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LR M50 E ; £ ¥ b= WINNETKA TALK January 29, 1927 WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, IIL 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill Chicago ofice: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 FCIEIRONB a evi cui curv cnpecnivsbhbhr srs Winnetka 2000 FROICPROME «+. ove cov Bah chvntnesh anne Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .............. $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub- lication must reach the editor by Thursday noon to imsure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, wuces of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Fintered at the post office at Winnetka, Illinois, as nail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. The building of our new high school to cost the good round sum of $600,000, has begun and is going rapidly forward. It will be a structure of which New Trier the township can well be proud, with its capacious Gym and well designed in- terior. If physical culture is as great a need of American youth as mental culture, and no one nowadays doubts it, then the New Trier board is to be congratulated for thus meet- ing this great need. Both girls and boys will find here provided space and apparatus for all forms of bodily exercise. One feature characterizing many modern gymnasiums is the building of one section of the floor high enough above the other as to provide a stage and audience room. The high school gymnasium will have this feature. Whenever one room can be used for two or more purposes without detract- ing from its particular values, real economy is thereby grained. The gym will also be of community value, seating, as it can, about 3,500 persons. We know a man who tried to board a train just after it had started. His foot slipped. He fell under the train. Both feet were cut off. He is Be Safe, SOITY Now. Not Many people, most of Sorry them young, take chances in preference to less hazardous opportunities. Seeing a slim chance of beating a train to a crossing they welcome the opportunity to do something exciting. Sometimes they make it safely. Often they think it over in the hospital. If a reckless driver never endangered the lives of others, it would not be so necessary to emphasize the need of careful driving. But often in the car with this adventurous young man or woman are babies and old people. Why should - they or innocent pedestrians be injured and killed? ' Think of the possible consequences to others before you take the chance. Aside from the good old lake which virtu- ally nobody sees in the winter and few in the summer, our greatest natural assets are our splendid trees. Should they die or be uprooted by a cyclone our north shore. towns would lose most of their value as residence neighborhoods. With no trees our towns would look much like other northern Illinois towns. Every citizen ~ should therefore do all he can at any time The extending of Crawford avenue from Devon avenue to Ridge avenue in Wilmette will provide a long-needed link between the north shore and the en- West Side to tire West Side and sub- urbs. An eighty foot North Shore: yihiay covering this five-mile stretch will be a most acceptable means of driving directly from all north shore towns to that immense portion of Chicago lying west of Western avenue. At present if one wants to drive to Oak Park from Wilmette he has the choice of going through the congested traffic in the Loop or of going south on Ridge avenue, Evanston, and thence worming his way via Western, Irving Park, etc., to his desired end. Neither way is pleasant or devoid of numerous hazards. But a route like the proposed one on Crawford will make such a drive comparatively free from traffic and unusually direct. We are glad that behind this prospective improvement are the North Crawford Ave- nue Development association and all the 'al estate firms along the contemplated thoroughfare. A person may exist without meeting and talking with other people, but he cannot really live. He must be with his fellows, exchange ideas with them, Social share his joys and sorrows Li with them, if he is to be more ife than a mere breathing animal. In our papers, therefore, we devote a great deal of space to the social doings in our various communities. We tell you all about the teas at which neigh- bors meet, the dinners where friends eat together and dispense kindly gossip, the sleigh rides where the girls and boys ex- pand their knowledge of one another. Wed- dings, with all their important details, also find frequent mention in our columns. We hold the mirror of the north shore society and reflect the news to you. Public Forum Editor, WINNETKA TALK: I note the concluding installment of Mr. Had- ley's History of the Winnetka Library in your is- sue of January 15th. The installment contains one statement without any foundation in fact. Mrs. Lloyd made no provision whatsoever in her will in regard to constructing a library. What she did was to make a verbal request, of no legal force whatsoever, that her plans in regard to the library be carried out. With that situation existing, it was determined to 'accumulate the cost of the library out of in- come rather than utilize the capital of the estate, which is the reason for the lapse of time between Mrs. Lloyd's death and the completion of the library. Yours very truly, Wm. Bross Lloyd. No other organizations in our north shore communities can take the place of our re- spective chambers of commerce. They do a needed work that simply would not be done were these bodies to disappear. As promoters of friendly co-operation between the citizens and the business men and of civic pride they are distinctly. unique. i Fp 9 > SHORE LINES DY ~ % LINES WRITTEN TO A TREE How poised and unafraid In the morning sunlight there it stands, Lifting its arms for the last time Upward unto the sky. Every leaf gleaming and twinkling With each billowy wind . . . . murmuring "oft music, like the sleepy purring Of a thousand infant violins. Unwilling to leave thy quest, O Stately and Proud Fear not the cruel woodsmen who would lay thee low; Although thy head as vanquisher is bowed, So even as dust to dust the beautiful shall go. The earth shall take thee back From whence thou first did come; The stars, the sun, the moon and all the elements Of the great universe Combine in thy recessional. But when the winds blow warm again, And would caress with gentle fondness Each new tender leaf and bud, There will be no return of welcome: Vacancy and potent emptiness instead. The other trees upon the green Will be less gay, Remembering of the other springs Before it went away. --REBECCA ANTHONY. Junkman--*"Any rags, paper, old iron?" Man of the house--"No, go away, my wife's in Florida for the winter." Junkman--*"Any empty bottles?" Here's My Dime Special to Mique: While my presence here has been rather mysti- fying from the very outset, | am rather enjoying my compulsory confinement. | was truly s i to find this place so modern and sanitary. The people are most kind and solicitous and promise I'll be like a new fellow when you call to take me back to the sanctum sanctorum. | marvel at the ef- ficiency of those about me and the entire absence of circumstances and surroundings which made places of this type a veritable chamber of horrors for our ancestors. | have the assurance that I shall be quite all right within a few days. Please omit flowers. Any contributions to that end can readily be applied to my bill. --"GIN," the editorial canine. (Temporary address, the animal hospital) For the information of those who may not under- stand the why and wherefore of the above, may it be said that "Gin," in consequence of a slight nervous affection breught on by too great diligence in de- ciphering the hieroglyphics on type metal, is enjoy- ing a complete rest in a well known Evanston dog sanitarium. No, nothing serious. Fitting It In Henry Edward Warner tells this one: "Say," said the news editor, "this story about the birth of quadruplets won't stay in page 1." "A'-right," said the managing editor. "Break it over into classified and run it down along Help Wanted." --FOURTH ESTATE Among Our Readers Dear Mique: Under separate cover I am mailing the re- quested samples of the Daily Princetonian. The editor told me to tell you that you are free to ap- propriate any improvements which the copies may suggest. gs My Winxerka TALk came a day earlier last week, arriving on Wednesday instead of on. Thurs- day. The efforts of your circulation department are appreciated--or should I thank the mail service? No, really, TALK is a very good little paper. I have only one suggestion for it--segregation of crime news, which is being advocated today by the best type of journalism. Am eagerly waiting my next TALK, especially the society page and the weekly item about the fire department. : --J. F. R.--PrINCETON. P. S. Oh yes, we got the tail end of your blizzard. : oe Dear Mique: Heard of "Gin's" indisposition. May I suggest a bouquet of dog-tooth violets? maaan - FIL THE FILOSOPHER. Old dobbin has come into his own for the sleighing season. But somehow the old kick of the thing is gone. A cine MIQUI Bim