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56 WINNETKA TALK March 12, 1927 1926 CAUCUS PLATFORM GUIDE FOR THIS YEAR Outline of Village Policies for Past Year Substantially That for 1927 The platform of the Village Caucus of of year ago (1926) is published here- with at the request of the committee on arrangements for the 1927 Caucus, to be held Monday evening, March 14. This platform, WINNETKA TALK is informed, is substantially the same as that to be presented for consideration next Mon- day. The 1926 platform reads: RESOLVED, That this caucus of citi- zens of Winnetka, assembled for the pur- pose of nominating candidates for the Village offices to be filled at the coming April election, hereby adopts the follow- ing statement and declaration of its principles, purposes and policies, and re- quests the secretary to have the same published for the information of all vot- ers, together with a list of the candidates nominated at this meeting: The rapid growth of Winnetka in recent years has added to our village many new residents who are naturally unfamiliar with local politics. For their informa- tion it seems appropriate to explain how the village officers have been nominated in the past, the history of this caucus, the policies for which it stands, its organiza- tion and procedure. History of Caueus. This caucus is the successor of similar meetings held each year for the last eleven years. The can- didates selected in every instance have proved acceptable to the voters and were elected at the polls. Participation in Caucus. All citizens in sympathy with the ideals and pol- icies of the caucus are invited to par- ticipate and their co-operation is wel- comed. 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 citizens 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 settle all issues and could not so function or serve such purpose. Rad- ical differences in policy should not be wy vr A ---- 5. ------ oY ------ advances. ST, One Policy [J VERYtelephone added to this system during the past ten years has required an average investment higher than for those in- stalled ten years ago. This condition will ' epply to each tele- phone added for many years, if pres- ent price levels hold. The company is pow- erless to control these Remembering a Happy Day OTHING so cheers the heart as to be remembered by relatives and dear friends on some pleasant anniversary. And there is no pleasanter way of extending congratulations and good wishes than by telephone. | ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One System - Distance need be no barrier. Though hundreds or thou- sands of miles may separate friends, Bell long distance lines will bring them face to face. Atelephonecalliseasier, quicker and less formal than aletter. Itcarriesthe intimate, personal touch which might otherwise be lost. Universal Service warms and finally determined by majority vote at any meeting atterided by only a portion of the voters, but by the the presenta- tion of alternative tickets for the con- sideration of all the voters at the polls. The aim of this caucus is to bring to- gether a representative body of citizens fairly harmonious with respect to certain policies in order that a ticket of fit can- didates, standing for those policies, may be presented to the voters. Any other group out of sympathy with these poli- cies will always be at liberty to put its own candidates in the field. Ideals, Purposes and Policies for which the caucus has stood and continues to stand may be summarized as follows: 1. Qualification of Candidates. The caucus aims to insure able, efficient and honest administration of the village 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, excep- tions the candidates put forward by the caucus have consented to act and given their time at considerable personal sac- rifice from a sense of civic duty and in response to the persuasions of the nom- inating committee. 2. Discouragement of Unnecessary Parties. The caucus aims to discour- age artifical and unnecessary divisions into more than one party where there are no fundamental differences in policy. Permanent party alignments along na- tional or state party lines, or otherwise are not needed in village affairs. They only tend to confuse the local issues, divide and weaken the forces of good government and build up self-interested organizations of office-seekers. 3. Municipal Water and Light Prop- erties. The caucus has stood, and stands, unequivocally for the municipal owner- ship and operation and retention of the village water and light properties, and points to these operations with justi- fiable pride as indicating what may be done with an efficient and non-political administration. 4. Track Depression. The caucus has stood, and stands, and pledges its can- didates to work for grade separation and track depression of our railroads. The frequent killing of our citizens and in- creasing number of high-speed trains makes this one of our most important and pressing problems. Much work has been done on this matter by our pres- ent officials and we congratulate them on the progress made. Both railroads have been committed to track depression in principle. 5. Referendums on Franchises. Our candidates are pledged to grant no fran- chises to railroads or other public utili- ties without first submitting the matter to a referendum vote ot the citizens. 6. Preservaion of Residential and Community Ideal. This caucus stands unequivocally for the preservation of the Residential and Community Ideal for our village. By this we mean the pres- ervation, so far as controllable, of all those desirable features of our commu- nity 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 majority of our citizens come here to escape the biggness of the city and give their families the benefit of a more open and healthful country life and the more healthful interests which can only exist in comparatively small and homogen- eous communities. The residential ideal should prevail and necessary commer- cial dewlopment should be in keeping with this ideal. This caucus stands for the carefully studied Village Plan, for enforcement of thé Zoning law, for dis- couragement of commercial and indus- trial developments beyond the needs of a residential community and for exclu- sion, as far as possible, of apartments and hotels. In particular, it opposes any exploitation of the low lands to the west of the village. Undue and forced expan- sion into naturally undesirable lands, bringing large increases of population of a different character and perhaps new commercial and industrial centers and activities means direct and rapid pro- gress backward toward the confused city life, and will be even more destructive of our present homogeneous community life than apartment development. Such development, aside from all other con- siderations, can only result in expense to our present citizens for unnecessary drainage assessments and increased tax burdens. 7. Endorsement of Village Adminis- tration. This caucus endorses the pres- ent village administration. CLASSES. HEAR ADAMS The young men's class will again meet in joint session with the men's class at 9:30 in the Legion room, ad- dressed by Myron E. Adams. beiiaditoughd ili in ve Lk