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MR cs pt i WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK y 34 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- lHecation 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. We should like to stress the word, "our," in the phrase, "Our New School Teachers." In a very real sense they are our teachers. Our New They have come to the north shore School Teachers totally unacquainted, perhaps, with both people and surroundings. The north shore is very little like the small towns where many of the new teachers have their homes. If we on the north shore may not be said to be lacking in hospitality it cannot be denied that many newcomers have found us somewhat over-occupied with our own interests. There is therefore some need for reminding ourselves that these new teachers are our teachers. In the first place it is very likely that many of these strangers have had, and still are having, some difficulty in getting set- tled. There are few unoccupied quarters on the north shore, and rents and pro- visions are high. 'Anyone who has taken the trouble to compare the cost of small town or country living with the cost of north shore living has learned this fact. Let us make our new teachers feel at home. One of the best ways to do this is to respond cordially when introduced. And then let us invite them to our homes. In passing, we may say that no little credit for bringing about this pleasant associa- tion between the oldtimers and the new- comers have been the numerous branches of the Parent Teacher association. By hundreds and thousands America's children are returning to school. The high- ways from summer camps and resorts have been jammed with Return of cars carrying sunburned the Children youngsters and tons of baggage. The trains rush- ing homewards have been crowded to both platforms with lambs and sheep that for eight or nine weeks have been feeding and gamboling in happy vacation pastures. Once more our north shore school build- ings--kindergarten, grammar, and high-- have become the busy hives that they were in June. Last year's books, covered with the summer dust will either remain fore ever unopened on the closet shelves or be passed on to little brother or sister. But the boys and girls with new or used books are in the school again all set for a busy nine months. Begin right, boys and girls. Make up your minds to begin at the top and stay there all through the year. The machinery of your brain is a little rusty, but you can wear off the rust by a strong steady pull at the very first. And whatever you do, do this one thing--determine to like your work! # September 8, 1928 WINNETKA TALK I It is settled that Main street in Wil- mette will be paved and that our sad eyes and badly jounced centers of equilibrium will somewhat later in the fall get a most pleasant surprise. For years at one time or another almost every north shore motorist has had occasion to use this very convenient and very bumpy thoroughfare. We have not now in mind the southern stretches of this avenue of industry but the two or three blocks adjacent to the North Western station. And when he, the afore- said driver, suddenly comes upon a new concrete highway fifty-two feet wide, how happy he will be! Paving An Important Street From all who know Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Rummler of Winnetka there goes to them a feeling of heartfelt sympathy. Death al- most without exception is a Heartfelt gpock, but the blow is al- Sympathy most unendurable when taken away. young people are suddenly And we sympathize sincerely with a family in which a son strong and full of promise has been called away quickly and without warning. * The most that friends can do on so ter- rible an occasion is to extend this heart- felt sympathy. It helps little, but it helps, because it is simple and genuine. More or less obscurely, in the news col- umns, has appeared in slightly prosaic, statistical form, the closing chapter of an epic that New England Last Chapter of a ought never to forget Great Epic --the epic of the greatest and most complete, the most efficiently organized, yet the most intensely human relief movement in all its history. It is the last chapter of the gripping story that tells how the American Red Cross--still the greatest Mother, just as it was in war days--thrust out a strong hand to help New England back to its. feet just nine months ago in the wake of a flood that shattered our communities and stunned, physically or economically many of its peoples and in- stitutions. Now, nine months after the catastrophe, when most of us here in one of the com- munities that it visited, have long been ab- sorbed in our own affairs and have almost forgotten all about it, the Red Cross has just found it possible to withdraw, slowly and gently, the hand it thrust out so promptly a year ago. The Red Cross has written this final chapter --in a candid official report. But, New Eng- land hearts and minds, remember again the task and how quietly and unobtrusively, how efficiently and completely it has been done. That chapter will be expanded into what it really is: the most essential chapter of a great epic. --No. Adams (Mass) Transcript. What a grand muddle it would be if our streets were not designated by plainly marked street name posts. In some respects at least a similar predicament ensues when residences and business buildings are not indicated by conspicuously placed numbers. Wilmette has enacted an ordinance requiring that every house and store building bear a number of size and location that is plainly visible from the street. Communities having no such regulation would do well to follow the example. SHORE LINES Strange Lands and Peoples September 4, 1928. Dear Mique--Took straw vote Wednesday at Charlevoix, Mich., for your column. Found one vote for Hoover. One vote for Smith would have indicated town 50-50, but as I located none, the straw would indicate that Hoover will carry Charlevoix unanimously. Visited southern Michigan. Find talking politics fruitless. Fruit growers have a saying: "talking politics gathers no grapes." Also, it picks no peaches. At Warsaw, Ind, it is different. Poets and novelists are in politics. Meredith Nicholson de- plores corruption of Hoosier officials. He tells me, however, that when a governor, mayor, sheriff or police chief is off color, or as you might say, a "bad egg," he is retired on a modest pension. Board and clothes are furnished free. Frequently he objects to the cut of the suit on account of the stripes running horizontally instead of per- pendicular. I told him when we have to try a governor, we acquit him, reelect him and make him continue to earn his own living. Outside of campaign times citizens of Indiana are a peaceful people. The natives do not come out from behind trees and bark at the authorities. When not writing books, they sit and spit and think. Sometimes they just whittle. The state is not doubtful. It will go as usual Each voter will vote the party ticket of his father and of his grandfather. Respectfully, Hoyt King. Many Have Done Less, Few, More Richard Aldington, translator of the works of Remy de Gourmont, the celebrated French figure in the world of letters, had this to say in a survey of that noted critic and creative artist's life: "He was born, he grew up, he read, he observed, he thought, he wrote, and he died'--adding: "he was not a great figure." Now, isn't that just too generous? Chalk One for Winnetka Mique--The artist Burnhams' of Winnetka, just off on a jaunt around this venerable globe, drop- ped a message through the mail slot at the branch office, and here it is--Evvie. The Burnhams' Farewell One fond farewell, Winnetka, our eyes swell up with tears; We're on our way around the world, twill be about two years. Yes, we've been vaccinated and innoculated, too, Against the germs and other things we've got to travel thru. Our first stop will be Tokyo, and there amidst the Japs We'll eat raw fish and rice and soup and still sur- vive, perhaps. Then westward, ever westward, we'll proceed and parlez-vous, : Until, beloved Village, we resume our life with i Mebbe It's Engine Trouble Dear Mique--Man standing on a street corner last night listening to a political argument had his first thought in twenty years and had such a spasm over it that the cops had to send in a riot call to quell him. Seems as though he'd been considerably worried over all of these now mo- torized things--like fire trucks and gang plows-- and figured the whole universe was headed to- ward the meat-grinder. Then they had to go mention Henry Ford and John J. Raskob in the argument and the idea of motorized politics al- most killed him. --Hub of Henderson, Ky. At any event it should develop into a rattling good campaign. Tell Us About "Em, Hoyt Even though on vacation bent, our dear friend Hoyt, the north shore's ardent -out-the-voter and arch enemy of the Politico-Crime union, has difficulty in refraining from similar research work in other sections of our astounding nation. .It was rather surprising, then, to note that he is more or less familiar with the art of picking peaches"