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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 8 Jun 1928, p. 25

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June 8, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE 25. Official· announcement has been made that the government will again conduct its thirty day summer camp at the various military training camps thr~ughout the 'country for young men be~ween, the ages of 17 and 24 years. These camps offer any young man of go.od moral char.acter, who can pass a satisfactory phystcal examination an opportunity to enjoy thirty days' of outdoor life with the entire cost paid for by the government. A number of north shore boys have gone to the ·s ummer camps during the past f~w ~ea~s and . have all been very enthustashc m their praises of .them This year several young men of th~ Village have already ··signed up and are planning to take full advantage of the benefit!i derived from the camps. For thirty days a boy goes to camp ~nd, in. ad<!jti?n to learning the many mterestmg thmgs about the workings of military life, build·3 up his health and increases his self-discipline. a quality necessary to his success in life. Wilmette is entitled to send a limited number to the camps. Those who make early application·s will, of course. be the favored ones when final choosing of applicants is made. The ' re serve army officer in charge of camp recruiting in 'Vilmette is Lieut· Victor Klebba of 1526 Central avenue, Telephone 3478. Young men interested in going to camp should apply to the Lieutenant for further information and application blanks. "One thing should be understood plainly," states Lieut. Klebba, "there is no further obligation than being at camp for 30 days. No '·strings' to put you into the army or anything of that sort. Get your information direct from Lieutenant Klebba or one of the Wilmette Rese(v.e Officers or the American Legion. And when summer is over and you're back home, fit as a fiddle, you'll know a year in advance where you'll want to s.Qend next year's summer enjoyably." Welcome Wilmette IHoward P. Savage Heads · Boys to C. M. T. C. · Lewis Institute Alumni Howard P. Savage, past national Vacation Period commander of the American Legion, was elected president of the Alum~i association of Lewis Institute, Chicago, at a meeting of the association this week. Mr. Savage wa·s in command of the American Legion excursion to Europe in 1927, when 28000 American ex-service men rev1sit~d the lands a~ross the sea. At present he is asSistant_ manager of the North Shore line with offices at Highwood. SUMMER. SCHOOL. Morning Sessions .JuiT 1 to September· I During the Summer, In addition to our regular Stenograplale aa4 Con·merelal lines, we give short, Intensive eourses In Gregg SlaonJuaa4 for high Rehool and eollege students; also rnlew and speed work' for expe_ r leneed stenographers. Students enter aniJ time ; indiiJidual instruction The record of our school justifies us In solleltlng the patronace . of those who are seeking the very best In business training. Watson Business Sebool 528 Davia St. T elepboae Uaivenity 3806 E vaaatoa, Ill. "Un.ity of Religions," Next Baha'i Lecture Mrs. Corinne True of Winnetka will · be the ·speaker next Sunday, at 4 o'clock, in the Baha'i foundation hall, Linden avenue, near Sheridan road. Wilmette. The subject selected is "The Funda mental Unity of All Religions." "True religion is the basis of divine civilization and not war, destined to be the cause of friendship and amity between the peoples of the earth, the illumination of human~ty, rendering service to the world of morality; and conferring everlasting life," states a comment on the lecture. , These Sunday lectures are all free with no . collections. A home tOV\ n enterprise backed by national experience 7 Milan Lusk Will Tour England This Summer Milan Lusk, internationally . famous violinist, who left Wilmette recently on a European concert tour, was heard in London May 20 and his playing made such an impression that one of· the leading London managers, Fred Williams, offered him a tour in July of some of the important English towns inc 1 u ding Toquay, Ramsgate, Bay View, Eastbourn and other centers. Meantime Mr. Lusk will have in June several appearances in conjunction with the Prague Czechoslovak Festival to commemorate the tenth year of that republic's independence. Miss Viola Budinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Budinger of 819 Oakwood aven.ue, returned Thursday of last week from a four months' stay in Florida. are twenty-four Bell operatingcompaniesdevoting their energies to telephone problems throughout the United States. One of these is the Illinois Be11 Telephone Company. It has 30,000 men and women- friends and neighbors of the other people in their towns -working to maintain in its territory the best standards in telephony now known. ln New York, in the Ameri. canT elephone and Telegraph Company and the Bell Telephone Laboratories, are 5,000 THERE person~, including scientists, engineers and consultants in management," engaged in in~ venting better apparatus, and discovering better ways to do thing&. The Illinois Bell Telephone Company with its 30,000 ployees has the use of all that this group of 5,000 in New York discover aod perfect. Likewise the twenty-three other. operating companies. Behind eve·ry telephone in city or ha m1et is the national organization for developing the telephone art. em-· ILLINOIS :BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy One System Universal Service -----------------------------------------------------------------------------'

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