunction to restrain the authorities f rom interfering witb the coriduct of the business. In ivlw of these facts, also, it appears likely that "Weaving along the strects, ignoring stop siens, racing up and down driveways, and riding on the wrong side of the street should lead to fines just as sucb procedure is imposedü pon motorists. lIt is sufficiently difficuit to drive a car witbout being distra'ted bv careleàss bike riders tatorial governments. of the.se new-ý is a dic- THE PH.ANTOM RPolitTa

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