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tA WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1925 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill TeleplHone. ... cov vsvvee Winnetka 2000 Telephone. ...«.ccovocove Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the post office at Win- netka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1925 Depress the Tracks. Give the Business Men Fair Play. Enforce the Traffic Laws. Build the Truck Road CAPTAIN HALE The death of Captain Fraser Hale closed alife of signalachieve- ment and promise. Only 32 at the time of that fatal plunge, it seem- ed as if he had before him many years in which to plan and accom- plish. He was a Winnetka boy, be- ginning his life in Canada, but coming with his parents to Win- netka when a mere infant. He received all his primary and sec- ondary education in our schools. His family is a Winnetka family whose members are known to al- most every Winnetkan. The death of Captain Hale is therefore a loss to the entire com- munity. We all felt the blow. It fell with sickening force upon those who knew Fraser in his earlier years when he was in Win- netka homes passing to and fro on our streets. Those of us who knew that Mr. Hale had just visit- ed his son in Washington could not believe our eyes when the account of the disaster appeared. . In Winnetka, a community of homes, this loss of a brother and v 'a-son is keenly felt. NORTH SHORE ADVANTAGES Of the superior advantages of the north shore of Lake Mich- igan adjacent to Chicago there is none more thoroughly convinced than those who enjoy those ad- vantages. As a summer resort for the vacation months and as a center of superior educational fa- cilities during the school year there is little left to be desired here. We have bathing, amuse- ment provisions, an abundance of fresh air and sunshine, that matchless combination for health, and we have with them all the comforts of home. Who could ask for more? Nowhere, not even in the East of cultural tradition nor in the progressive West, is there more devotion to the educational wel- fare of the children, through kin- dergarten, grade school, high school, and college. We want the best for our children and we know how to secure it. That is an advertisement for our villages which counts for most in the good opinion of the rest of the country. It is an achievement of which we may justly be proud. The calibre of the people of a community is most truly reflected in the quality of its schools and its general attitude towards edu- cation of the youth. That we in the north shore district are so committed to an educational pol- icy that tolerates only the best is our chief recommendation to the world as a place in which to build a home. American home life is none too surely established on an en- during foundation. It is in such communities as ours that that important factor of our national life is being cherished. We have a responsibility to the nation which is of no small significance. That the Hadley Correspond- ence School for the Blind has re- ceived Federal Aid to the amount of $500 annually is good news to all interested in the education of the blind--and all intelligent and humane people are. ELIMINATING PESTS In the matter of the e¢limina- tion of the mosquito it is obvious- ly necessary, if we are to reach a successful culmination of the effort, that we continue unfalter- ing to the very end of the course set. Useless to fight at all if we are not going to carry on until the end of the present season, never weakening because the "quality of the season has favored us in the war or losing enthusi- asm as the end of the summer draws nigh. To keep on with the fight, to observe every necessary detail of the campaign and to come to the end filled with the determination to begin again next season, is the only means to that desirable result © of summer months free from the pests that make outdoor life a punishment during the season when it is most desirable. There is another, and an even more important, feature of the successful campaign against the mosquito. If we persevere to the successful end we will have de- monstrated to an always doubt- ing public what can be done by concerted effort to stop public nuisances and public menaces. If we can stamp out mosquitoes, it is only to be expected that flies will follow very shortly into the limbo of forgotten things. That done, we may turn our really seri- ous attention to rabies, tuber- culosis, the so-called children's diseases, with the purpose of bringing to an end their reign of terror over the human race. It is all quite possible. Tt requires only persistent and concerted ef- fort on the part of every enlarg- ing community, the sort of ef- fort that is now promising to us of the north shore freedom from the mosquito pest that so mars our summers. SCHOOL SPIRIT We hear a good deal of school spirit during the months that the educational program is being car- ried through. Sometimes to the older members of the household it appears that a little too much stress is being placed upon the, exhibition of that enthusiasm for school activities and school or- ganizations that is interpreted as school spirit. If we learn to look upon the stimulation of the sort of loyalty that is called school spirit as training for the larger thing, com- munity spirit, it takes on a new significance. If we learn to see in the loyal support of school teams and school activities the seed of loyalty to and support of community officials and commu- nity activities, it becomes at once not only most important, but al- most the greatest essential in the school experience. We of the north shore com- munities are singularly blessed in our community character but we need to cultivate ever and al- ways that spirit that breeds un- stinted devotion to the common cause and unfaltering loyalty to community ideals. We have the leadership and we have the ideals : we have the spirit, too, but we must cherish it. We have those among us who are able to see vision of the great north shore as it can be in the future, if we watch the steps by which we approach to it. Not to everybody is it given to glimpse the thing that we know today as it will be in years to come, but we all should be able to see the pos- sibilities when they are pointed out to us and bend our efforts to the realization of the dream of the seers. We have here the essentials to make an ideal place to live. Most of us have the appreciation of the advantages that are ours and the desire to make the most of them. Every occasion of community en- deavor proves this to be true. It is a spirit that we wish to develop in our children, those who will direct the future of the commu- nity, and we can accomplish this in no better way than by encour- agement of that deep, though ebullient, quality in our boys and girls, school spirit. THIS AND THAT Until We Find a Title WHAT WE DO IN MICHIGAN Along about time for school to begin And the tourists have gone back to the cit We i fall plowin', our prunin'. We crawl out from our blankets be- fore sunup Shiverin' an' wishin' the fire was built. We get our winter wood and plan our crops: We have to in these scientific days To make ends meet. Maybe on Saturday night we go to the corner Sstore-- . And talk about how the government 1s run, Or whether there's to be another war. Mavbe we go to bed before nine, Instead of dancin' 'till milkin' time. And when Spring rolls round, We get back to the ground. Spray our fruit--plant our crops Of taters, corn and things for tourists. We always manage to work all day; Threshing or makin' hay. Then we take our hard earned cash to the citv. We pav what they ask for things, We take what they give in return. When the tourists come we get our share, But we'd give a lot if they'd play square, And leave our fruit on the trees, And our melons alone! For after all the farmer is the backbone of the Nation, And if you would look around You'd find we are all alike, : Whether we live in Michigan, or in Greenland. We try to get as much out of life as we put in. We'll do the best by you we can, And we're proud we live in Michigan. --A. WOLVERINE. We Refuse to Answer On Advice of Counsel! The following clipping came en- closed to us recently. "The first sign of a woman's love is her desire to run her fingers through a man's hair; and the first sign of a man's love is his willingness to LET her." And under it was the query: "What say?" But how's a bald headed man goin' to tell? . A KITTY BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD, ETC.-- I c-c-can't s-sing, I c-c-can't th-th-think, C-c-can't even p-p-pep up enough to t-take a d-drink; I'm just as miserable as c-can b-be. Don't c-care to h-hear the r-r-radio, D-d-doi't want to s-s-see a s-s-show, D-d-don't c-care to a d-dancing g-go Ever s-since I s-s-stopped to p-p-pat A f-fat b-black p-p-pussy With the d-d-dandiest t-tail so b-b-bushy, While w-walking thru a w-w-woods I-last S-s-saturday!! --Doris L. But Doris, they make such lovely Mar- tin's fur neck pieces! Your experience reminds us of a certain catulistic "pug" who made the same mistake and took on a large black cat and we pretty near had to bury him the next morning. NO HOPE FOR BALD HEADS! writing in regard to the value of vari- ous hair nostrums, said that so far as his own personal experience was con- cerned, they were all n. g., ending thus: "Even massage by a red headed girl failed." Thus endeth all hope! But as our pet barber used to say "Cheer up! Soon it'll all be gone and then you won't have to come and spend your money at my shop." ONLY A LETTER When you think you've lost a friend and can't endure it, And all your live-long days are tinted blue-- When circumstances from her have you parted, And you wonder what in all this world you'll do; Then when one day you get a gladsome message-- A letter yow've been looking for so long-- And she wants to see you soon, and asks how are you. Oh, do you wonder whence and why spring's song. --J. L. D. Yes. And sometimes, J. L. D. a let- ter from a contrib is doubly welcome. WE'RE BUSY AND-- We're hopin' to get out this paper this week and get through the week alive. Danged near too busy to bother with this and that--however, if we're able to be about next week and are still working here when the Editor gets back, we'll be glad to see you-all next week. --T. R. C. PaoL & PIPER CHILDREN'S SHOE SPECIALISTS 1608 Chicago Ave. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS Recently Docevans, of the w. g. n, Go Somewhere LABOR DAY Go Labor Day. summer for Line. Oconomowoc Nashota Lakes Silver Lake Delafield Nagawicka Lake Pewaukee Lake above points. Lake Geneva Twin Lakes Powers Lake North Shore Line trains to Kenosha; luxurious North Shore Line Motor Coaches from there to above points. Through tickets. © TATE Antioch Channel Lake FoxLakeresorts Lake Villa McHenry North Shore Line trains to Waukegan; luxurious North Shore Line Motor Coaches from there to above points. somewhere This is the ¢ last opportunity of the x a glorious outing. Go away for! { two days or three days.' Make vour selection from the alluring vaca-| tion spots listed below.| Go via the North Shore Nehmabin Lakes Waukesha Beach Take North Shore Line trains to Milwaukee--step into T.M.E.R. & L. trains outside the door of our Milwaukee terminal, for Through tickets. Port Washington North Shore Line to Milwau- kee; connections outside the door of our Milwaukee ter- over Elkhart Lake Cedar Lake Crystal Lake Sheboygan minal with Milwaukee Northcrn trains for above points Ludington Manistee Hamlin Lake Portage Lake Onekema Best way to go! North Shore Line to Milwaukee; Pere Marquette night steamer from there; arrive Michigan next morning. Through tickets I-64 Check your baggage through to your point of destination. For schedules, fares and other information, inquire at North Shore ticket office, or at Traffic Department, 79 West Monroe Street, Chicago--Phone Randolph 6226 or Central 8280. Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R.R. Co. Winnetka Passenger Station Telephone Winnetka 963 (3 S