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INNEDTEKA ~LALK Published weekly by Lloyd Hollister, Inc., 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Illinois. Entered as second class matcer March 8, 1912, at the post office at Winnetka, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price $2.00 a year. i VOL. XVI, NO. 36 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 12, 1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS ACHIEVE MEMORIAL IN TRUE WINNETKA SPIRIT Designed by Winnetka Artist While 3,800 Villagers Con- tribute $40,000 Cost Winnetka now has a fitting memor- ial to its ten sons who paid the su- preme sacrifice in the World war. In brief, it consists of a monumental flag staff which rises above a platform on which stands a cenotaph bearing the commemorative tablets to the ten men whose memory is to be perpetuated. It is situated at the crest of a slight rise of land on*the west side of the Village Green which is annually the site of patriotic ceremonies and com- munity festivals. Some years ago a representative body of citizens of Win- netka decided that some such adorn- ment at this location in place of the existing flag staff would meet the needs of a village memorial, and to this end they instituted a competition among designers and architects. The jury for this competition consisted of E. H. Bennett and John Root, eminent architects of Chicago, and a lay repre- sentative and artist, Mrs. Franklin Rudolph of Winnetka. The original entrants in this compe- tition numbered ten or fifteen, most of them architects, all from Winnetka. The winner finally chosen was Samuel S. Otis, a young architect trained in the architectural school of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ; The task of raising $40,000 necessary to complete the project was placed in the hands of a large committee, with the real task of the undertaking resting primarily in a smaller body known as the Winnetka Memorial Trustees. 3,800 Contributions These gentlemen not only completed the remarkable task of raising the forty odd thousand dollars from a vil- lage of 10,000 inhabitants, but achieved the enviable record of obtaining con- tributions from 3800 citizens, men, women and children, thus making the enterprise a truly community affair. In this campaign school children, all sects of churches, and varied village organizations played an important part, each working with remarkable singularity of purpose toward a single goal. The money thus raised enabled the monument to be built of the best ma- terials obtainable. The platform, steps, the benches and cenotaph proper are all cut from specially selected Tennes- see marble, coming from Knoxville, Tennessee. There were five carloads of this material used, each stone being specially selected, designed and cut. At either end, north and south, of the cenotaph at the west of the flag staff are two bronze eagles, symbolic guard- jans. Atop the flag staff another eagle is mounted with wings in air, and surmounting a crest motif, hav- ing a total height of over nine feet. The entire cresting is covered with fifty square feet of beaten gold. The staff itself is cut from the huge trunk of an Oregon fir and contains no heart wood ; this splendid timber is over 200 years old. It is interesting to note that this tree had been in existence almost 100 vears when the Lewis and Clark Exoedition in 1804 marked the (Continued on page 53) Treasurer Mrs. Hymen L. Raclin, treasurer of the Winnetka League of Women Vot- ers, devotes many hours every day to the heavy responsibility assigned her. With the league's highly successful membership campaign now drawing to a close, Mrs. Raclin has the task of sending out more than a thousand membership cards. And that repre- sents just one phase of her numerous duties as treasurer. N. S. Educators to Speak at Meeting Here Wednesday A joint meeting of the P. T. A's of the Winnetka schools and the North Shore Country Day school will be held at Skokie school Wednesday evening, November 16, in observance of Nation- al Educational week. While National Education week was officially recog- nized during the week of November 7, due to Village activities it was neces- sary to postpone the meeting until the following week. The meeting will be featured by sev- eral addresses which are as follows: "Progressive Education in the Junior High school of Winnetka" by S. R. Logan, principal of Skokie school; "The Progressive Educational Seciety of America" by Frederick E. Clerk, superintendent of New Trier High school; "The new Educational Fellow- ship of Europe" by Perry Dunlap Smith, superintendent of the Country Day school; and "Progressive Educa- tion in Soviet Russia" by Carleton Washburne, superintendent of Win- netka schools. Mr. Washburne's talk will be illustrated by slides obtained while on his trip to Russia this sum- mer. Hale Attends Monument Unveiling at Arlington Henry R. Hale of the Winnetka State bank left for Washington, D. C., Thursday to be present on Armistice Dav at the unveiling of a monument erected in Arlington National ceme- tery, by the Canadian government, as a memorial to the American soldiers who fought with the Canadian forces Women Voters Open | State Convention at Peoria Tuesday The state convention of the League of Women Voters will be h#d at Peoria, Ill, next Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday. A number of mem- bers of the Winnetka chapter are planning to attend the three day ses- sion, for which it is declared, a pro- gram of unusual interest has been planned. Convention headquarters will be at the Pere Marquette hotel and Social League presidents and State Board members wil assemble at this place for the general council meetings on Monday. Mrs. John N. Vander Vries, president of the Winnetka League, will preside over the meeting at which the subject "Publicity Problems and the League's Relation to the Public" will be discussed. On Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Maurice H. Lieber of Winnetka will present the report of the State Edu- cation committee to the convention. Mrs. Mary Tenny Healy, national chairman of Education and a former resident of Winnetka, will also speak for the committee. Mrs. William G. Hibbard of Win- netka, director of the fourth region, will be one of the speakers at the International Co-operation luncheon on Thursday. This will be the closing meeting of the convention. Members of the local League who will attend the convention next week are Mrs. William G. Hibbard, Mrs Maurice H. Lieton, Mrs. John N. Vander Vries, Mrs. Ralph S. Childs, Mrs. A. Montague Ferry, Mrs. W. L. Ninabuck and Mrs. Goss T. Wil- liams. Mrs. Williams has recently been made Secretary of the State commit- tee on Social Hygiene of the Illinois League. Local Red Cross Workers Launch Annual Roll Call Winnetka's volunteer Red Cross workers formally opened the annual Roll Call drive in the village on Armistice day and plan an intensive campaign that will continue through Thanksgiving day. The need this year is especially urgent, Red Cross officials explain, be- cause of the destitution left in the wake of the great Mississippi and New England floods. The Winnetka Red Cross committee held its first meeting Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Willoughby Wallino. 1094 Private road. The committee is made up of the district chairmen whose names follow: Mrs. Harold Wilder, Mrs. W. J. Smith, Mrs. Bar- rett Conway, Mrs. John McEwen, Mrs. Alfred V. Horsman, Mrs. Richard Walsh, Mrs. Ralph M. Snyder, Mrs. E. Durand Allen, Mrs. Horace Street Mrs. Frank Crawford, Mrs. A. F Wecklenberger, Mrs. James K. Prindi- ville, and Miss Elizabeth Gemmell. SCHOOLS TO CLOSE All Winnetka schools will be closed on Thursday and Fridav, November 24 and 25, for the Thanksgiving holi- days, it was announced at the school | in the World war. - offices this week. ~~ . PREPARE BIG MASS ATTACK ON MOSQUITO Meeting Called at Skokie Coun- try Club to Raise Funds for Special Election Dec. 6 A meeting of the North Shore Mos- quito Abatement association has been called by Chairman William Edwards for Wednesday evening, November 16, for the purpose of raising its funds to defray the cost of the special election to be held Tuesday, December 6. The meeting, preceded by a dinner at 6:30 o'clock, will be held at the Skokie Country club. Dr. Franklin Martin, president of the Gorgas Mem- orial association, will be the principal speaker, but there will also be numer- ous other talks by such well known men as State Senator Arthur A. Huebsch of Brookfield; Senator Thur- low G. Essington of Chicago; County Commissioner Oscar W: Schmidt of Wilmette; the mayors and presidents of the cities and villages in the four townships comprising the North Shore Abatement district and many others. The meeting will also be attended by presidents of the various Chambers of Commerce throughout the area and the presidents of the many golf clubs in the district. : The formation of the district was approved by County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki, Thursday morning, at which time he also set the date of the spe- cial election as Tuesday, December 6. Recent elections in the DesPlaines district carried 18 to 1, and in the Lake Forest district, much smaller in area than the DesPlaines district, the measure was appsoved 3 to 1. In order to carry forward the work of forever driving the little mosquito pest from this entire section of Illinois, it is important that the various dis- tricts approve the united action now forming to oust the general enemy, it is pointed out. The Gorgas plan of extermination is to be used, it is said. This warfare against the mosquito, which, it is felt by those who have been most active in its direction, 1s now within sight of victory, was launched three years ago, in Glencoe. Citizens there that year contributed $7,500 for a local mosquito eradication campaign which was waged vigorously and which has since been carried on locally, and spasmodically, but without result. The co-operation of large and well organized districts has been dem- onstrated as the only sure.method. Accordingly, Senator Htuebsc h piloted through the Tllinois legislature the necessary bill authorizing the or- ganization of mosquito abatement dis- tricts. : Senator Essington, with the assis- tance of scores of men throughout the various districts now organized, has heen directing the legal affairs pertain- ing to the organization, with the re- sult that all concerned feel that the mosquito, hereabouts, is doomed to certain extinction. CONGREGATIONAL SERVICES "Science and Religion" will consti- tute the sermon topic at the morning service at 11 o'clock, at the Winnetka Congregational church, by Rev. James Austin Richards. In the evening, at 8 o'clock, Rev. Thomas A. Goodwin will preach on "What Price Peace."