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10 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1925 SUPERSTITION STILL HAS US Survey Shows Tradition Has Firm Hold + High school pupils are steeped in superstitious beliefs to a surprising de- gree, declares Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health director, who bases his opinion upon a survey recently com- pleted by a member of the Illinois State Academy of Science. Ten ob- solete, traditional notions, long since exploded and discredited by scienti- fic observation, were put to 1581 pu- pils in 35 high schools of Illinois, Indi- ana, Kentucky and Tennessee in the form of questions. From 2 to 60 per cent of the pupils expressed a posi- tive belief in the various notions, the faculties of two modern high schools near Chicago requesting that the names of their schools be omitted from publicity in order to avoid embarrass- ment, Some Superstitions "The survey showed," said Dr. Rawlings, that 19 per cent of the pu- pils believe that a 'mad stone' will prevent hydrophobia if applied to a wound created by the bite of a rabid dog; 26 per cent believe that warts can be removed from the hands through a series of mysterious maneu- vers on the part of certain persons called charmers; 60 per cent believe that malaria is caused by drinking stagnant or swampy water contamin- ated in some mysterious way; 23 per cent believe that a horse hair, when left in a watering trough or swal- lowed, will be converted into a snake- like, disease producing worm. Other questions related to 'hoop snakes,' the influence of moon on vegetable growth, the comparative number of ribs in man and women, etc. "Doubtless a number of the pupils still believe in a red flannel undershirt and a string of asafetida about the neck as a preventive of disease, the rabbit foot and horse shoe as good luck charms and the signs of the zodi- ac as exercising a fateful inbuence over animal life. These beliefs have come to the youth through the teach- ings of tradition. Certainly we can- not expect to go very far with indi- vidual health promoting measures with those persons whose minds are filled with such primitive notions about cause and effect. "Meat" for Quacks "The superstitious and the mentally lazy are the victims upon whom quacks and nostrum vendors fatten. People who expose themselves to the most primary knowledge about bio- logy, chemistry and medicine are too wise to part with good money mn re- turn for quackery and "cure-all" nos- trum. "Apparently the remarkable progress already made in the prevention of epidemic diseases has resulted from the application of mass sanitary meas- ures such as the purification of water and milk supplies, efficient sewage dis- posal, compulsory vaccination and quarantine regulations rather than upon any general and widespread knowledge of preventive medicine. New and greater progress in health promotion depends very largely upon educating the individual to the point where he will take advantage of what medical science already has prepared for him. Certainly there is no place for superstition in applying: medical or sanitary knowledge." Evanston Trims Wilmette Schools in Basketball "The Evanston Junior high school won four games of basketball from the Wilmette schools last Thursday, March 5. The games were played at the Evanston school and were a part of the tournament of the North Shore Grammar School Basketball league. The heavyweight and the midget games were the best of the four. In these games the teams were more evenly matched. The scores for the games are fol- lows : Evanston Wilmette Midgets ....c.....u 7 Featherweights ....16 6 Lightweights ...... 14 8 Heavyweights ...... 9 7 "SO THIS 1S PARIS" When Weber and Fields were at the height of their popularity in the days of the famous music hall, an endless num- ber of catch phases were coined that passed in circulation throughout the country. Most of them have passed out of the language but one little phrase per- sists. It came out when a chorus girl entered on a set representing a scene in Paris and forgot her lines. She stood for a moment at a loss and then re- marked, "So this is Paris!" It wasn't parlicularly witty, but it was durable. The result has been that the so-this-is habit of expression has be- come firmly planted in the American language. Which, according to Carey Wilson, who wrote it, is the reason why his new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer photo- play, is called "So This Is Marriage." 9 Request Program Plan For Next Organ Concert A request program is the sixth con- cert of the North Shore Community series on St. Luke's great organ, Ev- anston. It will be given Tuesday cve- ning, March 17, at 8 o'clock, by Her- bert E. Hyde, dean of the Illinois Chap- ter American Guild of Organists. Of the 73 different numbers request- ed, Mr. Hyde was obliged to choose for his program, only those with sev- eral votes. But the list includes a wide variety of music: the Bach "Toccata and Fugue D Minor," two Schubert transcriptions, a Wagner group, the Chopin "Military Pol- onaise," Handel's "Largo;" two short descriptive pieces: Bonnet's "Elves" and Liadow's "Musical Snuff-Box;" Mendelssohn's "War March of the Priests," Widor's "Fifth Symphony Finale," and Mr. Hyde's own manu- script "Lullaby." The last received by far the greatest number of votes. These concerts are free and the pub- lic is cordially invited. America's Utilities Best in World; Says Hoover "We have evolved the best actual serv- ice to the people from utilities that there is in the world," declares Herbert Hoov- er, Secretary of Commerce. "Moreover, there is a diffusion of serv- ice and use among our people double and treble the proportions to the population of any other country. A larger propor- tion of our homes have electric lamps, a larger proportion have telephones. "The wages in our utilities give the highest standard of living and comfort on the earth. If our utilities were dom- inated by the malign forces that some contend, these things would never have come about." OPPOSE GASOLINE TAX The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce this week voted opposition to the tax on gasoline which has been proposed to the state legislature. The local business men were requested to com- municate with representatives in the legislature requesting that they vote against the gasoline tax bill when it is presented for adoption. M'GREGOR'S JOB EASY Malcolm MacGregor, rising young pic- ture actor, has a role that fits him ideally in "Idle Tongues," the new First National picture adapted from the novel, "Dr. Nye." His part is to make love to Lucille Ricksen, and considering Lucille's beauty and charm, Malcolm's job should not have been difficult. In fact, we would have done the work for nothing. = PLACLFUL UR service gives an impression of peace and under- standing, thus re- lieving the bereaved of all worriment and , responsibility. We | carry out all instruc- tions. We Understand Ward & Buchholz FUNERAL DIRECTORS pRl2 CHICAGO AVE. 600 Lapy ASSISTANT Evanston NORTH SHORE BOOTERY 529 Davis Street at Chicago Avenue In the North Shore Hotel Bldg. The Store of Good Shoes COUNTY IS BUSY ON FOREST PRESERVE WORK The recently inaugurated mammoth improvement plan for the Cook County Forest Preserve district is be- ing .completed rapidly, according to reports made to President Anton Cer- mak and members of the County board by Chief Forester Kennicott and as- sociated engineers. Three long needed junior ski jumps, one at Deer Grove, one at Niles, a third at Beverly Hills and the tobog- gan slide at Cumming's Tract, Harlem avenue and Lake street, have been completed. At Salt Creek, the camp shelter, just finished, has aroused so much favor- able comment that it will be used as a model for similar structures all over the Forest Preserve. Another shelter of similar caliber has been erected at Palos Park. Great interest has been shown in the plan for erecting several new tourist camps, and the one at Niles is already 50 per cent completed and will be ready for use early in the spring. 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