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WINNETKA TALK October 22, 1927 WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF FACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Ill. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone :.........-x Winnetka 2000 or 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 mmsure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published. will be charged at regular advertising rates. The activities of the P. T. A. year have begun. A drive for members is on. Really it ought not to be difficult to secure new members for an or- Parent-Teacher ganization which A does so much good in Associations our north shore com- munities. The high school P. T. A. for example, discusses with the school authorities such vital problems as the automobile and the student, a problem which has taxed the abilities of college presidents and deans. It takes up also considerations of changes of that familiar medium between school and home--the report card, which for un- told generations Jack and Jill has either feared or loved. : Another activity which the association shares with the school is the so-called par- ents' day, when the older folks attend school in the place of their children and see how things are done during a regular school session. Not of the least of the P. T. As good works is the caring for the social life of the teachers, many of whom doubtless have been brought into a more intimate life of the community by the efforts of the association. Those who have never come into a strange neighborhood will find it difficult to estimate how much it lightens the new teacher's heart to meet early in 'he school year parents of the school chil- dren and friends of the school. One of the most patriotic services any citizen of the United States can render his country is assisting in the work of Americanizing for- . izin eigners who intend to American € become useful mem- Foreigners bers of the American commonwealth. The immigrant comes to our shores with a for- eign language, a foreign attitude towards our institutions, and a foreign feeling to- wards American citizens. But realizing that he has cast his lot for better or for worse with the fortunes of the new world, he also realizes that he must acquire the new ways of living as soon as possible, if he is to succeed. In other words he realizes that he must go to school. For his betterment and that of his adopt- ed country he must learn to speak and write correctly and fluently. He must study American history. He must become acquainted with all that is implied in be- coming an American citizen. Anyone who helps him achieve these ends is rendering a highly patriotic service to the country itself. And our teachers who are engaged in this work at Commun- ity House in Winnetka and elsewhere are true patriots. Incidentally the social side of the enterprise of Americanizing foreign- ers is also productive of genuine civic good. In our time, now over fifty years long, we have walked miles and miles. It has mostly been done in small installments of one, two, or two and half miles, but it has totaled up to several thousand. We once figured out that dur- ing our term of over twenty years as ten- der of a furnace we must have handled one million two hundred and fifty thousand shovel-fulls of coal and coke. It is wonder- ful how much one can do by doing a little every day, Sundays and holidays included, omitting the summer vacation. Years ago we walked with a friend to St. Charles, that old-fashioned town on the Fox River. We walked mostly on the rail- road tracks, where the distance between two ties is too short for an ordinary step and yet skipping one tie stretches one's legs unduly. We not only walked to the Fox River but walked back. As we recall our feelings at the end of the hike they were fatigued to the limit. Only a few years ago we hiked from Winnetka to Dundee between dawn and dark. We reached Wheeling in time for an early lunch. Dinner awaited us at a friend's home in Dundee. We partook of the din- ner lavishly. The result was a rush of blood to the digestive regions and away from the head. We toppled over. Hiking is a great exercise, good for the heart and viscera in general, but not to be taken in large doses. Taken moderately it suits exactly. Walk Every Day for Your Health The quarter of a million dollars given by Louis B. Kuppenheimer of Winneka to the University of Chicago to be used for in- vestigations in the field A Boon to of opthalmogy, or : study of structure, Opthalmogists functions, and diseases of the eye, will certain- ly be of tremendous value. According to Dr. Brown, a prominent specialist in this same field and head of this department at the University, the work which this gift has madé possible will result in saving the eye- sight of many who might otherwise have lost that most wonderful of all human faculties, and will also lead to the allevia- tion of untold suffering. It will moreover increase knowledge of the eye, thereby aiding all who deal with eye weakness and disease. Diseases that have heretofore been regarded is incurable will doubtless yield to treatment suggested by workers in this department. North shore residents should feel a par- ticular interest in this gift because of the world famous school for the blind in Win- netka. Provided with your theater guild tickets for the four performances of the coming 1927-28 season, you will be facing a pros- pect of at least four The evenings of unalloy- Norch Shore ed delight. At least Theater Guild we have always en- joyed thoroughly the past performances of the guild. It is peculiarly interesting, if not always stimulating, to see our friends and neigh- bors in roles quite different from these same neighbors' ordinary modes of life. And we have sometimes envied them their visarious experiences and wished silently that we too might be a governor or a prom- inent poet if only for a few evenings. i SHORE LINES a > « gd WEATHER REPORT THERE MAY BE SOME DOUBT CON- CERNING WEATHER CONDITIONS AT OTHER SEASONS OF THE YEAR, COM- MENTS MR. COX IN AN INTERVIEW PUB- LISHED IN ONE OF THE CHICAGO DAILIES, BUT WHEN WINTER COMES ALONG, WELL, WINTER IS WINTER, AND NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. ALL OF WHICH STRIKES US AS SINGULARLY CLARIFYING_IF NOT AL- TOGETHER REASSURING. However, most of us are optimists at heart, whether or no we care to admit it. We live in constant hope of better things just in the off- ing; have enough rain to appreciate sunshine and enough sunshine to revel in a nice wet autumn drizzle. Frigid days and snow-clad fields bring to mind the beauties of a Springtime that, after all, is not so far away. Shivering March winds fore- tell of the glorious summer to come, Sweltering August heat bespeaks the invigurating tang of Autumn air, which, in turn, gives promise of a nice nippy winter with plenty of skating for the kids, young and older. Look to Your Laurels Tar Baby, rechristened Wiener (by virtue of general contour of the posterior appendage), it ap- pears, is running a close second to Gin for claims as the genuine community canine. Tar Baby (or is it Wiener?) has human friends too numerous to calculate, as witness the fact that, when hotly and persistently pursued by Windy. nemesis of wandering dogdom, no less than half a dozen license tags covering annums ranging from 1920 to date were forthcoming from a multitude of solicitous citizens. At last report he was still sev- eral leaps ahead of the alert and efficient Charley. >a Wouldst Have 'Em Stale? Mique-- Mr. Dudley Craft Watson in his second lecture for the North Shore Art league emphasized "The Freshness of Americans." --DIANA. oe Sport of Kings and Knaves Dear Mique: Having stepped out to the new Arlington Park racetrack a coupla times, I should ought to tell you something about the goats which was running and the goats which was trying to pick the goats--or was it cows--which was sup- posed to be running. Well in the crowd which was holding down the red seats in the grand- stand I finds Shorty, the same as holds forth at the Terminal, giving the news or selling it, and he tells me he's the ripe berries when it comes to picking winners. So I asks him how does he do it when even the horses doesn't know. "Well," says Shorty, "I'll tell you, but it's a little secret and I don't want any more than a coupla million people to know about it. I got a system. I came out the opening day and the boys at the two smacking windows hooked me for fourteen iron men. I don't know how it hap- pened, but I came home with seven nice little tickets which I'll use to paper my room. They're pretty tickets at that and all colors. But they're not worth two bucks. "I gets to thinking I could buy just as pretty tickets at a stationery store, so I got busy and in- vented the system I was going to tell you about. It's a sure fire system, too. I'm going to pick five winners a day." As 1 have been around racetracks since the Johnstown flood I tells Shorty I've heard of them systems, in fact I put it to him that guys had been inventing systems for beating the races ever since the days of the chariots and that the boys who invented them were either in the poorhouse or cutting out paper dolls. * "You're hokum on that lay," returns Shorty. "My figures do the business and I collect. I was out to the track yesterday and the old system worked swell, I just pushed some figures together and all of the horses my system said would win finished in the money." 3 "Must have cleaned up," I butts in. "Well," says Shorty, "there was a funny thing about that. I came back with two bucks. A fella was touting me off my long shots." a 3 --TaE Op PLuc. le Mt Meet you at the Illinois game. --MIQUE.