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fnust reach the editor by Tuesday noon to be in tirne for the current issue. W-LMmEE AYS If any doubt existed -in the minds of villagerg as to the value of Wilmette Days,- it Must have been dispeiled last week when the Chamber of Commerce staged its ýannuai two-day célébration. The crowds *that taxedthe capacity of the-Village Green on two successive evenings gave evidence enough that this mnidsummner eýent- bas becorne firmnly egtablished as a fixture in the year's social prtograM. The committee ini charge of arrangemients, fore- warned by laàst yea r's suùccess, made every, effort to anticipate this year's demands-afld felu short.. In spite of the fact that the number of concessiors, such as rides, games andi refreshments, were dota- blid, they were inadequate to aneet the demands of, peaeU - geees ,who wLe eQo4, t tohye agoo)d tinte ini the home town. The reai value of the event, however, is in the e opportunity it affords for social diversion aRonIg the people of this and neighboring villages. The greet- ings overheard as one strolled through the cr-jwds gave convincing proof that many were renewing frieridships, and that others, while living in the saute neighborhoocl, were meeting for the first time in a coon's age. And that is the best parc of aniy WALK CABEFUILLY The National Safety council bas cbarged jedes- trians with a large share of the respongibility for traffic accidents that kilied 39,500 persons in 1937. Of titis total 15,400 were pedestrians.1 In "Accident Facts," a statistical review of 1937, the counicil said: . iManv neilestrians show, utter lack of caution in ToLERANCE In tie current nuinher of "Liberty" magazine, David I. W alsh, 'senior United States senator froni Massachusetts, contributes a. splendid article o re- ligiouis tolerance a nd liberty. We regret that lack. of space prevents us f rom quoting. the senator ini fuli. The following excerpts are.commnended to, the attention of our readers " No American can. look back upon the 'birth o .f our, nation, and survey its material growth duùring the last 150 years without ýprof ound realization of. how bounteous nature and nature's God have been to us. Without the guidance and support of the Alimighty ail the vavst edifice. of mnight, power and prosperit3r of which we'boast today would crumble to nothing. '< iOn one of the public buildings in Washington there is an inscription containing a sentiment that applies to both nations and men: 'God ma~de us naiigiibors; let jusice nmake us friends.' If every Americafi, Protestant, <Cathotic 'aiid ew, càtîld tive- this sentiment, they would flot only give public manifestation of their religious belief, but we .would indeed ail really live in the sunlight of American liberty. "The progréss of mankind tbrough the centuries has given us many priceless iheritages. Qutstanding among thein ail is .what we eall 'religious liberty'- a short expression of two words, yet it covers a vat area of human ecperience and accumulated to, God and to the moral instincts of manan. . .. "Religious liberty is the outgrowth of the long struggle of mankinti with religious persecutions. It is the outstanding viçtory for human dignity and humati liberty, won by the common man after, centuries during which he and bis children hati Lyroaned under a contrary onept of the state's But the police' couldn't find that any Mary ri vas missing. Not being kidnap>ed must be a ter rible disappointmieft to Mary. Smai1 town papers stili excel the metropolitan dailies in sonie impo 1rtant pints. One of the latter, recently devoted almfost 'a column edjtorializiflg on. "New Deal Morality."- We could exhaust the subject in two Unes at the most. Jesse Jones, chairma n of the Reconstruction Fiý- nanice corporation, took a sideswipe, at* our Douiglas Corrigan by weui-deserved praise of Howard Hughes. He -spokée of the -latter's thorough p reparation, and asserted that he was.not.interested in a stunt but in the accomplishmnett of a worthwbile purpose. Now listen, Jesse. You inay know ýa littie about reconstructioni, something of corporations and a lot about finance, but wbtn it cornes to present-day 'Ameiçc4ipsychology you just are not there. We have passed that stage of national eis1teilce 'wlren we are interested in worthwbile things. What we want is Showmaflship, and we want it spelled with a c apital S. WVe have been tutored in it now for six long years, and if you atternpt to substitute something worth while, we simply won't stand for it. Besides that, Jesse, we tôld you ini 1932 that we wanted action and action NOW. Well, Douglas Corrigan gave it to us. Now, as then, we didn't know. what lind of action w'e were going to get, . . 1-,Y---- - A - 1-6, P l..;in n uid n't Douglas, Corrigan won the hearts of all America by his stunt-and by the way be sticks to his story. A Chicago woman who shot ber husband was put on probation for six mionths. Hati she killed hirn the j udge would probably have made it seven months. Thie urban dweller inay think estate the inatter is of ne conse i50-foot that the laboi lazy THE -PHANTrOM, RJPORTXZR. Arthur-L