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4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1920 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LAKE SHORE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. 656 Center Street, Winnetka, Ill Telephone .............. Wilmette 1920 Telephone .............. Winnetka 388 SUBSCRIPTION ........ $2.00 A YEAR 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, DECEMBER 25, 1920 Perilous Living Today Five hundred and sixty-one deaths because of accidents to and from automobiles is the year's record for Chicago, a record that it is a dis- grace to the city to have to acknowl- edge. Lax enforcement of traffic regulations, a carelessness in the ex- tension of licenses, leniency in the punishment of those who have helped to bring the total to the high figure that it has reached have laid the foundation for an even higher record next year. : Inexperienced drivers are permit- ted to operate upon the city streets without concern for the victims that must pay the penalty. Reckless driv- ers risk their own lives and imperil others with impunity. Speeders violate the regulations that are de- signed to protect the general public from their carelessness, paying - cheerfully the fines that are imposed when they are caught by the police; more often paying no penalty what- ever. Chicago is fast developing a reput- ation for lack of safety for the in- nocent bystander that is bound in time to affect the properity of the city. With the all but certain security of murderers and hold-up men, with the constant danger upon its streets from the reckless and lawless driv- ing of automobiles, life in the great' city is beginning to compare with the dangerous existence of the early settlers. War-disposed Indians and hungry wild beasts could at least be prepared against. The sudden ap- pearance of the speeding automobile and its hasty and noiseless disappear- ance are really much more danger- ous than the enemies that made life uncertain, if interesting, to the pioneers. And we make very little effort to eliminate them. More Men Than Jobs -- One hundred and sixty men for each one hundred jobs is a situation that warns to judicious meeting of the industrial and financial problem. Nothing will bring us through the crisis which we are now facing but careful and unselfish thought of how to effect the necessary decline in living costs with a fair and equal distribution of the loss which such a process necessarily entails. The greatest element of danger is the reckless and extravagant habit that has been developed by those who for the first time in their lives have had more money in their hands than was absolutely necessary to meet the living expense of the fam- ily. The sense of wealth that a few dollars ahead of need has aroused will be followed by an equal sense of depriviation when the easy money is no longer to be had. There must be a return to respect for work, a desire to achieve something with the time spent at one's job, a wish to contribute what one can to the pro- duction of life's necessities. A little anxiety about the permanency of the position which is held in the business and industrial organization will tend to effect that change of mental atti- tude more than any other one thing and the constant thought that some body else is waiting for the job that one holds is a constant reminder to think of the quality of the work that is turned out rather than to the 'the American public demands sheet or the sum that will be con- tained in the pay envelope. A Supreme Court Of Morals Congress is to be urged to create a "supreme court of morals," it is said, whose chief purpose should be the regulating of the screen kisses with which the movie public of the world is regaled. Such - a proposi- tion would be funny if it were not so indicative of the general disposi- tion to have all moral teaching per- formed by somebody outside the family circle. The character of the screen plays, just as the character of the plays on the "legitimate" stage, is determined by the box office receipts. So long as and patronizes the play of doubtful moral character, so long will that sort of production prevail. Public taste regu- lates public amusement. Any public taste is only the sum total of the in- dividual taste for which the parents of the children in the homes are di- rectly responsible. The individual home should be the "supreme court of morals." SCOUTMASTERS ENJOY WINTERTIME PICNIC Seventy-five scoutmasters and their assistants from the north shore district council forsook their warm firesides Monday night to go on a picnic in the chill woods west of Glencoe. Monthly picnics are the rule of Evanston council and they have de- cided not to let the weather stop them. Social Happenings See A group of members from the In- fant Welfare board, of which Mrs. C. P. Evans is chairman, played hostesses at a Christmas party to about three hundred and fifty mothers and their small babes, yesterday afternoon at the New Trier Infant Welfare station on West Chi- cago avenue, Chicago. Refreshments were served, and each mother re- turned home with some small souven- ir of Christmas, a gift from the sta- tion. A delightful little program was presented by various groups from Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, including some solo dancing and piano selections by the Misses Hoffman, and a playlet given by a Wilmette group of Camp Fire girls. NOTICE Winifred Townsend, Violineste; Mar- guerite Fitzgerald, Pianeste, WED- NESDAY AFTERNOONS and SATUR- DAY FORE-NOONS. Studios third floor, Brown Building, Wilmette. Class work will be given those who cannot avail themselves of private lessons. Genevieve Fitzgerald will accept a limited number of Harp pupils. Resi- dence phone Win. 846 or Studio phone 1280. --Adv. LTGT7-1te Thursday, December 16, was Pledge Day at Northwestern Uni- versity. In the list of pledges ap- pearing in the Daily Northwestern on Friday, December 17, are the names of many of the north shore girls. The Misses Virgihia Bull of 542 Maple avenue, Wilmette, Kath- erine Whitnes Wortley of 565 Lin- coln avenue, Winnetka, Dorothy Dav- is and Mary Brandon Paynter of Glencoe are pledged to Kappa Kappa Gamma; the Misses Elizabeth Mich- elet of 1028 Sheridan road, Wilmette, Grace Maddock of Central avenue, Wilmette, and Vera Mabel Clark of Winnetka, are pledged to Delta Gam- ma; Miss Margaret B. Paterson of 925 Chestnut avenue, Wilmette, is pledged to Alpha Phi; Miss Virginia Lloyd Wales of 385 Ridge avenue, Winnetka, is pledged to Gamma Phi Beta; Miss Marjorie Mayer of Glen- coe, is pledged to Delta Delta Delta; and Miss Mildred Swiger of Glencoe, is pledged to Alpha Gamma Delta. Miss Dorothy Day, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Day, of Sheridan rroad, has returned from Vassar, and Lewis Day has returned from Yale to spend the Christmas holidays. RR tt The Hawthorne Lane Circle will meet with Mrs. Samuel M. Browne, 309 Fairview avenue, on Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. R. G. Johansen will be the assisting hostess. rs fs Miss Patty Hamm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hamm of Kenilworth has returned from Bradford, Mass., where she has been attending school. for the holidays. fi Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway Watson and Mr and Mrs. Laird Bell will en- tertain two groups of members of the Harvard Glee club a dinner on Christmas Day at one of the down- town hotels. A eh The North Shore Dancing club will give a dancing party next Wednes- day evening at the Winnetka Wom- ans' club. en The second of the series of Win- netka Assembly dances will take place on New Year's night at the Winnetka Woman's club. ---- The Misses Barbara Nichols, Eliz- abeth Hall and Louise Kellogg are home from Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass., for the Christmas holidays. ---- Beta Theta Pi fraternity of North- western University will give a dinner dance at the Winnetka Woman's club on Saturday evening January 8. rem Bin Mrs. Asa Cooley will sing a group of songs at the next meeting of the Winnetka Woman's club on Thurs- day afternoon, December 30. Ry . Miss Margaret Casey, of the Eng- lish department of the Departmental school, has returned to her home in Aurora for the holiday vacation. ee Ge Rev. H. G. Ozanne, teacher of Latin at Hope college, Holland, Mich., spent last week-end with his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Lieber, 985 Elm street. Pn Miss Edna Harry, principal of the lower grades at Horace Mann school, is spending the holidays in Moline and Savannah, Ill. of usefulness. stream, or by forethought out of life. your while to save as now. Money IsLike a Stream of Water Did you ever stop to think of a stream of water-- how it flows through your city or past your home--day after day and year after year? But the moment a dam is built and the water stopped--or even part of it--the stream becomes a constantly widening and deepening reservoir of power, with all its significant possibilities Saving money is like building a dam across a stream. You can let your money come and go, as water in a outgo and pile up for yourself week by week or month by month, the savings which in later years will add to your independence, to your ability to take advantage of new opportunities, and to the comfort you can get There never was a time when it was so well worth will buy just that much more when prices come down. Come in and let us work out some plan to take advantage of today's unusual opportunity for saving. you can stop some of the The dollars put away today figure that will show on the time WINNETKA TRUST and SAVINGS BANK Mrs. M. J. Amundson, of 938 Cherry street, announces the engage- ment of her daughter, Margaret, to Harold Richard Odh, of Hubbard On Christmas Day Mr. and Mrs. Hugo O. von Hofsten, 773 Prospect avenue, will give a tea, followed by a dinner dance to introduce to society Xmas packages. aasaae r we can fit for delivery in one WE DO IT. amateurs. Phone 142 mn ARRIVED LATE AND Specially Priced 0 A line of handsome hand colored photographic calenders. These make appropriate inexpensive additions to your Have you overlooked a frame for that Xmas picture? We have genuine hand carved, gold-leafed swing frames that We also have cameras, kodaks, photographic goods that make the best of moderate priced gifts. AGAIN--don't forget we do professional finishing for x oR 4) 2 Doors East Winnetka State Bank pm Woods. No date has been set for the Miss Mary Louise von Hofsten, who wedding. is home from Bryn Mawr. al =e == = == hour. Phone 142 0 DS I sll IE 4 EN ~~ 7 Wy. fi " # bh' A RE gy bo EP) Sm =i sisal] "The Chocolates with the Whnelerfil Centers at them. All your favorites in one box. Ch, but they're delicious ! known to many young ladies in this town already! Atour Candy Counter, in hand- some, full-measure boxes. HEY make you "Choc- olate hungry" to look And they are _/ ADAMS PHARMACY PhonesjWinnetka 2 and 3 The Rexall Store