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WILMETTE VOL. XVI, NO. LI ·FE PRICE A Weekly News-Magazine for Wilmette and Kenilworth 17 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 21, 1927 FIVE CENTS SUNDAY EVENING CLUB AIDS HAS NOTABLE PROGRAM Cecil Roberts, Mm~. Zendt and Wood's Bell Ringers Appear Together Sunday NEW CITIZENS Baptists to Hear Dr. Benjamin Otto, Leader in Great Chicago Americanization Enterprise A ids Foreigners NO MAN'S LAND LOOMS AS BIG BALLOT ISSUE Exchange of Letters Indicates Inaugural of One of Bitterest Election Campaigns Dr. Benjamin Otto, s uperintendent of the · Baptist Executive Coun·cil of Chicag-o, \\'ill a<l<lrrs s th e l\Iicl\\'cek Cecil Robert:-; of .London. ~>riltiant 111 c eting of the \\'ilm e tte Baptist Engli sh poet, nm·elt st, e ss ayt s t and . critic, now engaged on hi s third :\tneri - ~ cln~rch 011 \\ edne sday. J a nu a ry 26, at can lecture tour. will speak hd nr e the H <l clock. Wilmette Sunday Fn·ning cluh thi ::; ' That Chicago is one c,f the great Sunday . lli s subject will hl', "\\' ha t ccJ smoplll itan renter s o f th e ,,·orld ' is E.urot~e ~s thin~i 11 ~: " \fme.- \larit' . L 'Illpha:-.ized by the fact th at the BapStdc.mu s Zend~ ot \: tlm et te ~'tit lit' tl w : ti :-. t Exerutirc council is :ts si:-. ting in s<?lot st. _ :\ ltnHjltL ll'atll l'l' ot tl_ ll' t· ,·v- ~ th e mainlt'nancc:: of \\'urk amnng fourlllng mil he a sacr ed prngrant g l\·t·11 ],y teen diffcrtnt nationalitie s in rarious Wood \ Hl'll Hingl'f ". part :-; oi the city. A budget o f , apr\o lcrtttrn in J'('l' Cn t yc; 1r . , k t.. . a t -, proximate!~ $50,000 is expended antrartcd lll o n · iav ~ ra h k attt'tltion than nually in a .; ~i :-; ting- in the purchase of lt·cil l~c dwrt-- , \rho :-; e s pkndi<l w o rk ha s , lot :-; . erecting building:-, e ducating and placed l1illl i11 thl' inrdront oi 111o<it:i'll ~ upporting forl'ig·n -:-.pcaking. pas tors writer . . . Alt lJOugh scarcely n n : r thirty and wCJrkers and :.ulministering the he ha.., ht·C01llt' \rid L· ly kn (l \\'11 0 11 bo th · affairs of what is really a great foreign s ide s u i the Atlantic. his fi,·e v 01tttlle s I m iss ion field at o ur Hry doo r s. of verse alld ..,t·n ral pro ... e w orks hav e I Kindness His Creed won high comlnetHiaL u. .'... . ·..:- his . D Ott 0 1 -1 t tl 1 l f 1 1 notable ho oks ar c "~ails oi Sttn<; e t." 1 . r. ~ s. >ern a le 1Ca< o "S ctss · or:-. .. an( 1 "'l' l1r T o n : [) till:-. · great work tor man'-· vear s and, al\.ac k·... J "' ' though unable to . peak fluently the Interprets Oratorio majority of the language :) involved, has Mn~t:. Zendt \\'a s tn ·han: been the l>ecomc by that universal language, Sun day cl u h ..,ol ois t la st \n'l' k hut gra- k i ndncs s, t h c best f rirnd of many hunciouslr gaH \\· a~· to ~fmc. Flor ence dreds of our new An1eriran; -as he Macbeth, wh o filled an engagement seeks to offer to them the best in that had 1H·en d e ferrl·d becaust.: o f her A.merica, her education and her Chrisillne ss several \\'ttks ago. :\[me. Zcndt tianity. is i-~cognized as· one of the foremost All\· \\·ho arc interested in the work interpreters of oratorio in the Cnitcd of Christian Americanization and the States and is known to manv re sidents problems connected with the presence of the north she>re commun(ty. of the new racial groups in the life of In connection vvith the .a ppearance the city arc cordially inrited to hear of Jack \Vood\ ~falc quartet and Bell Dr. Otto at the Baptist church nc.xt Ringers, it is interesting to know that \VecltH'sday night. the art of hell ringing ·w as revealed to America first in the 18-tO'.s hv the late P. T. Barnum. \Vhile touring England he heard a group of church bell ring,r rs practis~ng upon hand bells, and he conceived the idea oi using a larger peal of bell and pla:,·ing more elaborah' All arrangements are completed and music. tickets arc going rapidly for the dinPreserve Old Traditions ner and vaudeville entertainment to ] ack \\. ood's male quartet and Bell he give,n hy the \Vilmette Chamber of Ringers preserve the best' traditions of Commerce, Wednesday evening, J ar1tlbell .ringing and present a program in ary 26, in the auditorium of the new which selections played on the bells arc 1fasonic temple. ThreP, hundred mema notable feature. Vocal sdcctions and bers of the Chamber and their guests instrumental numbers employing violin, arc expected upon this occasion. cello, banjo and piano all find a place Tickets may be procured at either on the va,ried programs of this re:tllv the office the Chamber of Comnotable company. · - merce. in the \Vilmette State bank building or from Lowell R. Beyrer, of the Beyrcr Electric & Radio shop, 1129 Army Men to Assist in Central avenue. Chapter Degrees Tonight The program comprises nine high Lieutenants Carlisle and Erickson, grade vaucleville acts, by the Triangle with other officers from Fort Sheridan, Four, string and harmony: Harry will be present in uniform to aid in Scott, song . leader and monologue; conferring the Royal Arch degree on Caroline King, pianist and vocal-ist; three Wilmette Legion men at the .Tulia Lyons, song and dances; Tina It Wilmette Masonic temple tonight. Tweedie, eccentric dances; Dollie General S. C. Stanton, retired, of Wi'l- \Vest, songs: Clarice Catlett, prima mette, will assist in the ceremonies. En- donna; Jean DeFries, popular numbers tertainment will be furnished during and Gladys Mintz, Hawaiian and Oriand following the initiation, it is an- ental dances. nounced by \V. \V. \Vinhcrg, high Arrangements for the dinner and priest of the chapter. program are under the general direcThe Wilmette chapter is also mak- tion of Dr. C. B. Blake, chairman of ing plans for a· theatre party to be held the entertainment committee of the February 15. Post cards have been Chamber, whose officers and other s.ent out in order to ascertain how members of the committee are lending many will be able to atend and final enthusiastic support. arrangements are awaiting answers · The village officials will be honor from these questionnaires. guests. 1 (}. of C. to Give Banquet and Show at Masonic T em pte of \Vith the citizens of New Trier township called upon to express them~elYes at the polls, on April 5, in the matter of the proposed acquisition, by bond i!' suc. of all or parts ·of "No ).fan's Land," the now widely advertist>d strio of land lv1ng along the lake front between Wilmette and Kenilworth. hackers of the various commer~ cial projects in course of development, or in contemplation, were this week laying preliminary plans to present I their p::>sition in the more or less heated campaign whi"h promises to pro\·ide \Yidesnrearl inter e s· t from now until election day. ).fen behind the motion picture theater project this week conferred with officials of the Vista Del Lago and Breaker Beach cluh develonments regarding- plans for concerted action in nresenting their common cause · to the "lectorate. Other preliminary conDr. Benjamin Otto. superintendent of ferences are scheduled for next week, the Baptist ExrcutiYe council of Chi- it was stated. Exchange of letters hf'twen Arthur cago, ii> to speak at the Midweek meetBonnet, representi·ng the Citizens' coming of the \\-ilmette Baptist church mittee, through the instrumentalitv of · \\' cdncsday evening, January 26. He will tell of the Americanization work which the petition for the $500,000 being conducted through the medium 'rownshin Park Bonn issue election was of the churche s in the great foreign filed with County Judge Jarecki, and areas ·of the city. The public is cor- nr0moters of the new theater project appear to have effectively launched the dially itwited to hear Dr. Otto next rampaign that is to culminate in the \\' ednesday . elf'rtion on April 5. Mr. Bonnet's letter of a week ago, nnhli .. hed in part in last week's issue nf \Vn.MtTTE. LIFE and asking the theater promoters-all of whom are prominent north shore residents-to halt their. plans pending the outcome of the election, brought prompt reply from the B urg I ars en t erecl tl 1e Ed \\·ar d L . f 11 . grouo as o ows: Schetdenhelm home at 70-l Lake street, "Vario·us members of our group late Sunday afternoon, by forcing a wh;ch is concerned in the ownership basement door and escaped with jew- and development of a portion of the elry and clothing valued at more than t.and known as 'No Man's Land' on $2,000. Silver\\'are and other valuables Sheridan road, between Kenilworth and were left scattered promiscuously Wilmette. have received your letter of about the place and it is believed that January 10. the 111;lrauders were disturbed while Projects to Continue "till at their w::lrk as much of value was "In the first place let me say that left. the majority of those interested in our r!Pvelooment are dtizens of the north The ~cheiden lwln,~ arp spending the shore towns and have heen identifiPd winter months in Chandler. Ariz .. and with every movement for the public the burglary was discovered ahout n:30 good in that neig-hborhood. Tt we diso'clock when ·M r. and Mrs. Albert Tay- ~P"ree with vou it is not at all a queslor, a. daughter anrl son-in-law who tion of division of ooinion between outhave hecn occupying the residence siders and those wtth puhlic spirit and rluring their ahsenct>, returned home. a local group of well intentioned Tt i:; thought possible that the lights g-entlemen such as yourself. With infrom the car as it turned into the timate knowledge of north shore condrive sen·ed as the warning signal to ditions, sentiments and aspirations, we the thieves. made our purc.h ase with a desire of giving the best possible type of development to the area involved. Our imNew Trier Principal to p~ovements are under way and we are Address P. T. A. Meeting hound tc both our contractors and our Fathers and Mothers of of children less'e es on their account. There have in the seventh and eighth grades of been no new developments along the the Byron Stolp school will act as north shore that add or subtract to the hosts and hostesses to the Parent- considerations that we had in mind at time of our dedsion. Teacher associSltion in a meeting at 8 the 1 'Beyond this, your suggestion is eno'clock, Tuesday evening. Frederick E. Clerk, principal of the New Trier tirelv impractical as the proceeds from High school will speak on the prepara- a $SOO,OOO bond issue will not remotely tion necessary for pupils entering high purchase the complete area · included in school. Miss Helen Grossenbacke will 'No Man's Land,' or even a -consider· (Continued on page 39) sing. Burglars Ransack E·. L. Scheidenhelm Residence Sunday