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i2 Wl"L M £ T T E LIFE December 13, 1929 FRESHMEN GIVE PLAY ·First· Year Cast Presents "A Little Journey" at Northwestern University Theater An all-freshman cast will appear in "A Little Journey," a comedy by Rachel Crothers to be presented by the Northwestern University theater at Annie May Swift hall, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, December 18 and 19. This will be one of the few times that only first-year students have produced a play, but Garreit Leverton, director of the university theater, plans to make a freshman play an annual affair. Miss Ruth Shaughnessy will play the leading role of Julie Rutherford, a pampered, city-bred young woman who is cut off suddenly from her source oi income and goes to 1fontana to live with her brother. Ted Sizer will have the p~rt of Jim \Vest, a westerner who has been visiting in New York and whom Julie Sutherford meets on the train to the west. Two of the acts are aboard .the Pullman. Some good dialogue is afforded by the meeting of Julie and Jim, an ac4 :1intanceship which is cause of lengthy gossip of several comic passengers. -and NOW lS · 1¥oman Voters News The new state civil service commissioners have an opportunity to redeem the service from the low level of competency of a spoils system, according tv Edwin 0. Griffenhagen, president of the Civil Service association of .Chicago. Speaking for the League of Women Voters over WGN on December 2, Mr. Griffenhagen said in part, "\Vithout going one step outside of their plain duty the system can be rehabiliated. Nothing will mean more to the over-burdened taxpayer, to good government, to the unfortunates in need · of public care, to the employes who have carried on despite unfair discrimination, or to conscientious department heads, than an intelligent application of the merit system to the civil service of the state. "Governor Louis L. Emmerson has appointed Harry S. Parker. chairman, Effingham; Mrs. Mabel Shirk, Chicago; and Harry S. Kramer, East St. Louis, as civil service commissioners. It becomes their duty to administer the state civil service law adopted in 1905 and amended and extended in 1911. "The very heart of the administrative duty of the commissioners lies in the requirement that they shall hold examinations and prepare a 'register' or list, for each kind of position, of persons found to be qualified. The tieliberate neglect of this clear mandate of the law and the equally deliberate resources to the 'temporary' appointment of untested persons has brought a series of scandals, wastes and losses into the state service. "It should be known that the essence of the state civil service la \\' is that the best equipped person available shall be appointed to each place of employment, that open, competitive, practical tests shall be conducted to show who is the best fitted person, and tlut no removal of any person thus selected shall he permitted for any cause which is political, racial or religious or th.1t is not a 'just' cause. "The law is intended as, and in the hands of honest administrators bP.comes, a potent measure for the securing of a competent corps of loyal public employes and a bulwark against the raids of spoilsmen." the ttme to buy · A very unusual real estate condition, plus the recent stock market crash, is forcing many north shore home owners to sacrifice their holdings for immediate cash. The following "want ads/' clipped from last week's WILMETTE LIFE, WINNETKA TALK and GLENCOE NEWS, reveal some of the unusual opportunities now awaiting the prospective home purchaser. ' Look to the want ads in this paper as your guide to the ubest buys.n