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14 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1923 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK . by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill Telephone ............ Winnetka 388 Telephone ............ Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Winnet- ka, Illinois, as mail matter of the sec- ond class, under the act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1923 SKOKIE CONTEST The playing and singing of the Skokie scholars on Friday evening, June 8, was a revelation, it is safe to say, to every person in the audi- ence. They played and sang with the confidence that comes from thorough acquaintance with one's material ; besides this, their expres- sion was marked by a rare sense of appreciation and understanding. There was a quality in their per- formance that compelled the en- thusiastic approval of the entire body of hearers, mostly adult. It seemed as if the older people were thinking of their own earlier days and of their inability as compared with the ability of the children on the platform. And this also must be said: Every instrument and vocal selec- tion on the program was an enrich- ment of the life of each child who took part. At forty, fifty, and sixty the children will remember each number with increasing de- light and benefit. They have not been working on pieces of tem- porary value, but on compositions of permanent value. CHARLES KINNEY Winnetka loses a genuine com- munity benefactor when Charles Kinney resigns as manual training teacher and goes to the Francis Parker school. Those who have known Mr. Kinney at all intimately know a man genuinely inspired with the love of teaching children | how to use their muscles and minds. The fact that the shops in the Skokie 'school under Mr. Kinney's direction have been open every day until five or six o'clock and almost every Saturday morning is very significant. What teachers do you know that exceed their regular time schedules to this degree? . Winnetka ought not to have al- lowed Mr. Kinney to leave. When a community gets so valuable a citi- zen it should keep him by increase of salary or some other effective means. NEW TEACHERS It needs must be a staunch school system that can assimilate with little confusion the taking in of thirteen new teachers. But that's the kind of a system Winnetka has. The new teachers will enter in the fall and before the year is really well under way they will have beer thoroughly acclimated. : We're sure that it won't be long before these new teachers feel at home. May we urge them to meet us at least half way? Attend church, public meetings at Com- munity House; join some organiza- tion. Our part is to play the part of host to these new arrivals; invite them to meet congenial people. Keep them in mind. SPEEDERS AND OTHERS $125 in fines in one week in Wilmette for speeding, mostly on Sheridan! Eleven people fined, nine men and two women. Doubtless the majority of these offenders were adults. What do older people say about boys and girls when they disobey? Usually something concerning the wild ways of the younger generation. "What are the young people coming to? When I was young we had to toe the mark, I tell you!" And yet they violate the speed law! © Is it forgetfulness? Is it wil- ful negligence? It can't be ig- norance of the law, and it 1s sel- dom necessity. It seems to be a mixture. "Why, I didn't know how fast I was going, until I got pinched." It is not uncommon for a father driving his car to tell his children in the back seat to look back and dee if any cops are fol- lowing. Here is, a lesson in eth- ics that boys, especially, will learn willingly, the idea being, it's all right if you don't get caught. A fine lesson in citizen- ship, especially when taught by a father to his son! * When shall we learn that we make the laws for our own bene- fit? That the way to reform the laws that are obnoxious is not to break them but to arouse public opinion against them until it gets strong enough to repeal those laws? Doubtless, if the majority believed that life and property would not be seriously endanger- ed by a speed of fifty miles an hour on Sheridan Road the limit would be raised to that rate. Let us not make laws and then violate them. GO SLOW We people in the suburbs are unjust to the man doing business in the suburbs. We talk and think so much of "residential suburbs," that we come to act as if business in the suburbs was a nuisance. We push the business man off the suburban earth in our desire to keep our homes quiet and beautiful. But we can't get along with- out suburban business. Would you like to buy all your grocer- ies, dry goods, hardware, etc., in Chicago? Be a little easier on the bus- iness man! Realize that he is rendering you a necessary ser- vice! You need him! In your zeal for public parks, think twice before you allow his property to be condemned. When zoning is under consideration don't do him an injustice by giv- ing him the little end of the deal. Get rid of whatever prejudice you may have and before you act, weigh carefully the rights of the business man. "COME ON IN! Two or three Saturdays ago we - strolled down to the beach and, happening to meet some young amphibians, asked them how the water was. We knew what the answer would be; so we were not disappointed by an out- burst of "Fine!" But, although the youthful re- port was unanimous, it fell on in- ~redulous ears. A few minutes before we had drunk a glass of ice-water drawn from that same lake. So we wrapped our over- coat around us a little more tichtly and charged the boys' lack of temperature discrimina- tion to immaturity and enthusi- asm. All middle-aged folks had bet- ter wait a few weeks before for- =aking the bath tub for the open water. We'll be with you, boys, in a month or two. Then we'll hand the invitation to our wives shiv- ering on the beach, "Come on in, the water's fine!" The crowding of people into communities necessitates the setting apart of unoccupied tracts as play- grounds for these people. The more closely human beings congregate the more urgent the need for recreation areas, places where men and women and children may ex- perience "unimproved nature." But, in our enthusiasm for parks and playgrounds, let us also con- sider carefully the cost. Otherwise we shall be like the spendthrift, who plunges into debt recklessly. Summer Kindergarten! It looks as if the summer vacation were going into the discard, fad- ing from the calendar. Well, it will be good for everybody ex- cept the owners of summer-re- sorts. Again we urge a North Shore truck thoroughfare which trucks Four hundred signed up for New Trier Summer School! New York's exclusive Four Hundred will be easily outstripped in the worthwhile affairs of life by New Trier's four hundred. Are You a Member? CHICAGO MOTOR CLUB Established 1906 J. G. STANTON Winnetka Branch Mgr. North Shore Hotel, Evanston 6400 1-4 Million Cash Returned by auto insurance de- partment in 1922 RAZOR BLADES Sharpened Mail us your old dull safety razor blades. We will sharpen them like new and mail back to you. 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