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Highland Park Press, 8 Nov 1945, p. 1

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tlement. â€"I can settle them all honâ€" with Oak Park, Proviso, Morton, Evanston, New Trier, Waukegan and Thornton of Harvey. Thornton is also a new member of the conâ€" {erence. accepted ideas, rather than a leadâ€" er in world thinking. Other govâ€" ernments are reluctant to enter neâ€" gotiations with us because they know that even though the people of this country are in favor of the treaty, a small group of men can prevent its passage. As far back as 1899. John Hay, secretary of state for President McKinley, declared : We have five or six matters now demanding setâ€" Highland Park will be the smallâ€" est school in the Suburban league, ¢onference in Tllinois with regard to athletics. With an enrollment a bit under 1200, Highland Park will enter the league in the Although Highland Park has not been a member of the league for three years, the Little Giants were charter members when the league was organized in 1928. VOTERSLEAGUE NOTES Treaty Ratification The national League of Women Voters is in favor of a Constituâ€" tional amendment to change the method of ratifying treaties from a twoâ€"thirds vote of the Senate to ratification<by. a.majority of the members of each house. The league believes in a vote by a maâ€" jority of those present rather than those.,elected. _ Our members in almost 600 different communities have studied this problem and are alert to its significance. The indirect effects of the twoâ€" thirds rule are extremely serious. Any administration ° is prevented from formulating a dynamic forâ€" eign policy because it can never go any further than it can persuade twoâ€"thirds of the senate to go. ed States to that of a follower of I am assured by leading men in the Senate that not one of these treaties if negotiated will pass the Senate. I should have a majority (Continued on pige 5) > . The city‘s quota on this type of bond is $295,000 and it is going to take a thorough canvass of evâ€" ery prospect in Highland Park to Highland Park High * One of Eight Schools few who need a personal call to move them to action, and it is this type of individual that the division chairmen and block workers will contact from now until the end of the drive on Dec. 8. The campaign committee has learned from experience in preâ€" vious drives that it is necessary to contact every family in the comâ€" munity to insure its making the "E" bond quota. lt xz Latest word from bond headâ€" quarters indicates that the vast majority of the citizens of the community are mailing in their subscriptions rather than waiting for a call from their block workâ€" er. â€" However, there are always a These chairmen, along with the workers under their direction, will contact all residents in their disâ€" tricts whose subscriptions or pink credit slips have not been received to the "Mailâ€"Itâ€"In" campaign. Nixon; division 4, Barton Pope; division 5a, Charles F. Grimes; divâ€" ision 5b, John S. Wineman; division 5¢, William W. Hinshaw; division 6, Walter L. Gottschal}; division 7, Joseph Nelson; division 8, G. S; Laing; division 8b, Albert R. Lilâ€" lie; division 8c, R. B. Mack; divisâ€" ion 9, Albert Larson; division 10, B. D. Greene; division 112 and B, William Guyot; division 11¢, R. C. Vinnedge; division 12a, Russell Ekelmann; division 12b, John W. Munro and division 12¢, Philip N. Gould. * Highland Park‘s Victory Loan Up" call campaign which will supâ€" plement the "Mailâ€"Itâ€"In" feature of the current Victory loan drive: Division 1, Herbert L. Huberts; division 2, Mrs. Milton J. Hardâ€" acre, Jr.; division 3, Charles H. of Name Division Chairmen For Victory Bond Drive Vol 35;. No. 37 â€", ‘This limits the role of the Unitâ€" irmen to supervise the "Cleanâ€" division * Atithe November 3rd election, citizens of Highwood ‘voted 246 to 56 for the purthase of property now owned by Charles Mordini, and currently used as a ball park, to be used as a city park. C They also voted 231 to 64 for an additional property taxâ€"levy for the purchase of the property at $12,000 and its maintenance. _ The park will be used for public recreation and will form an added attraction to the city. Members of the Kiwanis club met with their president, Mr. Abrâ€" ens, 86 Elmwood, on Monday night, ’ Saturday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m., is Junior Stamp club time at the.cenâ€" ter. _ C. A. Sanborn, club leader, invites all boys and girls interested in stamp collecting to come. . Open House at Center Friday _ center, .the high school dpen house committee will hold another of its semiâ€"monthly. open house parties. Herb Holt‘s band will play for the dance. A good time is in store for all. Highwood Carries Vote For Two Park Issues In Saturday Election to . spend the holiday at home. Many students are also planning for an outâ€"ofâ€"town vacation. ~ ‘ there and entertained with colored Schools to Observe ‘Thanksgiving Holiday public schools will be November 22 to 25 this year. On account of improved transportation conditions many of the teachers wili be able taken in the mountains of Coloraâ€" do and the wilds of Canada. Movies for Children at USO / Saturday mornings at 10:30. is movie time for boys and girls at fluusofi‘hnkylcln is in charge of community sponsorâ€" ed‘ children‘s program and he asâ€" sures all that the children will enâ€" joy the comediesand serials shown. !All children are welcome. _ Monday evenings at 7:30 is adult badminton time for sportsâ€"minded men and women. This class is open to the public for a small term registration fee. â€" There is free inâ€" struction provided by Harry J. Kuâ€" balek of the Braeside physical edâ€" ucation staff. , Come for a visit and you will sign up as a regular. > Crafts at Community Center _ Paul McLaughlin‘s Craft club for children 9 years and older is again under way at theh Communâ€" ity center. It meets on Saturday mornings from 9 to 11 and the small registration fee helps pay for Junior Stamp Club Meets At Center , are urged to join. Thursday evenings from 7:30 on at Lincoln school, V. Viezbicke, physical education instructor of that school, will conduct an adult sports class for men. Badminton, volleyball and basketball are on the program.â€" A small fee covers your registration and the class is open to the public. Braeside Adult Badminton Meets Mondays gaged in... Ray.Naegele is the club sports class for older boys. Footâ€" sports are engaged in. Boys living in the Lincoln school neighborhood Lincoin School Sports Class Saturday mornings from 9:30 to 12 is sports class time at Ridge school. ‘This is open to all boys andâ€" girls and the activity varies Lincoln School Junior Ridge School Junior Playground & Recreation V. Viezbicke is the leader of the The Higbland Park Press Highland Park‘s NEWS Paper for 33 Years seems . to highly popular Paris. He has replaced military government with civil government with gratifying speed, and French people are enjoying almost normal VJ Day in France Since I saw Paris eleven months ago. there have been many changes. Some are good and some less forâ€" tunate. It is good to see the deâ€" struction of war cleared away, to see brighter store windows, and streets lit up at night. People are better dressed, more buoyant, more satisfactorily fed. Coal today is the biggest single important deficâ€" fency and the coal supply could be greatly augmented if idle coal minâ€" ers would return to their jobs. Gen. DeGaulle has been trying with only indifferent success to induce reâ€" turning laborers and soldiers to work in the mines. Less fortunate are other develâ€" opments. Black markets flourish enormously and prices of many items in regular marts of trade ig / t vigery + q s _ News of VJ day hit here about two p.m. Paris time. Until nightâ€" anyone. ‘On the night of the 14th many GIs (the American soldiers ’ The club has made a policy to present only topnotch speakers to their group. _ Preferring fewer speakers, but the best .of their kind, the board is satisfied "only with those who present truly the best in Republican principles and ideas. As a result their meetings are alâ€" ways stimulating, thoughtâ€"provokâ€" ing and. instructive. > 3 "_November 30th will be . aâ€"new landmark fn the history of the orâ€" The Congressional Observer tilâ€" today it numbers nearly 500 members. _ Such enthusiasm and interest merit review at the comâ€" ing . annual meeting. Working through the precinct units of the club reaches everys Republican home within the township, offering the best of Republican comments and ideas to its members. (Excerpts from letters written Haroid 0. McLain, president of the 1d O. McLain, the Highland Park Men‘s Republican club.) i Nov. 30 Annual Meeting Of Deerfield Township Republican Woman‘s Club Believing in good government and sound Republican . principles and policies, a group of some 25 Highland Park women met a year and a half ago to form a Township Republican club based on the preâ€" cinct unit idea. This original charâ€" ter group, inspired by the idea that the government of their country is the most important business of ‘ its citizens, set out to build a workâ€" ing orgarization of permanent and lasting merit among women of the township. ‘Their aim is high, and their goal is good Republican govâ€" ernment. How this group. bas grown by .leaps and bounds can: best be seen by the. enthusiasm with â€" whichâ€" new ~members hvw‘ flocked to the cause. From the within the last twenty months unâ€" through the precinet ‘units the Highland Park, Hlinois, Thursday, November 8; 1945 _ (Continued on page 5) IN FLANDERS FIELDS (Reprinted by permission of the Proprietors of Punch) We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, â€"‘ Loved and were loved, and now we lie â€" In Flanders fields. We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. * That mark our place; and in the sky _ The larks, still â€"bravely singing, fiy Scarce heard amid the guns below. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw lnl?h-denththeponiubhv Between the crosses, row on row, The torch ; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die ARMISTICE DAY his < big eyes blinking back his tears, sat with bowed head while France is divided déeply on the is sue of Petain‘s guilt; it is predictâ€" able that the commutation of his sentence from death to life imâ€" prisonment will be followed by othâ€" er lenigncies or commutations. Sentiment agnainst Laval, however, is overwhelming and determined. A native of Hastings, Minn., she attended _ Dennizon . university, Ohio; received her B.A. degree at the University of Minnesota, and was awarded an M.A. degree at INorthvuhrn. Later she became instructor of speech, English and theater at Elgin, IIL: high school, at State Teachers‘. college at Pittsburgh, Kansas, and at Northâ€" western university. Still later she from which she taught voice and diction, and was at one time conâ€" nected with the Goodman theater. But it was as a reader of plays, for which she had_exceptional talâ€" _ _On the afterncon of VJ day we were invited by the president of the court to visit the Petain trial. We heard the closing arguments in deal. Old Marshal Petain, with his jor of France was besmirched with charges of treason and duplicity. It was a scene which time can nevâ€" Kate Amos Barker and her father, Dr. Charles Barker, who live at the Plaza hotel in Chicago. The body will lie at rest. in the William Scott mortuary, Evanston, on Friday morning, Nov. 9, and funcral services will be conducted at 2:30 Friday e ‘in the chapel of &em church of Evanston. _M_bmmd'ufi cemetery. VJ day brought the writer two unforgettable experiences. Almost at the hour the surrender note was standing in the famed Hall of Mirâ€" Besides her husband she leaves behind her a daughter, Helen, 19, now a student at Vassar college; a son, Lewis, 27, whose home is in will be made in Memorial Park and more are coming inâ€"daily) held informal . parades, engaged in shouting and street »singing and throughout the middle west, and in this capacity she gave pleasure to many listeners. f At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7, Juliet Barker Sarett, 1732 S. Green Bay road, Ravinia, passed away, after a long illness, at Pasâ€" savant hospital, Chicago. She was the wife of Lew Sarett, author and professor of speech at Northwestâ€" ern university. & f Julia Baker Sarett Succumbs to Hiness John McCrae of Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett has announced that appliâ€" cation blanks for 1946 plates now ate available to the public at 16,000 points throughout the state. _Points in this county where moâ€" torists may obtain the blanks are: ers, office of city and county clerks, currency exchanges, newsâ€" ‘m“[»u.“â€"h- automobile clubs. ’-nd 185,939 were salvaged, threeâ€" fourths of the latter being used to repair other pieces. r It is estimated that on renovated clothing alone approximately 37 per cent of the original valuation is saved. Amfl-hilyl...a! ‘pieeu of clothing afe r 4 classifiedâ€"and repaired dmfl it an estimated saving M‘i Ll-'expeuuesinellrl'ell' Although this is sufficient to meet local deâ€" -;:ld-, efforhmwa?‘h{ obtain civilian help and additiona ]lpcehdoubhu&e 'fl:‘ll pieces being handled. â€"~ _ _ _ plied by 190 prisoners.at the IMliâ€" ongâ€"state prigon ‘at Joliet, 90 Gerâ€" man prisoners of war, 75 civilians ‘n_nd 60 military personnel at Fort "Display Cases as a Hobby." Hostâ€" esses for this meeting will be the first grade mothers. grade mothers and teachers Wedâ€" nesdayafternoon in the teachers lian and Mrs. C Whitlock. For 1946 Auto License Plates Available cort an interested group on two field tripsâ€"one to the Lake county detention home and the other to the Lake county juvenile court at Waukegan. Anyone interested in being included on these trips may contact either Mrs. Boyd or Mrs. Pier. . During the past six months, 3,â€" 482,179 items of clothing . and equipment were turned in by reâ€" turning soldiers at Fort Sheridan‘s separation center. Of this numâ€" ber, 2,463,332 or approximately 71 per cent were returned to use Members of the Green Bay Road P. T. A. will be privileged to have as their speaker Mrs. Benjamin Harris of ‘Hubbard Woods, at the Voigt, Mrs. R. Evans, Mrs. H. Witâ€" ‘ Mrs. Douglas Boyd is chairman of the Social Welfare department of the league, and is assisted by Mrs. Harry Pier as her coâ€"chairâ€" man.: â€" Later on they plan to es Ft. Sheridan Utilizes Green Bay PTA To Hear Talk on Hobby, November 15 U. 8 VICTORY BoNDS J. Frank Rushton Speaks ,Here Friday,November 16 all. ME * I 15, at 3:15 p.m. for signment to the St. Charles school a probation officer in the juvenile wealth of information to draw upâ€" on. Her approach to the subject will be from a personal angle, specâ€" ifically giving case histories coverâ€" ing the situation from the time a boy is referred to the court and the League of Women Voters To Hear Mrs. Marian Fisher monthly meeting of the League laâ€" ter in November. * The first meeting will be held at the Community Center on Wedâ€" nesday, November 14, at 1:15, whglul-rh-’fl..hulol the local Social Service, will speak. Prior to replacing Mrs. Fiynn here in Highland Park, Mrs. Fisher was On November 14 ries of discussion meeting s and quent Boy in lIllinois," which seâ€" At its peak the; labor was supâ€" this subject will be both thoughtâ€" E’M ing and enlightening. In light .of â€"his talent as a. speakâ€" c.hlhflhn&andwflhg%":‘ mor, his broad knowledge ofâ€" the .~ subject, the evening‘s â€"entertainâ€" will be oneâ€"which no one can afford f n im _&‘b& " < o fi . ...-: "hp Seponmens potonaheere. ~~ this week at the Highwood USO center, with coaches Emil Nanni and Settino Terricina.: Terricina, light heavyweight champion of Italy, recently returned from 2 _ Bruno Bertucci, an officer of the Highwood Boys‘ club, reveals that the team will make a strong bid for the chanipionship of the Lake Co. Boys‘ Boxing league. The nucleus of the team will be about 11 boys with past experience now back in civilian ranks: Wash@ngton. He is a member of his local draft board and viceâ€"presâ€" ident of the National Association of Ice Industry. He is the author and originator of the "Birmingham Plan" for aiding discharged servâ€" icemen to establish themselves in civilian life, which has been adoptâ€" ed by the chambers of commerce in many cities throughout the Unitâ€" ed States. In cooperation with a committee of the Junior Chamber of Commerce_he has now developâ€" ed a rehabilitation plan that is gaining support in many cities by giving bedâ€"ridden veterans an opâ€" portunityâ€"to work in various indusâ€" trial operations. He has acquired many friends in little and big busiâ€" ness all over the country through Mr. Rushton‘s‘ subject is timely, as everyone is"more interested now than ever in security for the fuâ€" ture. His comments and ideas on To Nisks Strong Biid y _ -‘“&mfifi"""vâ€" nc# to be a sctappy ont. ani will : The boxing squad of the Highâ€" wood Boys‘ club started training and Ariano. Newcomers to the team will be Maipelli, Zanarini, Carlson, Rouse, Moore, Fiore and Christian Science Lecture Tuesday, November 13 13, under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Highâ€" land Park,vin the Church edifice at cight o‘clock. _ Dr. Tutt is a member of the board of lectareship of The Mother ture will be presented by Dr. John M. Tutt, C.S.B; of Kansas City, , two Gingiorgis, Ugolini, Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. fu} personality, eloquent speech and radiant wit have made him a" force not only in the south, but in the nation. He has served with the War Labor board, the Works Production board, the OPA, and the War Food administration in ton before know what a challengâ€" ing, dynamic and humorous speakâ€" er he is. He was born in Birmingâ€" ham, Ala., and.like his fatherâ€"beâ€" fore him has always been promiâ€" nent and active in the business and president of the Birmingham Friday, Nov. 16, at the Lincoln school at 8:15 p.m. The‘ subject of his talk will be "Two Keys to Seâ€" finest and most brilliant speakers in the country on a subject of presâ€" entâ€"day interest to everyone. J. Frank Rushton, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Birmingâ€" Those who have heard Mr. Rushâ€" Highland Park is to have the 5¢ a copy . $1.50 a year

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