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October 1, 1927 WINNETKA TALK P. T. A. LAUNCHES ITS YEARLY MEMBER DRIVE Funds of Association Furnish Homes for Teachers and Help Brighten School Rooms Today the Winnetka Parent-Teacher association launches its big member- ship campaign. The questions arise each year--""Why should I join the P. T. A.? What does the money go for and what does my child get out of it?" Of the entire amount of money col- lected each year, fifty percent goes to the Winnetka P. T. A. fund and fifty percent is divided between the four schools in proportion to their enroll- ment. The fifty percent that goes into the Pp. T. A. fund is used in the following ways: First--to pay a ten cent tax per member to the state organization. Second--to secure speakers for the meetings held every year and open to all parents of the community whether or not P. T. A. members. Furnish Teacher Homes Third--this year to furnish two apartments complete for the teachers to rent, one in the new Humphrey building and one in the Eckart build- ing. The expense of furnishing these apartments has been an unusual strain on the P. T. A. funds so that the in- terest and prompt financial support of every parent is urgently requested. The fifty percent going back directly to the schools is divided between various rooms and is used to buy cur- tains, or other equipment not supplied by the Board of Education. Every room has its need. The dues are from twenty-five cents to one dollar. Contributing member- ships are five dollars and may be sent to Mrs. Warren W. Shoemaker, 45 Green Bay road, Hubbard Woods, Ill Every parent should join. Please pay without waiting for someone to Pay you so that your children in their school may have the benefit promptly, the association pleads. Goodwin to Offer Course on "Best Known Disciple" Rev. Thomas A. Goodwin of the Winnetka Congregational church, is soon to offer a course of study that represents something of a departure. The subject will be "The Best Known Disciple." The life and letters of Paul will be explored with special attention to their meaning for the present day. The method of the course will be a departure in that it contemplates three weeks of intensive work with three meetings each week on Tuesday, Wed- nesday and Thursday nights. It is ex- pected the first meeting will be on October 11. It is believed by following this intensive method those who enroll in the class may expect to get much more of permanent benefit than they would of a course spread over nine weeks. Dancing Instructor Guest of Theda Bara Miss Alicia Pratt, who opens her school of dancing in Winnetka on October 21 and 24, has just returned from a month's visit with Miss Theda Bara, at her Beverly Hills, Cal., home. While she was Miss Bara's guest, Miss Pratt met and was entertained by a number of the moving picture people. She spent the early part of the sum- mer at Del Monte and Pebble beach. She has brought back with her the latest, both in steps and in dancing equipment. The latest steps include the kinkajou, and among the equip- ment she has brought back are mat- tresses for practicing acrobatics. | CHIEF URGES CAUTION | et | Fire Chief Houren Prepares Circular i in Connection with Fire Prevention Week Safety Campaign If you would use naptha and gaso- line for cleaning purposes do the work outside where there 1s no open flame. The safer way, according to G. M. Houren, chief of the Winnetka fire department, is to send your clothes to the cleaners. Next week is Fire Prevention week and Chief Houren is preparing an at- tractive illustrated circular, printed in red ink, which he is to mail to every resident in the village, calling atten- tino to the annual campaign. The cir- cular reads: "Consult the Chief of the Fire De- partment before installing storage tanks for gasoline, naptha, benzine or fuel oil. : "You can help to save life and prop- erty from needless destruction, "Send your clothes to the cleaner. "In so doing vou will not endanger your life and property. "If you must do your own cleaning with naptha or gasoline, clean out- side where there is no open flame. 'Beware of friction sparks when rubbing garments. "Beware of so-called naptha. "Remove rubbish and other hazards. "Cultivate carefulness. "A careful person seldom has a fire. "Be careful." Perry Dunlap Smith in-explosive At the meeting of the faculty of the North Shore Country Day school Thursday, Perry Dunlap Smith, head master, gave the first of a series of talks that he will present throughout the year, on the subject of the Locarno conference on New Education, which was held at I.ocarno, Switzerland, last August. Mr. Smith attended the full session of the conference and reports that so much of value and inspiration was gain- ed from the speakers and discussions at the various meetings that he plans to report in detail on all the meetings to the members of his faculty, in a series of talks throughout the vear. His first letcure last Thursday took up the general spirit of the conference, the personalities represented and the addresses of Dr. Ruggs and Mrs. Mar- ietta Johnson. Local Child Specialists Book to Be on Market Soon "Cultivating the Child's Appetite," a book on child feeding written by Dr. C. Anderson Aldrich, the Winnetka child specialist, is to be on the market sometime in October, according to the present plans of Macmillan and com- pany, its publishers. Through his twelve years' successful practice in Winnetka and through his numerous magazine articles, Dr. Aldrich has be- come very well known on the north shore. This is his first book. Ask All to Bear in Mind Rummage Sale October 6 Householders in the village are urged to keep in mind the Rummage sale to be held Thursday, October 6, in Christ church Parish House, Oak and Linden streets, Winnetka. The hours of the sale will be from 8:30 A. M., to 9 P. M. Many bargains in wearing apparel, kitchen ware, books, curtains, draper- ies, hardware and furniture, will be found at the sale, it is announced. Speaks on Conference | Theater Director David Owen comes to the north shore from the University of Michigan, where he was supervisor of dramatics, to be director of the North Shore Theater guild and the Northwestern | theater. He fills the place made vacant | by the withdrawal of Alexander Dean. Community House Is Home for Many Winnetka Groups Community House, which resumes its winter schedule this month, is head- quarters for some thirty community organizations that are not strictly affil- iated with the Center. An idea of the amazing variety of uses to which the House is put, is given in the accom- panying list of Winnetka organiza- tions and groups which use Community House facilities regularly through the winter season. Some of the regular group meetings in the year's schedule, follow: Boy Scouts--Thursday evenings, 7:15. Camp Fire Girls--Thursday afternoons, 4. Blue-Birds (younger Camp Fire Girls)-- Friday afternoons, 4 English classes for foreign men and women, on Monday and Tuesday eve- nings, at 8, beginning Monday, October 17 "Friendship Circle"--Tuesday evenings, 8:30. (Any girl working in Winnetka homes, welcome). "Pathfinders" (small boys' club)--Fri- day afternoons, 4. Czecho-Slovakian club--Wednesday eve- nings, 8. Business Girls' club--Tuesday evenings, 8:30. "Good Luck club" (foreign men and women )--Tuesday evenings. British American club, Soccer eclub-- twice a month. North Shore Art classes--weekly. North Shore Art league--once a month. Rotary club--Friday noons. Triangle club--Monday evenings. North Shore Sewing Guild--twice a month. Woman's society, --twice a month. Stitch in Time club--once a week. Community Drama club--each = week-- plays once a month. American Legion--twce a month. The Troubadour Glee club--once a week. Royal Neighbors--once a month. Chamber of Commerce--once a month. Kindergarten--each day. Community Sewing class--once a week. New Trier Rifle club--twice a week. Boy Builders--twice a month. Panthers (boys' club)--once a week. League of Women Voters--once a month. Modern Woodmen--once a month. Gymnasium classes--(see schedule). Congregational church WOMEN VOTERS BEGIN YEAR'S WORK OCT. 10 Genevieve Forbes Herrick First Speaker of Season; Arrange Membership Drive The Winnetka League of Women Voters will hold its opening meeting of the current season Monday, Octo- ber 10, with a luncheon in Rudolph Matz hall, Community House at 12:30 o'clock. The speaker will be Gene- vieve Forbes Herrick of the Chicago Tribune who will speak on the subject, "Immigration." In August 1921 Miss Herrick was sent by the Tribune to Ireland to ascertain conditions in U. S. immigra- tion service. She enacted the role of an Irish immigrant in steerage. Her experiences at Ellis Island resulted in a call to testify before the Congres- sional committee on immigration at Washington, D. C., in November of 1921, effecting needed reforms in the service. Luncheon reservations are to be made with Mrs. Cecil F. Baker, 558 Willow road, telephone Winnetka 675- W, before Saturday, October 8. All are cordially invited to attend. Plan Membership Drive The membership drive of the league will be inaugurated Monday, October 17, with a school of salesmanship for block captains at Community House from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. They will be guests of the Winnetka board at luncheon. Mrs. A. Montague Ferry, first vice- president and chairman of organiza- tion, is at work with the precinct chair- men organizing the precincts. Mrs. George F. Suker, membership chair- man, is in charge of the new drive for new members and the annual renewal of old memberships. Tickets for the Richard Halliburton lecture to be given in Orchestra hall, on the evening of Monday, October 17, under the auspices of the Chicago League of Women Voters Forum may be obtained from Mrs. John N. Van- derVries, of 968 Pine street, telephone Winnetka 1968. Discuss Finances The semi-annual field finance day of the Illinois League of Women Vot- ers will be held at the Chicago Wo- man's club on Tuesday, October 4. Miss Nettie Baumann, state auditor, will entertain the delegates at lunch- eon. Those attending the conference from the Winnetka league will be Mrs. John VanderVries, president; Mrs. Hymen L. Raclin, treasurer, and Mrs. Roger Sherman, finance chairman. President VanderVries will be a guest of honor at the opening meeting of the Uptown league on Wednesday afternoon, October 5, at the Sheridan Plaza hotel. Hutchinson to Speak on "Newspapers and Crime" Paul Hutchinson, editor of The Christian Century. and well known for his connection with national and in- ternational affairs, will speak on "The Newspaper and Crime" at the meeting of the Men's class of the Winnetka Congregational church, Sunday morn- ine. October 2. Plans for the October 0 meeting are not yet complete. They will be announced next week. On Oc- tober 16, Lucian J. Marsh, assistant superintendent of the Congregational Conference of Oklahoma, will be the speaker. The Men's class holds its meetings every Sunday morning at 9:30 in the American Legion room at the Com- munity house. The meetings are open +o all men who care to attend.