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s« - mmun "mMd au on fthe a utr, mot rb" n bMiie.,1, fo rAie&sSué maiel *~~~~~~b dIo î uss ont iffllme-,o CAMNP. DuenS Onà Tuesaday of lait, wek arbon P. IPubbis compltéd four years of service,,go the people of Wilmnette as president cf the Village1 board. The quallty cf thnt service bas been.eutstanding, and the. faithftélness to public unterest, with which it wu endredis ostcoimmendable. *Practically the. entire four.years of bis tenure.weedevoted, tô.the busin~ess of Is office,, brief vacations bring-: Jeg the only respite. 1 igbts, Sundays and holi- deys. with their op ouities for rest and recrea- tion, were sacrificed to, officiàI duties' withoùt ýhesitance. in Mr. Dubbs was 'found the ideal requisites of the office of Village president, which pi.ad no slary-time te devote te the worlc and wifiingness, te do it. Talcung office ju st ut the time when tic effects of thec depression were most acutely f cît, Mr. Dubbs faced a most difficult and critical financial situation. His manner of handling thie finances, anmd the construction of the miunicipal waterworks plant, .probably colistitute the major acconiplish- ments of his administration, and will be. longest remnembered. ing of the municipal belt." Even ini the last year a shortage of $32,000, caused by inability to seli sufficient taï warrants to nicet the budget, was fulJy made up by sharp economies in the various departments.. Construction of the waterworks permaitted fuill sway of Mr. Dubbs' knowledge and ýcapabilities in construction work, and'in design, quaiity cof construction and, efficiency there is 'not a finer plant inialli oa_4 tis als athing of its inemners. Its work wIlI thus be made lighter, and the principle upon which it was elected ad- vanced ini public opinion. *Acceptance of the barmony principle by 'a con- siderable mnajority of.the voters wa s the culmina- tion of many years of effort on the. part of. civic minded residents who recognized ini the annual political squabbles .a deterrent to the. cultural prgress: of th e village andadersngfet upon reut estate values. I'i these effortsWm Lift joined,1 fully 'convinced that the hanniony. convýention, or,,permanent caucus plan, was. for th. best untreits of ýail our pol.I was first offered for acceptance in the election of 1931, but fiiled of approval by the voters. An entirely newý plan of creating -à convention Was then formulatedl ;-a plan, by which group control was made, inmp_ sible. 1It has - functionied n w pevo s c paign.s, and has niow, achieved success. There is, however, much educational work, te b. done, and in this the new board mu s no.t be asked te talce the lead. Civic organizations and individuals should do their part in spreading the gospel of banniony among the people of the vil- lage, to the end that when the next election approaches ne difficulty may be found in inducing capable meni and women. te accept nomninations for village offices. .ANANNoYANCE initerestéd ini the Proceedungs, whatever they- may be. This source of annoyance is not confined, to audiences composed of people unversed in cour- tesy,, but is often present at the finer concerts and entertainnients. One can only guess what the eff ect must be upon a musician of recognized talent who, ini the rendition of a difficuit' selection, and attempting to unterpret the varying moods or spiritualistic asDiratitinugof the o wice m - r ,O î. f~ A Fort Worth (Texas) policemian was Ibitte n byr a prisoner and died from the e«fects. That is reai news. Those 'Illinois men who refused to accept -jobs. with a railroad appear to refute the dlaim that eni On relief 'would rather work than accept charity. After a careful perusal of, the, laws enaicted by- AAA and NRA, to say nothing of legisiation pro- posed, aill for the. purpose Of straigteninot kunks',iii'Our econoffic sys- tem or correctifig"the mistakes of nature, we have concluded I that ail the planners and econ- - omists and regmitenters and theorists 'in Christendom can- flot bold, a canidie to 'Old Mother Nature herseif for everydtay comùmon sense. ýAf- ter the prairie states had been roasted to a duil brown, with the resuit that their top soils wvere scattered about and mixed up like a jig-saw puzzle, she sends along copious rains that are filling the parched earth to a depth of several feet, giving promise of bountiful harvests to come-that is, if the crops are flot plowed under., Maybe it's just the law of compensation at work. and then again remm>rnc e t another. in any event that is where we stand. There is always someone to take the joy out, of life. We had just finished reading an inspired description of the beauties of Mantanuska valley, Alaska, to which 200 Minnesota relief workers have been sent, and were wishung we might have been one cof the 200, when our eye caught a state- ment of a former Iowa congressman that Alaska. is a' deluxe Siberia. and that thé farmers sent >f its ad- To those wbo cannot quietiy listen te whatever useabers is inI progress, witb the courtesy due te their it seeki fellows who are striving to get semething eut of m of in- 't, thé door is always open and tiiere is plenty whiei it of- rooms on the outeide. bit. -p on there wil be na te do but "bundie:' ai ik about that--especia bou.se? Have a heart, Tut PHANTON Rm'onyzu~ vould no f y-ou a and Ir mu rd ini Up a