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The are urged to take politâ€" ical questions into their own but one trouble is that so many take them into their hands without them first into their heads. Cldmi‘toomnypoqplfo a life of esdse, but as the cool weather comes on, it is more frequently a life oflnou.:. @ f Commissoiner Gourley moved that property owners‘ petition for division of special assessment levied . nst lot 1, k ,86, for paving Orchard street accepted and the poraâ€" tion : cof be directed to nt same to ty court,| rd Meeting Short At a brief meeting of the d of loca} improvement the| ray Conâ€" s Co., contractors in tion of s#nitray sewers in Northwood Manor subdivision was allo payâ€" ment of ($262.04, the balance five per cent retained for cost of mainâ€" tenance. t t es â€" On motion of Commissioner Reay Miss Mildred 3. Hawley was allowed a refund on building permit ~ 1095 moun%‘to $22, in accord with recomm tion of ‘the building comâ€" ‘missioner. < On motion of Coml?inion- er Go:tzy an ordinance was passed ohuu:in}wehe name of Waverly aveâ€" nue to "Waverly road." < â€" . 3 * | ~Approve License" ~ On motion of Commissioner Cheney a licenfl granted, by the C. & N. W. railroad for construction of| storm water er outlet on Wwest of their t of way between Walnut avenue and Sfieridtn;place apâ€" proved and the mayor was authorized to sign | document. â€" t 4 Ask about insuranceincome It lifts the burden of medical fees and ‘keeps your bank acâ€" count intact. â€" ¢ in the. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Companyâ€" at such times keeps you out of the down and out class.. It assures ,a definite : insurance income,‘ reâ€" placing your wages.‘ j i It is understood that the theater management has been notified by the city od#i.h charged with this duty to modify its programs as requested. . _ Other Motions /: ; Commissioner Cheney moved that lines indicating easement for pedesâ€" trians between ‘lot 71 and lot 82 on plat of Baird & Warner‘s addition to Deere Park subdivision be eliminaud.‘ He also moved that the report of the building commissioner for November,l 1926, be received and placed on file. EL 444 vule‘s < ;ea |\CENTRAL AVE Facing Sheridan Road | _ Petitions Protest / Pemm presented signed by 221 , together with commuâ€" nications from the secretary of the Church Service league of Trinity church, the Doreas society of the Prebs n church, the North Shore chapmnof + the Daughters (pf the American Revolution and the Highâ€" land Purk clyb, protesting against the vaudeville which has been ryunning at the Alcyon theater. On motion of Commissioner . Cheney the petitions were m erred to the mayor and comâ€" missioner of public safety. Tel. Glenwos 42 _ Hours by svpointment DR. MELVIN B.â€"HASBROUCK Osteopathic Physician® > Contniuioner Cheney moved that the city clerk be directed to notify the Public Service Co. to turn on street lights in Baird & Warner‘s adâ€" dition to Deere Park subdivision. He also moved that property owners‘ peâ€" tition for improvement of roadway in Sunnyside place be referred to Comâ€" missioner Card for investigation and report. â€" f . a street light at intersection of Oak Knoll terrace and Pine Point drive be referred to Commissioner Go#grley. Commissioner Reay W acceptance and approval of plat* entitled: Lake sub of lots 21, 22, 23, and 24 in Deere Park gubdivision. £ fra"* €ITY COUNCIL AND _____ : â€"BOARD IN SESSION PAGE EIGHT Â¥Continued from page 353 PARK AVENUE 1) {.*"The G+oove" by Middleton, a rathâ€" er conventional . piece . showed the players in an utterly different atâ€" mosphere. Here they were suave and finished in modern dialogue and realâ€" istic setting. playtoo carried its message "to show us ourselves to , ti\: very endâ€"not to offend but tryâ€" ing to teach n?.” f j J _\Tchekkofft‘s {clever ‘satire "The ," quite ian in background, tume and up .completed the ening‘s e t and convineâ€" ed the audience that the ideals of Mrs. Lazareff‘s :r:}m not beyond our gtasp. t y3 _ |In a curtain gpeech betwen the acts, Mr. Lazareff made an appeal to this Audience to rt:eive and understand his art as he offers it. He pictures the theater as: "the teacherâ€"of life." What a force is art that unifies huâ€" manity and makes us forget our enemy and our neighbor. True art on the s whether it degals with sorrow or happiness brings: only joy and delight to : audieneé," 1 It is eflgf not "more otl us" were pres on the privileged ocâ€" casion to of his fine idealism. end.. ‘The illusion: created and efâ€" fected on such a cireumscribed stage was altogether, delightful. â€"â€" _ The first y "The Will O‘ the Wisp," by H n, a fanciful lovely thing est hed its mood of poetic, beauty and leff the spectators transâ€" planted, and a bit breathless at the A program of three widely diverâ€" sified plays exemplified the scope of ability of those players and attested the fine taste of their director. Mr. Lazareff terms his project "A Laboratory thl;-i:er. "the : plan and purpose of which, through intensive work in all its researches, is to achieve a pe in Chicago as a ‘Chicago Art theater." Three plays staged and directed by Ivan Lazareff of the l(oml)‘: vflfihfi theater were presented in Ra Friday emm%.e Dec. 10. The arts committee of the Woman‘s Civic club of ‘Ravania sponsored and arranged for this artisti¢ production. *"for Understantine of fus: MOSCOW ART PLAYERS § .GIVE GOOD PROGRAM ‘"The Orient I Found," by T. J. Mcâ€" Mahon, while tially a travel â€"book has been written with the purpose of arousing western peopleto a realizaâ€" tion that ‘the powersâ€"of the orient are‘contemplating freedom from the dominant power of ‘the white races. The author, well known in the east and in Avetial:‘, sh%v:‘s how the giâ€" gantic power of the Orient has to be reckoned with as a matter ‘of first importance to qfivilintion. ; A.few of the:other books are: Mukerfiâ€"“?%o:f Silence." | Keyserlingâ€" k of, Marriage." â€" Dm-k}-â€"“Parilt | Cadrrickâ€"Col r‘s Luck in Engâ€" land." 9 t " Neilsonâ€"* W. Eliot." MeCannâ€""Ship Model Making." Wellsâ€""Aro the World in 28 Days." t & > ‘ Lindny-"(édle in the CaBin." Bradfordâ€""Darwin." > Bradley-â€"“@nvnm and Canniâ€" bals." £ _ Lawrenceâ€""Memories of a Happy Life." ; $ 4 1 Kowalskyâ€""Ukranian Folk Songs" Clemenceauâ€"*"Demosthener." in the musical artâ€"and criticism of what he called the. "Golden Age of Music." â€" The bookjtself. is, full of anecdotes and reminiscences of famâ€" ous musical pexxle. W , Strauss, Patti, de Reszke, Calve, fielbu, Paderâ€" ewski,, Galli-Cmgi, Carusoâ€"and many other famous and well known musicâ€" ians may be 1;:3«1 in its pages. <H. T. Finck, or of "My Advenâ€" tures in the G Age. of Music," was a man well qualified to write such a book,â€" For fortyâ€"three years Mr. Finck was musi¢al editorâ€"of the New York Evening Post, andias such was an influential and outstanding figure Then there are the two much dis« cussed of Washington; "George Was n, the Image and the Man," by E. Woodward, and "George W n, the Human Beâ€" ing and the Hero," by Rupert Hughes. Both men have spent years preparing these ~bidgraphies of Washington. With the "Diaries" of Washington which were published last year, much new material goncerning our first president. has been revealed. Some of this new material has been made use.of in the twp recent biographies, and Washington is freed of the glamâ€" orour fiction with which romantic historians have invested him. One of the m@ interesting books recently added to the shelves of the Public Library is "The Nature of the World and of Man," written by sixâ€" teen members of the faculty of Chiâ€" cago university. glt gives a bird‘sâ€"eye view of the universe as seen by modâ€" ern â€" men of -?ience. It‘ contains straightforward | statements of the conclusions resulting from research, expressed in a f that can be comâ€" prehended. by yone who really wants to know facts.. These chapâ€" ters range from astronomy to psyâ€" c!s'plozy and the story of each is told by‘a recognized authority in his parâ€" ticular field. & & NEW BOOKS ADDED . AT.PUBLIC LIBRARY niinfrninemaine "The Nature of the World and of Man" One of Latest Adâ€" , ditions;nather Books Lazareff vised, and to any che the letter ‘ The :d . fulnegs a not many of tm_ 6 £ * The hou to pre somefioul pay for i French hopemic and the w will goon cwha ich sh peans un Both t isfied wit whizfis Republica ’tefefi;iu out there bumper 0 the “viow s to t 8e posed of music, M gifts, Mr Miss Kat R. J; Be Rieke; lig stage | pr Gwe;i‘: 7 ton. ) !| children forwg'}’d love it J @ means$ t« chee:;‘}o R. J. tty, harpist and Mr. George R. Jones, violinist. Soloists for the ‘servic ill be Miss Mary Kimbail, Mrs. W, E. Rutledge, Mrs. Charles Pardée, Mr. H. R. Smith and Mr. Roger Vail. Mrs. Herbert R. Smith takes the part of the Virgin‘® Mary singing Reger‘s Lullaby; Mrs. S;. T. Dexter is Elizabeth, Mr, George Gaidâ€" zik as ‘Joseph; the shepherds are m . Leaming, Robt. Sedgwick, ram Crawford, and W. E. Roy Hflg:. The angel group is composed of ‘8a Margaret Mills, Veronese Beatty, \Shirley McKay and Jane R. J. tt3 R. Jones, vi service Will Mrs. W} E. ll;f:&e. Mr \ ail. tak%t F singing [Reg R. Jonés, violinist, will sing "O Litâ€" tle Town of Bethlchem." § \_\|The Prophets Appear M of old the prophet tells of Isâ€" radl‘s hopelessness without a king or a princa. Mr. E. S. Hall has the part of Hosep. . Micah, Mr. N. G. Leningâ€" tori and Isiah, Mr. A. ‘F. Sihler bring thed messages of hope and joy in the promise! of a â€"coming .‘Meuiah.' Mr. Roger Vail will sing "Comfort Ye" from Héndel‘s Messiah, : No iE Bethlchem ‘Scenes *« The Annunciation, the Magi Kings, the Magnificat, the, Shepherds and Angel sgcenes follow closely, accomâ€" panied by our much loyed Christmas music. |Miss Florence N. Campbell. will be at the organ, Mrs. Esther Topp and Missg Louise Smith, pianists, Mrs. YULP winter approaches with so many horrors that I shall not want ything to go abroad in, if I can be w h I ‘h,:e .kt bo:‘:dur‘i‘y "’M: h) I have kept ng ‘my. ing drove about from place to place, uch (better than most people‘s I %fi: th, have boen&mred by nothâ€" ing but the depreciation of the money, which | has ‘been amazing lately, so ‘that e will be the place for me this winter, as I cannot get a common ;flfiu cloak and hat but just decent â€"under | two hundred: pounds; as to guaze now, it is fifty dollars a yard; ‘tis ‘beyond my wish, and I should think it not only a shame but a sin to buy) it. if I had mmiom. It is inâ€" dé you say, that money is too cheap:) ‘for there are so many peoâ€" plg thit. are not used to have it, nor know :the, promer use of it, that get so. much that â€"they care not whether they give one dollar or a hundréed for ax{ythinLg they want; but to those whoso every dollar is the same as a silver pne,. which is our case, it is particularly <hard; for Mr. Bache coduld rot care to do business in the manner it has been done in thisg place, whith has been almost all by monopâ€" olizing |and: forestalling." $ The re mfGP CosT OF HATS m IN FRANKLIN‘S DAY His Lg;lDE TABLEAU _ SUNDAY AFTERNOON i1 (Continued from page 1) THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HICHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS Daughter \g,:lteu Him of pense of Cloth I Fx P minacipnin * * people would consent nge that did not leave out wets and drys were satâ€" the results of the eléction ore than can be said of the s and Dem ts. vine makers lre said to be t the success of Al Smith t referendum in New York lead: to the exportation of from France to America. just how these Euroâ€" rstand America, wives are being told how. Christmas ‘turkey, but like to know first how to the alphabet should be reâ€" H. D. Faxon; decorations, ryn G. Yoe; costuming, Mrs. tty and Mrs. B. Franklin hting, Mr. Robt. Schneider; perties, Mr. George G, ublicity, Mr. N. G. Leningâ€" 1 joy of the Christmas seaâ€" undantly expressed as the rom the Church school come place their white gifts of he Manger of the Infant the adults give of : their bring the Christ story and all men everywhere. Those In Charge 5 ristmas committee is comâ€" Ethe following: Chairman of 8. W. A,. Alexander; white ors are ‘asked: what shall hen one feels a sense of er eanting? We@l, anyway, f the kids have ecomplained rvice of commemoration of ir‘s birth. 44 lic is most cordially invited s lost out in the Missouri , but then the apple crop this fall is said to be a ! Our Gifts The animal must have nnll_o;;av; bottle of synthetic Scotch which had been washed ashore. # A Boston fisherman saw a deer three . miles ~from â€" shore headed finight‘ for the middle of the ocean; Do you remember the good old days when the: women had enough hair to bhave a genuine hairpulling once in a while? ~"Proper observance by both motorâ€" ist and pedestrian of the rights of others and due regard for traffic regâ€" ulations would quickly eliminate inchâ€" ing from the list of traffic annoy»> ances," + h 4 ers and forcing automobiles perilously close to another. . The pedestrian incher steps off the curb into the path of vehicular traffic crowding cars into a narrow â€" path. Then when some driver makes a right hand turn, the inching pedestrianâ€" is â€"either forced out into traffic or must scamper back to the sidewalk. The inching pedestrian is to blame for slowing traffic at congested cornâ€" "The incher will also stop his car| °; at a busy intersection. half way over ) in : the crossing line for pedestrians, | paj forcing them to, walk around his car wh and <thus slowing pedestrian traffic to * considerably as well as putting pedu-;‘ a r trians in a hazardous position. Someâ€" late times the incher races his motor just the before the ‘Go‘ signal to intimidate W pedestrian traffic so that his path will ter be . clear for a quick getaway, Street fay car motormen also frequently are jud guilty of inching. P lCsC ~_Various Schemes § "The inching motorist is in a hurry and wants a flying start on the sigâ€" nal regardless of the cross flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic. Ignorâ€" ing traffic rules, the incher oftimes crowds in to the extreme right, as if for a right hand turn, but he is only’ jockeying for position with the sole intent of crowding the other driver tol the left. ht *"Motorists may often be seen inchâ€" ing at the automatic signals just beâ€" !9!‘0 the ‘Go‘ light flashes," said Mr. Hayes., Mr. Hayes «declared this selfish practice to be one likely to produce accidents and in every instance disâ€" ruptive of the even movement of both pedestrians and vehicles, especially at ‘congested intersections. | Are you an "incher" in traffic ? 1 "Inching" is the term being applied to motorists and pedestrians alike who crowd ahead at corners forcing theflowoftnfiqdmmomlyontofi line, explained Charles M. Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor club, in a statement issued recently. _ MOTORISTS WHO CROWD Various Schemes Adopted by the Driver Who Fails to Recogâ€" nize Rights of Others, .‘ Mays Bulletin â€" â€" TRAFFIC "INCHERS" ~MENACE TO SAFETY "The boys who beg ridés do so with the mistaken idea that they will save time, If they would use a little comâ€" mon sense, they would know that the time they save in riding to school is lost in standing on a corner waiting for some motorist to give them a ride. "Boys who beg rides are doing nothing to develop the safety manner. They. deliberately destroy some part of the safety work in the schools. Older boys have a positive duty to perform. They should set a good exâ€" ample for the younger pupils. Youngâ€" er pupils should pay no heed to the example set by a small minority; they should follow the example of the maâ€" jority of our pupils who. are careful and cautious at ail times. ‘ "We are all imitators to a greater or lesserâ€"extent. See how fads and fashions set by a few are followed by millions. . ;Carelessness is now a fashâ€" ion that is fast fading. Caution is a fashion that is coming in, and the school children of ‘today are setting this fashion, which has been . called the ‘safety manner.‘ "The poster this month simply asks | Week, according to cablegrams receivâ€" "the qu;:ism': ‘Do you beg ,-m:guod by the Near, East Relief. The reâ€" Evidently the designer of the piostérf newed tremors were: of about oneâ€" believed that every pupil seeing this PAlf the severity of the first shocks, poster was intelligent enough to know | Which began more than a mâ€"m that this practice was wrong, and that| During the first 15 days, ‘no oné. would need to be urged not to Ning‘ Oct. 23, there were 76 shocks, beg rides. But despite this fact that| AV°raging five per day. Of these, everyone should know that it is dan.| five showed a severity of 7 to 9 on gerous to ‘beg rides, nevertheless any 2 Sentiographic scale of ten.‘ The day in the week you may see tl‘oupi! new series of shocks were of an inâ€" of boys holding up beckoning hands | tensity of four on the same scale, to passing drivers. :Most ‘of these| Secondary Tremors . boys are in the higher grades. They‘ Stubborn continuity is not an idea know %hat they should not stand im | which is customarily associated with the middle, of the street begging carthquakes. UgUally there are a rides; they know that it is dangerous, few sudden catastrophic shocks, folâ€" but perhaps they do not know tlut{ lowed by rapidly diminishing secondâ€" they are also setting a badâ€"example| 2rY tremors. Earthquake persistency for‘others. / on a large scale in Armenia may reâ€" "Do you bog rides?" is the subject of the poster issuad this month by the Chicago Motor club to the schools of northern Hlinois and: northern Inâ€" diana.: The bulletin that accompanies the poster says: â€" . Sent to Schools of This Part| of State; Warning Against | Practice of Asking | <â€"For "Lift" | IN MOTOR CLUB BULLETIN DON‘T BEG RIDES IS ADVICE TO CHILDREN Caution Becoming Custom Slows Up Traffic superâ€"power system. Plans for a new high glecâ€" tric transmission line batv'::ghq ington and Decatur have been nounced â€" by ?i:n. ml;iu:: Powrh;'a Light corpora new cost $200,000, will be a part of II‘ JolkththeemMoftheM* per trade of the world. About 272,â€" Wmfluflmmmw there annually by seven mills. _ | CASTsS HIs VOTE BY _ â€" | ‘PHONE; FIRST TIME If so, call éither Messrg John O‘Keefe, Paul L. Udell or Howard Moran, social welfare eoungtm of Highland Park lodge 1362, B. P. O. Elys.â€" The committee will also give a Christmas ~dinner to any family that otherwise would not have one. If you want to help, call at once. DO YOU KNOW OF A FAMILY .. INNEED? _ Charles E. Miller, a ‘student in St. Louis, asked for an al ‘s ballot in the regular , but when received, the ballot _ found to be blank. He sent it to Aather, a resident of this city, but it was too late to procure another in flim for the son to vote. iss The senior Millar, wishing to musâ€" ter all votes possible for the party he favored, arranged with the \election judges to have his son‘s vote cast: by telephone. Two judges were connectâ€" ed with the absent voter, who stated his preferences, and the ballot was dropped in the box. ‘ For the first time in the history of the: Australian ballot system, : a‘ vote wasâ€"cast irecently. at H-rrhvn-'. Al., by long_ ‘distance telephone. ) Previous severe earthquakes occurâ€" red inâ€"Armenia in 1184, 1159, 1204, 13819 and 1840. Three minor earthâ€" quakes took place in 1843, 1844 and 1901 all of which were attended with a considerable loss of life.© | . ‘"There is possiblity of a voleanic outbreak, and it is of utmost importâ€" ance that a close watch be kept for signs of activity among the volcanoes of the district. There is potentially far greater menace to life and proâ€" perty in extensive volcanic outpourâ€" ings, such as have taken ‘place in the past, than there is inâ€" earthâ€" quakes," If this is true, there will almost cerâ€" tainly be a series of afterquakes, as large masses left more or less out of equilibrium settle into positions of stability. In view of the extreme seâ€" verity of the major shocks, it seems likely that the train of afterquakes will be a long one, stretching over a period of a year or even several years,. i 1 Beries of Disturbances "Reports of'the recent disaster inâ€" dicate the occurrence of a‘ series of seismi¢.. disturbances unattended by volcanic activity. . It may be ‘preâ€" surhed, therefore, that there has been ane or more major fault fracatures; scems not at all improbable that the region will be visited by renewed disâ€" turbances in the futuré, though a really â€"great catastrophe may not ocâ€" cur save at intervals.of a century or more:; A ‘~~.Bcientist‘s Report yheat ; *The region affected, which is in C the vicinity of Mount Ararat, is | 4 known to geologists as the scene of repeated disturbances, both volcanic| and seismic, during relatively recent geologic times. Its mountain ranges | s and plateaus are outlined and traâ€" /. versed by fault fractures; its surface | is studded with volcanoes and coverâ€" ed over with large areas with lava| â€" flows. Many of these {features ‘are relâ€" atively young. In view of these facts it Bcientific advice has been sought by the Near East Relief during the past fortnight : from, all pf the world‘s seismographic â€" specialists.‘â€" Dr. Geo. M. Smith, director of the U. S. Geoâ€" logical Survey in Washington, has submitted a report, in which he preâ€" dicts the continuance of diminishing shocks over a period of about a year. He also advises a careful watch for signs of volcanic activity in the Arâ€" arat district. His report says in part:>} Another series of ea: shocks occurred in Armenia _‘the past | week, according to cab! receivâ€" |ed by the Near. East Relief. The re |\ newed tremors were: of about oneâ€" half the severity of the first shocks, | which began: more than a month ago. Becondary Tremors . Stubborn continuity is not an idea which is customarily associated with earthquakes. UguUally there are a few sudden catastrophic shocks, folâ€" lowed by rapidly diminishing secondâ€" ary tremors. Earthquake persistency on a large scale in Armenia may reâ€" sult in a revision of some of current earthquake theories. ‘ No Damage Done But Much Exâ€" citement ~Caused; Scientist Says May ,Conth}u at Intervals Long 1 ARE SECONDARY TREMORS MORE EARTHQUAKES SHAKE UP ARMENIA Murray&Terrs _REALTORS i Laree, nin: wooded Jot Bast . of "r"':ch%to" vl:;*duin 8 room© 5 pomk, $ 4 mss ttals P 190 To . wmma, all Etrect & on A street imâ€" rovements 4 ft. offer the followit‘ Phone RENTING Highland Park 69 or Central 4625 W. W. REICHARDT > Nicely wooded lot With 6§ ft. frontage on the side. â€" All improvements in paid. $3 ,â€" 000 on very easy ‘ 7 rm. hse., Walker av. pve ht. 5 rui. heat, fit, Hwd. .§. .}.__....... Flats, 3, 4 & 5 rms., _.$... to Modern Store, North.&¢4 H..P. ... Garages, North av., J }.......: 4 rm. furn. cottage, hb se i ~ . 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