I'S WINNETK \ Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk A WEEKLY TALK --_- VOL. VIII, NO. 46. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920 TEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS IMPROVEMENT IN "FLU" SITUATION Though More Cases Were Reported in Past Week Than in Previous Week, Situation is Fcund Improving MEASLES ARE NOW RAGING Find Thirty Cases in Village; Horace Mann School Exposed and Sev- eral Children Down Very slight improvement in the in- fluenza situation in Winnetka was re- ported early today by Health Com- missioner Schneider. Eighty-four cases of the malady were reported to the Health department during the past seven days. The Health department record of the cases reported to date follows: January 18 1. i vases o's vale 3 January 15 .codicieinonsrin irae 1 January 16 ji. c aie vena ainsne ss 7 January 17 cocci civ innniniaay 10 January 18. vei via one rsieinss pat. January l9 Ji... WE BY January 20 .a....0vi0eiineiennnn 12 January 2) 00... ch ae 17 January 227... ch satiate 20 January 23... cei, 8 January 24... eroded, 7 January 25° Ln Ea 12 January: 20 coir ansna vives 23 January 27... ines 13 January 28 o.oo. evar 13 JanUATY 29 ure iver rains ei 8 Slight Fluctuation The epidemic is fluctuating in char- acter and residents are urged to em- ploy every precautionary measure although slight improvement is evi- dent at present. All persons suffering colds must be confined to their homes. In addition to the influenza there is raging an epidemic of measles of consilerable proportions. The Hor- ace Mann school children have been exposed to the ailment and several of the children are confined with fully developed cases of the disease. Watch the Children! Parents are requested to guard carefully children suffering colds, says Health Commissioner Schneid- er. The symptoms of influenza and measles are much the same, he de- dlares, and the utmost precaution must be taken to curb further spread of the latter. Thirty cases of meas- les have been reported to the Health department. 3 Pneumonia cases developing from the influenza have been reported in considerable numbers. Two deaths of pneumonia were reported this week. FORMER VILLAGE MANAGER JOINS GOODYEAR COMPANY Robert L. Fitzgerald, Whe. Resigned in 1917 To Enter Service, To Take Position in East Robert IL. Fitzgerald, formerly Winnetka Village Manager, more re- cently a resident of Wilmette, will go to Akron, Ohio, in the near future to be associated with the Goodyear Rubber Company. Mr. Fitzgerald expects to be in Ak- ron for a few weeks. Later he will go to Philadelphia and other eastern | points where he will be engaged in Pioneer work making a transporta- tion survey along motor truck lines with the object of developing motor truck distribution in that section of the country. Mr. Fitzgerald resigned his posi- tion as Village manager in 1917 to enter the military service. WINNETKA FIREMEN FIGHT BIG BLAZE IN GLENCOE Winnetka firement Saturday even- ing were called to extinguish a blaze at the home of F. G. Gaertner, 679 Longwood avenue, Glencoe. The work of Chief Houren's men were instrumental in saving adjoining buildings and a portion of the Gaert- ner residence. The Glencoe department fought the blaze in the home Saturday morning. After leaving the fire they damaged their fire fighting apparatus and could be of no service when the blaze re- curred in the evening. WOMAN'S SOCIETY MEETING There will be an all-day meeting of the Woman's society of the Win- netka Congregational church, Wed- nesday, February 4, beginning with a business meeting at 11 o'clock. Luncheon will be served at 12:15 olclacl l | | PROTESTS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PLAN J. E. Lutz Holds Full Grade Schools are Most Desirable for Winnetka Children; Most Feaible Ar- rangement ANSWERSTHOMSONLETTER Would Have New Trier Township High School Continued as Place for High School Werk The Winnetka Weekly Talk, Winnetka, Illinois. Gentlemen :-- Referring to communication from Charles M. Thomson in your issue of January 24, 1919; I also attended the meeting referred to in that letter held at the Greeley school and, to my mind, there was not so much disposition to criticise the Winnetka School Board as there was to protest certain action of the School Board. Mr. Thomson in his letter takes the position that because the mem- bers of the School Board have been elected by the people of the Village that their acts are not open to criticism or protest. the members of the School Board are well meaning, and doing their very best according to their views, but just because a man is elected to the School Board, or to any other public body, does not mean that he is in- fallible in his judgment, and such would be the inference that would be drawn from Mr. Thomson's letter. And just because I protest against certain action by the School Board does not necessarily mean that I criticise. Claims Right To Protest I believe, however, that I have the right to protest any action taken by the present or any other Winnetka School Board that forces me to either send my daughter to a private school, or to dispose of my home in Winnetka and move elsewhere, in order to enable her to attend the public schools. I believe, too, that the majority of the people who pur- chased homes in the neighborhood of the Samuel Sewell Greeley school did so because they wanted to be near a full grade school, which was what the Greeley school was built for and what the School Board, who built that school, intended it to be. I judge from what was said at the meeting referred to in Mr. Thomson's letter, that the Winnetka School Board has decided to built a school on West Elm street because they want a Junior High school. Mr. Washburne was asked at that meeting if the New Trier High school had ap- proved of the Junior High school idea in Winnetka Public schools and he said the matter had not been taken up, so far as he knew. Inas- much as the children of the Win- netka grade schools, get their high school education at New Trier it would seem to me that it would be advisable and good judgment on the part of the Winnetka School Board to first confer with New Trier High school as to that school's ideas of the feasibility of the Junior High school idea. Cites Promises Three or four years ago, a number of parents in the Greeley vicinity were told .by the School Board then in power and the School Superintendent then in. office, that there would never be more than four grades in the Greeley school and the departmental idea would be car- ried on from the fifth grade upward. We now have fifth and sixth grades in all the sehools and are told that the departmental idea will start in If the action of Winnetka School Poards is above criticism or protest, then which of these School Boards was right and how about the Board that built the Greeley school for full | eight grades? So far as I know, no good and valid reason has been given why full eight grade schools cannot be main- tained in all three Winnetka Public schools. Let these thrée schools be full grade schools and, if necessary, let the West Elm street school be built later and be used as a grade school when needed. Yours very truly, J. E. Lutz BACK ON THE JOB H. P. Clarke, director of Ath#etics at Community House, is again at his post following several days confine- ment with the influenza. . There will be a program Mr and Mes Tohn WW _Strackhein I believe that. school | Wanted: Proper School Centralization 'ment, but inadequate space". "The manual training room at the Horace Mann school--excellent equip- PE | "We have centralized sewing and cooking work, children walking from the other schools to this artificially lighted basement room. Proper centraliza- tion requires rooms built for the purpose". : H. B. Gates Back From Central Zone District Manager of Chicago Tele- phone Company Returns To Du- ties after Month in Panama H. B. Gates, district manager of the Chicago Telephone company, is back in his office after a month's trip to his son in Panama. He returned to the north shore to tackle the problem of conducting the speedy and accurate telephone serv- ice which the offices had been giving despite the depleted force of switch- board ojerators due to the influenza epidemic. It was a serious problem that Mr. Gates had to tackle immediately upon his return from a month in the sun- ny climate of the canal zone and Panama. "The weather is delightful down there," said Mr. Gates. "It is a sum- mer temperature all the time and I believe that the canal zone will be a very popular place for winter tour- ists from the United States, when people realize the attractiveness of the place." He returned a few days ago from the first vacation he had taken for several years and today has plunged back into working out the abnormal problems the company is facing in ithe epidemic. BOY SCOUTS GIVEN FIRST AID KITS AT DRILL DOWN Scoutmaster Davies Tells Troop Members they Should Practice First Aid At the Boy Scout meeting of the Winnetka troop No. 1, held at Com- munity House on Thursday evening, January 22, first-aid kits were pre- sented. Scoutmaster Davies explain- ed why every scout should have a kit. He pointed out that in order to "be ready to help other people at all times" each scout should also know how to practice first aid. The re- sults of the contest were as follows: Robert Hall, first prize; Richard Goble, second prize; Cabray Wort- ley, third prize. At a recent drill-down the three following scouts excelled: Fred Roe, first; Cabray Wortley, second; Hol- don Anderson, third. CHURCH HOLDS JUBILEE The Sacred Heart church will hold a Jubilee Carnival Monday, February 16, in honor of the success of the 1 ill be dancing after Authority on Russia At Local Men's Club Romeyn Taylor Recounts "Impres- sions of Revolutionary Russia", at Dinner Club Graham Romeyn Taylor, recently of the American Embassy at Petro- grad, was the speaker before the Men's club of Winnetka Tuesday evening, January 27. The occasion was the monthly dinner of the club held at the Community House. Mr. Taylor spoke on the topic, "Impres- sions of Revolutionary Russia". Mr. Taylor recounted his ex- periences in Russia under three re- gimes, the rule of the Czar, the reign of the Provisional government un- der Kerensky and the present Soviet government under ILenine and Trotsky. Mr. Taylor declares the policy of deportation of Reds to be an unwise act of the United States government. It is his belief that it would be far better for the government to "keep these so-called 'reds' in this coutitry under our watchful? eyes than to ship them away to Russia, where they spread distorted stories about America that are doing this country a great deal of harm." "We want friendship of Russia," he is quoted as saying, "and we are spoiling it by this method of deport- ing these radicals. We maintained a fair method of informing Russia about American ideals but now that has been withdrawn and a mission- ary delegation of the most grotesque mature has been substituted. 'We have given the field in Russia free to 'these 249 'reds' who will spread the of American |' most distorted ideas democracy." VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA Frank Buscher, employe at the North Shore Ice company, died on Thursday morning of pneumonia brought on by influenza. Funeral ar- rangements had not been announced last Friday. CHIMNEY FIRE The fire department was summon- ed to the home of R. G. Johansen, 503 Willow street, Monday evening to extinguish a chimney fire. The damage was small. SEVERE COLD John Nazarian, proprietor of the Parisian Dye House, was confined to his home early this week suffering a severe cold. FIREMAN'S BALL Winnetka Fireman's annual SAY WINNETKA NEEDS CENTRALIZED SCHOOL {Board of Education Plans to Employ Modern Instruction Methods in the Proposed New School Building SPECIALIZED TEACHERS Hold Upper Grades Need Highly Specialized Instructors and De- partmental School (By Board of Education Public; Committee). n Publeity : The progressive school systems throughout the country recognize the need for departmental work in the upper grades. By the time children reach the sixth or seventh grade they require teachers who have specializ« ed. The teacher who is an expert in history and can devote her whole time to preparing and teaching this important subject to various classes can give much more to her "pupils than a teacher who has to scatter her encrgios Dyer half a dozen subjects. we organized upper T school should have Lg ade equipment for manual training, print- ing, cooking, sewing, science, phy- sical education, music, art, literature, grammar and composition, history and geography, civics and mathe- matics. To supply teachers and equip- ment for all these subjects in each of the present three schools in Win- netka would not only be extravagant, but financially impossible. The mere upkeep of the departments in addi- tion~to all other expenses would be beyond the income of the Board of Education, and to this would have to be added the cost of building special rooms for this work at all three schionls. Ask Centralization The only way the situation can be handled is by centralizing the work mn one building. This is the proced- ure all over the country. The build- ing of departmental schools, some- times known as "Intermediate Schools" or "Junior High Schools" is proceeding with great rapidity in all the leading cities and many of the more progressive small towns of the United States. Usually there is one such departmental school for each three to five lower grade schools. It is such a centralized department- al school that Winnetka proposes to build. In it, children will be able to get instruction that will fit their ages, interests and needs. By estab- lishing such a school Winnetka is keeping pace with intelligent, pro- gressive school systems throughout the nation. SNOW, SNOW, STAY AWAY! SAYS CLIFFORD WILLIAMS Somebody Took His Galoshes from the Winnetka Woman's Club; He Got a Pair that's Too Small How could one be so mean in these stormy times as to carry away on one's feet a pair of galoshes as is the lawful property of another. Clif- ford Williams, 200 Maple Hill road, Glencoe, came away from the Win- netka Woman's club Tuesday night and got his feet all saturated. Be- cause why? Somebody "got there first" and took away his galoshes. Williams found another pair, but they belonged to another. They were oh, very much too small for him. Now everybody watch for the guy who wears the oversized galoshes. SUSPEND SCOUT MOVIES Boy Scout movies at Community House will be suspended during the month of February, is the announce- ment from Scout headquarters this week. BOY SCOUT MOVIES Charlie Chaplin in "Shanghaied", and Evelyn Greeley and Carlyle Blackwell in "Courage for two" will be the Boys Scout film attractions at Community House this afternoon. BACK FROM VACATION Walter Gibbon, Village Superin- tendent of Public Works, returned to Winnetka this week after several days spent in South Bend, Indiana,. where he visited a brother. "THE BUSHER" Charles Ray in "The Busher" will' be the attraction at Community House movies next Friday evening. =~ 3