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: WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK. SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1925 : p Men and Women of Winnetka 3 PUBLIC MEETINGS In support of Candidates endorsed by 1925 Village Caucus Monday, March 30 -- Greeley School Wednesday, April 1 -- Hubbard Woods School Monday, i dq CARE Candidates nd 5 q MCE, Wi «5 ' I by Village Caucus & 4 F VILLAGE TICKET ! Ye 125 i iller D Village Trustees [J] John D. Pierce H. L. Raclin [[] Walter Strong Village Treasurer [J] William E. Davis Police Magistrate [] Clark T. Northrop Village Marshal and Collector [J] Theodore Flynn Library Trustees [] Mrs. Carrie B. Prouty [[] Walter T. Fisher 1925 PARK DISTRICT TICKET Park Commissioners [J] Arlan W. Converse April 6 -- Community House © All at 8 o'clock | The current issues of this campaign are more important than any that have come before the people of Winnetka for many years. They strike at the fundamental conditions that have controlled the character of the Village and the 7 effectiveness of the administration of its af- -- fairs. THIS IS IMPORTANT Taxes Parks System Management Finance Control of Conditions affecting the size and residential character of the Village 1. Qualifications of Candidates. 3. Municipal Water and Light Properties. 4. Track Depression. In Support of te Village Caucus Tickets The Caucus Platform Ideals, Purposes and Policies for which the Caucus stands, subscribed to by all Candidates of the Caucus To insure able, efficient and honest administration of the vil- lage affairs by securing candidates not only of unquestioned honesty, but of proved ability-- men whose success and good judgment in their own business affairs and other matters justify placing the village problems in their hands. In carrying out this policy the caucus has avoided office-seekers and let the office seek the man. With few, if any, exceptions the candidates put forward by the caucus have consented to act and given their time at considerable personal sacrifice from a sense of civic duty and in re- sponse to the persuasions of the nominating committee. 2. Discouragement of Unnecessary Parties. To discourage artificial and unnecessary divisions into more than one party where there are no fundamental differences in policy. Permanent party alignments along national or state party lines or otherwise are not needed in the village affairs. They only tend to confuse the local issues, divide and weaken the forces of good government and build up self-interested organ- izations of office-seekers. The caucus has stood, and stands, unequivocally for the municipal ownership and operation and retention of the village water and light prop- erties, and points to these operations with justifiable pride as indicating what may be done with an efficient and non-political administra- tion. The caucus has stood, and stands, and pledges its candidates to work for grade separation and track depression of our railroads. The frequent killing of our citizens and increasing number of high-speed trains make this one of our most important and press- ing problems. Much work has been done on this matter by our present officials and we con- o 2. 6. gratulate them on the progress made. Within the last year both railroads have been com- mitted to track depression in principle, and negotiations are now in progress regarding the terms and conditions of the necessary ordi- nances. Referendums on Franchises. Our candidates are pledged to grant no franchises to railroads or other public utilities without first submitting the matter to a referendum vote of the citizens. Preservation of Residential and Community for exclusion, so far as possible, of apartments and hotels. In particular, it opposes the ex- ploitation of the low lands to the west of the village. Undue and forced expansion into naturally undesirable lands, bringing large in- creases of population of a different character and perhaps new commercial and industrial centers and activities means direct and rapid progress backward toward the confused city life, and will be even more destructive of our present homogeneous community life than apartment development. Such development, Ideal. I.ast but not least (for it is a matter of &. aside from all other considerations, can only vital and growing importance) this caucus stands unequivocally for the preservation of the Residential and Community Ideal for our village. By this we mean the preservation, so far as controllable, of all those desirable fea- tures of our community life which have brought most of our citizens here and have caused some who have surveyed the suburban life of Amer- ica to call it the ideal suburb. The great major- ity of our citizens, perhaps ninety per cent, are commuters with business interests in the city, who have come here to escape the bigness of the city and give their families the benefit of a more open and healthy country life and the more healthy interests which can only exist in comparatively small and homogeneous commu- nities. Bigger and busier is no motto for a res- idential suburb, and all principles of democracy and majority rule demand that the residential ideal prevail over the commercial. It will not prevail, however, unless constantly watched and guarded. This question touches our lives and the problems of our village officials in many ways. The very fact that it is an ideal res- idential community increases the danger of ex- ploitation for profit. This caucus stands for the carefully studied Village Plan, for enforce- ment of the Zoning Law, for discouragement of commercial and industrial developments be- yond the needs of a residential community and esult in expense to our present citizens for un- <.ry drainage assessments and increased The expensive reclamation of is not justified by any lack of avail- uburban lands, and the needs of will be better served by the establishment of*many suburbs of Winnetka's size and type, rather than by exploitation of the attractions of our village to the point where these very attractions e lo {2 ile minded er Halt and Hrrstivess Nba ognized their community of interest with the other residents in the past and we are con- fident will continue to do so in the future and co-operate in maintaining the residential ideals of the great majority, and in return this caucus pledges its candidates to give their needs and interests fair consideration. 7. Endorsement of Village Administration. This caucus endorses the present village administra- tion and congratulates it upon the successful progress towards improvement of the Village Center and erection of a new Village Hall. 8. Endorsement of Park Board Administration. This caucus endoses the present Park Board and approves its program for extension of the Park System along the western boundaries of the village. Come to one of these meetings and learn the truth about all of these questions. Form your own judgment of the facts and take What the Caucus Is This caucus is the successor of similar meetings held each year for the last ten years. The candidates selected in every instance have proved acceptable to the voters and were elected at the polls without opposition. settle all issues and could not so function or serve its purpose. Radical differences in policy should not be finally determined by majority vote at any meeting at- tended by only a portion of the voters, but by the pre- a part in the Village affairs in which you have sentation of alternative tickets for the consideration of all the voters at the polls. The aim of this caucus is to bring together a representative body of citizens fairly harmonious with respect to policies in order that a ticket of fit candidates, standing for those policies, may be pre- sented to the voters. Any other group out of sympathy with these policies will always be at liberty to put its own candidates in the field. [] Sidney Wellbeloved A All citizens in sympathy with the ideals and policies of the caucus are invited to participate and their co-oper- ation is welcomed. To insure attendance of a con- siderable number, special notices have been mailed to those who have attended previous meetings or have indicated some active interest in community affairs. Any citizen notifying the Secretary will be placed on this list for future years. The caucus is not, however, intended as a universal town meeting or open forum to a very vital interest. 4 Citizens' Committee and Mrs. Arthur W. Cushman Mr. and Mrs. Morris L. Greeley Mr. and Mrs. Coran T. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Carter Harrison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dickinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Hibbard Mr. and Mrs. Carl Easterberg Mr. and Mrs. Richard Y. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. William S. Elliott ~~ Mr. and Mrs. Willard F. Hopkins Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Alschuler Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Ascheim Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Beck Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Laird Bell Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Benson Mr. and Mrs. William A. Otis and Mrs. Maurice G. Pryor and Mrs. Marcus D. Richards and Mrs. Gilbert Scribner and Mrs. Walter E. Shoemaker Nominating Committee Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Carlstrand Mr. and Mrs. W. R. English Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Laird Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Smart ; Mr. and Mrs. Melville Chatten Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Farwell Mr. John R. Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Heber H. Smith Mrs. Alfred S. Alschuler William J. Carey Miss Ruth Matz Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Coffin ~~ Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Flesham Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Lovgren Mr. and Mrs. William J. Smith Ralph T. Brackett John R. Cochran Fugene Rummler Mr. and Mrs. Barret Conway Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Freeman Mr. and Mrs. William D. McKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Horace K. Tenney Mrs. Edwin E. Brown Mrs. F. A. dePeyster William Jones Smith Mr. and Mrs. Fredk. W. Copeland Miss Martha Gemmill Mr. and Mrs. Wm. P. MacCracken Judge and Mrs. Chas. M. Thomson Arthur E. Bryson Stanley Farwell Ralph M. Snyder and Mrs. Roswell B. Mason Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Trumbull and Mrs. William B. Moulton Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Winterbotham Mr. and Mrs. Harry Craig Mrs. Frank T. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gordon Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Gottlieb ~~ Mr. George Campbell George E. Frazer Morris K. Levinson Annual Village and Park District Elections Tuesday, April 7 George D. Wolf