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] _ time, as their Christmas gift, dF now offering to the public the Jelightiul | : | WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK A Clean Newspaper for a Clean Community VOL. XI11, NO. 2 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1924 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS DRAMA CLUB IN PLAY MARCH First Performance for M bers and Second Open to General Public LENT SEASON DRAMA Splendid Cast Selected for Production The Community Drama club is plan- ning to present the three act play, "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" in Community House soon. This will be given on Thursday evening, March 27, to the members of the Community Play- ers and invited guests. It will be re- peated Monday evening, March 31, at 8 o'clock, and will then be open to the public. The residents of Winnetka are cordially invited to be the guests of the Drama club on this date. The Community Drama club is a unique organization. It is formed with no thought of self-gain. Its members are banded together for the pure love of dramatic art, and with a sincere de- sire to place their talents at the disposal of the village. They wish to share with others, through the medium of their plays, the joys that are theirs. This represents many hours of work on the part of the Players committee. Lenten Season Play For a number of years this Commun- ity Drama club has given some beauti- ful plays to the village at Ohieists and. play of Jerome K. Jerome's, "The Pass- ing of the Third Floor Back." With its very human appeal, its message of cheer and hope, and its call to the bet- ter self, is particularly appropriate at the Lenten season. The play is admirably cast. Dr. Davies Lazear has the part of "The Stranger." Mrs. Alfred Freeman is Stasia, the slatternly, quick-witted maid- of-all-work. The others taking part are Milton Higgins, Norman K. Anderson, Charles Eastman, Vernon Welsh, Charles Matz, Mrs. Sherman Goble, Mrs. Merritt Lum, Mrs. Edwin Wis- dom, Jr, Mrs. Harrison Mettler and Mrs. William Wersted. Mrs. Faxon Director Mrs. Lloyd Faxon is directing the play, Mrs. Carrie Prouty is assistant director and Miss Olive I. Grover is art director. The adult public is asked to keep in mind the date of Monday evening, March 31, and is cordially invited to be present. As the seating capacity of the hall is limited, children are not invited at this time. This is not a play that would interest children. Therefore, unless parents are obliged to bring them, request is made that children do not attend. OUTDOOR HEARTH FOR OUR CAMP FIRE GIRLS Gifts for special purposes and for the equipment of the new addition to Com- munity House continue to come in. Through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. William Sherman Hay, of Sher- idan road, the Camp Fire Girls are to have an outdoor hearth and ceremonial place in connection with their new room. Immediately to the south of this room is an open court, flanked on three sides by the walls of the building. This court is now being laid with stone flagging, and a fireplace is being constructed, around which the members of the order expect to conduct many of their rites. Mr. and Mrs. Hay's gift also makes possible some much needed additions to the furniture and equipment of the Camp Fire Girls' room. Masonic Lodge Announces Events Today and Tuesday A special meeting of the Winnetka Lodge No. 1078, A. F. and A. M. is announced for this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock when there will be examina- tions and the 3rd degree. A supper will be enjoyed at 6 o'clock. These events take place in the Masonic Temple building. On Tuesday evening, March 25, the local masonic lodge holds a special meeting at 7:30 o'clock with 2d degree work as the objective INVITE LOCAL VOTERS TO HEAR CANDIDATES Candidates for various offices in the forthcoming Primary election will be heard in Winnetka Friday evening, March 28, at a meeting arranged by the Winnetka League of Women Voters to be held at the Woman's club. The meeting will bring candidates of all parties for the offices of United States Senator, Representative at Large in Congress, and for Attorney general and other offices, it is an- nounced. "This may be the only opportunity for these candidates to be heard in Winnetka, before the Primary on April 8," the league emphasizes in its announcement of next Friday's meet- ng. "This is a community meeting. Invite your friends." As will be noted in another column of this issue of WINNETKA TALK, the Winnetka League of Women Voters is engagaing in an intensive campaign to acquaint all voters with the meth- ods of balloting. The league is strict- ly non-partisan and in bringing can- didates to the village is actuated solely by the desire to have Win- netkans hear the men who are seeking nomination in the Primary election. OUR BAND FUND TAKES BIG LEAP Deluge of Contributions Re- corded This Week Optimist Club of Wilmette... $ 25.00 F. J. Scheidenhelm........... 5.00 Nelson Laundry. . ...u.>r cies 5.00 George Pierantoni ........... 5.00 Wilmette Music Shop ........ 5.00 WHHam Taylor" ..... co. vanes 5.00 Unique. Style Shop .00 Willinm Cosmas Dr. C. B. Blake Wilmette Shoe Store Motors Service, Inc. Wolff--Griffis, Imc. Lulias Bros. Dr. M. C. Hecht A. S. Van Deusen M. Herberholz Sheridan Cafe Wilmette Cafe ... Wm. Brinkman & Co. Wil. Wm. G. Beyrer Snider-Cazel Drug Co E. A. Dannemark J. B. Wilming Ge. Foe HoImM Sin. aden bores Wilmette Variety Store New Trier Confectionery De Luxe Cleaners John Papajohn D. Pagliarulo H. Field Wilmette Confectionery C. R. Patchen Pan Woe to dev Eo fen Fred Miller U. C. Abel A. Lee Adams PRRRRRBEORNAR 232223332222333333333333333332 Stationery & Gift Shop... dd od od fo fd dd BD RD RD ROD Total Previously acknowledged Grand Total Hear about it? A veritable deluge of contributions this week for the New Trier High School Band fund for uni- forms. The total for this week end- ing Wednesday night, March 19, was $117, contributed by 35 citizens and groups, thus bringing the grand total to date to $1,603.06, or only $396.94 short of the goal of $2,000. The Wilmette Optimist club, organ- ized only a few months ago, did splen- didly with a contribution of $25, and others helped apace. At the rate we're going the fund will be subscribed within two weeks and the grand wind-up will come with that benefit concert the band 'itself is staging on April 10. The high school band is entered in the national tournament in May. The boys must have uniforms to get into the prize column. It is up to you to help the good cause along. I.et's go! Mail that check today: NEW TRIER BAND FUND, Lloyd Hollister, Inc., 1222 CENTRAL AVE, WILMETTE, ILLINOIS. Women Voters Issue Call to Meeting Next Monday The Winnetka Ieague of Women Vot- ers, 6th Precinct, will hold a meeting on Monday afternoon, March 24, at Com- munity House. Every voter in the 6th Precinct is urged to attend. . The league will provide a speaker who will also answer questions on voting, it is explained. INFANT WELFARE SOUNDS APPEAL Winnetka Branch of Society Launches Annual Fund Campaign Here SAVE BABES OF SLUMS FAMOUS CHURCHMAN TO BE HEARD IN VILLAGE Dr. Paul Jones, an outstanding leader in the Episcopal church, form- erly associated with Bishop Spauld- ing of Utah, and a staunch friend of labor, has been invited by the vestry of Christ church to appear in Win- netka during the week of April 6 to 13 in a special series of services at which will be presented "the outline of the Christian way of life in its bearing upon those group relation- An urgent appeal to help babies of Chicago's slum dist sounded in the accompanying me sent out this week by the Wifi branch of the Infant Welfare Sosa which maintains a Class A or full? work station in the city commonly: known as the Chicago Commons. The society is conducting its annual fund drive at this time and comes to Winnetkans with the following appeal: "The sense of responsibility of Win- netka citizens extends to those who live in the less fortunate districts. It is a pleasure to the Winnetka branch of the Infant Welfare society to an- nounce that in 1923 enough was raised in Winnetka to support a full Infant Welfare station, with all three branches of work provided for: Infant welfare work, child nutrition work and pre-natal work. Out of 27 stations in Chicago only 6 are full stations. Business of Saving Lives "By shouldering the entire responsi- bility of the Chicago Commons station, the Winnetka brapch released funds raised by the pa:'¥ --the Infant Welfare society of Chi- cago for use at other stations. To accomplish raising the whole budget in Winnetka everyone worked hard. Many begged who found it hard to beg. More gave when it was a sacri- fice to give. Others who couldn't give, sewed, making little garments needed at the station. Some did all those things, sewed and begged and gave. "But the cause is good, the results evident, and now that 1924 brings the need to do it all over again, the Win- netka branch goes to work with a will. The active members, who represent all parts of the village, call on the auxil- iary members to stand behind them. Winnetka must equal, possibly it will eclipse, the generosity of 1923. To make Chicago babies healthier is to make Chicago a healthier city. Isn't it our duty to help? Has not every generous person at heart the future of those babies who are starting life now in the slums of Chicago? "Mrs. Morris Wilson, 429 Sheridan road, president, and Mrs. Edmund Bart- lett, 589 Lincoln street, treasurer, stand ready to give information about this work, or to receive contributions. EASTER VACATION The Winnetka public schools will ob- serve the Faster holidays during the week of April 14. All the schools will be closed during that period. Here's a young man who wants a position and a position that wants a young man. WANTED--YOUNG MAN WISH- es position as gardener and houseman; is able to drive car; if desired, wife will do house- work, Local ref. given. Tel. Wil. 997-R. WANTED--YOUNG perienced in tool MAN EX- and stock Cadillac Motor Evanston 8600. See Mr. Hebin. WANT ADS WILL SATISFY BOTH society. downtown . vd ships which constitute the Kingdom é ( » ings in the Sr Bn eight day period, will afternoons. ct meetings will be open dent of the community. i cou y he Winnetka Congregational chu has expressed its intention to Fame. a of this unusual op- portunity for discussion of vital reli- gious problems and it is expected that the series will also prove of interest to the other churches in the village. More detailed announcement of Dr. Jones' visit in the village will be found in a succeeding issue of WINNETKA TALK. CANVASS HOMES FOR C. H. FUND Volunteers Out Tomorrow to Raise 1924 Budget More than one hundred volunteers, representing the Board of Governors of Community House, will call on the resi- dents of the Village Sunday afternoon and evening, in an effort to secure the necessary funds for the maintenance and operation of this village institution dur- ing the current year. The sum of $17,- 000 was needed in 1923 to pay salaries, light, heat and water bills; insurance, repairs, redecorating, etc. In 1924 it is estimated that approximately $19,000 will be needed for the same purposes in the enlarged structure. Community House is dependent for its support, on annual contributions. The annual dues of the active members, amounting to $2 per person, meet only a small percentage of the budget and such equipment charges and rentals as it seems proper and possible to charge, amounts to but little. The sum which the canvassers will endeavor to secure by calls on more than 1,200 homes in Winnetka, is $9,000 to $10,000; the re- mainder having been pledged on a pre- vious occasion by those on the subscrip- tion list of the Winnetka Congregation- al church. Community House exists for the bene- fit of every individual and every group in the village. The Governors believe that its record of twelve years entitles it to look for continued support through- out Winnetka. It is a common respon- sibility, as well as a common benefit, they emphasize. Harold L. Ickes Talks Politics to Students Harold L. Ickes of Hubbard Woods, manager of the Hiram Johnson pres- idential campaign in Illinois and a nationally known sponsor of the pol- icies of the late Theodore Roosevelt, addressed the students of Northwest- ern university Thursday evening of last week on the subject, "The Col- lege Man and Politics." At Thursday's meeting, the state committee for the forthcoming mock Republican convention at the school were given complete instructions for the selection of their delegates. Indian Radio Artist Is a Resident of Winnetka Few Winnetka radio fans realize that the interesting Indian singer, Kiucus Tecumseh, who broadcasts weekly over WDAP on the Drake hotel, Chicago, is a Winnetka man. Tecumseh is employed by Thomas J. Lynch, tree sur8eon, by day, and studies in one of the prominent Chicago music conservatories during his leisure time. He is a member of Winnetka Post of the American Legion and has dedicated two of his songs to the benefit of dis- | | room apply Co., 1810 Ridge Ave. Tel. abled war veterans. He is studying to enter the ranks of grand opera. BATTLE LOOMS IN TOWN ELECTION LAUNCH FIGHT FOR TOWN VOTE Two Tickets Bring Contests in All but Two of the Township Offices FORESEE LIVELY RACE Good Government Want More Efficiency There was scant evidence of a fight in the annual New Trier Town election a few months ago when the New Trier Citizens league held its first meeting look- ing toward the endorsement of candidates for the various town- ship offices, but, it appears that "times have changed," what with the appearance of opposition candidates flying the colors of the Good Government league, formu- lated a few weeks ago by a group of citizens manifestly dissatisfied with certain choices of the Citizens league. Now there is ample evidence of a real battle in the brief days remaining before the voters of the township j journey to the pulls on April 1. The Citizens league has" en- dorsed condidates who, with one exception, are incumbents. It is the firm belief of the league that the present officers have con- ducted the affairs of the town- ship in highly satisfactory man- ner and are, accordingly, deserv- ing of reelection on April 1. To thoroughly convince the elector- ate of this, the league this week launched an intensive campaign which, it trusts, will result in the election of every candidate on its ticket. : Cochran Leads Fight John R. Cochran of Wilmette, has been appointed chairman of the cam- paign committee, which will bring to every section of the township the gospel of the Citizens league indorse- ment program. It is felt by the com- mittee that the indorsements of the league should have the unqualified support of the voters because the league is composed entirely of citizens who are seeking no political advan- tage, but are interested solely in the welfare of the township and, to that end, in securing competent persons for township offices. The league, it is pointed out, feels certain that the candidates indorsed by it are the best that can be secured and, therefore, merit hearty support at the polls. (Continued on page 7) LOCAL EDUCATOR WILL ADDRESS MEN'S CLASS Willard W. Beatty, principal of the Skokie school in the village and a nationally known authority in ele- mentary education, will be the leader with Peter F. Johansen, well known Winnetkan, of the discussion at the Men's Sunday Morning class at the Winnetka Congregational church on March 23. The subject under discussion will be, "Shall the Modern Parent 'Give his children to the Lord?'" Sunday's gathering has been de- scribed in the March announcements of the class as one of several "snappy sessions of thirty or forty men with discussion in the modern spirit of biographical stories from the world's most widely read books." "Maybe you'll take the hurdle of the early hour once or twice in order - to sample the class," continues the announcement in its appeal for at- tendance by all the men of the village. The Sunday Morning Men's class convenes in Community House. Tt is non-sectarian, though sponsored by the Congregational church. The hour of meeting is 9:30 A. M. Forces