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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Jan 1940, p. 3

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F.--ewey Anderson, president of the, Wilniette .State banjc, was elected: presient at the annual. meeting, of the board ofdirectors of Wilmnette1 Commumity -Chest' association, held Monday 4èveing. The complete siaff of officers elected for -the. ensuing year follows: President-F. Dewey Anderson. First vice-president-Lloyd G. Gage. Second vice-president-Mark A. Brown. Secretary--Clra-,Nourse. Treasurer--C.' W. Scliater. According to established proce- dure, 44rectors are lted a t th annual meeting of the Chest asso- ciation, and off icers are elected at the annual meeing of the board of dlirectors. ýFive vacan .cies, due to term expirations, were filled at the annual meeting of the association on December 1l, last. They are as fol- Iows, the ternis being for three years: DiZeétors Chosen Dec. Il S. C. M eyers, 500 Elmwood ave- The retiring- president, Staver1 Moulding, 730 Elmwood avenue, is said to have declined reelection, al- though the board of directors. exert-f ed pressure to gain bis consent to a second term. He has served with outstanding ability, bis most notable achievement being the successful campaign for Chest funds. Long Civlc Leader s *u. ~~IL Ar- * b5oci-l I ilized- Nledicineto Be_ Subject for Debat :resident C vie. League and Women Vot- ~readenteri League'Invite. to Joeint _____________ Dinner Fr.iday, January 26. For the annual joint dinrier meet- in~g o! Wika.tt. Leagui. of W.men Voters and Wilmette Civie league, to be held at Shawnee Country club Friday evening, January 261, a sub- ject of intense and widespread in- terest wiIl be presented for discus- sion. That subject is: "Shail the United States governmènt establish a national systemn of socialized medi- cine?" It i8 especially ernphasized by both groups that the sole obecifin UA& U. Photo F.Dewey Anciersoii,.presidei4t of the Wimette State Bank, tuas elected. president of the Wil- mette Communifty Cheat associa- Th e reason for inciudîng tie ques- tion in a Joint program, it 15 stated, cornes from the fact that in recent years there has beeri a great deal of discussioni to the effect that largeý numbers of Americans do flot re- ceive medical attention necessary to the making of a nation of strong indivIduals. Proponents of the proposed sys- temn of socialized medicine assert -Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, recipi-î ent of the Nobel prize 'in physici and world-renowned member of the Ulniversity'o! Chicago faculty. will be 'the speaker at, the New Trier Sunday Evening club Januar-Y 21, 114 New -Trier High sochool auditori- um. His -subject will be: "Science, Religion, :and Stable Sciety'." Only three American -physicists have been awarded the Nobel Prize. andail three have been members of the -University of Chicago faculty. Dr. Albert A. Michelsoni, famous for bis investigations i the velocity of light, and Dr. Robert A. Millikan, who determined the charge on the elèctron wer e lêpre6eéessor of Dr. Arthur H. Compton, forewnost experimentalist in the field of the cosmic ray. Dr. Karl H. Darrow ham pointed out that Dr. Compton is the leading representative of the new era in physie, as Dr. Michelson was the leadlng figure of the "classlcal regime" of exact measm!ement, anid Dr. Millikani, the chie! leader in the period of transition. initiaUve., Wien lie was ten years old he wrote a paper on his tbeory o! the origin o! the dijierence between the three-toed a n d five-toed ele- phants. Wlien he was 15 he built and flew a glider, and i the next few years had several scientlfic pa- pers published on airplane construc- tion and theories. Given a small (Continued on page 8)

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