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SUDSCRIPrlON: $i PEVEAR SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS Ail communicationls and contributions intended for publi- cation must bear the name and address of the author, not necessarly for publication, but for aur files. Such niaterial must reacb the editor by Tuesday po@fl to be in tisa. for' the ýUrrent itsue. THE NORTH SHORE LINE 'What, is- the future of the Chicago,ý North Shore and MilWaukee electric line?Foowg theébrief respite afforded bythrentae- ment with its employees, which respite cornes tô an 'end May 1, next, is there to corne another struggle entailirig another discontinuance of serv- ice,'with its disruptionto, the daily: routine of thousandsý of North Shore men and women. Or will some way be: found to avert a second calam- ity and the tremendous loss that accrues to both the road and its men in event of astke Whatever may have been the cause, we be- lieve there is none to doubt that the road is in financîal distress, and unable to comply with the demnands of the mien, if renewed, even thcough it might so desire. And so the question Wht is to becomneof thé NortIh Shore lne?' is being pondered by thousands of North Shore residents whom it serves. We believe. that the question is one of major importançe-so important, in fact, that it should be exhaustively diseussed by village boards,. and by civic organizations whose activities are devoted to discussions of problems affecting the communities as a whole. Out of sucli dis- cussions might corne a solution of the problem,. and the public could not fail to acquire a better understandiflg of the difficulties attendant upon *PRIMARY ELECIONS, The primary election, as:a, means.of selecting party candidates for public office is being looked uponi with disfavor by increasingly.. large nui-, bers o! vôters. Perh aps, this is because -the primary has. come to be the laundry ini which' pirty dirty.linen is washed, or exposed to public view. .In the primnary Demnocrats fight Dnemocrats and Republicans fight Repuiblicans. If, even a minu te fraction of what they. say about each other in the primary is true, none of themn should ever be elected to office. Nothing is too mean for one to say of the other. Vituperation, libel, siander are 'the favorite weapons o! of- fense and defense. And when the primarýy is over, the loser goes out and appeals to the vot- *ers to give support to the very men whom they designated as thieves, traitors, treasury raider~s, criiiâl pot&tors antd worÊe. 1Perhaps the voters have been so accustomed to this type of primary campaigning that they pay no attention to iA and completely disregard it when election day roils around. But even if that be true, it is. none the less despicable, and one wonders how any candidate with any re- spect for himself can enmploy it. Also, how hie can stoop to. gutter political tricks in the pri- -mary and pose as a gentleman in thIe election. We do not know the answer. mobile accident Friday. So, you see, she couldn't have ben a wîtch. . story cabled from London is to the effect that a black cat, residènt at 10 Downming street, officia1 home- of Prime Minister Chamberlain, had ýbéeen presented With a 'couple of fish. The cat, it was- added, "frecluen.tly was -seeno n the doorstep as important men, came- and went during the tens§e September days." The Czechs -_nowPm know what to bl ame for, their bad, luck. By shucking 22 and a fraction bushels OÉ corn in 80 minutes, a young South Dakota farm- er becameè national champion. The incident is. important to, us only because. it. recails the day- wyback yonder when we. essayed to shuck the frosty nubbins. for a confiding fa rmer at something like 40 cents a day. There was no intent, on our part. to gyp the . armer.. We really thought ,we1 could shuck as rnuch corn as anybody, in spite' of the fact that. we had neyer shucked any. Besides, wasn't Christmas just ahead, and didf't we need a littie extra ceeding in finding anyone else, the farmer of- fered us the job and we accepted. After bear- ing with us for a couple or three days, and noting our failure to garner in 8 hours hall as *much corn as -the South Dlakota speed demon shucked in 80 minutes, the farmer casually remarked that he had attached a "throw board" to a wheelbarrow, which we were to use the next morning, as he dxd not intend to waste a teamn and wagon. on us any longer. We have o! ten' wondered what the farmer thought *next morning when he found that our becl had This news-magazlfle has on more than one occasion spoken plainly on the subject of over- privileged youth in our North Shore commûni- ties, emphasizing the disservice of parents to boys and girls o! tender years by allowing them too great freedom of action, too frequent opportuffltiesý for getting into mischie!, and to the public by too much complaint against es- tablished authority when duty compels it to protect the general welf are by bringing young people to task for violations of established law. Fortnatl1v. there is no dispositionl on the December, the two most dangerous months of the year, the National Sa!ety council gives the following. as the principal causes o! accidental deaths in the home last yearý Falls, 17,500; burns and explosions, 5,600; poi- soônings, 1,700; firearms, 800; mechanical suf- focation, 1,000; poison gas, 1,100, a total o!. 32,500 deaths of which, it states, "ninety out o! a hundred were' u.nnecessary and could have been easily prevented." Commenting on this record the "Industrial Of WhLUL didates. ýk or lnoy ;ide countY, were cane * * * Comniunist leader Earl Browder in a speech in Chicago Stadium Friday night, spoke one word for communism and ten words for the New -Deal. The same night the President said the Republicans must be de!eated in order to stop communism in this country. Just what do .you make o! that, Watson? trouble. Even the most sympathetic ana con- siderate official canno't always protect these ypungstrs. from responsibility ,for their mis- s>teps, and eventuafly ýthe parents will have t With fingers crossed.. we point to the iact that the weather man has been having a tough time to bring sumnier to an, end on this match- less ýNorth Shore.. public office? Why do they hiave to inspirel their own. candidacies? In other. words, why are they continually seeking' office, and the o!- fiee neyer Éeeking them? THE PHANTOM REPORTER,