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34 WILMETTE LIFE February 14. 1930 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK LLOYD HolliSTER INC. 1232-1236 Central .Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago office : 6 N. Michigan .Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone . ................ ............. . . . Wilmette flO! IUBSCRIPTION PRICE ... .. ........ tl.to .A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of .the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence. cards of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be cnarged· at regular adverU~ing rates. Grade Separation will save life Let's have immediate action! Eternal vigilance is the price of security. slightly modifying an old saying. If we \\'Ould have security and other desirable conditions that go along An Object· with security. we must be everlastingly vigilant. If Lesson the enemy finds the sentinels asleep at their posts, the ·enemy will probably get the upper hand. Chicago provides a gigantic object lesson for surrounding cities and villages. As she flounders about in the mire of nearbankruptcy, brought on l)y a variety of shameful and powerful causes, neighboring communities may observe and take warning. Officials. high and low in the big city. may to a great e:vtent be held responsible for the miserable spectacle which se.e ms likelv to l1e on exhibition for many more weeks and months, hut the chief s.inners are the people themselyes, the millions who really make up Chicago. \Vhcn the people of any community are civically lazy, the g-overnment of that community will he inefficient and crooked. When- the people are civically active the government will be efficient and straight. The voters can have any sort of government they want. Tn brief the officers of any romti11mity really represent their constituents. In that village. city, state or countrv where the good citizens are actively· interested in politics, the government will bP good. One of the surest symptoms of active popular interest in local politics is intelligent and regular voting. · Careful consideration of candidates and voting at every election by citizens w,ill g-o far tovv·ards keeping- our north shore towns in first class civic health. And when we can add to these duties enthusiastic cooperation with our public servants, then we may be certain that all's well. Good health, if not the foremost, is one of the foremost factors in success. There have been unusual men who thnugh sick and c r i p p 1 e d have Good Health achieved a remarkable n1easure of success. But and Success they achieved it in spite of their physical handicaps. They vvon against odds. The motto for the usual man must be, "A healthy mind in a healthy body." . If health is an asset for the grown person, it is an absolute necessity for the infant and child. Bad teeth, diseased tonsils, adenoid growths, low physical tone, lack of safeguards against smallpox, diphtheria, and other ills to which children are liable- all these are hindrance~ in the fight for success. In view of these facts it is vital that parents teachers and other individuals cooperate ' heartily ' in the pre-school health campaign which the Illinoi~ Parent-.Teach~r association and Illinois state offictals wtll inaugurate this coming summer. As. stat~d in advance announcements, the object of this campaign .is "to promote the ~edical and dental examination of every chtld who will be ready to enter school for the first time next fall." Where cooperation is especially needed is in the correction of the defects discovered in the examinations. Parents who carry through this corrective \VOrk will have the great satisfaction of knowing that thereby they have helped their children to live successful lives. So thoroughly have nvtc leaders been convinced of the tremendous vahte of the Boy Scout movement that a plan has been inaugurated in Chicago Why Support to raise $1,250,000 with . Boy Scouts? wh~c~ to . expand . Sc?ut acttvtty 111 that · ctty. Were these public minded citizens not convinced of both the value and need of such an expansion it is not l:kely that they \vould have put themselves behind this expansion program. ~Thy support the Boy Scouts?. The most direct answer is f.ound in the words of that enthusiastic ?nd patriotic American, Theodore Roosevelt, "If you want to do something for the average man you must start when he is a boy." This statement assumes that next to nothing can be done to change the habits of the grown n1an. His habits. though plastic .to some slight degree, are too firmly set to allow of alteration. But the habits of acting, thinking, and feeling of the boy and youth are in the making and capable of direction. A danger lurks .just here. A boy's habits are capable of direction, but that direction may be bad as well as good. The prevalence of juvenile crime in Chicago proves that the habits of many Chicago boys have been viciously directed. About 20,000 boys between the ages of 10 and 17 are arrested annually in Chicago at a cost to the city of $1,600,000. Had these boys been Scouts it. is more than probable that their habits would have been good habits. They would then have been a help to their city instead of a hindrance and a menace. Support the Doy Scouts and you support the city, state. and nation. New Trier seniors do \veil to keep in mind the claims of the so-ca1led "small" colleg-e. The big universities with their millions of endowment have large and varied stocks. The professors in the big schools are world fatnous scholars. But the small college offe.rs much that to many s~"ems to outweigh in value what the big university offers. A contetnporary columnist has said: "The state universities are noble department stores. Knox and Grinnell, Amherst and Bowdoin, Lawrence and Carleton are 'gift shops.'" When a new semester begins, those who have not done their best can start all over again with the detern1ination to achieve a record of which they can justly be proud. A new opportunity is one of God's finest SHORE LINES Heigh! I-Io! The Skipper's off ?n a .bat and following due process of evolutwn, ntght bec~mes day and we Captain pro tern of this windjammer. So, anchors away! Whereaway? Well, as Un?erslung ~harley said whilst an1bling about tn London s peasoup fog as the King spoke: "Hellen Maria! Who cares." So long as we don't run af?ul Libel shoals or hook a rope on executiOn dock-whv let 'er blow! By thunder! · Mique, erstwhile Ski~per, who s~ipped snen days ago for Florida (pa~d P<l;ssage, dmners on the side at'ld . cigars .extra) atrmatls all that tommyrot about basking on th.e. golden, san~s un.der az~re skies. Just to be ongmal, well w1sh h1m a n1ce long swim in the briny - and a summer cold. (I ~~cidcHtall·v he postscripts that the trio of 'em... ' Coul1t De N~rd, Low-ell R., and he himself-flipped down to N aslzville, Ten11.,. on the first. ~ay out. Ouly 519 miles. S otncbody's shore 'nuf rui.mg that aulj'111obile · . . . b'gosh, if them engit~ecrs. had elevated them fenders another inch they'd be .'ciJD;sting throu. .[]h spare Jt'f.) · ~ ;n; Returning (mentally) to the lana of .perpetual· winter, .no spring and a breath of. summer., we sauntered ~round to get posted on. Wtlmette V11lage affairs the other night and held an . adjourned reminiscense with Trustee Frank A. \Vtlson, who, by the by, was once a pencil pu~h.er on the old Chicago Chronicle. Fra.nk retmmsced. an:l :ve listened. Any .of you old timers on the b1g wmd1cs to the south remember when Eugene Field wrote "An Ode to tt,e 'Telephone Booth'?" · And speak.iHg of reminiscing (we were too}, Elmer, nur. foreign correspondent who we see once a week a11d · lzear from often, Don Marsh and our humble self held aH.other postmortum over the pas~ and a rvinnetka SOti·P bowl last Monday. Don JUSt got back from a visit in the sunny and was telli11g about the Bok Singiug tower. Elmer allm.e.·s that's a fine idea and ·wo1uiers if we couldn't bu.ild one up here for some of our bathroom recitalists . ~ ;r. ] oe Shantz, Wilmette's only Federal official, almost bowled us through the plate glass the other day. Reassemblin~ ourselves we hailed his fast disappearing heels as to why the rush. Joe infot;"ms us that down in Carterville, Ill., the town funds are not, the city marshal has resigned and the bootleggers run the only stores open. Seems the mayor was reprimanded by the villagers for not doing something and responded by saying there was no one to arrest the hippiteers and nothing to feed them with if they were jailed. Joe was on his way to see Bill Hamilton, Evanston stampstamper, to see if they couldn't arrange to hold the next convention there. Figures they ought to be ahle to dry the place up. , And alo11g that line. Why not suggest to the Chicago city treasurer, ·who is now singing {{I can't give :\'on a1!-J'tlting but love or script," to start in on bootlegging. (Any way )'Ott take it.) That's a sure fire way to raise 111011ey-fine or very fine. ~ ii1G And to write a hearty finis to that issue: Jim the Berries trundled in just now and asked us for our movie magazine. Said he wanted to get the low down on this "Hennessey production that Mae Tine~ gave three stars to." !JI! ii1G gifts. Right now, while its on our mind, we want to say we're taking memberships in the Midnight Kaffee Klatsch Klub, limited to scribes and exscribes who have pursued the elusive God, Sensation, to the end of nowhere over a straight stretch . of sixteen cups of coffee and whatever else could be found. If you're eligible, fire in a t>ostal containing one or more antedates for blues. We'll see you in our dreams. -HUB.