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in millions. . line Z mm Fa Fa Fa WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1917 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Lake Shore Publishing Company 1222 Central Avenue, Wilmette, Ill Business Telephone. gowns Wilmette 1921 Editorial Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1920 SUBJURIETION/ a Strictly; in adyance . +$1.00 A YEAR jE Address all cothmunications 'to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilmette, Ill Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The same applies to rejected manuscript unless return postage is enclosed. Articles for publication should reach this office by Tuesday afternoon to insure appear- ance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, card of thanks, obituary.poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge .will be made or a collection taken, will be charged for at regular. advertising rates. Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1917 A Compliment to Women. A call has been sent out to the women of America to unite their strength in the making of surgical dressings for the use of the Red Cross in France. The message which has come from Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, head of the American Red 'Cross commission in France, to the Red Cross headquarters of America asks for standard surgical dressings Failure of the Red Cross to supply the need would be, he says, "a serious calamity and a national disgrace." : That be goes without saying, for the Ameri- they will forthcoming can women are alive to the situation and devoted to the doing of their But the in what duty to the utmost. ques- tion obtrudes itself, other line of work in which failure could mean "a serious calamity and a na- tional disgrace," would performance be left to the voluntary service of one-half of the adult population, a large proportion of which is unable to serve, many unsympathetic, many inefficient? It is the greatest compliment which Major Murphy could have paid the women of America, to repose such faith in their willingness to work without other compensation than the realization of the great need. a Thanksgiving for the Jackies. Thanksgiving is essentially a fam- ily holiday. It is for this very rea- son that Thanksgiving spent away from home becomes one of the drear- iest days of the year, no matter how much in accordance with the day the menu may be. This there be homes in which there is a vacant year will many place on Thanksgiving. This year there will be many a boy homesick because he must spend his holiday away from friends and family, in the same conditions of work which pre- i vail on all the other days of the year. In many cases this is unavoidable. We cannot help the men who are al- ready gone across seas to the battle in Europe. We cannot help those in the cantonments far away But we cafi make Thanks- giving Day a day of pleasure to those from us. boys at Great Lakes who are too far away from their homes to return for the day. We can open our homes to one, two, three, perhaps more boys, who otherwise would have no touch of home in their Thanksgiving. It is a kindness which will be ap- preciated by the jackies, an experi- ence which will bring pleasure to the host. WHAT OUR READERS SAY Nov. 14th, 1917. Editor, Winnetka Westy Talk: Dear Sir: o . = Will vous permit me (in common with many others who in this, mo-.; ment of sharp illustration to, the, peo- ple of the south-end of Winnetka, feel as deeply or perhaps even more so than I) the use of your columns in a contribution to the weal of many families as well as children who have to obey and take consequences not only directly opposed to their mental progress but because of it, also the vitality they neéd to be storing up. I. have children of my own, young and with their heads as full of no- tions and preoccupation as those of other children who are asked to go on along up to Horace Mann school and take care of themselves. I dread the time and have often thought of what it may mean, when in one year from now, my older boy will have to go there also, unless we get this mat- ter immediately regulated. No child can well go back and forth to school twice a day, under our modern high strung conditions and compete with their delicate nerves against railway crossings, electric lines and heavy and rapid vehicle traffic of all sorts :--no economic con- siderations may weigh against any such physical fact, and when to such conditions are -added danger to life and limb of our precious children every day they are forced to go long distances to school and encounter all of these detrimental obstructions to their life and their progress, we are pretty near to committing a crime against them, if we do permit pres- ent arrangements to longer continue. . The death of the Shoemaker child is a harrowing incident not only to the bereaved family but to the entire community in the south end of Win- netka, and has made every parent of us shudder with the possibilities to our own little ones sooner or later. Has it occurred to the school board to tabulate for instance, the number of automobiles passing in Wilson avenue, any ordinary day? Ask the village engineers for the figures. 1 happen to know them, but this is but one danger of three principal ones so unavoidable that they are perma- nent and most real physical barriers to what we are attempting, in having two grades out of eight,leave Greeley school and go clear up to Horace Mann school against these impen- etrable barriers. Why is it we do this, with so sufficient an equipment as the Greely school available? Is it a matter of opinion or one of dol- lars and cents? If the latter, let us try right now to wipe out that con- sideration in an effort to say how much the life of the Shoemaker child was worth if, it can be done; and if it is a matter of opinion or expedient, may we not immediately sift down the whole matter and see whether we are right or wrong in running a split up school and taking chances against dangers and handicap. Let us do it, and do it now. A very large number of people are to be served and the number will be very much larger in another year. Let us correct the experiment which has been made. No one can tell of course that the Shoemaker accident would not have some day occurred had all the grades been at Greeley, but it would at least have been a minimized possibility. It was perhaps due also to the regrettable narrowness of Wilson street, and this, too, must be remedied without delay or compro- mise and without regard to any one or two private interests. The public is to be served; let it be served; but, by all means let the Greeley school now be made to take care of the full eight grades. No compromise with safety nor with mental progress un- der the conditions most ideal to them! Let us have serious thought and im- mediate adjustment if that is to be. One child is worth more than every- thing else, even the convenience of all of them is not to be passed by any longer. In the mean time, another matter, at least until Wilson street is widened :--let bicycles be kept en- tirely off Wilson street; better to be bumped off the walk than send any boy or girl under sixteen or eighteen into the street and be killed. Let us invite to be done, all that can be rea- sonably done. Respectfully, P. I. JOHANSEN. Chicago, Ill, Nov. 14, 1917. To the Board of Education, Winnetka, Illinois. Gentlemen : Can it be that our School Board deprives us of a school complete with all grades, because of the want of money? Or is it some reason not so easily described? Greeley school is built to take care of all the grades, all grades in this school. and the community is® more than anxious to do their part to establish Cannot we htave some "action on this' at once, and bring: to an: end "this primitive | inner qf sending our children to ool? we Bo order Hot to further deceive any prospective buyer of property. in this village, by the display of modern school building, I would sug- gest that each real estate operator doing business in-Winnetka he com- pelled to make a clear statement. to | each prospective customer for this village, of the exact condition of the schools and to continue doing so until these conditions are remedied. Yours respectfully. FRANK D. DUNCAN. 170 Woodland Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois. An Answer. November 22, 1917. Editor, Winnetka Weekly Talk. Dear Sir: There are two reasons why eight grades cannot be conducted at the Greeley school: 1. The financial limitations of the school beard are such as to make it impossible for us to establish 5th and 6th grades at the Greeley school at the present time. Ways and means to overcome our financial disability in so far as the building of additional rooms is concerned have been given thorough consideration for a consid- erable time, and a committee is now at work in an effort to relieve the situation. A concrete plan by which our difficulties may be overcome will be submitted to the citizens for their approval as soon as possible. 2. A reply to the second question which Mr. Duncan asks is, as he sug- gests, more difficult to state, but the school board has from time to time attempted to make this situation clear to the public and is at all times ready to make this explanation again when it is called for. The congested district of Winnetka is centered around the Horace Mann school and we must furnish school facilities for young children within easy walking distance. For this reason all avail- able class-rooms at the Horace Mann school are used for grades below and including the sixth grade. On account of this situation it has been neces- sary to ask the 7th and 8th grade children who are able to walk longer a large, distances and travel on the cars to go to the Greeley school. The dis- trict around Greeley school is more sparsely settled and the number of small. Te Tiger it absolutely children in the Sth and 6th grades is |. necessary to use these extra rooms take care of our one hundrey for 7th and 8th grade children from t 'entire village. In the north end of the village ¢ t 2X (Continued on page: 9 lew 7 3 want to Rent a Home, If so let us know. "po YoU WANT TO EXCHANC Property, your Home, your Vacant for Ch icago Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka or Evanston or 'do you Home. Do you want a Loan or Insurance or buy 'Fill out this blank and mail to us. | NAG, 7 fo afi missin mein tag's ws ix wi wipes weve er ea Ter Ee Address. agg Tel. 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