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February ti, 1927 WILMETTE ·-LIP.E · J Schools to · send Valentine Gifts Jo the Near East For the fourth consecutive year, north shore school children are to join with other schools throughout Illinois and the United States in a renewal of a pretty sentiment, an international observance of St. Valentine's Day. Instead of the exchange of lacey g·ee-gaws with expressions of love, thev wilt make this February 14 a date for· a more substantial demonstration of their affection toward their less fortunate brothers and sisters of their own age in the orphanages in the Bihfe Lands and in the refugee camps Df Greece. As in the past three years, pupils in the publi-c schools of Illinois will send greetings abroad in the shape of seven~ teen pennies each, or more, to be donated toward the support of the fatherless and motherless little ones of · the Near East. The seventeen ·crnts is sufficient to feed. clothe and educate one of these little wards of Americot for a day and hundreds bf children in the United States will · forego their trip to the movies next week to save that amount to be sent overseas. Committees have been formed in every county in the state and principals and teachers are co-operating with the state committee of the Near East Relief of which former Gov. Lowden is chairman, in -the collection of the Valentine fund. Recent dispatches from the near east indicate that St. Valentine's Day would be a cheerless oc-casion without this remembrance from America. There are 36,000 orphaned children in the charge of Near East Relief, solely dependent upon · the philanthropy of Americans. Massacres, earthquakes and disease have rendered these children homeless and helpless and now they are looking forward to a new message of cheer from this country which has been keeping them for the past eight years. .. ' j ANNOUNCING RIDGE A VENUE SHOW ROOM IN order better to serve this section of the city, we have opened a beautiful new Pierce-Arrow Showroom and service station at I 8 I 9 Ridge A venue. Here will be dis.. playe~ various ·models in both the Series 80 and the Series 36. These superb hand-made custom-built cars will give you a new idea of automotive comfort and luxury. No finer cars can be built~ here or abroad. See our display. Competent and coptt_ eous salesmen will gladly explain every feature to .you. Drive one of these cars yourself t if you wish. a ·· Hand-building does not make the Pierce-Arrow high-priced car. The SsRIES So two-door coach at $1.9,5 is an example. Easily maneuvered 13o-inch wheelbase. Operatmgeconomyusuallyequaling and often surpassing that of can costing less. Pierce-Arrow nitro-cellulose lacquer finish in twenty-six cllarming color choices without extra assessment. Balloon ttrea, four-wheel brakes and Houdaille double-acting shock absorbers standard equipment. Flu This Season Not of the Type in 1918 In spite of reports that suggest the contrary, there is no evidence that virulent, deadly influenza of the 1918 charac_ter is epidemic in Europe and ;:;nch an infection is certainly not preYalent in lllinois nor the Cniterl States, according U> Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health director. The respiratory disease now epidemic in European countries is of the influenza type but it is mild in character, causing death p~incipally in the aged, whereas the 1918 pandemic showed a predilection to the young adults and those in the prime of life. This is the usual season for respiratory infections, many of which are caTted "flu" and the puhlic will benefit by taking every precaution against them but there appears to be no sign upon the horizon that justifies apprehension concerning an approaching experience of the serious and fatal proportions that existed in 1918. Pricu $2895 and up, plus tax and transportation NtwSuiBI· ~6 Dual-Val~' Six-us-inch wheeiiJ11s1 _,,/,sed t:llts, tJB7J and ·P· B. K. Boosttr unit, lmprt~vin& IIUI of hrakin&, is stand111J lf_uipwunt JN .ANY DESIRED COLOR OR UPHOLSTERY PIERCE RRO TOM BAY AND SON 1819 Ridge Ave. Telephone Greenleaf 50 EVANSTON, ILL. .,. , ;, ), ·· I Merit Badge Exposition Proves Splendid Success The Boy Scout troops of the North Shore area participated in the Merit Badge exposition, held last week at the First Regimental armory in Chicago. The journalism booth, which published the X-Po news, was in charge of Troop 1 of Highland Park, under the leadership of Scoutmaster Robert Anspach. John Snite was editor-inchief. Randall Roberts assistant editor, and Milton Beers chief ll"eporter. M.rs. Warren Winn of Mosimee, Wis., arrived Sunday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Lusted of 921 Thirteenth stre~t for several weeks. ' ...· . ·'::: .~ :., ,:' .......~ ~:'~; ·:~:;~\~~:·: .. .