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- WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK The Timely Record of Community Events VOL. X, NO. 49. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1922 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS GRIME," TOPIC FOR MEN'S CLUB SESSION Chicago Crime Commission Director to Speak Following Club Dinner Thursday JUDGE THOMSON THERE Expect Large Turnout of Win- netka Men; All Invited How Chicago business men are us- ing . modern, scientific methods to combat crime will be told before the " Winnetka Men's club at its meeting Thursday, February 23, when Colonel Henry Barrett Chamberlin, Operating Director of the Chicago Crime com- mission, will be a speaker. The comission was organized by the Chicago Association of Commerce Jan- unary 1, 1919, following a spectacular payroll holdup in which Edward "Am- munition" Wheed shot and killed one of its members. The commission con- sists of more than one hundred leading business men of Chicago. It is sup- ported by voluntary subscriptions and has gained a national reputation as an authority on crime and criminals in its own field, and is the model upon which a number of similar associa- tions have been organized in several other large cities. It proceeds on the theory that ac- curate and complete information on crime is as essential in attempting to curb it as it is in any other scientific operation. It does no police work. It does not interfer with the state's at- torney, the judges, the board of par- dons and paroles or other law-enfore- ing agencies. It assumes that public officials know their duties and are anxious to perform them properly. It also knows that criminal activities have become a profitable profession in which many thousands of persons are engaged as a matter of choice, "that these have built up a system of "protection, and that lack of co-ordina- tion and co-operation of the law-en- forcing machinery has amounted al- most to a breakdown of criminal justice. Analysis of Crime The story of how crime conditions were brought into the laboratory of the Commission, studied, analyzed and met to bring about increased police activity, more vigorous prosecution and lower crime figures in Chicago during the past two years while other large American cities were reporting an increase, will form the basis of Colonel Chamberlin's talk. Colonel Chamberlin has an intimate knowledge of civie conditions in Chi- cago through many years' experience as a journalist. He has been a re- porter, correspondent, editor and pub- lisher, and was for several years edi- tor-in-chief of the Chicago Record- Herald. Ie has built up an organiza- tion which has attracted country- wide attention. Under his supervision, the Operating Department has supplied to the public officials in Chicago the information which has, despite im- ressions to the contrary, shown a reduction in murder, burglary and robbery ever since the Commission was organized. The dinner will be served promptly at 7 o'clock in the gyvmnasiun of Com- munity house. Judge Charles M. Thomson will act as chairman and introduce the speaker. Every man in Winnetka is invited to the dinner and to hear Colonel Chamberlin's address. American Fund For French Wounded Honors Dr. Brown Winnetka residents will be inter- ested to learn that the American Fund for French Wounded, Incorpor- ated, has recognized the splendid services of Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown who, in the name of the organization labored among the destitute women and children of France during and immediately following the World war. Dr. Brown, according to a letter re- ceived by Mrs. Thomas Taylor, -has been awarded the bronz medal of the Reconnaissance Francaise. Dr. Brown is now engaged in relief work among the peasantry of Serbia, her chief task being the establishment of schools in the smaller communities. Dr. Brown is a resident of Winnetka. TO EUROPE ON BUSINESS J. Endicott Bradstreet of Winnetka sailed this month for Europe where business will take him into France, Spain, Italy and Greece. Mr. Brad- street is in the Import-Brokerage busi- ness. | and in the r VAIL ENTERS COUNTY COMMISSIONER RACE Endorsed by t orth Shore Repub- lican club,' an nization now com- prising 300 rs in this vicinity, national campaign arding-Coolidge Re- dwin E. Vail, 310 Wal- nnetka, this week for- ced his candidacy as nt Republican, for the County Commissioner. s lived in Cook county for hirty years, and has never before been accessible as a candidate for political office. Mr. Vail was born on a farm, near Fairbury, Livingston County, Illinois, where he attended the public school. He continued his education at Chica- go, and entered the real estate and banking business. He was for a num- ber of years connected with the Chi- cago City Bank & Trust company, and resigned that position to accept the presidency of the Kimbark State bank, which bank was later consoli- dated with the Stony Island Trust & Savings bank, in which he was elected First Vice-President and from which he retired in 1918. Mr. Vail is at present secretary of the County Town's National Republi- can organization of Cook county, en- joys a splendid reputation, and is looked upon as a formidable candi- date for the office of County Commis- sioner. His campaign is in charge of Justice Chancellor Jr., 549 Oak street, Winnetka. INDIAN HILL OBTAING ANOTHER TRAIN STOP Saturday Afternoon Stop Se- cured By Committee Report by various committees having in charge development projects spon- sored by the Indian Hill Improvement association, comprised the important part of the recent February session of the association The meeting was a well attended and enthusiastic gathering and reports in- dicated satisfactory progress on such developments as improved railway station facilities, train service, and the station park gituation now in the Chicago courts. One of the important accomplishments reported by the Transportation committee was to se- cure better train service on Saturday afternoons through arrangements made with the Chicago and North- western railroad, whereby the 3:20 P. M. train wil stop at Indian Hill. Splendid Social Program Following the business session the entire audience joined wholeheartedly in a half hour of community singing under thé direction of Mrs. P. B. Kohl- saat, supervisor of music in the Win- netka schoaots. The meeting concluded with a neigh- borly get-together, affording an excel- lent opportunity to the members to be- come better acquainted. Dancing and refreshments vouch for a very enjoy- able evening. Richards Announce Another "Drop In" Night Next Week Rev. and Mrs. James A. Richards, 577 Ash street, will have ancther of their "Drop in Nights" Wednesday February 22. These are informal oc- casions when friends may be certain to find them not so much "at home" as "not out". So often have they appointed at missing friends who come to the home in their absence that they planned this season to an- nounce a number of these "Drop in Nights". been dis- NOTICE TO WOMEN VOTERS All women who desire to study public questions, local, state and national; to share in the distribu- tion of sound information on pub- lic questions; to join in securing the adoption of sound public pol- icies; to learn how to vote at the polls by listening to the candidates of all parties present their plat- forms, have been invited to meet at the Winnetka Woman's club Tuesday morning, February 21, at 11 o'clock, to consider the organiza- tion of a Winnetka League for Women Voters. Local women who are sponsor- ing the movement, described in de- tail in last week's issue af the Winnetka Talk, include: Mrs. William G. Hibbard, Mrs. Maurice H. Lieber, Mrs. George W. Gordon, Mrs. Stephen A. Foster, and Mrs. Theodore E. Brown. NATIONAL SONG WEEK MEETING THIS SUNDAY Entire Village to Join in Sing- ing Favorite Ballads; Musi- cal Organizations to Help SECURE SOLOIST GROUP Mass Meeting Held at Com- munity House at 8 O'clock A program of interest to all Win- netka people has been arranged for this Sunday evening at Community House when the observance of the National Week of Song begins. Ac- tively engaged in planning the pro- gram are five people prominent in the musical education of the young people in this section of the north shore. They are, Mrs. Homer E. Cot- ton, Mrs. P. B. Kohlsaat, Miss E. Foote, Mrs. Burton H. Atwood and Ellis P. Chase. Different groups will participate in the Sunday evening Mass meeting un- der the direction of these leaders and it is hoped a large audience will be present to hear the numbers and to assume an active part in the singing of many familiar songs which have a place on the program. Special Soloist Group A number of Winnetka musicians will assist as soloists, adding great- ly to the enjoyment of the evening. Among these are, Mrs. Arthur Dean, pianist; Mrs. Guy Stuart Bailey, so- prano; Mrs. Asa G. Cooley, contralto; Mrs. Alfred Freeman, baritone; Mr. Arthur Dean, bass. Dr. J. W. F. Davies will explain in a few words what the National Week of Song may mean to this community. Musical organizations taking part in the program include - Christ Church choir, Community chorus, Men's chorus, New Trier High school Glee club, New Trier orchestra, North Shore Country Day school, New Trier high school orchescra. Evxery resident of Winnetka is in- vited and urged to enjoy this evening of music. MARKET-OFFICE BLOCK ERECTED HERE SOON The Village Department of Public Works has issued a permit for the construction of a new business struc- ture at 622 Linden street. Permit was granted to the Evanston Packing company stipulating the approximate cost of the building as $30,000. Village officials granted the permit only after the Packing company had agreed to erect a substantial and at- tractive building. Plans call for a brick structure of strictly modern de- sign that will harmonize with the proposed Village Hall to occupy the site immediately south of the store building. The plans also indicate that the building line will be set back a sufficient distance to permit the proposed widening of Linden street in the block between Elm and Oak streets. The new building will be two stories in height, containing a modernly ap- pointed market on the first floor and offices on the upper floor. Construc- tion is to begin without delay. APPEALS BOARD CALLS HEARING ON ZONING Winnetka's recently enacted zoning law will be put to the test for the first time Monday evening, March 6, when the Board of Appeals will con- duct a public hearing at the Village, according to word this week from Rob- ert Kingery, chairman. The question of changing provisions of the Zoning ordinance with reference to the restrictions on Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in Block 2, Jared Gage's subdivision, lying east of Linden ave- nue, Hubbard Woods, between Scott avenue and Merrill street will come up. The hearing has been called on pe- tition of property owners in that dis- trict requesting that that property be changed from the "A" Residential classification to that of "C" Commer- cial. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits issued this week by the Winnetka Department of Public Works included a $6,500 residence for J. Whiteson; $9,000 residence at 976 Vernon avenue, for Leon J. Klein; $14,500 residence at 322 Forest avenue, for Allan R. Gould; $12,000 residence at 350 Forest avenue, for Dan Green- halgh; $8,000 residence at 370 Win- netka avenue, for Edward B. Smith. QUARANTINE BREAKERS FACING PROSECUTION Violations of quarantine in the in- stances of scarlet fever and other con- tagions are not to be tolerated by the Winnetka Village Department of Health, according to Health Officer C. O. Schneider, who this week was forced to prosecute a Winnetka citi- zen, who was assessed a fine because of a serious quarantine violation. While there have been extenuating circumstances in several instances of quarantine violation, the practice has become so prevalent it is time to put a complete stop to it, according to Dr. Schneider, who explains that the only procedure available under the law is to hale the violators into court. Some fond parents do not seem to appreciate the fact that riding home on the street cars after accompaning a stricken child to the hospital, consti- tutes one of the most flagrant and dan- gerous forms of violation. Such a course lays hundreds of people, and indirectly numberless more, open to the contagion with which the child is afflicted. Quarantine rules must be observed to the letter. They are established to safeguard the public health. It is criminal to violate such regulations and endanger neighbors and the com- munity in general. NEW COMMITTEES OF IMPROVEMENT A55N Music and Scope Committees Added At Annual Session Two important new committees are to be organized at the annual meeting of the Village Improvement associa- tion to be held Thursday evening, February 23, at Community House. These committees are to be known as the committee on Community Music, and the committee on Plan and Scope of the association. The former of these committees has really been in operation for several years, as it was through the efforts of the as- sociation's Art committee, Mrs. William A. Otis, chairman, that the Christmas carols on the Village Green were inaugurated and have been con- ducted for seven years. The associa- tion also recently responded to an appeal from those in charge of the A capella Choir concert given in the Winnetka Congregational church last Christmas week, and has settled the choir's unpaid expenses. Members of the association feel there is an in- creasing need for useful effort for a committee of this character. The Plan and Scope committee will have before it at all times the possible new channels for the thought and work of the association in serving the community by co-operation with the Village Council, the Park Board, the schools and other more specialized bodies of the village. Thursday's meeting will be the oc- casion of the annual election of of- ficers. SAFE PLACES FOR YOUR SPARE MONEY Opportunities for wise invest- ments are to be found in the CLASSIFIED COLUMNS of your own paper. As an example, here is one running this week-- FIRST MORTGAGE 7% GOLD BONDS On Rogers Park two-flat apart- ments. These are investments of the highest class. Incumbrance is only 60% of the total value of the security. Matures in two to seven years. Denominations are of $100, $500, $1,000. . J: H..SCHAEFER INVESTMENTS Telephone Wilmette 434 P. J. GOLBACH Special Representative Telephone Wilmette 1038 READ THE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CLOSELY PUT FINAL TOUCHES ON SKOKIE SCHOOL Citizens Warned To Be Pre- pared For Surprise When Br seth is Opened = LAP. Ac Ci STANDS ON 12-ACRE SITE A Vip BuiltBy Public Subscription; "Big Auditorium, Gym * HR -- "What's all the excitement over Skokie way?' people will be asking each other one of the fine balmy spring days soon to be with us, as crowds of parents, school-children, tradesmen, and Winnetka citizens generally are to be seen marching west on Elm street. "Is the golf season on, or some athletic carnival; or have gush- ing oil wells finally been discovered on that mythical Eldorado to Winnetka's west?' No, more interesting than any of these conjectured reasons will be the real answer to Winnetka's parade Skokie-way some day soon; the open- ing for inspection of the new Sko- kie school. School Nears Completion Absorbed in the busy round of win- ter activities, many of us have almost forgotten that day by day scores of bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, electricians and plumbers have been at work on Winnetka's largest and most-needed public building. Teach- ers operating in crowded and ineffi- cient class-rooms have not forgotten. Mothers put to the inconvenience of half-day sessions for their children have forgotten. But soon all may join with the Board of Education in the celebration of the completion of a great forwara step in Winnetka"s educational Sacilitiag=--ghi new upper- grade school. 4 Prepare for a feat curprish vou who have not seen the building in pro- cess. You have seen the sketch per- haps, displayed while the building of such a school was under discussion, or the ground plan of the 12-acre site. Neither could convey the real atmos- phere of a school 'wilding nestled as this is, in the beautiful trees which shade the Skokie border, nor the op- portunities for recreation made pos- sible by the spacious site, nor the building itself designed to meet modern ideals as to light, ventilation, arrangement and equipment. Kiddies "Deserve It" You will say to yourself: "My, whit advantages our children have that we lacked," and the natural corrollary will follow: "They deserve it." Your pleasure at discovering for yourself the advantages of this spa- cious building is not to be marred by a description here. You will want to see the assembly hall donated by Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Kuppenheimer, and the gumnasium, the gift of the Hibbard family. And then you may take the full measure of pride to which you are entitled, Mr. and Mrs. Winnetka, in the building as a whole, unique as it is in the history of pub- lic educational institutions in that it has been built by popular subscrip- tion. The Skokie school is your school and our school, not alone because it is to house our children is a most for- mative age but because it becomes a reality only through our mutual vol- untary sacrifice. With such a spirit behind it, is not the Skokie School destined, therefore, to play more than an ordinary part in the molding of Winnetka's future? Surely the boys and girls who study in its halls and play on its adjoining fields are to catch a new spirit of democracy and unselfish service from the fact that so many fathers and mothers have cheer- fully given this School that Winnetka might not lag behind in educational advantages. Mrs. M. H. Lieber Seeks County Commission Post Mrs. Maurice H. Lieber, prominent Winnetka club woman, chairman of the Education committee of the Illi- nois State Federation of Woman's clubs, and one of the leading spirits in Parent-Teacher activities, has an- nounced her candidacy for the office of Cook county commissioner. Mrs. Lieber's candidacy was urged and is said to be receiving the active endorsment of the majority of the women voters of the north shore and in other sections of the county. She is the only woman candidate for the office of County commissioner. Mrs. Lieber is listed among the Republi- can candidates to be voted upon in the April Primaries.