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WINNET Winnetka Public Library, Winnetka, Ill. KA W A Clean Newspaper for a Clea? VOL. XIII, NO. 27 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, SE FON M9% | TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS DOCTOR SOUNDS HEALTH WARNING Says Opening of Schools Ne- cessitates Precaution Against Contagion GIVES TIMELY ADVICE Health Officer Has Message for Parents How is the health of that boy or girl in your family who on Monday, next, will fare forth to the classroom for another term of study? That is the question put to every par- ent in the community in a warning note sounded this week by Dr. C. O. Schneid- er, Winnetka's health officer. "With the reopening of the schools," says Dr. Schneider, "children, not only from all sections of the village, but also from the various summer places frequented by Winnetka families, are brought into close contact. Thus, there immediately arises the danger of a com- munication of the contagions common to childhood, and I deem it imperative at this time to sound a warning to the parents. Danger in Exposure "Should any child have been exposed to a contagious disease in the past two or three weeks, there is the danger that the earliest stages of the ailment may develop while the child is in school, exposing scores of children and present- ing the danger of an epidemic with serious complications, in some instances, with the possibility of the death of some innocent child victim. "To avoid the spread of contagion, it is imperative that a child who has been exposed be closely confined to its home until after the incubation period of the time for the development of that particular disease has passed." Warns Against "Guessing" "Please do not guess or take chances regarding the procedure to be followed in the event you know that a person has been exposed, or is suffering from the earliest indications of what may prove to be a contagious disease," Dr. Schneider warns, "but immediately call the health officer for reliable instruc- tions as to what you must do to pre- vent the spread of communicable disease. "The most important duty of the health officer is to keep the Village as free as possible from contagion, and he can achieve his purpose only when there is a full realization on the part of every father and mother of the danger and necessity of strict observance of health regulations. The whole-hearted support and cooperation of every parent is vit- ally essential and this can be obtained if instances of developed or suspected con- tagion are promptly reported and guar- antine regulations religiously observed. Must Report Cases "Regardless of whether or not a phy- sician is summoned, or the case in ques- tion be ever so mild, or one has the ability to make a proper diagnosis, it is the duty of the householder, in the ab- sence of a physician, to at once report to the health officer every known or suspected case of communicable disease. This is a state law and the local health officer is charged with the duty of its enforcement. "The recent successful prosecution in Glencoe of a mother who failed to re- port mild cases of measles in her family, may be cited as evidence of the con- sequences of failure to comply with these health regulations. Such prose- cutions are an unpleasant duty, but the strictest observance of health regula- tions, all fair-minded persons must recog- nize, is not only vitally important but absolutely necessary in the interest of public welfare and the health of every member of the community." "Little Old New York" Community House Film With the opening of school and the resumption of activities at Community House, the fall program of motion pic- tures starts out with "Little Old New York" this week. There will be performances every Tuesday and Friday evenings. Next Tuesday Lionel Barrymore will be shown in "Unseeing Eyes." This picture is said to produce plenty of thrills with variety and wonderful snow scenes. On Friday evening Winnetka will have an opportunity again to see the great favorite, George Arliss, who takes the part of Rajah of Rukh in "The Green Goddess," with Alice Joyce as the heroine. ORGANIZE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN UNIT HERE The Democratic campaign was formal- ly launched at a meeting Wednesday af- ternoon, September 10, at the residence of Mrs. Frank R. Fuller at Indian Hill, representatives from all the north shore towns being present. : Addresses were made by Mrs. Kel- logg Fairbank, national committee wom- an, and by Mrs. Catherine Waugh Mec- Culloch, president of the Illinois Wom- an's Democratic club, who represented Evanston at the meeting. An organization was formed among those asked to serve upon working committee were: Mrs. Horace K. Tenney, Mrs. William G. Hibbard, Mrs. Carter Harrison, Mrs. J. Eager Lloyd, Mrs. Laird Bell, Mrs. S. T. Burke, Mrs. John B. Boddie, Mrs. Preston Boyden, Mrs. Dain Fuller, Mrs. Paul Starr, Mrs. Frederick W. Cope- land, Mrs. Randolph Buck, Mrs. George K. Owsley, Mrs. William Ogden Cole- man, Mrs. Dwight Green, Miss Kolb, Mrs. Leslie A. Weary, Mrs. William B. Hale, Miss Katherine Lloyd, Mrs. Frank R. Fuller, and Mrs. Lloyd Whitman. WINNETKANS OFF TO LEGION MEET Local Post Well Represented at Convention and the At the state convention of the Amer- ican Legion, held recently in Urbana, Illinois, the Winnetka Post received several significant honors. In weigh- ing the value of these honors it must be remembered that the Winnetka Post is only one of 758 posts in Illi- nois and that, therefore, the chance of its receiving any distinction was small. Specifically, these honors are as follows: (1) J. M. Dickinson, Jr. was elected one of the three Illinois del- egates-at-large to represent the state posts at the national convention soon to be held in St. Paul. (2) Harold W. Snell was elected to serve as the delegate for the 7th district of the Legion, a district which covers local territory from Wilson avenue to Win- ngtka. (3) T. J. Lynch, present com- mander of the Winnetka post, was appointed a member of the Rehabilita- tion committee. Winnetka post was the only unit in the state to receive the first two honors, and it is probable that it will be the only post in the entire coun- try to be so honored. Moreover, the rehabilitation plan reorganized by the Winnetka post was unanimously adopted by the state convention and has also been adopted by the Mich- igan and Wisconsin conventions. This plan will be presented to the national convention, which will probably adopt it. J. M. Dickinson, Jr, Harold W. Snell, Raymond Kloepfer and T. J. Lynch will represent the Winnetka post of the American Legion at the National convention of the Legion to be held this coming week in St. Paul. They will be accompanied by Capt. C. C. Montgomery of Nebraska. Christ Church Closed by Organ Installation Structural work in connection with installation of a new organ in Christ church has been completed, it was stated this week, but the organ proper will not be installed until some time in October. Because of this work, Christ church services will be held, temporarily, in the chapel at Oak and Linden streets. Owing to the present crowded con- dition in the chapel, sessions of the church school will not begin until the first Sunday in October, it is an- nounced. Schedule Aims to Avoid Conflicting Date Evil Representatives from the various schools and the Community House will meet early next week to form a schedule for activities in the new season. This arrangement is being made so that there will be no conflicting dates. "Last year, for example, the Skokie school alumni held a dance on the same evening on which another organization held a reunion, with the result that both suffered severly in the matter of at- tendance," one of the school representa- tives stated. At the meeting, the schedule for the use of the Jane Kuppenheimer Memorial hall, for plays and concerts by the public schools, will also be de- | termined. PUPILS AWAIT CALL TO WORK Monday Will Be Registra- tion Day in Winnetka Public Schools TEACHERS IN SESSION Anticipate Material Enroll- ment Increase "You've got to get up! You've got to get up! Monday morning." The Winnetka school buglers are training to make their calls for the beginning of classes Monday morn- ing at 9 o'clock when all the children attending the public schools will re- port to their last year's class rooms to be assigned to their new teachers. Only those pupils who were given special assignments at the close of school to report to other schools or rooms will not come to the rooms they occupied last year. New pupils will be enrolled in the schools in their neighborhood start- ing at 8:15 o'clock Monday morning. There will be some one in éach of the school buildings to register the new pupils and to assign them their class- rooms, according to Carleton W. Washburne, superintendent of schools. Class Work Monday All classes will begin immediately after the children are assigned to their new rooms. All the teachers have been attending the institute conducted this week at the Skokie school for the purpose of thoroughly acquainting the new instructors with the Winnetka system. The Skokie school will have an in- creased enrollment of about 100, ac- cording to an estimate made by Wil- lard Beatty, principal, who stated that the registration was 325 last year. Class work in all the schools will start at 9 o'clock, with the exception of the seventh and eighth grades in the Skokie school, which will start at 8:25 o'clock and conclude at 3:10 o'clock instead of 3:40 o'clock, begin- ning Tuesday. Book Store Open Monday The lunch room at the Skokie school will be opened and ready for service starting Tuesday. The book store will be opened Monday. Athletics will be given an early start and teams will be organized soon after the school opening. In addition to the regular sports that have been on the program, including football, basketball, baseball and track, hockey has been added for girls. All the chil- dren are urged to join teams under the supervision of Harry Clarke, the athletic director. Members of the winning teams in each pastime are awarded school emblems. The Students' council of last year has compiled a booklet giving com- plete details of the Skokie school and the system of instruction employed. There is also a description of the type of activities carried on at Skokie school and the nature of awards made each year. A diagram of the school is shown with a list of all this year's teachers. These booklets will be giv- en to the pupils on registration day. The Skokie school does not have a self government system for the pupils, but a student council is chosen each year from the eighth grade roster to cooperate with the teachers in the matter of maintaining disipline. START THE SEASON RIGHT BY READING OUR WANT ADS I'T PAYS REE MENS CLASS "DISCUSSIONS SEPT. 21 Sunday, September 21, will mark the resumption of the sessions of the Men's Sunday Morning class at the Congregational church, it was an- nounced this week by Burton H. wood, president of the class. Beginning next Sunday the class will consider a series of subjects bear- ing upon vital religious questions. The program, now in course of for- mulation, calls for presentations by leaders from outside the village, in addition to the subjects discussed by William- Ayer McKinney, class lead- er, and other local men. The subject of discussions at the opening session will be, "How Shall We Think of God?" The complete program for the sea- son will be announced in the very near future, it is explained. The Sunday Morning class is a well established Winnetka institution. Dis- cussions are held in the American Legion room at Community House at 9:30 o'clock. Every man in the vil- lage is invited and urged to attend the sessions and enter into the member- ship of the class. Officers of the class include, William Ayer McKinney, leader; Burton H. Atwood, president; Mortimer B. Par- ker, vice president; Milton J. Coulter, secretary, and Albert M. Scharf, treasurer. FALL RALLY DAY HERE TOMORROW Congregationalists to Begin Autumn Activities At- Tomorrow is to be Fall Rally Day at the Winnetka Congregational church. This is the first service of the autumn season; both the ministers, Rev. James A. Richards and Dr. J. W. FE. Davies, have returned from their vacations and will conduct the morning service of worship. The topic of Mr. Richards' address will be "Major Hopes for the New Season," when he plans to present to the members of the church his con- victions of what are the essential lines of work for this church in the com- ing year. Everyone who is interested not only in the church, but also in the welfare of the village, is invited to be present. The Communion will be administered at the close of the sermon. F. William Fleer, organist, and the quartet choir--Miss Lacey, Mrs. Slade, Mr. Gash and Mr. Johansen, will be present. The choir numbers are: Anthem--"He that dwelleth in the secret place" ...i. vedo. eh Bullard Offertory Anthem--*"Art thou weary?" del Riego The Church school, with all its de- partments, will assemble a week later, September 21; fuller notice of this will appear in next week's issue of the Talk. Summer but a Memory; Bathing Beach Closed After one of the chilliest summers experienced in years, the Winnetka public bathing beach will end its sea- son Sunday night, September 14, when it will be closed officially. The attendance at the beach has been fair throughout the season, con- sidering the unseasonable weather. The largest crowds were usually at the beach on Saturdays and Sundays, though on several occasions when it was quite warm many bathers fre- quented the beach in the evening hours. In the mornings and afternoons the beach was mainly patronized by chil- dren who were also the most promi- nent in the carnival held August 10. One of the largest crowds of the year witnessed the water carnival which attracted some of the best swimmers on the north shore. Lee Adams' Pharmacy Is All Fixed for Business The "business as usual" sign is figuratively suspended over the entry way to the Adams pharmacy in the new Gonsalves building at Elm and Linden streets. For several weeks Alva Lee Adams, the well known owner of the establish- ment, has been laboring with utmost diligence in setting the new location in order. New fixtures and incidental appointments have now been ar- ranged, a most attractive soda foun- tain installed and all departments of the business enlarged to meet the ever-increasing demands of the buy- ing public. SECOND PARLEY ON PARK PLAN Park District Calls Adjourned Public Hearing for Mon- day, September 15 CONDEMNATION, TOPIC Acquisition of Huge Skokie Tract Sought The board of local improvements of the Winnetka Park district this week announced an adjourned public hearing on Monday, September 15, for the pur- pose of considering further the plan of that body to secure additional park lands in the Skokie, for the acquisition of which legal proceedings were recent- ly instituted. At the original meeting on August 11, the discussions developed into a sort of free-for-all open forum that, per- force, admitted a variety of argument, marked by the explosion of many a verbal bomb, generally directed at some individual and calling for a far from gentle rebuke in kind. Next Monday's hearing will he held in the Assembly room of Community House in the hope of preventing the lamentable crowding that marked the first session in the Village hall council chambers. The discussion, it is stated, will positively be confined to the ques- tion in hand, namely the consideration of the Park district's plan to acquire approximately 10 acres of Skokie land to be added to the present Skokie Play- field premises. The property in question is described as comprising 40 acres situated immediately west of the east nine holes of the Playfield Golf course: 40 acres immediately south of the inside nine holes, and approximately 20 acres lying west of Crow Island and extend- ing to Hibbard road. and condemnation proceeding have been instituted to acquire this property for park purposes. The plan of the Park district is endorsed by a petition signed by 300 citizens of the village. Must Stick to Point "At the recent public hearing on this question," states a member of the Park board, "the board of local improvements of the Park district heard a variety of discussions, many of which had no direct bearing on the question of the benefit to Winnetka as a Village of allowing real estate development to take its natural course, or on the other hand, of condemning the property and drain- ing it sufficiently for park purposes. "So much public interest was ex- pressed in the meeting that it seemed advisable to the chairman to adjourn the hearing to September 15, so that time could be given to securing more accurate data, both from an engineer- ing and legal standpoint. Personal Grievances Barred "The board of local improvements in discussing the meeting hopes that dis- cussion will be limited at that time to include facts having direct bearing on this project, rather than to include the airing of individual grievances of those whose cellars have been flooded or gar- dens inundated by the high waters of this summer." A full and frank discussion of es- sential matters is expected and interest is at such a pitch that the meeting will undoubtedly be very well attended. The hour of meeting is 8 o'clock. Noted Church Worker Will Join Christ Church Staff Mrs. William S. Bishop, former di- rector of Religious Education in Christ church parish, will return to the village this fall and again assume direction of that work, it was an- nounced this week at the offices of Rev. E. Ashley Gerhard, the rector. Mrs. Rishop, who was active in Christ church school work from 1913 to 1917, has the distinction of being the first paid Sunday school worker in the United States. Her work in Christ church parish became a model for similar work in churches through- out the country. Some time after leaving Winnetka Mrs. Bishop organized the Bishop Book shop for the purposes of dis- tributing church literature and sup- plies. Mrs. Bishop is to reside here with her son, Thomas N. Bishop, and will assume her duties in Christ church parish on October 1. She is consid- ered one of the most efficient church workers in the United States and will have complete charge of the Sunday school and young people's depart- ments. Special assessment