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% WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK y LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Il. 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, IIL aa Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone ............ Winnetka 2000 or Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .............. $2.00 A YEAR _---- All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub- lication must reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. The North Shore Theater Guild is pecul- iarly our theater guild. We have for a number of years past attended its presen- tations of excellent Our Theater plays, excellently play- . ed. These presentations Guild have been given in our home neighborhoods, and our neighbors have been members of the casts. When attending the plays we have been in the midst of friends and neigh- bors. So it seems to be ours in a very real sense. The Guild has already entered upon this season's activities. The chairmen of the Guild have held a meeting, and plans have been presented and plans adopted. Doubt- less you have received a letter soliciting your subscription for the coming series. An able director, David Owen, lately su- pervisor of dramatics in the University of Michigan, has succeeded Alexander Dean, to whom the Guild players and audiences owe a debt which money cannot pay. We understand that the officers of the Guild will consider leniently the request of anyone who desires to play a part in one of the forthcoming productions. Here is your opportunity. It seems to us that not only children but also adults should be taught how to use our public libraries. We can not doubt that even on the North Shore there are men and women who cannot easily use card catalogues. Cer- tainly many older people have never made use of indexes, found fre- quently on the last pages of histories and such. For lack of this helpful experience these same persons are completely stumped when asked to look up a certain topic. It is entirely appropriate, however, that our children should be given lessons in using our libraries. School children are often asked to write essays on Lincoln's Early Life or The Products of Illinois. How can they do this work without con- sulting books, and how can they use the books in our libraries to best advantage unless they have been instructed? How to Use Them We regret the leaving of Mr. Harper, dean of boys so long at our high school. At the same time we congratulate the offi- : cers, the teachers, the pupils, and parents on hav- The New ing secured so efficient a Dean successor as Mr. Kahler. He knows the parents; he knows the students. This knowledge, based on many years of teaching in the high school should and will make him a dean ~ whom the boys will like and of whom the school and community will be proud. WINNETKS TALK This month you are being given an op- portunity to invest in the boy, an invest- ment which will net you more in real satis- faction than any investment in stocks or bonds. Octo- ber is the month of the Boy Scout Investment Cam- paign, the month when you will be asked to think about the work of the Scouts and about the big returns your investment in the Scouts will bring to you. Help a boy and help the nation. The boy is the future citizen. If he grows up into strong, honorable manhood, he will be able to render his country valuable service as a moulder and organ of public opinion. Your contribution to the Boy Scouts this month will help them to obtain supplies that they very much need. It will help them to expand their work and be even a greater power than they have been in the past. And who can estimate what immense benefits the organization has already brought to our boys? Invest in the Boy! Next week is Fire Prevention Week. It is urged that during the week parents and teachers do their utmost to impress upon the young the serious and oft times fatal results of failing to have due care in dealing with fire. Parents should in some effective way show their children the grave danger of playing with matches, of starting fires in fields among the dry grass, of being care- less in handling electric wires. It is also suggested that teachers and principals plan ways in which to establish in their pupils extreme care in dealing with fire. Facts regarding the vast amounts of property lost in fires, regarding the tremendous damage done by fire in con- suming homes and places of business. Stories of forest fires might be read and emphasis laid upon the uncontrollable na- ture of fire when it once gets a good start. Fire Prevention The Wilmette Sunday Evening Club is a North Shore institution. Its beneficial in- fluence is not bounded by the limits of Wilmette but easily extends as far north as Glencoe. So long as people like to be entertained and pleasantly educated, and so long as transportation, is convenient and speedy, this remarkable organization will continue to attract more Wilmette audiences. Societies of this sort are rendering a pe- culiarly valuable service in American com- munities. They help their communities get acquainted with the best things in art and literature, and with the achievements of men and nations. The programs are of genuine educational value. The first meeting of the Club took place on Sunday evening, October 2, with a lec- ture by the eminent sculptor, Lorado Taft. The meetings will continue throughout the winter. Sunday Evening Club Every September sees quite a num- ber of new teachers added to our floating population. Coming as they do from homes often distant, they will perhaps find it a little difficult to adjust themselves to their new surroundings. We assure them that they are very welcome, and we hope that they-will make themselves entirely at home with us. October 8, 1927 I SHORE LINES YEARNING I wonder--am I akways doomed To have this loneliness of soul? To feel alone and sick at heart? Far thru this dreary world I search-- There must be someone, soul akin, Who'd trust in me in all I do And I'd put all my faith in him. How quick I'd be to recognize that one-- Our life together would be fun. Ah, well, perhaps 'tis better not, For friendships come and friendships go. But, still, there is someone, I know, Someone for whom my heart's aglow. --GEoRrGIE REB. oe Philup Space--His Inning Lieber Mique: When "your editorial writer said last week that there was a 'stop and go' light at the corner of Fourth and Linden," thereby causing Angelica much futile waiting and extreme fatigue, he was merely anticipating, with his usual foresight what would happen in the near future. The contract for installing said light, or lights, has been duly awarded. May I also add in passing that when Hub in the same priceless column said that he couldn't take a room in the Orrington because "Philup Space lives there and to be near him all of the time would be just too bad," he, Hub, showed gxtrsordinary consideration for the feelings of Yours shorely, --PHILUP SPACE. oe Truth Stranger Than Fiction In the midst of a citizens' oratorical con- test-- in. re. the hope for improved Wilmette high- ways--a solemn faced policeman interposed with the information that Mr. Applegreen was wanted on the telephone: Came the spontaneous response from the outer gallery--""Applegreen's not here but there's plenty of applesauce." -- 4 How Editors Go Mad Our much-maligned editor is commended by one, termed "anti-inoculating Dog Lover," upon the publication of Albert Payson Terhune's views concerning the mad-dog question. The commenda- tion conveys, also, the implication that the daring editor has since probably been harrassed to dis- traction by what are designated the "medical as- sociation and serum manufacturers," and then continues, "We wonder if you will be brave enough to put anything else across." All of which would provoke a stream of old- fashioned profanity if it were not so positively amusing. Yes, my dears, it's a free country, but, oh, my, how some of us do wander in our precious freedom. --E. W. W. re Rp TO MEC The candle of the universe-- The yellow gold of pirate's hoard-- Sinks now into the muddy west, And disappears thru heaven's door. The skies are now alight with stars-- The ebon night shuts out the blue-- And as hushed silence steels o'er all, My thoughts so peaceful rest with you. --Tag Piscaror. Who, Indeed i "Wet basements made bone dry," reads the cap- tion in an advertisement of a well known water- proofing company, But who, in this era, would have them so changed? --Mac, Tae Wor. Rll ua $ Washing Overdue The gradual but certain approach of the quad- rennial political carnivals calls to mind the com- ment of Lippman in his "Men of Destiny," as fol- lows: "The two great political parties make their living by taking in each other's washing"--or words to that effect. Philup Space waltzed into the sanctum Tuesday bearing gladsome tidings of the arrival of a grandson in his family circle. Nine pounds and all boy--so, three rousing huzzahs for Grandpap Phil. d MIQUE.. w BR A