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RT A November 6, 1926 WINNETKA TALK 49 RURAL SCHOOL FAILS TO KEEP MODERN PACE Only Feature of Country Life That Does Not Compare Favor- ably With City Advantages It is apparent to all keen observers that the rural school is not keeping pace with other features of country life, according to Carleton W. Wash- burne, superintendent of Winnetka schools. : A well-known school man of Illinois recently visited the neighborhood where he taught his first school thirty years ago. He remembered the little one-room schoolhouse reached by deep and sticky mud roads, his thirty-eight pupils from 6 to 20 years of age, and the farmers cut off from the world except when they drove their teams through miles of mud as they made weekly or less frequent visits to the county seat to get their mail, to market their products and to purchase gro- ceries, clothing and other necessaries. He had unpleasant memories of the drudgery, loneliness and social isola- tion of all the people in the neighbor- hood. All Modern Conveniences But now he is able to ride into the heart of the neighborhood on a splen- did state hard road. He finds every household with an automobile, daily mail service, telephone, and most of them with radio receivers. He stopped to visit an old friend who does mu-h of his farm work with a tractor and other gasoline power machinery. One of the larger boys "turned in" and received the news of a world series ball game, play by play, and seemed to have a personal acquaintance with each player. Daily papers, monthly magazines, and weekly farm journals were strewn upon the sitting-room table. After supper the young people took the automobile, ran down the hard road several miles to a movie show at the county seat and got home by 11 o'clock without going through a bit of mud, although it had rained almost continuously for a week. On Sunday the family considered it no task to step on the gas, go to church at the county seat and get back home for dinner. In fact these people seem to have all the benefits of both country and city life. Incompetent Teachers But, no there is one thing that has changed but _little. There beside the highway stands the same little one- room country school, except that there =< . SEEN A Picture with Something Left Out HIS is an accurate photographic study of a part of the Central Cafeteria steam tables. Yer it is decidedly lacking in several important respects. It leaves largely to your imagination the tempting appearance of the viands and vegetables it shows. The inviting aroma of well- prepared food is left out. The spic and span surroundings cannot be portrayed properly. But these things you soon appreciate when you pay us a visit. And--most important of all--only a visit can give you the realiza- tion of how surpassingly good everything tastes! CENTRAT=CATFETERIA Nelson Building Central Avenue, east of Wilmette Avenue WILMETTE iy are only half as many pupils as thirty years ago and they are younger. The teacher is young, untrained and inex- | perienced. She lives in the county seat, boards at home, drives back and forth in her Ford, takes little interest in the neighborhood, and longs for the time when her experience and a little training at a teachers' college will ad- mit her to a teaching position in a city or village. The only new educa- | tional advantage these country chil- dren have is that they may attend a township high school at the county seat if they ever get sufficient ele- mentary training to be admitted; and then they usually find that their ele- mentary training has not been as thorough as that received by their { high school classmates who attended the graded schools of city or village. This is not an imaginary situation. It is a true story of a typical condi- tion. So the question arises: Why cannot the same progress be made in rural education as is being made in other phases of country life? RECEIVE NEW MEMBERS A common service will be held at Winnetka Congregational church Sun- day morning at 11 o'clock, at which time a number of new members will be formally admitted to the church. Headquarters for ANTI-FREEZE AGENTS Alcohol--Ivo--Apex We have all that will safeguard your radiator these freez- ing days. Our proven service should relieve your Jf TEXACO mind of all worry when the thermometer takes that drop. PHONE US--WILMETTE 3379 The Red Roof in No-Man's Land Just South of "The Cottage" 1428 Sheridan Rd. Stephen Shimonek, Jr. GASOLINE AND OILS Distributor ---- a,c po --