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ee v \ Ashley Gerhard, Linden Ave., fy ong + A Clean Newspaper for a Clean Community ai? VOL. XIII, NO. 49 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS LIKES BANK AD; WINS FIRST $10 Mrs. Isa Macintyre Wins the First Award in Talk Best Ad Contest INTEREST IS STRONG Women Urged to "Dig in" for Another Try Winnetka women have decided that money talks. The Winnetka Trust and Savines Bank ad in last week's issue of WINNETKA TALK proved the most popular in the Best Ad contest, and Mrs. Isa Macintyre, 822 Hum- boldt avenue, submitted the letter picked by Mister Inx as the best one sent in concerning it. This was the first week of the ad contest in Winnetka. Lest some women have forgotten what it is all about we remind that a Winnetka business man was heard to remark that the women of the village "do not know a good ad when they see one." That is not the opinion of the Wix- NETKA TALK and this ad contest was started and Mister Inx put in charge to prove the contrary. Women Show Knowledge The results so far have convinced Mister Inx at least that the women know a lot about ads--perhaps more than even the publishers of Wix- NETKA TALK believed. A great many letters were received soon after the contest was announced, and most of them were very well written, and showed a keen perception of what an advertisement should be. They all knew how to tell what they liked about their favorite ads, too. Just to give the women of the com- munity something to aim at, we will print the winning letter for this week. Speaks Her Mind "Dear Mister Inx, "I believe that the advertisement of the Winnetka Trust and Savings Bank is the best one in this issue be- cause it expresses in clear, concise languarge the message the bank of- ficials wish to convey to the public; it is written in beautiful English, never includes grotesque figures, slang ex- pressions or funny paragraphs, is an intelligent communication intended for intellectual people. Then, it appears constantly, just like an old friend. Mrs. Isa Macintyre." Now, you have something to shoot at. Get started! The contest is open to any woman in the community-- or elsewhere, for that matter. There are no strings attached to this offer. All you have to do to win the $10 prize to be given away every week is to sit down and write Mister Inx a letter about the ad you like best in the current issue of the paper. The letter must not be over 100 words long and must not be about an ad which has been the popular choise the previous week. Those are about the only rules you will have to follow. Only Winnetka ads. are included in the contest. There is more than the prize at stake. You will want to show that business man who didn't think you knew anything about ads that he was mistaken. Mister Inx says he thinks the poor man is about to flee. Come on and do your share toward changing his mind atout the ignor- ance of Winnetka women! Discuss Soper Lecture at Men's Class Meeting The Mens Sunday Morning class of the Winnetka Congregational church will d .vote this Sunday's meeting to a iscussion of Dr. Edmund Soper's re ent talk on "Life after Death." An ateresting meeting is anticipated, since Dr. Soper's treatment of the subject aroused much comment. Those who missed the meeting last Sunday will receive an interesting re- flection in the discussion tomorrow, it is explained. It has been found that these "open forum" discussions, fol- lowing talks by outside speakers, are some of the most interesting sessions of the class. Composed of lawyers, teachers and professional men, as well as several of the common garden vari- eties of business men, the class brings out widely diversified viewpoints and some lively debate. Meetings of the class are at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning in The Ameri- can Legion room of the Community House. All Winnetka men with ideas of their own are cordially welcomed, the class leaders announce. NEXT WEEK IN WINNETKA (Recorded at the office of Com- munity House.) Monday, February 16 Christ Church Guild -- weekly meeting. North Shore Catholic Women's league at Winnetka Woman's club. Indian Hill Improvement asso- ciation meeting at New Trier high chool in evening. Tuesday, February 17 Village council meeting--evening. Wednesday, February 18 All-Day meeting Women's ciety, Congregational church. Thursday, February 19 Winnetka Woman's club meeting --afternoon. MacDowell . club, Artist Recital series, at New Trier high school-- evening. Winnetka Men's and dinner. Friday, February 20 SO- club meeting Rotary club luncheon--Commu- nity House. North Shore Congregation -- Hubbard Woods school. Sunday, February 22 Sixth of Rev. James Austin Rich- ards' Sunday Evening lectures on the book of Genesis. Congrega- tional church, at 8 o'clock. Eprror's Note: Above record of forthcoming events is published each week for the convenience of our readers. Events should be listed at Community House offices prior to Thursday noon of the current week. WERRENRATH IS RECITAL ARTIST Foremost American Baritone to Appear at New Trier Auditorium February 19 THIRD OF BIG SERIES Recital Under MacDowell Club Auspices BY MUSIC CRITIC Reinald Werrenrath, the famous baritone, will give a recital, Thurs- day evening, February 19, at the New Trier school auditorium. It will be given under the auspices of the Mac- IMAGE OF GOD' gationalists Sunday The Winnetka morning services organ postlude, Handel's Largo. Dr]. Ye." are in good hands. At the Young People's of "Parables of the Kingdom." bers by Bach and Mozart. the series on the book of Genesis. discussion is to be "Progress." Sunday Evening Club to Hear Mrs. M. H. Lieber The Winnetka Sunday Evening club enjoys particularly having on its pro- gram people of Winnetka. Last Sun- day evening Miss Helen Bradford de- lighted those present with a number of vocal selections. This Sunday evening the club will have the opportunity of hearing Mrs. Maurice H. Lieber talk on "The Changing World." Tt is unnecessary to introduce Mrs. Lieber to the people of Winnetka. Her ability as a speak- er is well known. The club will meet as usual in the Camp Fire room of Community House at 6:30 o'clock. Supper will be served. Burglars Get Radio Set in Raid on Affeldt Shop A burglary occurred in the village last week when the Radio Service shop, conducted by C. H. Affeldt, was looted and a $100 Atwater-Kent radio set taken. The theft occurred at about 2 o'clock last Thursday morning, and it is be- lieved the thieves were frightened away before having the opportunity to take other accessories. The police discovered the picked lock while on their nightly tours around the business section of the town, and called Mr. Affeldt at his heme. SERMON TOPIC Many Activities for Congre- Congregational church announces the following for the tomorrow at 11 : y'clock: Rev. James Austin Richard will i preach on the topic "The Image of God;" the music at this service will be Martini"s "Andantino," by violin W. F. Davies will speak at the Junior church service in Rudolph Matz hall on the message, "Choose The Chancel Guild always has some of its members in the Assembly room ready to care for and entertain the youngest children, who are not yet old enough to attend church. Parents may thus be free to enjoy the services themselves, knowing that the children club for high school boys and girls, Elizabeth Richards will introduce the subject Raymond Allyn Smith, the musical director, will give a 15 minute organ recital at 7:45 o'clock, playing num- This will precede the 8 o'clock lecture by Mr. Richards on "Jacob, the Mystic," in On Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, in the library, the fourth of the in- formal meetings of the church for con- ference and inspiration will be led by Burton H. Atwood. The subject for Reinald Werrenrath Dowell Musical club of Winnetka and = Yo ios: tterfield's | 's the third of a special series which hb I Shen's started last fall with a recital by Barri's "The Good Shepherd," and Mme. Louise Homer. Reinald Werrenrath, is, without question, the foremost American bari- cone of today, one of the most inter- esting personalities now before the public and one of the most popular singers this country has ever posses- sed. In Great Demand No people are so eager to recognize merit as Americans, and no artist has received more substantial recogni- tion from them than Werrenrath. It is only a few years ago that he made his beginning, and now it is almost impossible for him to meet the de- mands made on his time. During the season of 1923-1924 he filled over 100 engagements in the eight months of the musical season, in recitals, festi- vals, oratorios and engagements with orchestras. In all, during the winter he traveled more than sixty thousand miles from Virginia to Canada and from New York to the Pacific Coast whither he goes again next year for his fourth re-engagement. Not less gratifying have been his appearances in London, England. He made his debut there June 3, 1920, and gave his second recital a fort- night later with such success that he (Continued on page 8) In your home is there a MOTION PICTURE MACHINE ? practically new; Phone Winn. 200. price FOR SALE--MOTION PICTURE machine; complete with 3 reels; $10. Our Want Ads Will Bring You Happiness i y i WANT AD DEAD LINE} i THURSDAY NOON i |] MEN'S CLUB TO HEAR MAJ. A. R. SCHROEDER Maj. A. R. Schroeder, U. S. Army aviator and one time holder of the world's altitude record--having reach- ed the height of 38,180 feet on Feb- ruary 28, 1920--and one of the best known speakers on aeronautics, will address the Men's club of Winnetka, Thursday evening, February 19, at the Community House. Major Schroeder spoke in Winnetka a few years ago while engaged on a tour in which he recited the har- rowing details of his record altitude flight in which he barely escaped with his life. His return to the village at this time is expected to attract un- usual interest in view of the recent discussion of the air forces follow- ing the statements of General Mitchell 'n which he declared this country as 'agging behind England, France, Italy and Japan in the matter of aviation development. The Winnetka Boy Scouts are to be invited to hear Major Schroeder on Thursday evening. They will go to the meeting following the dinner. Dinner will be served, as usual, at 6:45 o'clock, and the talk will follow immediately afterward. WOULD LIGHTEN DEBT OF FRANCE Legionnaires in Petition to President Fearing that negotiations relative to the French war debts to this country will strain the good feeling existing "etween the nations, the Winnetka Post of the American Legion has passed a resolution asking its mem- bers to petition the President and memorialize Congress to the end that every reasonable concession he made to lighten the burden of the French people in paying the debt. This reso- lution was passed at a recent meeting of the Post and is printed herewith: The Petition "Whereas, the traditional friendship between The United States of Ameri- ca and The Republic of France is en- dangered by the negotiations relative to the French debt to the United States; and "Whereas, it is reported that a large part of this debt arose out of credits al- lowed to France for the purchase by its government from American citizens, at American 'war' prices, of war munitions expended upon the battle-fields of France, and of food and supplies neces- sary for proper prosecution of the World War by France with whom we were associated; and Heavy Burden "Whereas, the defeated Central Pow- ers, from whom the United States have required no payment of indemnity to their government, are rapidly recovering, while it is doubtful whether the French nation can survive all of its burdens arising out of the World War, especi- ally if required to meet all of the debt claimed by the United States; "Now therefore, be it resolved, by Winnetka Post No. 10, The American Legion, that the proper Conventions, Officers, and Committees of The Ameri- can Legion, both State and National, be urged to petition the President of The United States, and memorialize the Senate, to the end that, in the determina- tion of the amount of the French debt, and of the terms of payments, every rea- sonable concession be made in order to lighten the burden upon the French peo- ple, and especially that the Republic of France be held not to be indebted to the United States of America for any cred- its allowed or advancements made for purchase by the French government in this country of war munitions, food, and other supplies expended in the war against the Central Powers, for the suc- cessful prosecution of which we dedi- cated "our lives and our fortunes, every- thing that we are and everything that we have." Adopted by Winnetka Post, February 9, 1925. THoMAS J. Lynch. Commander. Attest : Raymonp N. KLOEPFER, Adjutant, INDIAN HILL MEETING The Indian Hill Improvement as- sociation will hold its next meeting Monday evening, February 16, in the New Trier high school mess hall Reports on the success of the play, "Jollies of 1925," which was presented Wednesday and Thursday at New Trier auditorium, will be given at this meeting, it is announced. CALLS MEDDLING PARENTAL FAULT Dean of Men at Yale Cau- tions Country Day Parents Against Practice PROVIDES EXAMPLES Encourage Child in His Bent, He Advises "There are two serious kinds of pa- rental meddling," is the opinion of Dr. Roswell Parker Angier, professor of psychology and dean of Freshmen at Yale, who held a fascinated audience of the Parent-Teacher association of the North Shore Country Day school last Friday night on the subject, "Parental Meddling." "I'm not going to talk a lot of theory," he explained. "I'm simply going to give true instances of the sort of thing I mean." The first kind of "meddling" Dean Angier «characterized as that of the parent who saves his child from hard knocks, natural consequences of the child's action and attitude. For this the eminent psychologist gave many illustra- tions from his wide experiences with preparatory schools and colleges. "A boy came to college one year," he said, "and as time wore along he was doing no work either in his studies or at the job he was holding to help him- self through financially. I warned him, but to no avail. Then I found that his mother kept a boarding house in Albany and was struggling to help her son through college. After trying various unsuccessful methods with him I got the mother to agree that if the boy didn't get down to business within a certain time she would take him out of college and "pat hint to work ufril te made good. He didn't respond to that, and later I had to tell him his time was up. He left Yale according to agree- ment. I learned soon afterward that his mother sent him somewhere else. The reason the boy had taken nothing serious- ly was because his mother all through his life had saved him from the hard knocks due him. She was ruining that boy's career." Hard Knocks Needed A case of another sort was that of two brothers who decided as a protest to withdraw {rom college because - a third brother had been expelled. The father came up, brought them in to explain their reasons to Dean Angier, and then told the beys that their present work at hand was not to resign but to stay in college and clean up the family name. "If this college had not expelled my son for what he did, I would have taken you both out," the father said. "Some years after that," added Dean Angier, "when I had told that story at a dinner, a man rose to say, 'I am that son who was expelled, and I want to state here that my father did absolutely right in acting as he did. He was al- ways courageous enough to let us take the hard knocks we deserved." : Cites Other Extreme The other type of "parental meddling" discussed by Dean Angier was at the opposite extreme. This is the creating for a boy or girl false hard knocks, unnatural difficulties unmerited by the child. "This type of meddling," said Dean Angier, "is most prevalent where the parents try to fashion the child to their own pattern, forgetting that the child has a right to develop his own person- ality to its highest possibilities and has a right to live his own life." Dean Angier spoke of a boy who suffered deeply because of his father's (Continueed on page 4) P. T. A. Groups to Hold Sessions Here Friday An interesting meeting of the Par- rent-Teacher associations is to be held in the Triangle room of Community House Friday, February 20, when the various associations on the north shore will convene at the invitation of the Evanston, Wilmette, and Winnetka associations, for a discussion of their mutual problems. The meeting is to be the first of what it is hoped will become an an- nual event. It is to be called, "Round Table Discussion." There will be an address by Supt. Carleton W. Washburne, of Winnetka, at 9:30 o'clock to open the meeting, and a series of five minute reports will be made by each district im- mediately afterwards. Mrs. Harry Phillips of Evanston will speak in the afternoon. EEKLY TALK