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60 . WILMETTE LIFE . January 10, 1930 Revise Courses to Meet Needs of' Rural Pupils in School in India Air Tax Muddle in P. T. A. Card Party Ia Meeting Here on Monday Postponed Until Jan. 30 (Continue~ page 1) , The card party which was to have been given by the Logan-Howard P. T. A. Friday, January 10, has been Co-education and Special Curriculum New Departures in India postponec! until Thursday, J at~uary 30, , 1wing to the rush of the holtday seaRecently Introduced in School Conducted sntt. As these parties are the only By Miuionaires . means tht? Logan-Howard P. T. A. has of raising funds. the association hopes Editor'~ note: The Rt>v. and Mt·:-;, ( 'Ia r- 4uestions as to relig·i(ln \\'l'fl' a~kl'cl, that everyonl· interested will cooperate enee E. Wol~ted, mlni~ter in India for th l' Wlnrwt.ka f'ong1·ega tiona I church, are and soon both high castes and low in making this one of the most successful card parties ever held. ~pending- their furlough yea1· at 796 Pine castes were working side hy sidl'. street, WinnE'tka. Following is the fifth For the boys. there \\'as cloth we;.n·Qf a st>rle~ of interesting articlE'S which ing, rope making, agriculturl· and the \Vatter Huxley, who has been spendM1·. 'W olsted has prepared exclu~ively for ingthe holidays with his uncle a11d Boy Scout patrols. this publication conceming the work in The girls took up mat makin~, g:tr- aunt, Mr. and Mrs. V.I. 0. Belt, 202 which he and Mr·s. Wolsted are engaged. dening, se\ving and home welfare, in Abingdon avenue, Kenil\\'orth, has reBY CLARENCE E. WOLSTED turned to Madison, \Vis. to resume his addition to the regular course. The best way to help India is by A Brahmin engineer often visited. law studies at the l ~ nirersity of \\' istraining her native leaders. To reaJly the school, and on his own initia~ivc Ctmsm. make reform permanent in all the vil- organized a school on similar line'! in -o-lages, ·her youth must catch the ,·ision another center. So all was working ~1 rs. ] ohn D. Small~ -H 1 ~1 a pie an·and be enlisted in the cause. nuc had as her guests recently her \\'ell, except f9r school equipment. When t..pidemics of sickness threat- two sisters, Mrs. A. C. Clifford and With that in mind, our central school Mrs. E. Steffan , of Chicago, prior to their departure for California. They left Sunday morning for Pasauena where they will spend the winter. -0- .Miss Sarah Page and Miss Genevieve Smithers, who entertained at a large 1\mcheon and bridge at Shawnee Country club December 2H, left \Vilmette l'uesday to return tn tht· Knox scho0l at Cooperstown, K Y. Koepke. 515 \\'as hingt o n avenue, \\'ilmette entertained twelve Ldrls at her home a \Yeek ago at a luncheon and bridge. Most of the girls were classmates of Miss Koepke at James Millikin uni,·ersity. ~Jiss ~larie -o- -o- }fike Crile. son of l>r. ami ~Irs. Dennis \V. Crilc, 82.2 ~fichigan a\·" mte. returned to his home on ~fonda,. of this week after a three \H'e ks' ·yisit with his uncle and cousins i11 Rn:.wcll. X. Mex. dan~hter of \fr. and Mrs. Frank T. ·narn·. 1537 Central was con\'erted into a rural middle I encd. temporary wards \\'Crc put up in Equipment is practically nil. In spite of handicaps the school won last year the honor banner in the inter-school examination contest. the implement sheds. One day the school was deeply impressed. when a group of farmers brnught thirty rupees as a token of gratitmk "\\'c know ynu need a sick wom," they said. The school inspectors were constantly commenting on the poor state of the buildings. One clay an Indian official said: "You stand. as a carpenter be- -o~[iss Jkttv Barn·. school of eight grades. Although the people are predominately rural, in the past the curriculum had not empl1asized their nc..·eds. The courses had been more suited to urban communities. When the rural movement was stressed at teachers' institutes, they replied, "\Veil, that all sounds very good, a\·enue. was hostess to· thirtY of her high school friends on )..l'ew Year's eve at her home. There was dancing and a buffet supper. · -()- . ing next Monday night_ is the fi_rst attempt to secure a defimte expresston of opinion from the taxpayers of N~w Trier. It is hoped that s~me _defimte action will follow and that tt wtll mark a step in the dir~~tion of p~otecting the New Trier ctttzcnry agamst excessive taxation. . In a recent statemc11t Chairman Ma lone of the tax commission said: "There is much confusion and misunderstanding in discussion of ~he re assessment and the· 1928 tax .levtes. It is true that assessed valuattons have heen increased a great deal, hut it is a very simple matter for the town and school district officials to adjust their leYics so that the increase in country town taxes will he very slight. Simple Procedure " :\II the countr~· town officials han· to do is to figure out what the town cost to operate in 192~. It is solely to bring in moner for those expense~ ,that the 1928 tax btlls arc to be sent. I hu s. th e total of what it cost the town in 1929 i~ automatically the amount the officials should fix as the 1928 lev y. "If the len· is greater than the 1929 cost of operation then the officials arc forcing their people to pay more than there i~ need for. "Countn· town taxpayers can prntect thrm.-;eh·es against any such uqn ccessan· increases in their tax hills by de ma;Hling that their officials give an accounting of the expenditures in 1929 and compelling them to make the 19.2R tax lrvv fit the total of these expen ditures.· Abovt all it is vital that the action he . tah·tl promptly hdon: it is :1,' late. "County Attorney Hayden N. Bell l~a . . given the opinion that the law forhHl:anY lcvving ho<h· to ask for unreas onahh· more thari its needs. 'Levying bO<iies.' he is quoted as saying. 'arc limited in the amounts of their levies to their necessities. Any unreasonable excess above what is required ic; il legal. The collection of any snch illegal levy may he prl:\·entcd.' .. ~[iss Catherim· Bickham. who ha 'l been passing the holidays with her pa ;·ents, Mr. and ~~ rs. Martin H. Bickhal!l, 429 Ninth street. has rrt urned to Ohto \\·esleyan unh·ersity. -0- rs. Fredcril' B. Crth:;Jl'y. (,()0 \Vashington avenue. had fl ' ....:r house guests during the Yule holiday~. her two sisters. Mrs. C. n. Comstock and '!\fis~ \f artha Jenkins. nf Elgin. 111. Leic~ster wad, Kenilworth has returned to Andover to resume his studies after spending the Christmas recess with his parenh. '!\fr. and Mrs. 1'. \Veller Kimball. ~~ -oDonald Kimball, 333 Uiss Lois Nordberg of 489 Sunset rnad \Vinnetka has returned to Lake Fore.st college to continue her studi12s after spending the Christmas holida,·-; \rith her parents. -oDe an Vail, 150 Ahingclon road. Kenilworth has returned to Harvard to re sume his studies after spending th e Christmas holidavs with his parents, ~fr. and Mrs. J. Dean Vail. -o. Miss Virginia Miller of Wilmette was hostess on Saturday. Decem her 28,. at the Edgewater Beach hotel. for a. dn~ ner. The occasion was M 1ss M tiler .~ hirthdav. -0- Mrs. Daniel R. Bro\\·c r, 720 Fifth street. entertained her Reading club at luncheon la st "'ednesda\' at her home. \\'hich, when proven successful, were incorporated, wholesale, in goyernment schools oYer the land. Now, r.o-education seems to tht>m radical, hut time will prove that question. The Hindus and Modammedans have not believed in the education of g-irls, and. their pro\·erbs bear this out. "To educate a woman is like putting a knife in the hands of a monke,·." is one saying. Y ct, in limiting the enrollment . to 200, we plan for an eqt1al The school is a center for the extension work. There is no duplicating of number of boys and girls. e&ort, but rather cooperation with the government agencies. At present, fifty-three villages are After completing the but what have we, as teachers, tn do fore his task of building with no tools represented. course each pupil will go out to the with that?" in your hands." village as a messenger. They are reAction was necessary. so plans and ferred to as "guides." It is not exThe teaching of the ages had hcen that manual labor was degrading. \Ve estimates were presented to the autho- pected that they will teach technical experimented by introducing the cot- rities and their sanction and promise agriculture, but they know where and tage ind11stries, or hand-crafts, into the of aid secured. for suitable buildings · hmv help can be secured and they serve regular course, and we were rewarded and equipment. The officers of the to connect the farmers with outside by the quick response of the pupils. In educational department are non-Chris- agencies. two years the school had doubled in tian, yet they believe in this school as It is encouraging .to see how keen enrollment. Four temporary buildings, an experiment. they all are and how they work. After with mud walls and thatch roofs, were In the past, missionaries have often all, it is only a question of having ·a erected to care for the overflow. No develope-d pioneer methods of work fair chance in life. -a- Virginia Healy. daughter of Mr. 1nd Mrs. William Healy, 205 Melrose ~ve nue, Kenih..-orth, returned on Sunday to ManhRttanville college. -oMr. and Mrs. Louis A. Clark of the Orrington hoteL formerly of \Vilmette, are leaving this week to spend the rest of the win.ter in California. -o-Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gray and daughter of Madison, Wis., are visiting at the T. H. ChristenseQ home, 1517 Maple avenue. -oF. E. M. Cole, 315 Essex road, Kenil· worth has returned to Kenilworth after a week's trip to Detroit, Mich. Robert English, · 375 Hawthorn Lane, Winnetka has left the north shore to continue his studies at Princeton. -o--