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34 i. ------------ WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave. Winnetka, Ill Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone........... Winnetka 2000 or Wilmette 4300 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.............. $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub- lcation must reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obitu- aries, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Many people feel that the word, service, has been overdone in connection with busi- ness. To many it has seemed that the serv- ice rendered by business men has not been entirely free from selfish- ness, entirely devoid of motives of possible profit. The service that a loving mother renders her children is pure, unalloyed by any thought of the ad- vantage she may reap. But we must all admit that the ordinary business man is not in it for love purely and simply. Nevertheless, the well-intentioned busi- ness man does render a most valuable serv- ice to his community. Truly he gives noth- ing away, but at the same time he does give his customers a square deal. They need what he has and he sells it to them at a fair profit. The community could not function satisfactorily without the grocer, the druggist, the hardware man, the mer- chant, and a dozen others. To say that the business man comes into a community solely for his own selfish ad- vantage is not to tell the whole truth. What is his profit is not the customer's loss but really the customer's profit also. We make a plea for a higher appreciation of the busi- ness man's place in the community. We contend that the attitude that many people hold toward the business is not consistent with the spirit that will make America a true democracy. The business man is an important mem- ber of the community. Business and the Community The series of small books issued by the American Library association known as Reading with a Purpose is one that no for- ward looking person should fail to read and carefully study. If one had had little education and desired to go ahead while following his regular vocation, he could do no better than buy all these little books and persistently pursue the reading therein recommended. The more we read of conditions in Chi- cago the more satisfied we are to be living outside. We have not failed to notice, how- ever, that many of those active in separat- ing crime and politics do not have their homes in Chicago. No matter how much we enjoy suburban life we cannot dodge the responsibility of helping in this great work of purifying our government. The movement on the part of the North Shore Real Estate board to reduce the num- ber of signs on North Shore property is a welcome one. Signs are not beautiful. It is not their function to please the eye. A certain number of them are useful, but 'the number can certainly be reduced. WINNETKA TALK September 1, 1928 September means school. And school nowadays means better equipment for life. Time was when the coming of September meant the coming of School Days something unpleasant, the going of the good Are Here old vacation days. Shakespeare's idea of the school boy as a youthful criminal dragging himself to a kind of jail lived for several hundred years, but is today we be- lieve fairly obsolete. The last of August sees many school of- ficials back at their jobs. These early birds are the registrars, deans and such other unfortunates. Their more fortunate col- leagues, the teachers, can delay their return to the school building another week or two. But no good thing would be good if it had no ending. Plays must end. The final curtain must fall. Of course it must. Imagine a play that never ended! Who would want to see it? Vacations are pleas- ant, but so are working days. Too much fun is simply too much. So brace up, boys and girls. Welcome the opening of school. The appointment of Dr. Eston V. Tubbs to the position of Director of Curriculum of the Chicago public schools is a notable appointment. Dr. Tubbs A Notdble will be head of a newly- A . created department and ppommtment ij] have as his assist- ants four supervisors. His work will be highly important, being the furnishing to teachers in the Chicago schools valuable data regarding methods of instruction and curricula of various sorts. There is not the slightest doubt but that this new department can render indis- pensable service to the schools of Chicago, service that will stimulate and improve the educating of Chicago children. We con- gratulate both Dr. Tubbs and the great school system of which he becomes such an important part. We have seen only two movies this sum- mer, and those two were awful. We won't name these awful films, because you might be influenced to sample them for your- selves: Good movies are highly desirable. May their number increase! TOOTING OUR OWN HORN I am the Home Weekly-- The little old paper That welcomed you When vou were born-- Watched you grow up, Marry, become a parent, Then a grandparent-- Always recording your Good acts and successes; Suppressing vour evil Deeds, condoning your > Misfortunes and failures. Rejoicing when you rejoiced, And sympathizing in Your times of sorrow. Ready to boost you in any Honorable enterprise, while Slow to encourage projects Of a doubtful character. Your friend and helper, But rarely appreciated At a true value by those Most benefitted by mv efforts. Read by ewervone within my Field of circulation-- Whether they be paid subscribers Or only those who borrow Like the "poor" of the Scriptures-- I shall always be with you. I am the Home Weekly. --Contributed. SHORE LINES Doom! Old giant oaks may fall and die, And nations wrecked by earthquake lie; Imperial empires, giant men, They disappear but rise again." The oak is gone, the acorn lives! Who takes away, He also gives! The maid and youth with vigor loom And jostle age for elbow room. As says the sapling to the tree "You some day will make room for me!" So, son to sire; "Of wisdom's dearth We're apt to tire--get off the ih We're Duly Impressed Mique, the most important person on our editorial pay-roll wishes that he might have caught just one fleeting glimpse of our Fil as the latter was setting out on his Canadian tour. If Mique's wish had been gratified he would have seen an ordinary looking man, five feet, eight and three-quarters high, and weighing about one-fifty- eight. He would have seen lower extremities mod- estly clad in long khaki pants topped by a shirt of the same neutral tint. On the feet he would have had the unusual pleasure of seeing two reddish tennis shoes and on the head an old gray cap. Not much to look at. But if Mique had had the good fortune to engage this plain-looking individual in conservation what a conversational treat he would have had. Lincoln wasn't much to look at. But what a brain! --Fif, the Filosofer. MADE TO ORDER A sizzling battle may be expected when the Wil- mette citizenry warms to the argument over that proposed incinerating plant to be balloted upon in ks. a few weeks -- Job Tots. Overwhelmingly Democratic Dear Mique: My assignment to take a straw vote of Wisconsin and Michigan for Shore Lines is a fluke. Through Wisconsin found farmers prosperous. Tourists are eating up all their products at high prices. Election does not interest them. Way ahead of the times in Wisconsin. Sunday Tribune arrives Thursday previous, so they know what is going to happen three days ahead. : At Mackinac Island, Mich. news of Hoover's and Smith's acceptances not yet received. Thirty years behind the times here. Still have horses, livery stable smells, chromos and rag carpets. They have a fort built by the British in 1780 and cannon of 1840 to defend the island. Don't know the war is over. Grand hotel is modern--too modern. Will spend a day there and send picture postals of hotel to friends. Then get a room else- where. Want a place where I can laugh with and talk to the help on equal terms while in my heart I pity all people who have to work. There are 10,000 here though the city has a native population of five hundred, three hundred of whom stay all winter. The island is wooded and entirely surrounded by water--soft water. In winter is becomes hard enough to ride over to St. Ignace. : ; Hear you could get a jinrikisha here for fifty cents. Learned later this is not a drink. It is a wicker seat propelled from behind by a darky on a bicycle. Would have ridden to sound him po- litically, but sooner be caught playing tiddlede- winks in midafternoon. Will report on Southern Michigan later. --Hoyt King, Mackinac Island, Mich. P. S. The fishermen throughout the lake region are not wet. They will vote the Prohibition party ticket in a body. They say neither major party has promised them relief. HWE With Mr. Yellowley's brigade hovering in the vicinity, friend Augie hustles over with the timely warning that we transfer ownership of "Gin", the editorial canine, lest we be apprehended for having forbidden stuff in our possession. But don't let him get into the job printing de- partment, or they'll make it "Gordon Gin". --Mique.