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WINNETKA TALK October 22, 1927 dq] TH oj News of the North Shore Clubs | |[7 IL Education Systems Discussed at Club Winnetka Woman's Club Hears of Nursery School History and Education in Russia In the absence of the president, Mrs. Arthur W. Cushman, the first vice president, Mrs. Carl H. Zeiss, presided at the second meeting of the Winnet- ka Woman's club on Tuesday, Octo- ber 18. After reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, Mrs. Zeiss extended a special welcome to the teachers of the village, who were the guests of the day. Miss Kate Watkins Tibbals made an announcement regarding her classes for this year, with the suggestion that those interested should make applica- tion to her personally. Mrs. John R. Fletcher announced that there would be classes in Italian and French, and in Spanish, if a suffi- cient number applied. The meeting was then turned over to Mrs. George S. Levy, chairman of the education committee, who intro- duced Mrs. Alfred Alschuler, staff director of the Nursery school. Mrs. Alschuler gave a brief summary of the history of the school. A year and a half has been spent in arousing interest in the project, and in advertising and raising funds for the school. The help of the Institute of Juvenile Re- search has been obtained, together with that of the McCormick institute, which sends out a pediatrician to ex- amine the children. The luncheon menus are planned by its dietician and the measurements of the children are taken by the institute. The National Kindergarten college sends three of its students as assistants every morning. Miss Marian Spach, the director, is unusually capable and well prepared, having spent the las year studying in Europe. There were fifty-three applications for the school. Only a limited number of these could be accepted and an equal number of children were selected to be studied in the homes. A com- parative study will be made of the children in both groups. Inventories of the children are made at the first of the year and will be made again at the end of the year in order to note their development. The purpose is to develop a more thoughtful care of the 2 and 3 year old child. Mrs. Levy next introduced Carleton Washburne, the speaker of the after- noon. His subject was "The World Conference on New Education at Locarno, and Education in Russia." Mr. Washburne said that the New Education Fellowship was formed shortly after the war to link together the people who were doing new things in education, primarily in Europe. The Locarno conference was attended by 1,100 people from fifty-three different nations. The contact with these inter- esting people was the most important feature of the meeting to Mr. Wash- burne. The largest delegation from anv one svstem was from Winnetka. Explaining how he haopened to take the trip into Russia, Mr. Washburne said that he crossed to Europe on the same ship with Arthur Fisher of Win- netka, who was a member of the Un- official Trade Union officials, who were on ther way to Russia to get some dependable reports on the situation there. They had not selected anyone to studv education in Russia and asked Mr. Washburne to take over that branch of the work. Mr. Wash- Gold and Silver Sale All Day October 25, 26 From 10 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon Tuesday, October 25, and Wednesday, October 26, the arti- cles collected by parish chairmen from the gold and silver offerings will be on sale in the shop at 161 North Mich- igan avenue, Chicago. The sale is conducted under the auspices of the Woman's auxiliary of the Chicago diocese of the Episcopal church, and the proceeds thus derived will go to the fund for the rebuilding of St. Mar- garet's school for girls in Tokyo, Ja- pan. The general committee at work for the sale consists of Mrs. George Allen Mason of Highland Park, president of the Woman's auxiliary; Mrs. Carl A. Gowdy of Oak Park, chairman; Mrs. Hathaway Watson of Winnetka, vice chairman; Mrs. Joseph E. Otis, chair- man of shops and sales; Mrs. M. Paul Noyes, chairman of sorting and ap- praising; and the district chairmen, Mesdames Hermon B. Butler and C. Colton Daughaday, of Winnetka; Ed- win J. Randall, John Oliphant, Herbert Bird, J. A. Carter, C. E. Osborne, W. F. Pelham and Miss Jane Larabee. The chairmen from the north shore parishes are Mrs. Vance Roberts, Mrs. Harry Wells and Mrs. E. C. Koogle, of Evanston; Mrs. Thomas Hardwick, Wilmette; Mrs. S. D. Flood, Kenilworth; Mrs. Harry L. Street, Winnetka; Mrs. C. C. Coldrun, Glen- coe; Miss E. W. Towner, Highland Park: Mrs. Robert M. Ingalls, Wau- kegan. Young Women's Auxiliary Meets All Day Wednesday The Young Women's auxiliary of the Woman's society of the Winnetka Congregational church will have an all day meeting at the home of Mrs, John Hansel, 1440 Tower road, on Wednesday, October 26. The mem- bers will meet about 10:30 o'clock and are asked to bring sandwiches. The hostess will serve coffee and cake. The day will be spent in sewing for the sale of children's clothes which is to be held in December. The proceeds of this sale will go toward the building of the new church. burne interviewed many officials and visited the schools, both in the cities and in the country. All the things he learned fitted together with few con- tradictions. Russia is poor and Russia is back- ward, he found. With the war, the revolution, the blockade, the counter revolutions, and the famine, Russia lost more people than any other one country. There is much poverty in Russia, but not destitution, he stated. The average teacher's salary is $25 per month and her room. The people are in sympathy with the government. They have a sincere feeling of hope and of progress and feel that they have found the solution of the world's problems and that their government is the best possible government. It is their hope that through the schools they may make the people understand and sympathize with their social state. Mr. Washburne discussed at some length the workers' schools for adults, the social schools, the waif problem, and the factory schools. The school system is highly centralized, and through its schools, Russia hopes to perpetuate its communistic government with the workers at its head. Congregation Sisterhood Holds First Fall Meeting The Sisterhood of the North Shore Congregation held the first meeting of its season Wednesday last at the Glen- coe Union church. The meeting was called to order at 9 o'clock in the morning and the pro- gram for the day was as follows: sewing, 9 until 12; luncheon at 12; Degrd meeting at 1; social program at Miss Eleanor Katz, contralto, sang, and Ruben Marcus played violin se- lections. Those who are officers for this year are: Mrs. Sylvan Hirschberg, presi- dent; Mrs. Arthur Oppenheimer, first vice president; Mrs. Joseph Michaels, second vice president; Mrs. Milton Simon, third vice president; Mrs. Joseph Spiegel, recording secretary; Mrs. Si Westerfield, treasurer; Mrs. Arthur Adler, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Meyer Weil, financial secretary. The meetings for this year will be held the third Wednesday in each month. Jane Addams Is on Roster for Young People's Club The Young People's club of the Winnetka Congregational church held its second meeting of this year last Sunday evening. The club had as its speaker for the occasion, the Reverend Mr. Marsh of Oklahoma, Texas. Mr. Marsh spoke on "Home Missions." The Young People's club meets every Sunday evening at 7 in Com- munity House, with the exception of one evening a month when it meets at 6:30 o'clock for supper. The club feels very fortunate this year in being able to produce some very prominent per- sons to speak to its members during the year. Some time during the com- ing months Jane Addams is to speak to them. Two Junior League Plays to Be Given in Winnetka The Nursery School board of the Nursery School committee, connected with the education department of the Winnetka Woman's club, announces that two of the Junior League plays given at the Playhouse in Chicago, will be given in Winnetka. One play will be given early this fall and the other shortly after Christmas. The exact dates and the names of the plays will be announced later. These plays will be given in order that the Nursery School committee may complete its budget. League Sewing on Tuesday The North Shore Catholic Woman's league will have a sewing meeting next Tuesday at 2 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Anthony Eiden, 806 Foxdale ave- nue. The league's sewing for this year will consist of making sheets and pillow cases for the children's ward at St. Francis hospital. All the members are urged to be at Mrs. Eiden's next Tuesday to help with the sewing. Club Season Opens A card party given yesterday at The Kenilworth club was the opening event of the season. Cards have been issued for the annual Hallowe'en din- ner dance to be held on October 28, at the Kenilworth club. William T. Holmes Addresses Society Tougaloo College President Tells Woman's Society of Work Among Southern Negroes The second monthly meeting of the Woman's society of the Winnetka Congregational church was held as usual at Community House last Wed- nesday. The chairman of the work commit- tee, Mrs. W. D. Truesdale, and her committee, devote much time to the preparation of the sewing which is carried on at each meeting in the Neighborhood room, beginning at 10:30 o'clock. Here is work for all, and it is hoped that every member of the church and society will set aside the first and third Wednesdays of each month for this organization. Every woman in the community is cordially invited to come and help. Wednesday's program was in charge of the world friendship committee, of which Mrs. A. J. Boynton is chairman. The Rev. James Austin Richards in- troduced the speaker, President Wil- liam T. Holmes of Tougaloo college in Mississippi. Mr. Holmes, a most interesting speaker, told of the growth of the college, founded in 1869 as the Ameri- can Missionary Association school in Mississppi, for advance negro educa- tion. It is located at Tougaloo (a Choctaw Indian name), on the Illinois Central railroad, 731 miles south of Chicago and 7 miles north of Jackson. This college is doing work among the negroes of the South. Tougaloo college offers, to college preparatory graduates of high schools, a full college course leading to the degree of B.A. The Tougaloo faculty numbers thirty-five, of whom twenty-three are white. It is virtually an interracial committee, meeting daily throughout the school year. In the college are 450 colored stu- dents, the state law forbidding others. It was found necessary to have an elementary school in the college, in order to best serve the community, as it provides for the teacher-training classes a laboratory for observation and practice teaching. The high school continues to be its largest department. It specializes in teacher training. The teacher training, college preparatory, and home econom- ics courses are those most generally elected. High school boys are required to take wood work; high school girls to take sewing and dressmaking, cooking and practice housekeeping. Music also is stressed. There are now more than twenty buildings on the campus--girls' dormi- tory, Boys' dormitory, resident bunga- ows for the teachers, dining room and carpenter shop. In 1923, the General Education board offered $35,000 toward an academic building on condition that the college also raise $35,000. More than that sum was raised, and now the building is in use, with its auditorium, library, physcis laboratory, chemistry labora- tory, and class rooms. Later, other buildings were added at a cost of $100,000, one-third of which was given by the General Education hoard.