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-the simple but 4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922 NEW TRIER READY FOR SWIM MEETS Will Have to Fight Evanston for Honors Indications are Evanston and New Trier High School swimmers will fight it out again this year for the Suburban league swim champion- ship. Suburban league swim meets are scheduled to begin January 8. Ev- anston and New Trier clash on Janu- ary 10. New Trier recently amassed 18 points for second honors in the interscholastic events at the Illinois Athleic club in which swimmers of Chicago and suburban high schools competed. The league championship will be decided, as it wag last year, with each team meeting the other twice during the season. The meets must be held during the week following the schedule as follows: Jan. 8--Oak Park at Proviso; Deer- field at Morton; Evanston at New Trier (Jan. 10, 4 p. m.) Jan. 15--Evanston at Oak Park; Morton at Proviso; New Trier at Deerfield. Jan. 22--Proviso at Deerfield; Oak Park at Morton; New Trier at Pro- viso. Jan. 29--Deerfield at Evanston; Oak Park at New Trier; Morton at Pro- viso. Feb. 12--Proviso at Oak Park; Morton at Deerfield; New Trier at Evanston (Feb. 17, 2:30 p. m.) Feb. 19--0ak Park at Evanston; Proviso at Morton; Deerfield at New Trier. Feb. 26--Deerfield at Proviso; New Trier at Oak Park; Evanston at Oak Park. March b5--Evanston at Deerfield; Morton at Oak Park; Proviso at New Trier. March 12--Oak Park at Deerfield; Evanston at Proviso; Morton at New Trier. 500 CITIZENS ATTEND XMAS CAROL SONGFEST Winnetka last Sunday evening en- Jjoyed the most succéssful Christmas Carol sing in the history of that com- -unity enterprise. It was estimated 'that nearly 500 citizens participated in impressive Yuletide ceremony. However, the carol singing did not stop with the service at the Commu- nity Tree on the Village Green. With the spirit of song thoroughly aroused, groups of carolers journeyed from the Green into every section of the vil- lage singing for the benefit of those who had not attended the community observance. The Christmas Eve Carol service is sponsored and financed by the Village Improvement association. A com- mittee of the association, which has as its duty the furtherance of art, and music in the village, has charge of the service each year. The custom was established in Winnetka eight years ago. Biggest Christmas Mail Handled Efficiently Here At dinner time Christmas Day Post- master Elmer E. Adams and his dili- gent corps of assistants had Win- netka's Christmas packages cleared out of the postoffice and deposited in the various homes. The Christmas mail business was cleared away be- fore the force partook of its holiday turkey. "It was the biggest Christmas in the history of this or, I guess, most any postoffice in the country," Mr. Adams reports. 'A conservative esti- mate shows that more than 2,000 par- cel post packages passed through the local office daily, and that approxi- mately 31,000 letters and cards were handled, each day over a period of five days beginning Wednesday, De- cember 20. "The largest number of pieces de- livered to a single household was 97. "If there was delay in receiving Christmas mail it was not the fault of the local office," Mr. Adams states. "Delays in most instances were due to insufficient addresses on packages and letters." Postmaster Adams is receiving many expressions of appreciation from Winnetkans for the efficient manner in which the Christmas mails were handled at the local office. OLD GAS BILL Fifteen dollars per thousand cubic feet! That's what gas sold for in San Francisco sixty-four years ago. An old bill of the San Francisco Gas Company, dated March 14, 1858, was discovered recently. It shows that the consumer paid $24.38 for 1,625 cubic feet of gas used from March 7 to March 14. Utility rates have changed 'a lot since then. Book Reviews By John Philip Morris I do not believe that ever before have three books, all written by men connected with the Chicago Daily Press been published almost simul- taneously. To make the coincidence even more striking, two of the men are with the same paper, The Daily News. I have already reviewed Ben Hecht"s "1001 Afternoons," so that I can de- vote my space to Henry Justin Smith's "Deadlines" and Hi Simon's" "Orioles and Blackbirds." As news editor of the News for many years, Mr. Smith is well quali- fied to write a real book on the daily routine of a paper and the many varied human types that make up that most impersonal thing, a newspaper. "Deadlines" is just that and nothing more. But it is in every respect a true photograph, untouched and lack- ing the lurid lights and colors usually painted into a newspaper story or play. Not only are the people in his picture real, but we can even clearly recognize the likenesses of Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg and the other shining lights of which we can commonly see only such subdued shadows as the opauqueness of the policy of the paper and its puritanical censorship allow. Given Utopian conditions (I am just reading Mumford) what a paper could Mr. Smith's group produce! Mr. Smith writes with restraint and seems constantly striving to keep from fine writing and to write down to the reportorial standard. Occa- sionally the Hechtian influence is felt and we get a splendid bit, but such passages are all too few. He is a modest, retiring chap and his writing mirrors the man, but the book can stand forth boldly and claim prestige and place. Covici & McGee, the publishers, are doing work that may some day make them money, but which must daily bring the pleas- ure that comes from the achieving of fine things and the creation of the beautiful and the worth while. Indeed New York has had a mon- opoly of the fine arts too long and now that our authors have come to be the leaders of our literature there is no reason why Chicago should not develop the machinery for the mar- keting and publishig of their wares. Will Ransom, as well as Covici and McGee, are doing their best to answer this question. "Orioles and Blackbirds" is the third book from Will's private press and artistically and mechanically it is up to standard. Hi Simons, the author, is city edi- tor of the Journal of Commerce, but none of the austerity of that sheet has crept into his poems, which are emphatically of the Monroe school, in fact, most of them were born in that select maternity hospital of verse, Poetry. Outside of the poems inspired by Mr. Simons's incarceration as a con- sicentious objector they follow the usual Monroian doctrine. They show imagination, humor and all the rhythm that free verse permits. They have been written to bring peace to the mind of Mr. Simons and being read may bring pleasure to you. And now we have reached the frayed end of that cord of time that was the year nineteen twenty-two. Those of us in whom the love of books is 'a great passion through that love are bound together into a lodge whose unspoken oath is more binding and less breakable than that of Mason or Klan. Our unwritten ritual affects our lives more than creed of church or laws of state. We, who are all fellow citizens of the Utopia of Make Be- lieve, that mightiest of kingdoms whose constitution begins "Once up- on a time." I, a simple citizen of the empire, take this the season of greetings, and thanks as an opportunity of saying to our rulers, The Authors, who live in flesh and in spirit, and to my many fellow citizens, the readers, Greet- ings! and may nineteen twenty-three give you good eyes to read with, good books on which to use your good eyes and the happiness and joy that comes out of good books. And thus we may find charity and tolerance and peace-- that peace on earth that comes to all men and women of good will and so farewell. Hiro! JOHN PHILIP MORRIS. Former Wilmette Pastor May Have Chicago Charge Word has been received that Rev. Frank E. Wilson, former rector of St. Augustine's Episcopal church, Wil- mette, will be the probable selection for the pastorate of St. James Epis- copal church, Chicago, recently va- cated by the resignation of Rev. James Stone. Mr. Wilson was rector of St. Au- gustine's prior to the World War, leaving his work here to enter the service as a chaplain in the army. Since the war he has been rector of Christ church, Eau Claire, Wiscon- sin. He is the son of the Rev. White Wilson, formerly pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal church, Chicago. Sr --------------------------------. DEMAND GOOD BRAKES TO CURTAIL MISHAPS The constantly increasing number of accidents due to faulty brakes or defective brake lining, has aroused many state and county officials to ac- tion in an effort to afford greater pro- tection to motorists and all users of the highways and streets. In Massachusetts, the State Regis- trar of Motor Vehicles, Frank A. Goodwin, has announced that he will adopt drastic measures in handling cases of carelessnes due to defective brakes or brake lining. He will also revoke the license of any driver whose brakes are not in proper condition. Other states are contemplating simi- lar action. It is plainly evident, therefore, that officials are awake to the necessity for adequate brake protection, realiz- ing that life and property depend upon the ability of the brakes to meet any emergency which may arise. Apropos of this increased interest in safety factors, Dominion Asbestos & Rubber Company of New York (manufacturers of Dominion Asbestos Brake Lining, have devised a plan which, it is believed, will be of inter- est to motorists in this vicinity. It seems that this company not only guarantees its brake lining for one year, but likewise guarantees the workmanship of the service station that installs the lining. The car owner minion Service stations: Hubbard also has the privilege of having his brakes inspected and adjusted with- out charge during the period of twelve months. 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