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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 26 Feb 1921, p. 4

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Winnetka Weekly Talk 18SUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK : dass SHORE Th ek NG COMPANY 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill ~ 666 Center Street, Winnetka, Ill Wilmette 1920 Winnetka 388 Telephone ~ Telephone . SUBSCRIPTION All communications must be ac- ~ companied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach this office by Thursday ~ afternoon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary . poetry, notices of ~ entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or ~ a collection taken, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second - class. under the act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1921 Wood In The Philippines en. If the rumor is true that Major ~ General Wood is to be appointed gov- ernor general of the Philippines when Mr. Harding assumes the du- ties of the presidential office, there are many people who will be most, thoroughly pleased. General Wood "has lacked just a little of being the popular idol that his life-time friend, 'Theodore Roosevelt, managed to achieve. His choice for a position of the importance that attaches to the management of affairs in the Philippines will seem to his friends as a sort of compensation for his de- feat in the campaign for presidential nomination. And incidentally the Philippines will have the advantage of a government directed by one who understands the delicate business of administering the affairs of a people totally unlike those who have: as- sumed control over them. It is a big responsibility that will be placed upon General Wood, but at the same time its placing is in the way of a compliment to his talents in a de- ~ partment of the public life of the na- tion which is not to be very gener- 'ally found. Not everybody in the United States agrees that there should be a con- tinued supervision over Philippine affairs by the United States. These, remembering that this country has promised independence to the natives of the islands as soon as there should be demonstration of an ability to use it properly, believe that that time has come and are disposed to urge the performance of the promise "which has been accepted in good faith by the Filipinos its fulfillment awaited with patience until there should be developed native ability and experience tq warrant the re- moval of foreign control over their affairs. This portion of the Ameri- can public will be glad if General Wood is to be given jurisdiction over the affairs of the Philippines because they are assured that with his high sense of honesty and right feeling " there would be immediate recogni- it were applied to any legitimate part of our activities. Puttering is the greatest sin to be charged to the national congress. The members have puttered with this, that and the other matter, getting nowhere and never knowing, appar- ently, that they are wasting time. The love of puttering may be counted upon by those who wish to block any progress, and has been counted upon by the leaders in the two houses of congress to keep the members sitting in their seats quarreling and bicker- ing, all the time thinking that they are conducting the business which has been entrusted to them. In the early days of American his- tory the people were not much given to puttering. They had too little leisure to permit any such indul- gence even had they so desired. To- day if we are to continue to be a nation devoted to achievement, we must forsake the easy puttering ways into which we have fallen, and learn to make our movements count for advancement somewhere, and a somewhere that we really wish to be. oman's @lub ; = A regular meeting of the Winnetka Woman's club was held on Thursday, February 24, at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Porter presided. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Mrs. Leon H. Winne, the corresponding secre- tary, and after two minor additions, were approved. The following an- nouncements were made: Prof. William E. Dodd, of the Uni- versity of Chicago, will lecture on "Thomas Jefferson" on Friday even- ing, March 4, at 8 o'clock, in the club parlors. Mr. Dodd is giving this lec- ture as a very gracious appreciation of the enjoyment which his audience expressed of his course of lectures last fall. No admission will be charg- ed, and it is hoped many persons may avail themselves of this oppor- tunity. Dr. Watson, former rector of the American church in Paris, will speak on "The Meaning of France" at Com- munity House, on Sunday evening, March 6. The proceeds of the talk will be devoted to the relief work in France. Mr. William A. Otis will speak on "Track Depression" Monday evening, February 28, at 8 o'clock, at the club. His lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon. Everyone is welcome The Drama study class will meet next Monday afternoon at the club. There will be a business meeting at 2:30 o'clock. At 3 o'clock the regular program will be given. It consists of a paper by Mrs. Laird Bell on "Bernard Shaw." Mrs... B. V. LL. Brown will read selections from his works. The Chicago Woman's club has opened a "Womans' Work Room" in Rooms 1301-1302, Venetian building, 15 East Washington street, Chicago. Its object is to provide employment for aged or handicapped women, who must support themselves or others, and to create a market for their pro- ducts. This central office provides a place for registration, advice, in- formation, and instruction. The wom- en's handiwork is on display, and will be disposed of without cost to the makers. No restriction is made as to the place of residence of the re- gistrants. The general public may help greatly with this work by their patronage, and by advising possible workers of the office. All sorts of mending and repairing is done. Shirts frayed at the neck and cuffs are made as good as new. Silk stock- ings that have "runs" are almost in- visibly repaired. The board of the Winnetka Woman's club gives its whole-hearted support to this enter- prise. In addition to the repairing, fine needlework is done, and novelties are on sale, or may be ordered. The first session of the Legislative Forum, held under the auspices of the Illinois Woman's Legislative Congress, took place on last Thurs- day and Friday. The club has reason to feel very proud of the telling speech made by Mrs. Maurice H. Lieber on the $20,000,000 Distributive fund in connection with educational legislation. Just preceding the program of the afternoon Miss Stoughton, of the National Child Labor committee of New York, gave a ten-minute talk on "Children in Industry." She appealed for the moral as well as the financial support of the members of the club. Miss Elizabeth Gemmell chairman of the Civics and Philanthropy com- mittee, introduced the speaker of the afternoon, Prof. James A. Breast- ed, of the University of Chicago. His talk, "On the Trail of our Earliest Ancestors," was illustrated by slides, a number of them colored, made from photographs which Prof. Breasted took on the recent archaeological ex- pedition of the University of Chicago to Egypt and Asia Minor. One photo- graph in particular was most inter- esting. It showed the recently ex- cavated audience hall of a palace. If Prof. Breasted deductions are correct it was in this very hall that the famous arguments between Moses and Pharaoh in regard to the Chil- dren of Israel took place. After the program tea was served by the following hostesses, Mrs. Louis M. Beale, Mrs. Edward P. Far- well, Mrs. Willard F. Hopkins, and Mrs. Chester Sargent. The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, March 10. Mr. Perry Dunlap Smith, Headmaster of the North Shore Country Day school, will speak. The program is in charge of the Education committee, With Virginia leading with 51.1 per cent, every state in the Union showed a gain in motor vehicle reg- istration for the past year. The ma- jority of states had increases rang- ing from 18 to 24 per cent. FRANKLIN Sales and Service The car everyone would like to own Gage Motor Sales Co Phone 5700 1639 Orrington Ave., Evanst North Shore Baths NORTH SHORE HOTEL BUILDING Reducing Treatments a Specialty PHONE EVANSTON. 6424 N{AALALLLLS LLL SSS S SS LLL SSS SS SILLS SILLS SS LIL LALLA SILLS LISS Phone Do You Knou-- That there is a miniature electric stove at- tachment on the carburetor of a FRANK- LIN Car which boils the gasoline and in- sures starting, regardless of the temperature, within 5 to 8 seconds; that all the air taken into a FRANKLIN is filtered so as to be absolutely freegof dust and other foreign particles. GAGE MOTOR SALES Co. 1620 OnniNGTON AVE Evanston 5700 Enna TYPEWRITERS t, Sold, Rented and Repaired All Makes Bough 828 Davis St. i Easy Payments PATTERSON BROS. Phone Ev. 654 Evanston, Ill. Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturduy Evenings HTH TAL TR EAE Don't Forget to Replace the Receiver Telephone users are urged to replace the receiver promptly at the end of every conversation. (If the receiver is left off the hook, either intentionally or accidentally, it completely cuts off your tele- phone from every other, and requires the operators to report to persons calling that your telephone is out of tion of the fact when the time comes . service. for us to withdraw from interference in the government of the islands and to grant the independence in accord- ance with our pledge. Office Phone Winnetka 344 Residence Phone Winnetka 1468 Charles R. Bakkemo Painter and Decorator Holder of Diploma for Painting By replacing the receiver on the hook at the end of each telephone talk, you keep your telephone door open Puttering and assist in maintaining good service. -- The putterer is the apparently busy person who never gets anything done. His name is Legion and his tribe in- creases amazingly. 'The putterer habit is one of the easiest to acquire, one of the hardest to break and it is YES. We're after your thoroughly inimical to achievement order. We are offering in any department of life. you the choicest eatables There are many phases of the or- ever marketed. We will dinary American life that contribute serve you politely and to this habit of puttering. The "busy make you feel perfect] work" that women find for them- at ease. when Fi HEA selves to do, the work that children otiriatore. in the schools are given to fill in moments when there is nothing else Patterson Bros. for them to do, the many, needless : 5 tasks that every housewife sets her- PHONE FOR IT | 828 Davis Street, Evanston self, the habits that are acquired in Ww . a RE Fs Telephone 654 Evanston business houses by clerks uninter- ; * Easy Pavments ested in the welfare of their firm, and any number of other instances which readily come to mind--all these de- velop the habit of puttering. We orow in puttering as we should grow ace, showing an aptitude for it ould advance us anywhere if ESTIMATES FURNISHED 952 Spruce St., WINNETKA, ILL. 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