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he pais 2a NESE 3 WINNETKA TALK A Weekly News-Magazine for Winnetka VOL. XV, NO. 5 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, APRIL 10, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS PROFESSOR BAILEY TO ADDRESS WOMEN VOTERS Noted Expert on Municipal Sur- veys to be Principal Speaker at Meeting April 12 William I. Bailey, professor of sociology at Northwestern university, will be the speaker at the annual luncheon meeting of the Winnetka League of Women Voters at Com- munity House on Monday, April 12. Professor Bailey is a specialist in sub- urban surveys and has been active in the work of the Chicago Regional Planning association. He has been associated with many nation-wide community studies, lecturer before numerous national conferences and frequent contributor to technical journals. He was also director of the special study of Winnetka recently, which has contributed not a little to giving Winnetka its nation-wide repu- tation as a model industrial suburb. His subject will be "A Suburb Sets the Pace." At the close of Professor Bailey's talk Mrs. John Vander Vries will dis- cuss briefly the scope of various of- fices for which candidates are running at the coming Primaries. She will out- line the powers and duties the elected officers will have, and the gqualifica- tions necessary for fulfilling adequate- ly these duties. She will also give in- structions in voting; illustrated with a sample ballot. Special emphasis will be laid on the fact that in former years voters have repeatedly marked six or seven names in a section where the ballot says "mark 5", or five names where the instructions are "mark 3." Reports have come from the tellers at former elections that voters do not seem to realize that such careless fail- ure to follow exactly the instructions on the ballot throws out the vote. Elect New Officers Instead of the reading of the annual report of all the standing committees --the usual bugbear of all annual meetings--a brief dicest of these re- ports will be given by Mrs. Gross T. Williams. The election of officers for next vear will also take place at this meeting. The ticket put up by the nominating committee is as follows: President, Mrs. John Vander Vries; first vice- presidenf, Mrs. J. T. Sampson: sec- ond vice-president, Mrs. Leslie Good- er; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Eu- sene Rummler; recording secretary, Mrs. Gross T. Williams; treasurer, Mrs. Edwin E. Brown. Luncheon will be served at 12:30 o'clock at Community House, and the speaking will beein promptly at one o'clock. Mrs. Walter Benson, nresi- dent of the Winnetka League, will be in the chair to wind up her excellent two years' service to the organization. Enjoy Easter Vacation in Northern Michigan Fred Rummler, Harold Levant, Dave Rumsey, Ayres and Tommy Boal, members of the Young People's club of the Winnetka Congregational church, returned last Saturday from a most delightful trip to Tower Hill, up near Sawyer, Mich., the hundred mile trip being made in the Boal car driven by Tommy, who was home from Dart- mouth. The boys report great sport coasting on an improvised sled which they constructed of barrel staves and some boards. NEW COUNCIL ON JOB Retiring Council Plans to Proceed With New Fire Station; New Mem- bers Sworn in Winnetka's retiring Village council held its last meeting on Tuesday eve- ning of this week following which the newly elected council members were sworn in by Village President John S. Miller, and the new council met long enough to pass a motion for adjournment. Those new members who were sworn in were Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, a member last year and re-elected to fill a one year vacancy, Donald F. Mc- Pherson, who was also re-elected and R. H. Schell, a new member. Another newly elected member, Carl J. Easter- berg, was absent. Before its adjournment the old council transacted a number of mat- ters of business which had been be- fore it for some time. It was decided to go ahead with the detailed plans for remodeling the old Village hall into a fire station and a call for plans and estimates was issued. The Win- netka Plan commission has already aoproved the proposed location of the fire station and the matter was re- ferred to the Finance committee of the council for its approval before the final decision to begin construction is made. : The purchase of a Ford one-ton dump truck for the public service de- partment was authorized. The new truck will replace horse-drawn equip- ment and will cost $696. The purchase of two new Excelsior-Henderson mo- torcycles for the police department and 300 feet of 214 inch double-jack- eted fire hose for the fire department was also authorized. Crack Revolver Shot to Demonstrate in Village _One of the best revolver shots in the United States and the fastest man with a one-hand gun now alive will give a demonstration of pistol and revolver shooting before police and officials of north shore villages at the Winnetka Village hall Tuesday evening, April 13. He is J. H. Fitzgerald, a traveling rep- resentative of the Colt Arms company, a member of the New York State constabulary, the New Jersey State police, and coach of the Buffalo police department in revolver and pistol shooting. Mr. Fitzgerald will give demonstra- tions of shooting and of disarming an opponent before he can pull the trigger of his own weapon and will also talk on methods of training police in marks- manship. All police officers and mem- : bers of village boards on the north shore have been invited to attend the demonstration. Mr. Fitzgerald comes to Winnetka through the courtesy of Maj. Francis W. Parker, a. resident. "GET OUT AND VOTE" Here's a list of the approaching ciections in which every citizen of this community will be asked to cast a ballot: Saturday, April 10--School District election. High School District election. Tuesday, April 13--Primary election (county, state and senatorial). Register Light Vote in Annual Village Ballot The Village ticket, without opposi- tion except in the race for Village Mar- shal and Collector, carried the field with a very light vote at the Village election held last Tuesday. The total vote cast, as indicated by the returns, was 1,070, only a little more than one third of the total vote cast at the elec- tion last year. The sole opponent of the Village ticket was Dan Connolly who received 293 votes against 777 for the Village ticket marshal candidate, Theodore Flynn. The only close vote in the election was on the opposition to levy a tax of two mills for maintaining a municipal band. The vote on this was 425 for and 587 against. Those who received the largest individual votes were Reu- ben H. Schell, for trustee, and Stella Winslow, for village clerk, both of whom received 928 votes. Several names were written in on the ballot but drew only the one vote. Twenty-eight hun- dred votes were cast at the election last year, when a hot fight on park board trustees was staged. Proponents of the municipal band proposition attributed its defeat to the short notice on which it was placed on the ballot and to the lack of publicity which it received. The matter was brought before the village council about a month before the election and after a discussion in which no opposi- tion was developed a resolution was passed to place it on the ballot. It was felt that Village sentiment was in fa- vor of the proposal and very little cam- paigning was done for it. KEEP VILLAGE CLEAN Motor-Driven Street Sweeper to Be Secured by Village; Promises Ef- ficient Service Winnetka is to have a new motor- driven street sweeper, which will probably be delivered by April 15. in time for the spring clean-up. The Village council authorized the pur- chase of the machine, which will cost 1 $6.370, at its meeting last Tuesday eve- 'ning. This action was taken on the i recommendation of Village Manager H. L. Woolhiser, and with the ao- nroval of the streets, drainage and forestrv committee. Mr. Woolhiser's report to the coun- {cil showed that by the use of the ma- chine the streets of the village could be cleaned for about $5000 a year, {ahout the same cost as in the past, but that a much better job could be done and the streets swept more frequently. It is planned to sweep the streets in the business district at least everv other day during hours when traffic is absent, and the residential sections at least every two weeks. It is also thought that an arrangment with the Village fo Kenilworth to sweep its streets will be made, as the machine will be easily able to handle the work in both villages. The purchase of this equipment has heen contemplated for some vears, but it was deferred until the village had adequate service vard facilities for the maintenance and repair of the new machine. Tt was the feeling of the council that the residents of Winnetka have a right to expect clean streets at { 211 times, in accordance with other 'Winnetka standards. PARK BOARD ADOPTS BEACH TICKET PLAN Set Moderate Fee for Family Season Tickets; Will Retain Trio of Lifeguards At a recent meeting of the Winnetka Park board, the question of having life guards at the Elder lane beach was discussed, as it has been each Spring since the Elder lane beach was ac- quired. This park and beach with the im- provements, including the pier, repre- sent an investment of about $52,000, which is now enjoyed by a few picnic parties and children who have to be accompanied by adults in the absence of beach supervision. The annual expense which has to be met in maintaining all of the parks makes it impracticable to maintain beach supervision at both beaches, al- though the increasing population makes it advisable, it is explained. In two other north shore suburbs, the beaches are selfsustaining. In one, family season tickets are sold at five dollars each which entitles the entire family and house guests to the use of the beach for the season. Use Family Ticket Plan It has been decided to adopt the same .plan for Winnetka, the family season tickets being two dollars if purchased before June 15, and three dollars after June 15. For those who prefer to pay each time the beach is used, the charge will be ten cents for children and twenty- five cents for adults for week days: twenty-five cents for children and fifty cents for adults on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with an additional charge of twenty-five cents for the use of the lockers at the Lake Front beach. With the money thus made available, guards will be maintained at both beaches and a matron at the Lake Front beach and increased police super- vision will be provided, so that Win- netka people can find increased en- jovment and security in the use of either beach. : Retain Three Life Guards There will be three qualified life guards, two of which will be selected as heretofore. The third or junior life guard will be a Winnetka boy, who will be required to pass a life saving test and whose references as to fitness in other respects are satisfactory. The salarv will be seventy-five dollars a month for the three months from June 15th to September 15th. Applications for this position should be addressed to the Winnetka Park board, and should be received prior to May 15. It is hoped that in time all three guards may be chosen from Winnetka. Hold School Vote Today at Horace Mann School The Winnetka school election will be held Saturdav, April 10, at Horace Mann school, where the polls will be open from 1 to 6 o'clock in the after- noon. There are to be three members of the Board elected, Mrs. Margaret C. Blatchford and Mrs. Alice O. Moul- ton, who are present incumbents, and will succeed themselves, and Barret Conway, a candidate to succeed Wal- ter Shoemaker, resigned.