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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1924
Page
6
A call to live in the present and shape the future through present actions. Emphasizes immediate effort over waiting for tomorrow, citing John Dewey and the need to elect good officials and prevent wars. Encourages maximizing present experience and present opportunity.
Fred Carberry notes the decline of community sings after the armistice period. Public gatherings no longer include group singing and audiences become passive listeners, risking loss of shared musical activity and the familiar songs that once united crowds.
The article celebrates broad support for community singing with Farmers, city people, children, and business folks all enjoying the activity. It calls for public meeting organizers to start events with folk singing to capture wartime spirit and communal joy.
The piece examines why people enjoy scandal spreading and suggests envy drives the habit. It cites Adam and Eve, Macaulay, and Puritans to argue that scornful talk harms the targer and that addressing one’s own faults ends the gossip.
The piece notes several individuals who own islands including John’s Island near Greenwich Connecticut and Big Strawberry in Green Bay. It reflects on island ownership and the imagined prerogatives of island monarchs while admitting the author has no island yet.
A gray automobile bus shuttles midnight partygoers from Madison and La Salle toward the north shore. Departing about 7:30 pm, the vehicle traverses Lake Avenue in Wilmette to the Garden of Allah on Waukegan Road, where passengers dine and dance before the late return trip to the Loop.
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