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A Weekly News-Magazine for Winnetka WINNETKA TALK srr VOL. XV, NO. 43 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 1, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS LAUDS WINNETKA FOR "~~ YULETIDE GENEROSITY Officials of "Ciicazo Welfare Agency Pen Note of Com- mendation to Local Minister EDITOR'S NOTE--An impression of what Winnetkans are doing to bring hap- piness to unfortunate households during the Christmas season is given in the ac- companying letter addressed to the Rev. James Austin Richards of the Winnetka Congregational church by an official of the Christmas bureau of the Chicago Council of Social Agencies. The letter is self-explanatory and needs no further preface. "Once again the Christmas bureau feels under deep obligation to the . Winnetka Congregational church for its generosity to so many needy fami- lies under care at this season of the vear. The part played by the Winnet- ka church is always a bright spot in the life of the Christmas bureau. # "Cash contributions from 41 individ- : uals and two Sunday school classes amounted to $782, and in addition two large families were cared for directly of by interested individuals. In one case the person interested wanted the bur- eau to trace the family she cared for last year, as the experience of visiting them was such a happy one. Fortun- ately the bureau was able to locate the family and make the desired arrange- ments. "There were also five families cared for by Winnetka groups that we felt to be the direct result of the Christ- mas activity of the church. A "One of the finest things that hap- . pened was the following: A man aged Re 46 lies in the Oak Forest Infirmary AF waiting to die, a helpless paralytic. : $ His wife and six children can seldom o see him as they have no money to 3 spend on carfare. An appeal to the : } church brought the offer of an auto- mobile trip to Oak Forest for the whole family the day after Christmas. Reports come to the bureau that the family are overjoyed at the prospect of the trip and a visit with the father. "For three years a little Winnetka boy has given $10 of his Christmas money to make some of our children happy. Gifts like these show real Christmas spirit. "Many bundles of clothing and toys were added to the other contributions and it has all helped to reach many more families than we can count. "Once more may we point out that one of the nicest results of money gifts is that the family may plan its own Christmas, do up packages for each other, have Christmas secrets and all the joys of anticipation that means most to the rest of us. "One family received a cash gift long enough in advance so that they could send a Christmas box to their boys living at Arden Shore camp be- cause of serious mal-nutrition. The parents would have been deprived of that joy if instead of the money in advance a basket had been brought to them on Christmas Eve. It is real Christmas sharing to give this way, and we feel that your money has been spent in such a way as to bring real benefits as well as temporary pleasure to families most needing such help." Sadl. --y El 4 3 HEAR NOVAES MONDAY Brilliant Brazilian Pianist to Give Third of Winnetka Music Club Re- cital Programs at New Trier Members of the Winnetka Music club are looking forward with keen anticipation to the appearance Mon- day evening, January 3, of Mme. Guiomar Novaes, South American pianist, who is to give the third re- cital of the current Artist-Recital series sponsored by the club. The re- cital will be given in the New Trier High school auditorium. Mme. Novaes, a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, launched upon her bril- liant career at the tender age of 6 years when she was placed by her par- ents under the guidance of the well known piano teacher, Luigi Chiafferelli. She gave her first recital at the age of 9, and thereafter made frequent public appearances. At the age of 14 the Brazilian gov- ernment sent her to Paris to compete in the entrance test for the competi- tive scholarship to be awarded by the Paris Conservatoire. Here she came away with first honors among 388 contestants. In Paris she came under the tutelage of Isadore Philippe and at the end of her second year received the award of Premier Prix du Con- servatoire. Mme. Novaes made her debut at the age of 17. Numerous engagements followed in England, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. She came to Ameri- ca in 1916 and gave her first recital in Aeolian hall where she created a veritable sensation. She has played ten seasons in the United States, her art being described by a prominent critic as possessing "bigness of style, warmth, tenderness, and calm dignity combined with brilliant technique." I Cheral*Prelude .... soins. 6 Bach Variations et fugue sur on theme de Haendel i aiid Brahms II Night in Sevillia ............Niemann Fn:Aule. .. vv i iii Poulenc Sonata No, 4... cova. Scriabin (Andante and Prestissimo) III Soul of Brazil .....s. 0. ~ Villa-Lobos Alcove of Turandot .......... Busoni Serenata . iui. fivimin meni Tyan Strauss "Fledermaus" ...... Strauss-Godowsky NEXT WEEK IN WINNETKA (Listed at Community House) Monday, January 3 All Day--Christ church Guild, Par- ish House. 8 p. m. North Shore Artist recital, Mme. Novaes, New Trier High school. Tuesday, January 4 2:30 -- Winnetka Woman's club, Woman's club building. Wednesday, January 5 All day--Women's society, Com- munity House. Friday, January 7 Noon--Rotary club luncheon, Com- munity House. 7 :30--Piano recital, pupils of Mrs. Weston, Hubbard Woods school. 1997 Santa's Helpers Lehle Photo by Here we have pictured one of the Scully Transfer trucks receiving its cargo of Christmas things from the workrooms of the Winnetka branch of the Northwestern University Set- tlement at 17 Indian Hill road. The truck was laden with toys and Christmas dinners for needy families on Chicago's vast and congested West Side. It has been the custom for sev- eral years for each member of the branch to provide Christmas baskets for the families living in the vicinity of the Settlement. The Scully Trans- fer company of Winnetka donated the services of men and cartage. Indian Hill Men Meet Sunday to Boost Ice Rink Money for the development of the Indian Hill park skating rink has been coming in just a bit slowly, it is said, and every day is one less to be enjoyed by the skating fans this season. The men of the vicinity have de- cided to meet Sunday morning at the home of Si Westerfeld, 365 Elder lane to work out some plan so the rink can be started at once. W. S. Nordberg, secretary of the Indian Hill Improvement association says there is yet something like $400 or $500 to be raised, and at the rate it is coming in much of the good skat- ing weather will have passed before the rink is a reality. Motorcycle Policeman Breaks Leg in Mishap Eugene Schubert, motor-cycle officer of the Winnetka Police department, was thrown from his motor-cycle Mon- day morning, sustaining a fracture of the bone of the right leg, at the ankle. The accident occurred on Sheridan road, at "No Man's Land," caused by the side-car becoming de- tached from the motor-cycle. Schubert was taken to the Evanston hospital by V. I. Hotz, of 388 Elder lane, who summoned Harry Dahl's cab. WOMEN VOTERS CONDUCT FORUM HERE JANUARY 10 Winnetka, Kenilworth and Lake Forest Leagues to Hear of Legislative Measures The Winnetka League of Women Voters will spend all its time and ef- fort for the next five months upon a "Legislative Program." With the open- ing of the State Assembly in Spring- field, the league believes that its field of work should be the education of its members concerning those bills which will be introduced at this session. A number of these bills have a special appeal to women, such as jury service for women, eight hour day for women, and the Woman's State Reformatory. Introducing this Legislative program will be a legislative Forum conducted jointly by the Winnetka, Kenilworth and Lake Forest leagues at Commun- ity House, Winnetka, January 10. This is the regular monthly meeting day of the Winnetka league. The general committe in charge of this Forum is comprised of Mrs. Walter I. Benson, chairman; Mrs. George Richardson, Lake Forest; Mrs. Mark Cresap, Ken- ilworth; Mrs. William B. Hale, Mrs. Mauri¢e H. Lieber, Mrs. I.. M. Gooder, and Mrs. John N. Van derVries, of Winnetka. Forum Opens at 11 a. m. The Forum will open at 11 o'clock in the morning and close at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, with a luncheon at noon. The luncheon chairmen of the Winnetka league, Mrs. Cecil F. Baker and Mrs. Oscar I. Moore, have re- cently worked out a new plan for the league luncheons and promise an at- tractive arrangement that day. Among those appearing on the Forum program will be: Miss Edith Rockwood, director of field work of the Illinois League of Women Voters, who will tell of the work which should be accomplished in law-making by the 1927 Assembly. Miss Rockwood has attended all the sessions of she As- sembly since the Voters league was or- ganized and will be in Springfield dur- ing the coming session. Mrs. M. H. Lieber, chairman of the Legislative Measures committee of the Winnetka league, will discuss the work which she plans to do along legislative lines. Mrs. Walter I. Benson, a former president of the Winnetka league, has prepared some charts showing the vari- ous processes through which a bill must go before introduced. Mrs. Ben- son will explain these charts and give the results of her interviews with the representatives from the Seventh dis- trict. - Czarnecki on Program Anthony Czarnecki, formerly elec- tion commissioner of Chicago and now Collector of Customs, will discuss "Bet- ter Election Laws." Other speakers, who will cover im- portant bills to be introduced, will be announced in next week's issue of WinNNETKA TALK. Tickets for the Forum, which include luncheon, are being sold by the pre- cinct chairmen and their block cap- tains in Winnetka, and in Lake Forest and Kenilworth by their respective committees.