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SV AISA RAN RTL TEA AE WINNETKA TALK April 2, 1927 30 WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK y LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Ill 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone ............- Winnetka 2000 or Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .............. $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub- lication must reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. All parents who are not too old and feeble, or far away will be looked for at our big township high school next Tuesday, April 5, from 3 p. m. to 9 p. m. Parent's ©r later. We don't know D whether those older people ay who have no children in high school now will be welcomed. Probably not. But there are enough par- ents of present New Trier boys and girls to fill the high school. While the high school pupils are having a holiday the parents, under the direction of high school officials, including teachers, will' put themselves in the place of their chil- dren and go the rounds of the regular classes. And when they have covered the eight periods of daily school life they will know their children's joys and sorrows more vividly than they did before. That's immensely worth while. What we need is knowledge of our children. We may love them too much, but can we know them too well? We suggest that our children on some near day put themselves in our places. They too would learn something about us. They 'might work in the kitchen awhile, play bridge, visit the club, hang around the of- fice, play golf, etc. etc. Horseback riding, known among the elite as equestrianism, continues to be one of the favorite forms of outdoor exercise and amusement. We say "con- Horseback tinues," because, according Ridi to ancient monuments, man mg bestrode the horse in the dimmest prehistoric period; and everyone knows that he's followed the practice ever since. When one considers the fact that man is a biped and the horse a fourlegger, it must be admitted that the way the two animals have become accom- modated to another is little short of amaz- ing. The vulgar ride in cars. The already- mentioned elite ride horseback. We say this, even though we ourselves have only once or at the most twice dared to emulate medieval chivalry. But the horse seemed so foreign to our style of life that we there- . after stuck to pedestrianism. We are, how- ever, envious of the horseman who gallops gayly down the road, rising and falling in harmony with the movements of his steed. When we galloped, in our brief equestrian career, we went up and came down at the wrong moments. The mere mention of a five mile eques- trian path in the forest preserve almost persuades us to take one more try at horse- back riding. How we would surprise the vulgar set! Think of it--a chocolate candy bar 165 miles long! That's how much a single ship- ment of a popular chocolate confection would make if placed end to 165 Miles end. 165 miles! Never did y we in our wildest dreams Long! imagine such unending de- light. No fairy tale, telling of houses made of candy, ever dared picture such an eternal stick. Which suggests to us the fact that the old fashioned type of fairy story is rapidly becoming obsolete. The wonders of modern science and industry are beating mythology at its own game. What is there in the child's fairy story to rival the miracles of radio? What king of ancient times ever possessed a pile to rival the gold heaps of Rockefeller and Ford? Let us then write stories that are at once wildly marvelous and true. Let us present facts in attractive garb. Let us make over Santa Claus into some sort of form or per- son that will embody scientific reality and at the same time catch and hold the child's fancy. Next Tuesday, April 5, the annual town meeting and election will be held. The town meeting will open in Winnetka Community House at 2 p. m. The elec- tion will occur at various indicated polling places in' Glencoe, Winnetka, Kenil- worth and Wilmette from 7 to 5. The officers to be elected are one school trustee and one constable to fill urday, April 9, the High School Board elec- tion will also be held on April 5. On Sat- urday, April 9, the High Schol Board elec- tion will take place, and on April 19 the Wilmette and Kenilworth village elections. Wilmette expects every voter to do his and her duty. Township Election The junior police idea is a good one. In fact we know of no other way of acquaint- ing the boys with the problems of citizen- * ship that is anywhere near as Junior practical as the junior police Poli way. The teaching of citizen- olice ship in schools includes more subject matter, but we doubt whether it appeals so directly to the vouthful mind or forms citizenship habits so quickly and surely as the junior police plan. When a boy acts as a junior policeman, usually regulating traffic under the direc- tion of an adult policeman, he comes into first-hand contact with the real work of a traffic cop. When the youthful policeman waves his hand something really happens. Cars stop and people move. He actually does something. He finds out for himself that there are persons who obey signals promptly and other persons who take their own time to act. The boy gets a valuable lesson in social psychology, all the more valuable because he does not get it out of a book but out of life itself. The junior police idea might profitably be extended. The boys need to know the trials and triumphs of the street sweeper, of the village official (who attends regular weekly meetings of some board), of the mother who gets three meals every day for a large family. The boys, and girls too, learn most by actually doing things under the supervision of older persons. $ - SHORE LINES MAY-DAY (A Song) May day is a time most fair There are children everywhere, In procession now they pass, Lightly treading tender grass. a - 2 On your door a basket swings, By the gate a robin sings, Buttercup and shooting star, Summer breeze felt from afar. Trilium and pheasant's eyes Through the moss look glad surprise. May-Day, childhood, happy twain, Welcome to our midst again. --SARAH SILVER EXELL EL LL LLL) "Ems," My Dear Dear Mique: Recently before my WINNETKA TALK arrived one of the girls phoned and said: "It's in SHORE LINES and he wrote 'You're so Puny' over it." For a girl in a printing establishment, I say she doesn't know her ens. Incidentally, you should be pun-ished for that one, Mique. How- ever, now that I'm in this con-game, here goes: In the amateur play at Winnetka last week when the heavy lover cooed to the stoutish heroine-- "Dearest, you're the biggest thing in my life"-- there wasn't a murmur. More later, Mique, but as to "Springing" any poetry--ho hum, ha ha, me too. --HAIL FELLOW, WILMETTE. LLL EL LLL LL LL] SOMEONE HAS SUGGESTED. AS AN AP- PROPRIATE SYMPHONIC ACCOMPANI- MENT TO THE CURRENT WILMETTE POL- ITICAL. DISCORD THIS UNPARDONABLE ATROCITY: "TALES OF HOFFMAN IN A FLAT." LLL LLL LL LLL] Musta Been the Ump Mique-- . He found a nice quiet spot and then spread newspapers so that the sweet young thing would not soil the lovely, lacy, organdie frock. The weather having been previously discussed, a mo- ment's silence ensued, during which the s. y. t. re- moved her dainty picture hat and patted her hair and nose, etc. Presently, standing with handker- chief mopping his high forehead, "How do you like this diamond, dear?" And she--was inter- rupted by a low distant voice which said, "Play Ball-1-1-1." --DIANA, THE HUNTRESS. ododeoeobeodeodokob ob bb ol How Startling The pinkish Chi-American is again first with the worst and, withal, most astounding information that Judge Samuel Harrison of Evanston "last August celebrated his first golden wedding anni- versary." oe ode of oe ob obo of ob ole ole Re-discovering Florida Dear Mique--There are more oranges and orange groves down here than there are people to pick them and eat them. Having a great time picking lemons from grapefruit trees and oranges and grapefruit from lemon trees. --MARGY IN FLORIDA. dodo ok dob ol ob bob ob Adam "Scotty" Scott, erstwhile potential candi- date for president of the Village of Winnetka, has since determined to lend his peculiar talents to the office of marshal and collector, should he be the choice of the electorate in that mid-township ham- let. (The job pays $550 per annum, and, what makes it so grand, they ain't nothin' to do 'cep'n collect on the first and fifteenth). LL LLL LLL LLL] Mique--"l am sending two clippings in case one gets lost in the mail. --JOHN OF PRINCETON. Dear John you're splendid "scoop" material at hand and much obliged. Read well and learn that you were scooped by just one week. LL EEE ELE LLL LY What do we think of the current political situation, here, there and everywhere? Betcha Charley Root pitches the opening game against Alexander. Don't forget your spring poetry! -- MIQUE.