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February 20, 1926 WINNETKA TALK 5 STATE PRESIDENT IS : VOTERS LEAGUE GUEST | | New Members of Winnetka League Are Welcomed at Gala Meeting and Tea It was a gala occasion that welcomed the new members to the Winnetka | |§ League of Women Voters at the home of Mrs. William Hale on Willow road, Monday afternoon, February 15. Cars of the 100 guests were parked half way down Mrs. Hale's long driveway. The house was decked with banks of gay spring plants. The long windows of the living room overlook a glorious ex- panse of Skokie, beyond which the pink light of the late afternoon sky gave an added touch of spring color. Mrs. James Morrisson of Chicago, president of the Illinois League of Wo- men Voters, was the guest of honor. Her welcome to the new members was a stirring call to action. She said that 1 PANATROPE and RADIOLA sible for the affairs of the nation at NEWS for MUSIC LOVERS! the time of the war, they must realize that they are accountable now; that it was not enough for women to work for parks and schools and various forms | [§ 4 of social legislation and say they knew | |g nothing about the business side of gov- | [8 ernment; that in gaining the opportu- | |g nity to work for the things in which | [§ they Were deeply interested, they had H also taken on the responsibility of the | |B f ) | [( | | other sides of the administration of the | [8 PROD ON "-4 9 9 49 affairs of the state, and must be held 2 accommable, for the kind of meh that | |H were elected and the kind of legislation : Hust as: passed or neglected in every NOW- Combined in one beautiful instrument, two ranch of government. H Jon She spoke ofthe diffcultis in get.| | new-age electrical developments -- the Pana. ting good government in icago an H -- Tinos because 3 fhe large political | [8 trope and the Radiola -- both employing the machines here. "Don't fool yourselves," electrical reproduction. said Mrs. Morrisson, "that you can get new principle of tone good government here by trying to de- feat this party or that at the poles. As long as the men elected have the power to give out large numbers of offices, unscrupulous men will have sufficient backing among office-seekers to stay in power. The civil service examination system must be established in state and city appointments before we can hope to get rid of political machines." Mrs. Morrisson also spoke of several | social legislative measures to be worked | [f for, and above all, of the necessity for working for permanent world peace. At the close of the talk, Madame Gil- | deroy Scott of the Shakespeare Studios in Chicago, gave the following delight- ful program of songs: 'PANATROPE-- harnessing the power of electricity to bring you all the tones of the complete musical scale impossible of reproduction by any other method. RADIOLA--on the identical electrical principle, capturing hidden tones of melody from the air. We invite you to attend one of our daily demonstrations. Love Is a Dream..co.o. cn Percy Peet Rattering Dusk ....A. Welter Xiames &> PANATROPE and RADIOLA pring i... ildrath The joint achievement of the Four World Leaders in musical and electrical acoustics: The Radio Corporation of America, The General Electric Co., The Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., and Brunswick \ Hl FREE DEMONSTRATIONS-- Daily! THE Brunswick SHOP PHONOGRAPHS -- RECORDS -- RADIOLAS 568 Lincoln Avenue Winnetka, Illinois As an encore she sang a quaint folk song from the Somerset. Miss Marie E. Dreier was at the piano. Refreshments were served in the din- ing room, and after half an hour &f so- ciability, the guests dispersed to their various homes. Among members of the board of the League of Women Voters who assisted Mrs. Hale as hostesses to the new members were Mrs. Walter Benson, president of the league, Mrs. John Van- der Vries, vice president; Mrs. Roger Sherman, Mrs. Isaac Rothschild, Mrs. 'William Hibbard, Miss Elizabeth Gem- mell, Mrs. J. J. Sampson, Mrs. W. W. Shoemaker, Mrs. Robert Mehren, and Mrs. F. T. Crawford. Phone 2129 CRUISE WEST INDIES Mr. and Mrs. Emory Cobb Andrews, 785 Willow road, and their son. Wayne Andrews, are leaving Winnetka Feb- ruary 22, to sail from New York Feb- ruary 25, on the Columbus. for a month's cruise of the West Indies. Mr. and Mrs. Percy B. Eckhart of Kenil- worth, Mr. and Mrs George Lytton of Highland Park. and Mrs A. F. Reich- mann of Barrington are also sailing on the same steamer,