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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 15 Dec 1923, p. 21

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he oy re Tm Bi a 22 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923 1 - plying ourselves too closely to 7 Winnetka Weekly Talk our jobs. If we kept on working / { J 4 continuously we soon come to be- | ROOFING h h R d | ed EDT UETEIE 1, eve that "OUR work wae. of Phonograph Records! | ii Meloonone Winnetka 3ss | (remendous importance, that if it h MR. HANS HESS, : + Pole ong vn Wilmette 1920 | ceased the world would suffer a over the iy ; Te Eminent Violoposlist 7; Ia ; i great loss. But vacations empty . as just releasec two new phonograph recordings ot the : | SvusoRIFTION 3200 A YPAR | times--come in and show us, if Old Shingles ever beautiful "BERCEUSE" from Jocelyn by Godard # i All communications must be accom-|ywe are open-minded, that our and a delightful Barcarole "SUR LE LAC" (By the Sea) : y panied by the name and addiess of the| Ta 3.3 . bv Godard A | writer. Articles for publication should {work can stop for a while with- ESTIMATES y Godard. : : Feash the editor Din oursday noon l,ut harm being dong to the uni- FREE These compositions are played by Mr. Hess on his famous 3 i : verse. : Bergonzi violoncello. i Resolutions of condolence, cards of 5 i thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- ORTH SHOR Double-faced record, Price $1.50 | tertainments or other affairs where Are vou going to the evening i an admittance charge will be made or rey 5 g - | a collection taken; wilt be charged at session of N.T'. H. S. and-see how ROOF CRAFTERS ans Hess Auto a h Records v sai Tr DE -- BE -- | your young son or daughter stud- Incorporated ; gr p | Entered at the postofice at Winnet- jog and recites? . No matter (how 3201 342 522 Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago, IIL | ka, Illinois, 1 matter of th - ; : yl ' ond class, under the act of March 3 | much you think you know about ||| Emefeon Sr. Ratkidvy, Residence, 202 Beech St., Highland Park, IIL @ 1878, ----------| them already, you will have a Phone 7026 Phone 166 Tel. Highland Park, 1284 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923 | most enlightening experience. || -- | MEY i te == | Sorry that we are not able to give| --------= Salk rr o ] Depress the Tracks. you the date of this evening ses- i ; ! Give the Business Men Fair Play. [S101 . M Build a New Village Hall, OLUNITY. OR NDI Perro Diamonds for Christmas 4 Enforce the Traffic Laws. g £17 . : > : ? Bro the a 3 VIDUAL? P= The Diamond, premier gem of the world, is 2 ! : It is maintained by many that justly the most highly prized of precious - | the individual does not exist for stones all over the civilized globe and the gift i! "IMPUTE GOOD MOTIVES!" | .c ike of the community but B "par excellence," especially at this, the Christ- : fi When you don't know why a|that on the contrary the com- uy a mas season. 3 | person does something is it not| munity exists for the sake of the Faultless gems, blue white and perfect, ex- A | usually best to believe that he individual. The person that holds Chevrolet quisitely Tite in the FE styles of i does it with a good purpose in|this view insists that the com- bracelets, rings, bar pins and other settings, ! mind? Somebody pays you a| munity is the means and that the T d are shown in great variety in our stock. compliment. You wonder why. good of the individual is the end- oaay The beauty, brilliancy and amazing qutl- Undef ordinary cofidition, im-fin-view. ities of these stones are a delight; to own pute to him a good motive. Don't | The individualist objects to the thesis perpetual Dloasutat: i ' think that he does it merely for laying of emphasis on the exhor- ; oi pe I p > the effect on you or that he is|tation, "Do something for your T ; T AND YOU WiLL FIND S58, PRICES expecting a compliment from you | community." He believes that NOR HWES ER ALWAYS REASONABLE. : in return. too much has been said about : $ | As you very well know, Christ- | the duty of helping one's country MOTOR CO. Charles E. Graves & Company I mas is coming! You will receive 'and too little about helping one's j ; Diamonds : : | unexpected gifts, on time or later.| self. He finds it is almost uni- 1103 Chicago Ave., Evanston Madison Street at Wabash Avenue yr | You may think dt oi gifts| versally assumed that the man 724 Elm St, Winnetka CHICAGO I were given to you for the ex-| himself is worth little. : stabli press purpose of getting some| No sooner does he ove into 136 1st St, Highland Park Established 1857 x favor from you in return. Perish 'a new neighborhood than he is - that unworthy thought! Believe attacked on all sides by the ques- it ------ that the giving was prompted by tion, "What are you planning to motives of sincere good-will. ~~ |do for the community of which What harm can come from im-|you have just become a mem- . puting good motives when you her?" On the evening of his : are ignorant of the true motives? | first day in his new home a dele- Ll M E Will the people thus treated take! gation from the village church : a mean advantage of your con- waits upon him and informs him : fidence? No. Such a responce that his church-expense quota is ; is rare, to say the most. What one hundred dollars or some good can, and does, come from other definite amount. i taking this generous attitude? By social forces on all sides he F- Well, in the first place you willlis made to feel that he will be 8, be cultivating in yourself a vir- highly unpopular unless he puts tue, an habitual attitude of good-|the community first and himself will towards your fellows, a hi second. He sees that the man y tue which will go far towards|who serves the community is ad- FOR DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION || remedying existent evils. mired, applauded, praised. TO WHE DEVELOPMENT OF BLE TRIS Impute Good Motives! All this irritates him. It looks 5 TRE ORATION FOR HE Sonty | to him as if the so-called "com- TY == / / £ A OF bus SRS \ | munity" were an abstraction, LEFF BE AVWARAD) | THE USE or crying which when analyzed he sees to Sih ARE E Te From our earliest years wep, merely a more or less incoher- W 5 H £ CHICAGO NORTH SHORE | have been taught to believe that| a; t combination of individuals. Zt t/7 ee MILWAUKEE RAILROAD COMPANY it is more blessed to give than Why should he subordinate a 3 2/ ey T5109 4 | to receive. We take for granted|,., living man like himself to a a &: SAE Eres A. ! the truth of the assertion. Prob- figment of imagination like the Ty | ably most of us believe that he "community?" who gets is not so happy as hel yy, prefers to think of himself . who gives. i as the center, to think of society > But may not this statement be|,q 21) abstraction. He finds more e ort ore ne | the shrewd invention of other|gense and satisfaction in think- : people, whose object is to get " ing and acting as a social indi- a ! io gh abionsf am ee vidual than as a member of a : ay it not be a cunning scheme,| community. : | part of a larger plan to drown y : non e Ys | ahd : Be Iadividual and save the LIGHTS AT NIGHT ® No. Such an idea is prepos| "Say, young fellow, you better HAS A COFFIN MEDAL | terous. It is a proven fact that A if you don't want to ® ° | ivi duces happinesg' get eds ; ! as RT IR This bit of kindly advice was . h : I . 1 The assertion has stood the try. | given by my friend, in whose car at the Convention of the American E ectric Rai way | ing test of at least nineteen cen-'l was speeding north on Ridge Association, October 11, 1923, Atlantic City, N. J. - | turies filled with countless ex-, avenue an hour or two after dark. : : ! periences. The "young fellow" was riding . hi h | Getting, without giving, is a|a bicycle along the edge of the 3 -- Because of economies whic | narrow thing. The self, to be SoTSTae Qu sennh ie Spon ; . { healthy, craves expansion. The|'€ 1m just im nicx ot time. h b EY d ced imo era- - | soul must extend itself in order Another seven, ond his yang ave een nt odu hia | to grow. Vital energy must be|days would probably, have been : A 1 : f 1 id | Bod 2 ended. Even as it was he had a tion resulting irom original 1aeas. | For this expansion, this growth, mighty close shave. : ed r Lp y | chere is no CN 0 Se as| ~ So far as we could judge from "Some of the particular economies effected during the Christmas time. a hasty glance" in passing, this year include important reductions in power consumption : | gB ender Fras Zou: Ror CE a least . + . use of more efficient equipment . . . scientific study : 'as noug ave know ; . . HOLIDAYS! he Cin al low of proper equipment for various classes of service. .. "Another holiday! No sooner|thing to ride on a busy highway scientific schedule making . . . more efficient accounting do I get my work going along|after dark without lights." systems . . . better construction methods . . . all tending in 200d shape than Bone comes| He might have been killed; to conserve time and money and assure permanency." 5 another holiday and spoils it all!"| that would have been bad enough. ; i Poor fellow! We're sorry for|But if he were a husband and From Report of Committee on Award him. Lots of others just like him. | father, think of the suffering that Cart noe any fie HLA VING Lato eas (0 Surfering That CHICAGO NORTH SHORE and MILWAUKEE : days. Interrupts work. ed! Our car might have toppled Maybe that's just why holidays |over into the roadside ditch, and RAILROAD COMPANY and vacations are of use. They |the occupants seriously injured. Winnetka Ticket Oitice interrupt work. They make us| The cars following might also Elm Street 2 ! stop our regular activities. They|have been involved and the cas- a ; : keep us from setting too much|ualty list increased. ® Telephone Winnetka 963 val eon our own IMROTANCe AR CARRY: A GHEES AE NIGHT... aemmmtesssssstessssasssosssos ii iar g

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