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SflsCRIwTzON: $Z 1PM EAR SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTt Zl conuîunicatioins and contributioks intended for publi- cation mnust bear the nanie and address of the. author, plot aesmarily for publication, but for our fles. Such materiai muet reach the editor by Tuesday moon to be in time for the carrent issue. ACTIiON IMpERATIVE! Practical attention must be given, and tlîat im- mnediately, to the question of >bringinàg to an end,, or. at least greatly reducing, Ioss of life 'in New Trier township through automobile accidents., While this loss is not numerically large, a survey, would no doubt show that it would eqUal other sections having proportionate. population. Much has been. said of the efficacy. of the driv- er's license in 'lessening the number of accidents, and it would no doubtbe helpful. But when ail is J saïd and donc, the matter resolves itself'into the manner in which traffic laws and regulations are. enforced. There are certain elemnents traveling the streets'and hig1waysw iv'ich havé lltte'rspect for any làw, and will obey regulations only when a uniformied officer is in sighit. How effective a driver's license would be with such 'persons is problemnatical. Evanston, with its safety -council and testing service, combined with a rigid enforcetnent of traffic laws, has sicceeded in reducing accidents to a considerable degree, and this means the sav- ing of many lives. The New Trier villages., because of their siniller size, cannot cope. as effectively snpw,.uw JiUA is in...... -. -,- the police depar-tpxents of the villages, >as well as between the safety councils ptnd other organiza- tions, would undoubtedl.y lead to good results. Prompt ptxnishment of traffic law violators must be a part of any plan evolved for the saving of life. .Motorists wlio dive recklessly, or without regard to the rights of others, who ignore stop signs or violate any other safety measures, should be prosecuted and mnade to pay the penalty. Too much leniency ini this 'direction bas been practiced the board of its responsibility to keep the tax rate at the lowest possible level. In vîew of the present day inclination of national and state ad- k ministrative bodies to spend on a grand scale re- M&aedless of anticipated income,,. the attitude of the aownship board is. indeed corninendable, In a show of protest a legislative committee journeyed to Washington to cail upon Mr. Hop- kins, the erstwhile file clerk raised to a seat of authority, who. contemptuously left town before the, commrittee arrîved, leaving the,, matter in the hands of a subordinate. Lacking the intestinal fortitude of a javçkrabbit, the committee acc.ept 1ed, fromn the underling the crisp orderý to go back home and tell the legisiature to do as it: is told. Theère may be suchi a thing as the entire People of a state being rendered callous to indignities heaped. upon themn by a 'distant Tanî.many,: s0 inured to humûiliation1r that their faces do flot hum. wit 'h shame or their ears turn red fromn indig na- tion when their sovereignty is tramnple ,d under' foot. It.is probably too ,much, .to, expect that1 thé gencral as.semnbl.y.will protect our, p eople f rom this assatu pon. their -independence. It' is niot too much, to:exp)ect that Lincoln and. Grant. and Logan .will rest uneasily after it is surrendered. MR. WEIR SPEAKS In an adtfress to the Unon League club of Chi- cago on April 3, Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of the board of National Steel corporation, gave the business menx of America somne sound advice-and in no uncertain words. After telling themn that their reputation as selfish, money-grabbing crooks is due to the fact that they have not refuted the charges, lie continued: "It la the responslbility of every business man to be articulate. The people down In Washington are doing the things they do.- and saying the things they say because they thlnk that's what most of the people want. Unless tliey hear differ- ently, the politlcio.n-mind will diotato that they go- on tinlktng that. It Is up to you as business mien to take the Iead In. changing that mind, and there are a. number of very pra-otioal things yon eaai do, "The first fs ta, know what is golng on, 'thon study it carefully. When you find somethlnw lin whlch you do not belleve-use your Influence, point out to your associates and enxployees Just how it will affect business and therefore themi. Point out to the cômmunity how it wil affect al related business In thxe communlty. Urge your enxployees and your fellow-cltizens ta register their will in Washington where it counts. Of course It cannot bcexepected that ail business can take a united stand on ail issues. But there are many broad issues today upon which business wIli take pretty muchithe same position and it Is thèse issues. that have most capacity to help or harn.. If business men throughout the country, ea.ch in Perc.y 1. Gassaway, a cowboy congressman from-Kansas, cails Huey Long a."political tomtit." Ordinarily we would caution Huey against mixing Up with a cowboy, esp.ecial.ly physically. But with a nine, like."'Percy," IIucy need not'. be afraid, timid as he is. about physical encounters. gasoline tax is inten Jus! wait and sec. The air bias beenr by the reinoval of aÈ - Montgomery Wardé it is said.. Wait. the sec. mucli clarifled thé pas! week dead BlIue, Eagle, f-ounid.inder & comnpan.y's porcli. A New jersey boy, ýaged 3 years, ba.s quit smok- ing iaetsand a pipe, and now linits himself to one cigar a day. He bas algo gone temnpeiate, rcfûsiig lia rd liquor and drinking. only beer. Must be a girl in, the case. Whetheir one; likes.the New Deal or not,, there are definite in!dicationis .that aà revival: of industry is a! hand, especially of the ý"heavy industries," which include building con- struçtion. We might not.have noticed it except for the fac! that Our office is riglit. in the- iiiidst of such operations. Ii Acrosý the street Uncle Sai is building a ixçw postofflÇefor. Wilmette. To the west an important job of home mod- . ernization is ix progres. The t)ul*i1g, of this home iras lie- gun ,ver or twvo ago, but the (lepres sion. or perhaps the policy of the AAA in plowing. uinder %wormiis, broughit it to a hialt. At an-% rate, the pair of robins which started to build. this honme in the crotchi of an adjacenit apple' ire abandonied the project until a more favorable season, which seenis now to have arrivëd,, for they are working as mhany hours as the code wil permit, remxodeliixg the walls and lining the ini- terior with soft, fleecy stuif s.uited to tie confort of, expected babies. Feline marauders and pester- ing Englishi sparrows.,are hereby*warned to keep That, America fias tossed traditin onto 'the. scrap heap and departed from previous mcthods and customs, perhaps neyýer to return, is betoniiiug more and more apparent as the .days go b\-. rhat we do not think as we once did, that we dIo not do as we once did, that we do, not dcpeîcd upon sourcesl once unfaiting in life's diversifties, cannot Ex-CWA men are making life, miserable for tavern keepers, being empioyed as snoopers at $4 the day. * FOR SALE-a beautiful poem about April- showers.. The darned things are snow. storms. 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