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THE HERALD
The Herald
ESTABLISHED 1884
BOB KUBICEK
EDITOR
ROBERT N. SAGER MANA6ER
Serving Maywood, Melrose Park, Bellwood. Forest Park, Hillside, Westchester and Broadview
Published each Thursday af Maywood, Illinois South Fifth Avenue
Tax Confusion
The defense program is wholly necessary and laudatory, and taxes are needed to support it, and taxes on cosmetics and toilet preparations will work far less hardship than would taxes on bread or milk.
Broadly and without getting off our stride to quibble, we'll take those things as axiomatrc. But let's go on from there.
Why, in the name of all that assessable, do legislators and bureaucrats have to complicate things so?
Take just one befuddled-up little example from all the vast confusion of the new 1941 Retailers' Excise tax: Section 2402. sub-section (b).
This little gem of legislative double-talk specifies that the sale of toilet preparations to a barber shop or beauty parlor shall be considered a sale at retail, and subject to an excise tax of 10%; and resale by such a shop shall ALSO be subject to tax as a sale at retail, but credit shall be applied to this second tax in the amount of the first tax.
This means that when you buy a bottle of hair tonic from Gus or a jar of cold cream from Mile. Mayme, they will be required to figure the 10% of the wholesale price they paid, figure 10% of what they're going to charge you, subtract the first from the second, and charge you that as a tax.
In Gus's two-chair shop or the Mlle.'s three-booth shoppe what'U you bet.'
News of the Schools
(Continued from page 13) read more books, helping them in their school work.
JEAN MORITZ.
Debate
The eighth graders had a debate last Friday. The debate was: "Resolved, that we should send lend-lease material to England." Dick Karpel, George Kelly, Tommy Van Dyke, and Wesley Fisher were on one team and Maynard Backe, Charlene Richter, Dayre Bailes, and Donald Meisen were on the other team. The fifth, sixth and seventh graders were there and we all had a lot of fun. JOSEPH ALBNECHT.
New -Patterns for Old Cities
The urban land pattern of today has become outmoded and wholly unsuitable for the complexities of modern city life.
Land uses in our cities, and likewise their system of traffic circulation, must be replanned on a realistic basis, discounting optimism as to future city growth and giving primary consideration to creating livable home neighborhoods free from traffic dangers, smoke, noise and other city nuisances, in which a normal and wholesome family life can exist.
Unless positive steps are taken soon to stop the ravages of blight and decay, we can look forward to a generation of gradual disintegration—physically, politically and socially—in our cities, with constantly declining land values and increasingly unfavorable neighborhood and family environment.
Any piecemeal attack on the housing question which ignores the basic need of city replanning can have only partial success and may aggravate the disease of blight which must first be cured.
Large metropolitan communities must devise governmental machinery capable of supplying public services over entire metropolitan areas in a uniform way and without destroying the identity and integrity of local communities.
Such were the general conclusions arrived at in the Urban Land Institute three-day conference on principles of city replanning conducted last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended by public officials, planning authorities, fiduciaries, property owners, realtors, property managers, civic leaders and others interested in the future pattern of American cities. Added significance was given to the conference by the threatened stoppage of much normal building during the defense period which will inevitably create an accelerated building program throughout the country in the post- defense period.
In opening the conference, Walter S. Schmidt of Cincinnati, president of the Urban Land Institute, urged the importance of a new energetic and realistic attack on the phenomena of an automobile age which are resulting in pronounced changes in the structure of our cities.
Chief among these problems Mr. Schmidt named the undue acceleration of population flight away from city centers, causing rot and decay at their cores. "If this movement is permitted to proceed unabated," he declared, "the loss of wealth will be beyond comprehension because region after region still sound for good living will become bhghted."
"The objectives we must seek," he said further, "are the making of these centers of population into convenient, attractive, soundly organized financially and satisfactory places in which to live and do business. We must have a new approach to planning. We must make zoning constructive. We must see that the principal units of government are able to support themselves. We must take steps to make our cities more compact than they are in the sense of revitalizing dead close-in districts."
Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts conducted their meeting at McKinley school, discussing arrangements for a Halloween party. They have elected a committee for the party: Charlene Richter, Carol Davidson, Sharon Tedrick, Jean Edstrom, Iva Saffron, and Donna Korrell. The party is to be at Carol Davidson's house Wednesday.
The troop leader is Mrs. Huff; her assistant, Mrs. Dickman. There are 22 Scouts this year. DONNA KORRELL, Scribe.
Patrol Boys' Party
McKinley patrol boys are having a wiener roast Tuesday after school. The principal, Mr. Mohr, is furnishing the hot dogs and buns. They are having the wiener roast at Salt Creek near Mannheim and 22nd.
They expect to have a fine time. There will be twenty-four boys and five girls. I hope that mosquitoes will not get them.
ROBERT VERCILLO.
News Briets
Well, kids, no school Monday. Isn't that swell?
The seventh and eighth grades have been drawing Halloween pictures in school. You know Halloween is just around the corner!
We have been doing a science experiment in the eighth grade. We were trying to blow up a balloon by putting zinc and acid together to form a gas.
Our school has received new athletic material which we needed.
Mrs. Dalton's plants in her room are coming along nicely this year.
ANNA HOVING.
Basketball is just around the corner. McKinley school basketball team is going to start practicing very soon. Some of the best players are: Kenny Freeman, LeRoy Smith, Vincent Carlo, Billy Howes, Charles Snyder, Harold Shultz, Robert Sittner, Lester Boeger, and Dick Karpel.
Village Girl Chairnnan in Honneconning
Ruth Marsh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Marsh, 619 15th avenue, Maywood, has been appointed chairman of campus decorations for the annual Elmhurst College Homecoming, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Her committee will decorate the Commons, "Old Main," and the exteriors of the dormitories.
Miss Marsh is taking a liberal arts course at Elmhurst, majoring in English, with the professional ambition of being a Ubrarian. Now a senior. Miss Marsh has been active in campus life as a member of the Student Executive Cabinet and president of the Women's Union.
For Homecoming this year Elmhurst has scheduled Concordia college of Lake Forest. Though the Elmhurst team has won three of its last five starts, while the Concordia team has yet to win its first game. Coach O. M. (Pete)
New Pupil
The seventh graders have a new boy. His name is Albert Horringa. He came from Prinsburg, Minn. That is the land known as the "Land of the Sky Blue Water' There is a legend about it in that state. Paul Bunyan, the giant and his blue ox, worked in a lumber camp there. After he died, supposedly every place on which he stepped turned into a lake.
We hope he will like it here. STAN LEWANDOWSKI.
Langhorst of Elmhurst is still unconvinced as the Elmhurst team goes into the Homecoming game Saturday, a jinx for Elmhurst the past thirteen years.
Other features of the Homecoming program will be a pep rally and bonfire at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, followed by the Homecoming Revue written by two college students, to be presented by the Elmhurst College Theatre at 9 p.m. On Saturday morning at 10:30 the Men and Women's Glee clubs will give a joint concert. Saturday evening at 8:30, a dance will be presented in the gym.
Cuddles and Tuckie
By FRANCES ROYSTER WILLIAMS Trade-Mark Rag. U. S. Pat. Off.
THE SEAL OFTH
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE STARS, SHIELD. OLIVE BRANCH AND ARROWS MEAN ?
UNITED STATES
CAN YOU READ THE MOTTO IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT OUR EMBLEM FIND OUT
This mighty bird was chosen by
Our fathers, long ago. To be the emblem of a land
No conqueror should know.
And so the eagle took his stand Beside our flag unfurled,
For freedom and for liberty— A sign to all thtf world.
Respected by his many friends And feared by all his foes,
With power in his spreading wings And grandeur in his pose.
So like the eagle, soaring high Above the land and sea,
We pray our country always shall Be strong and brave and free.
Our Youngest Generation Wil Go Hill-Billy on Us Saturday
Attired as Daisy Maes, L'il Abners. Hairless Joes, or just plain bums, the seniors of Proviso high school will throw away their dignity for one evening at a combination Hill-Billy and Hard Times party Saturday evening in the girls' gym. "Jug 'n' Jive" will be in order.
Sub-committee chairmen for this first party include: refreshments, Dolores Kern; entertainment, Harold Lutz and Jane Klemp; orchestra, Bruce Wright; clean-up. Bob MacGregor; tickets, publicity, Edna Mae McCarrell.
Alvin R. Volk of the English department is the new general chairman of the seniors responsible for all activities. The social committee headed by Miss Iouise Taylor and Florence Simonelli has charge of all parties, including the prom. Sub-committees and the faculty members are as follows: entertainment, E. W. Stubbs, Miss Viola Scala and J.
W. Hinds; decorations, the Misse Virginia Terhune, Helen Grar and Eva Eddy, C. E. Kassel, Me' vin M. Wall and U. C. Fostei refreshments, the Misses Josphine Foster, Grace Reininga an Lois Moore. Harriet Leake has been chosen prom chairman; an the other student leaders will b selected in the near future.
Miss Reininga and Billy Heint are working together on the nance committee. The main task of this group are to balance th budget and to take charge of th collection of class dues.
M. W. Immel and the senio senate prepare assemblies an publicize the class play. Mis Cecil Stark will direct the play
Miss Terhune handles all scholarship matters. Her chief duty i to write letters to the parents c students who are failing.
H. P. McConnell works in col laboration with R. L. Daniels o publicity for metropolitan an local papers.
