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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 29 Nov 1919, p. 4

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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1919 4 4 | Winnetka Weekly Talk|] A ares 10 . . ii PATROL FORESTS, | i} f ISSUED SATURDAY or mack wen || Shall Winnetka Have Its Own Motion | i . | ; by - Picture House ? y ; { According to plans formulated at Of all kinds in large and small cans The Lake Shore Publishing Company {Jl @ recent conference of forestry ex-| WALL PAPERS. PAINTING & DECORATING iNew. 4...1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill. = EAA ; er a, 1 di held Mini a2 saiiiiiinbolreieleed - - | perts of fiig western division held in Floor Finishing a Specialty J es Ei Witmette 1020 | Editor's Not the, | question of within and without. Will not this San Francisco, California forests will| RASMESEN'S PAINT STORE ni innetka Office Telephone Winn. 388 | noo Bon Plotare. Hous wilt] increased attendance at movies bring | be e grates patrolled by army aero- | ppp PAINT INFORMATION FREE 5 : be submitted to the voters in a refer-| a threefold harm to our children, 4. planes. is v A YE endum ballot early next year... The! hy sic I, mental and moral harm? y Sil c . ie SUBSCRIPTION SpA S100 A YEAR| accompanying article is the first of a | : rt, Ny ical Wi i suld (| It is certain that plans for eighteen i: Strictly in advance series to be published in the columns! +1 ea 10 Cou 0, expec 1 ill 1 d Washing H of the Weekly Talk. The editor wel-. Outdoor exercise; so necessary to our | Planes will be approved in Washing- HE Kkly Talk. The editor wel ' . #1 > comes expressions of opinion on this growing school children; to compete | ton. N 3 FELLOWS 3 All communications must be ac- | subjects. The proposition of establish- | with the indoor thrill and adventure|{ Forest rangers will be especially . . + companied by the name and address of | ment of a Motion Picture House in the | be had f 1 5 far i! 3 £ ii aerial w ™ i the writer. Articles for publication| Village should interest every voter 1g tO be had for the asking, just aroun : trained for this aerial work Colonel 14 should reach, this office by Thursday the Village. Articles submitted must | the corner? Physicians agree that! Young, commandant of March field, REGISTERED it afternoon to "insure appearance in [be brief to insure publication. | increase in eye and nerve -strain is} near Riverside, has volunteered to - : ti current, issue. | = | very common among children freq-| conduct a six-weeks' course in aerial OP ['ICIAN 3 Resolutions of condolenis, dards of | By Grace A. Fentress | | uenting the movies. forest patrolling. i LEA obituary peotry, qhotices. of | Sh: a Windia have it's own Mo-| . Second, mental--Is there any form Eyes Tested. Frames Fitted 2 entertainments or other affairs where | tion Picture ouse? AL [0] i 1 n- H an 'admittance charge will be made or | or A i recreation to which children con A census of the country's manu- Lenses Duplicated This depends: is it the intetest of tribute so little th ge i a collection taken, will be charged for | iliac Dile 280 tie as to the average, f,ctyrers was made for the first time . 4 at regular advertising rates. the fhildzen or that of the radults|{ moving picture show? Mental effort! in 1810. Under the present law a Frames Repaired 3 which we 4 consi ing? If ing at a disc , sre 3 i i a -- eh Fa Tf ind being at bodissount, ow xan there! manufacturers census is to be taken Vi 'Enterod in the postofiice at Winnetka, aad, on e oe 1€¢| survive: the 2 « is 1oned competi-| in connection with the Fourteenth Phone Room 3 3 Illinois, as mail matter of the second £ O1 Such a, house, here tive games--charades--or the child-| pegennial Census and every two Winnetka 85 Prouty Bldg. i class, under the act of March 3, 1879. | in our midsts, to be most undesirable. | ren's own dramatic efforts? vears thereafter 13 There are obvious objections to Q inet i y i E h S ! chool principals tell us, there is ) TR 26 |'s # > ; : Ti ¢ SATURDAY, NOV EMBER 29, 1919 Jonding our young people ti Wil-1 an appreciable falling off in scholar- | mette, to even as universally good ship in neighborhoods where movies # PN BREE TIPE TL SE SOR Gr Ary SF er Americanization Of Citizenship Further 'and further the idea spreading that Americanization of the! foreign born is the road to national felicity. More and more deeply into' the public mind is sinknig the re- | is "sponsibility of the community to the newcomers that are in, but not of, | it. Clubs and churches are organiz- ing Americanization work. Factories have classes in English and civics. Night schools have been established and every attempt made to make the! evening class room seem an attract-| ive place to the men and the women | who have spent the day in toil. And results are being obtained, results| that gratify, even though they do not! entirely satisfy, who have ac-! cepted the burden of the native born to the residents of foreign birth. those We do, indeed, need Americanized 9 a A 5 citizens, an electorate capable of | P . f T i ; le Cl b P d fi 615 DAVIS STREET EVANSTON i reading the ballot which they vote. rinceion riang e (tu roauction Mati 2 d4 : - . Hi -. 3 Ss N We do need in every community a & Matinees 2 an Evenings 7and 9 public that understands American When "The Isle of Surprise," an | pression of undergraduate ability LT ET Cr Te CTL CL CL CL Ct rT TT = institutions and American ideals. But original melo-farce with musical ac-| along dramatic, artistic and practical E sts : ompaniment - which comprises this | y ; ¥%. THIS WEEK ; it is not alone the foreign born to] compan "i lines. The argument, which is all ab- x E 1 I hings : sealed! I< son's offering of the Princeton) sorbing, is built around the warm : hom these hil Gren jfeac University Triangle club, plays inj dreamy atmosphere of a sunny isle in SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29 book. Ignorance of American history, Chicago on December 23, its per- | Ye Arabs ro ese atite Snaross : SHR as Shi 1 will include William M. Mell. | the Arabian sea. presenting engross-| and American institutions is much sonnel wi Sasius ie ER bg hg situations, & rare combination of more widespread than that. The in- EE Tt WHO Will oriental and American dancing, and i W 5 24 $ i Ea a pleasing touch of undergraduate telligent voter /is about as rare AS! This season marks McIlvaine's first | AA Ris GT 5 h the vcter who cannot read his bal-' appearance in Princeton dramatics, | ded 1 ek 9" E fot Tt Is Indeed, the exceptional per-| as he was busily engaged last winter | A striking feature of "The Isle of In The Woman of Pleasure captaining the freshman' basketball Surprise" is that it is an amateur son who has that appreciation of his very general sense. Most American born people are able to read the English language intelligently long before they reach the voting age. But ability to read is, country's life and institutions to a { ment has avoided the taint of an in- . 3 the Yale yearlings. McIlvaine, how- [m : ] == make of him a really intelligent ever, gained considerable dramatic different Somhinatien ol, Aipaisns = Na . lene iCACeE. 5 : . ) vot rofessional talent, with the re- | == voter. We need Americanizing in a experience at the Hill school and | fine pro a , = : : | promises to be a valuable addition | sult that the play is the sole product | == The Companion Picture bn] { will find the problem of the home shows as they produce there. But! are not our children better off at Wilmette movies, weekly, than they would be at the Winnetka : house, daily? The mother who thinks she can control this daily attendance, greatly complicated. The Winnetka house will not be, as she now dreams, the solution of her present difficulties. have it on authorative statement, | that to have a financially successful commercial house, there must be a minimum weekly attendance of 6,000 or a daily attendance of 500, both afternoon , and evening. For Win- netka to create such an audience, she must resort to extensive adver- tisement without and to tremendous | development of the movie-fan within. There will be the ever present tease: of this movie-fan; the lure to see' each picture as it comes out: the! constant inner-urge of the child! pressed, as he will be, both from: have been sometime established. Also! that any continuous or sustained effort is nowdays, sadly lacking. Third, moral--There will come to our Village, hoards of young people,' all kinds "and conditions of boys and girls, attracted by widespread adver- | tising. They will bring to us, not only contagion, but, in due time, every kind of social problem solution of which will demand the combined, effort of police and the Juvenile Pro- tective association. Sweet shops will] spring up around our new house lur-! ing the young people to spend much | time and money, and where they will | Aint it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'? After working hard all day in your office and coming home "all played out" and hungering for a good meal to see that your dinner consists of a nice, big, delicious steak and that it was ordered from WINNETKA MARKET * 734 Elm Street PETERS PROPRIETOR Telephone Winnetka 820821 -- see and hear much that is not good for them. The question of whether Winnetka | shall have its own moving picture house will come up before us, later,: for referendum vote. Before it is too late, let us consider, seriously, the really vital issues of this question. Winnetka M an Toles Leading Role in | quintet to a well earned victory over | | to the present cast. Departing from the general prece- | dent which has lured college play- wrights into poor imitations of | {Bron way. the authors of "The Isle: I production throughout. The manage- | of undergraduate efforts. This feature has been carried even to the stage! | settings which have been designed by a student who formerly lived in India, the scene of the action. = HHI LOHR 1 Universal Screen Events Harold Lloyd Comedy NEXT WEEK of the "MIRACLE MAN" "MALE AND ; I a! of Surprise" have permitted their After two performances at Prince- not enough. There must be the wi Lag talent to run its natural|ton the club will appear in several to read and to seek out the truth,! course. As a result, they have furti-1 cities of the middle-west playing in for there are many agencies whose ished a delightful vehicle for the ex-! Chicago on December 23. purpose in life it is to confuse the -- A 5 : riod rs ncernin . : . 3 pehiie find in, fistiers cone of ed States. Not a single line of com- public policy. | mentary is to be added to the pressf killing .their fellow men. FEMALE" It is just what the general public Intelligent citizenship is not an te Artorica 1s'te be allied to easy thing to acquire. Its acquisition: TeDoress a 1s > has thought of the conscientious ob- ; . > 1 hoist herself on her own petard. : 3 is, however, a duty that ought to jectors who have been so consider- The [Tost Wonderful Picture Ever Produced It is a sweet revenge to take and, Phone ih In fhe inte tose wha) unhappily for the great democracy ately handled by the war depart- 8 talk Americanization of the foreign Trin tb ban eefoe 0 s, it would 1 rell for, . : 0 En or Ste os | fense. We have no age-long in- IOEIOX I0L=IOr =IOLIOL= 10EIOX ACEIOIOLIO Cy O EX A : : { herited religious and racial hatred. to determine just how > 3 | We have no claim to ignorance and lack of opportunity. What we, a civilized, educated, law-abiding peo- "Can Such Things Be!" ple have done to helpless members| i fn a recent number of the Atlantic] of our communities, seems, to this' Mgnthly there ' was a pitiful account man of the Orient, to balance fairly of | the sufferings of the Christian| the atrocities of other peoples which | peaple of Armenia at the hands of have shocked us into saying, "Can Americanism, real it is. ANNOUNCEMENT Just Received several cases of Winter Shoes, including high cuts for the school --IO0EXO0 SE LE et the Turks and, the Kurds, sufferings | such things be!" Verily, as the in which American and British mis-| writer of the letter suggests, we | sionaries and 'teachers 'were ii might look into a bit of the Old girls and boys, ordered at last spring' S : compiled to share. The author, the | Testament--"something about the! wife of a missionary doctor, chose beam in one's own eye." ° prices, will be sold at a considerable 2 for her tale of cruelty the telling | te BLE ns title, "Can. Such Things Be?" The | We Thought As Much A saving over present prices. No advance ; reader, 'scarcely able to accept the, That report of the inspector gen-|]] n price for these shoes. Come early : facts\ that were presented, yet was eral of the army must have been | | compalied. by the earnestness and the | pleasant re: ading to Secretary of War while all sizes are complete and be Eriol evident. veracity of the writer to be-! Baker, particularly that part which at a saving of $1.00 to $1.50 a pair. lieve that such things not only could | expressed the opinion of the inspec- | but are. | tor concerning the conscientious ob-! In the November issue of the same jectors who declined to serve their magazine, id the contributor's column, ! country in its time of need. 4 is a letter from Othman el-Jezdl, an-! Mr. Baker had a very tender feel-| be, | We also do Fine Sho= Repairing The Highest Grade Leather Used IOEIO m=O EIOK ; nouncing the 'fact that he has ap-|ing for these conscientious objectors, | ; propriated the title for a compilation and a disinclination to see them un- : of newspaper, clippings which he has' pleasantly treated because of their transiated literally into Turkish and! lack of enthusiasm for military. serv- Telephone Wilmette 590 I WILMETTE : 100 Emm O CIO Em OE O =n is to have published shortly in thet ice. And so he could scarcely have' leading weekly of Stamboul These! been edified to have them classified extracts from the New York press| as "mainly with few! give accounts of half'a dozen recent| among them who were willing' tot Iynchings: and race riots in the Unit- serve in any way that did not involve A. Kaspar's Shoe Store 609 WEST RAILROAD AVE. i oro orI0r Gio slackers" a |

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