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4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1923 Demand Action on » . ; songs, but always with the right - | % Track Depression Plan Germans Devoid of Hope; Czechs ical Sera: 0 sang x "Star Spangled Banner in our honor, with a . Ld Most Energetic Nation--Washburne| cuir siavic tempo and jit, and a spy broken English, but with such 2 er -- i ; a feeling of gratitude to America for Superintendent of Schools |ter than any boarding school for rich| having given them their home that FORD (Continued from Page 1) ed that her committee, including Mrs. children we havé seen--more beauti-| j i , ; : : C V it stirred us f rs Burnham and Mrs. Parker, was still en- Completes Investigation ful in a simple, fine way; more home-| sang o od Soul hi they SER VICE gaged in having the pictures, casts, etc. of Eurovean Educational like and natural; and as good as the|sych pathos and beauty that no one belonging to the association, in the pub- C dik best in educational methods. The art|in. the room had dry eyes. And it ---- lic schools and library, cleaned and put onditions work of this school was the finest we | was all in a dingy kitchen, the little in first class repair. She showed pre- ee -------- have found, and was developed with Ae liminary sketches and models, made by| Following is the third and final letter | complete freedom, the an mak- A of a Mrs. Coburn and Mrs. Burnham for |of a series dispatched from Europe by |ing beautiful things for the love of it, legs--gathered Ae ole hut 18 OD , proposed mural decorations in the new | Carleton W. IWashburne, superintendent | not because they were forced to do it Yoiher dim light he ly re oe i Skokie School and for use jn con- |of Winnetka schools, where he has been They had built a tiny village for| kitchen chairs am the Se he on nection with the drinking fountains. engaged for the past three months in| themselves off a way from the school, | {istened Side an Music Committee Report the study and vestigation of education-|and in the afternoons were free to] 1¢ is possible that these: children of Mrs. Otis, Music, reported as follows: al--particularly experimental schools-- | work or play as they saw fit in their | Bakule's will come to America on a Skokie Motor Co. 712-714-716 Elm Street Winnetka a ol 1 for the lovers of instrumental. "This last year the Music Committee ceased to be a sub-committee of the Municipal Art, as it was thought by be- ing a separate group more active work could be undertaken. Consequently, as chairman, I have appointed three mem- bers on this committee, who have ac- cepted the position. They are: Mrs. Bur- ton Atwood, Mrs. William Sherman Hay and Mrs. Philemon Kohlsaat. "We will still, of course, take care of the carol singing around the Village Christmas Tree. This last year was the ninth time the carols have been sung, and we have plans for making them a greater success next year. "Sponsored by the Village Improve- ment Association, the really important work which the committee hopes to ac- complish this year is the organizing of a fine chorus under the direction of a professional conductor, to be started next fall. We should like it to be a second "Apollo Club," and be so good that we will be invited to take part in the North Shore Musical May Festival at Evanston. "We have been to see Dean Lutkin of the Northwestern School of Music, and he has in mind two competent con- ductors, either one of whom, could we get to take charge of it, would make it a success. The Woman's Club, which is now equipped with a fine Steinway concert grand piano, will probably give us the opportunity to meet in the Club House once a week, free of rent. Many people have expressed themselves inter- ested in the project. Dean Lutkin said the proportion of sixty women to forty men was a very good one. The chorus, of course, would not be composed of gifted soloists, but of people who love to use their voices in team work to make one fine whole. Many people have said they would be interested in the scheme, and when the final notice is sent out, the committee hopes for a hearty res- ponse from those who will pledge them- selves to join the chorus. After a cer- "tain afotint of practice the natural out- come will be the giving of really good concerts, which ought to be as enjoy- hieeior the lover of vocal music, as are S Telightful Little Symphony . regis 0 a clear your throats and prepare to sing." Mr. Cobb reported on behalf of the committee on Franchises and Operations that he had presented to the Village Council a report on the electric road sit- uation in connection with the expiration of the present franchise in May. The committee has this matter under obser- vation. . Mr. Robert Wallace urged that upon the expiration of the Illinois Bell Tele- phone company franchise, steps be "taken to have the poles removed from the street and the wires placed in conduits under-ground, these conduits to carry both the telephone and light wires. Mr. Frank D. Fulton reported for the Membership Committee that they are canvassing a list of 4,000 prospective members of the Association in the Vil- lage and that good progress has been made thus far in securing new members. The meeting then adjourned. Country Day School Head Studies School Equipment Perry Dunlap Smith, principal of the North Shore Country Day school, left Thursday of this week to attend the Na- tional Education association convention at Cleveland, Ohio. While away from the village he will visit schools in Cleve- land, Detroit and Dayton for the purpose of studying equipment of classrooms, lab- oratories with a view to obtaining the latest approved equipment for the new school building on the Winnetka campus. PAINT All Sise Cans, '.ubes, Special Colors You Can Do Better Here Than Elsewhere RASMESEN'S Store WINN 344 STORE Phone Winnetka 932 C. E. Schafehen Electrical Repairing and Fixtures WE REPAIR ANYTHING in the schools of the continent. The tour is made in the interest of the Winnetka scheols, the Illinois State De- partment of Public Instruction and the United States Bureau of Education. The accompanying letter reads like a book of travels, giving an intimate in- sight into the life of the "average" peo- ple of the continent. Mr. Washburne will write other ar- ticles for the Talk upon his return from Europe. En Route From Rome to Naples February 3, 1923 To the readers of the Weekly Talk, Dear People: Since I last wrote to you from Ge- neva we have travelled far, have seen some remarkable educational experi- ments, and have had many interesting experiences. Now we are on the home stretch and as we pass through coun- tries that are doing little educational- ly we are doing some typical Ameri- can tourist sight-seeing. We shal be in Winnetka shortly after this let- ter--about March first. From Switzerland, where we me Romain Rolland, and visited three in- teresting schools, we went through Munich and Vienna to Czechoslova- kia. This is the livest country we have found. It has ancient traditions and an old and fine history, but has the freshness and vigor of a new-born republic. The Czech people are ener-. getic and forward-looking They look upon America as a sort of older sister--beneficient and wise; but, like most younger members of a family, they think they can improve some- what upon what their elders have done, and resent too much advice. We were beautifully entertained in Prague, the Czechoslovak ministry of education, the foreign office, and the Red Cross filling every minute of our time, giving us boxes at the opera, driving us everywhere in official au- and interpreters, and generally mak- ing our stay both valuable and enjoy- able. We were entertained at tea in President Masaryk's castle, by his daughter. And it was in Czechoslova- kia that we found two of the most interesting schools of our whole trip Find Remarkable School One of these schools was an orph- anage, established at the little town of Stranov Krnsko by the Czech Legi- onaries for the orphans of legionairs who fell during the war. It was bet- tomobiles, furnishing us with guides: little huts. They cooked the vege- tables, they grew in their own gar- dens, on the stoves of their huts, and each night three of them were allow- ed to sleep in their home-made houses. We spent Christmas eve and Christ- mas with these children, and found them remarkably lovable--natural and unrepressed and free, without disor- der. Genius of Cripples The other school in Czechoslovakia that impressed us strongly was one for cripple children in Prague. The director had left an institution where -| they would not give him freedom to work out his own ideals of education. and twelve little cripples had follow- him. By the work of their hands, al- though several fingers were often missing, or even by the skillful work of the toes of one armless boy, the little group managed to make its own living under the direction of their teacher and leader, Bakule. Some wealthy Americans had learned of their struggles and had given the Czech Junior Red Cross enough mon- ey to buy a house for them. And in this house we saw them working and heard them sing. They changed their beds into work benches during the day--they made their own furniture and equipment, they kept their own books and sold the things they made; and through it all they were taugh' to read and write and calculate, freely and unsystematically, but in the end effectively. They were being trained to earn their own living in spite of their deformities and were being given a bright and wholesome view of life-- Nowhere was this more evident than in their singing, which was the love- liest child singing any of us had ever heard. 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