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...years ago a fresh, good-looking, young cop sat astride his motorcycle in the city of Evanston (pop. 68,000), Chicago's strait-laced North Shore suburb. On his mind were two things, the Law, which he was studying at night, and the violators of Law. Of the latter, most interesting to him were violators of automobile ordinances. With a flair for order, exactitude and investigation he was soon stepping full stride into an almost unexploited field. Last week the same young man, now Lieut. Franklin Martin Kreml, 34, of the Evanston Police Department, organizer of Accident Prevention Bureaus...
...ritual, scholarship, fraternity history and purposes do not let undergraduate delegates forget the great social aims and accomplishments of college fraternalism. Not unlike, other fraternities is SAE in its convention program. Here COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents typical scenes from a typical college fraternity convention taken at the SAE meeting in Evanston...
William F. Ketchum, Evanston, Illinois--Evanston Township High School...
...Evanston, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. Robert Matthews arrived to visit Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Michel. With them they brought their pet lion, King Tuffy. During business hours King Tuffy walks a tightrope. Mr. Matthews stowed King Tuffy in the back yard, but early one morning Tuffy became disquieted and started to roar. Disquieted neighbors, too, started to roar-among them Alderman Hugo Pape. Rhetorically asked he: "What is this, Africa?" Alderman Pape summoned the police, who inspected Tuffy, but decided they had no jurisdiction over lions...
...Evanston City Council concluded that it did not have any jurisdiction over lions, either. Then Alderman Eddy S. Brandt, of the Sixth Ward, rose and made a motion that "lions and tigers and other wild animals" be kept to the west of Evanston. Mayor Henry D. Penfield added: "I now move that the reference include the Evanston Lion's Club." The Council shouted approval, but the motion, as amended, was hastily shuttled off to the judiciary committee, leaving King Tuffy still in Evanston...