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: W(> DOLLAU À YEil Né» n uanrld moen rM a ditorby TmsdnmL u. C.mffatulm daA.,14bew aWtA u'amiw roqurd 1W ru.r.nce mand mna eawily forpublioeu JANUARY 18, 1940 Good News A'North Shore, minister, asked last week how thinigs were going with his church, beamningly replied, "Splendid." 1 Ne then went on to explain that on a recent Sunday he adthelagest congregation in a long, long time, and that the spirit of those present was ýone of enthusiasm and hopeful- ness for future growth and service., That is good news forý everybody, in or out. of the church, for prosperous churches are unfailing evidence of the moral health of the community, anid when a community is niorally healtby it, follows that it is, also physically and commercially healthy. It is good news, too, because it indicates that the churches are emerging from a pro- tracted season of depressiori, revealed in reduced fi nancial support and depleted attendance. If the hours were dark and dis- couragements many, requiring the utmost -of -partan courage to weather the storzn, ail the brighter must be the rising spiritual sun that presages a better and less trouble- sorne future. Verily, it is good news! A Notable Election *Perhaps the most notable election yet ordered by the National Labor Relations,,- board -in industrial plants' to determine a collective bargaining agent, for employees was that, in the plants of the Endicott- Johnson. Shoe corporation. in the sta te of New York. It was not so mûch the fact that 1,612, workers voted to join an A. F. of L. union, and 1,079 voted tii iin a C.I.O. union. Il Oil Were Found [t has been reported t.hat efforts are being made along the north'reaches of Skokie valley to discover 'oil, the purpose being-, if- the great fortune mak >er is" found in, suffl- tient or promising quantities,_ to sink Wells for its production on, a commercial basis. Up'to, this tume, s0 goes the inform 1ation, boring has been carried on -in an amateur- ish fashion. with crude equipment. Hrowever, it is rumnored that large drills are. to be brought -from -the oul fields of southern Illi- nois and. the enterprise. prosecuted in, earnest. mHowever mruch or little o! tr.uth. there maybe in the rumors, the average villager will ask himself the question, what would be the effect on the North Shore if oil were actually found? There would be almost irresistible témptation -on the part iof property owners all along the valley to share, in the. fabulous wealth that would flow from the wells, and it is not difficult to envision hundreds of them within a limited area,, their gaunt derricks forming a western skyline that would utterly destroy the beautiful natural scenes now visible fromf the lake shore, and the west winds carrying the nauseous odors over aIl New Trier villages. Is it selftsh to. hope that oil will flot be found, and that neighbors to the west may gain wealth ini some other way? None Too Soon The alarmingly large number of auto- mobile accidents on Skokie boulevard is claiming the attention of the North Area council o! the Chicago Motor club. It has announced intention to not only study the situation to determine what traffic hazards are suséptible of elimirnationor r irt.n FMu CE. mà COPT TheNorth Shore is, we can say, definitely not immune from severe winter storins. Somne People are .always trymng to cliinb to the top. We are happiest when we reach the bottomn. TiiE.PnAM1IM REPORTER If you have not registered with the Villa ge or Town clerk, it's your own fault that you have to go to the County clerk's office in Chicago, if you want to vote i the' spring presidential primaries. You were no doubt shocked at 'the news, which broke Monday,. that. J. Edgar. Hoover's very capable P. B., I. boys had rounded Up a gang, of: eighteen revolutionaries engaged in a plot to take *Possession of the, United -States gov- ernment. They weremodest revolutionaries, in- tendlng only, among ot her things, to grab the gold.reserves, power plants, telegraph and tele- phone lines, docks and railway termfinais.. Just as a. littie extra diversion. they planried to bomb the Daily, Worker, New York Officiai Commrunist .-newspaper, and blast bridges. Well, if they really intend to bomb the Daily Worker and blast bridges-assuming it is Harry Bridges- we'l une eM.* Picking fuses off floating mimes may be ail in the day's work for. navymeèn of the belliger- ent nations, but- if so, we do'flot hanker for that kind:of work. We would much prefer going on relief. A lady attempting to solve the intelligence test submiitted by that f ella in Winnetkaý, s'ayýs he was not fair in giving the clews, and pre- sents evidence. "Agimot and Dudge shared an apartment," she avers on oath, indicates thatý they were not man and wife, but .either two girls or two boys. Married couples, sheads occupy" apartments but do flot "share' them., There, fella! Take that! We suppose it's because this is presidential election year. On no other hypothesis can we account for the fact that the î.New Dealers are already pulling bigger, better and fun-nier jokes. Many of the big boys all holding fat jobs, are just now in a paniel of fear lest they be not able to break'down the President's reluctance to nomination for a third term. 'They say that great pressure must be imposed to induce himn to d isregard his personal wishes and unswerving devotion to the third termn tradition, and re- spond patrio'tically to the insistent calI to again save this country. We think it is just terrible his personial desires for' secluded private life should have so littie weight with his (paid) supporters.- Even though the country certainly does need savring. It reminds of the trouble that unsuspecting "investors," seeking* with hard-earned coin to get some easy dough, ex- perience in inducing Yellow Kid Weil to accept their money. The Kid just hates to take itif