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- well. Wu NA NE ThKoAsL TAA EK Published weekly by Lloyd Hollister, Inc. March 8, 1912, at the post office at Winnetka, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Illinois. Entered as second class matcer Subscription price $2.00 a year. VOL. IX, NO. 1 WINNETKA, ILLINOI S, JANUARY 14, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS SURVEY SHOWS HOUSE REAL VILLAGE MECCA Community Center Serves Sur- prisingly Large Number of Villagers in a Week's Time by E. W. W, While the usefulness of an institu- tion is not always to be measured by the number of people coming to it, yet it has a bearing on the measure of the whole, and is one indication of its ful- filment and of its place in the com- munity. This is true of Community House. Hour after hour, day time and eve- ning, youth and adults are coming to this center of village life. Perhaps it is only for a small committee meeting, or for a study group, gymnasium work or dancing class; it may be for a lec- ture, a musicale, a group luncheon or dinner, or the movies; for young peo- ple's activities such as Boy Scouts or Camp Fire Girls, or other interests; but, whatever it is that brings them-- the aggregate is a constant stream of people. Few realize just how great is this number. In fact, one needs to be in Community House constantly, six days out of the seven, to gather its full import. Survey of Typical Week To grasp something of its influence in the village, one has only to try to imagine Winnetka without Community House. Figures taken at random in an average week, give some indication of the extent to which the House is used. Attendance the first two days of this week just passed is typical. In conservative figures: on Monday, one hundred and eighty-one used the House during the day time, and two hundred and fifty in the evening, a total of four hundred and thirty-one; on Tuesday, two hundred and sixty- three used the House during the day, and three hundred in the evening, a total of five hundred and sixty-three, making a total for the two days of nine hundred and ninety-four people using the House. Work such as Community House is doing needs not only its regular staff of workers, but volunteer helpers as Winnetka residents have al- ways given service generously here. It is largely because the people of Win- netka have believed in Community House and have put themselves into it in one way or another that it is able to serve the village as fully as it does. Many Volunteers Among the many volunteer groups is one known as the "hostesses." These are women who are pledged to come one evening a month, regularly, and serve as hostess. The evening activi- ties in the House are many--sometimes every room is taken, from attic to cel- lar. Tt is necessary to have a hostess in the building from 7 o'clock until ten--one who, in addition to ability for certain office duties, has judgment and tact, who is capable of handling emergency situations, of greeting strangers, explaining the work, etc, and who is sympathetic with the pur- poses of the work. The group of twenty-five women who are giving the regular volunteer service are doing a most helpful bit in promoting the use- fulness of Community House, and their generous effort counts for much in the work. The following women are serv- ing as hostesses this year under Mrs. Cast in "No. 17" When the North Shore Theater Guild presents the play, "Number 17," in its initial performance at Lake For- est on January 17, listed in the splen- did cast of local talent will be Mary A. Harding. The play, which is to be given in each of the north shore vil- lages sometime during the next two weeks, is a fascinating mystery melo- drama of the "Cat and the Canary" or "The Bat" type. It" is "excellently staged and directed and in view of the well rounded cast that has been select- ed, should warrant the attention of all north shore theater goers. Day School Head Master Addresses Evanstonians Perry Dunlap Smith, head master of North Shore Country Day school, gave a talk at a meeting of the Mothers' club of the Miller school, in Evanston, on January 9. His subject was, "The Locarno Conference on New Educa- tion." CONTRIBUTE TO FUND Contributions to the Indian Hill Ice Rink fund have been received from the following people in addition to those previously mentioned: Ruth Kreger, Charles E. Anderson, Milera M. Witt- bold, Dudley F. French, Donald Gilles- pie, C. H. McNie and George W. Perrigo. Joseph E. Winterbotham, general chairman; Mrs. Glen Bull, Mrs. J. Anthony Humphreys, Mrs. Dudley 1. Smith, Mrs. Howard Shaw, Mrs. Sid- ney W. Anderson, Mrs. Herbert B. Haven, Mrs. Eugene H. Leslie, Mrs. Charles L. Burlingham, Mrs. Hugo Hartmann, Mrs. Harold K. Weld, Mrs. B. T. McGivern, Mrs. James C. Stev- enson, Mrs. J. Franklin Nelson, Mrs. George Campbell, Mrs. S. D. Levings, Mrs. Ruth D. Killips, Mrs. C. C. Mc- Kinney, Mrs. Carl E. Johnson, Mrs. K. H. Hinrichs, Mrs. LI. M. Stoddard, Mrs. Harry A. Craig, Mrs. William H. Rothermel, Jr, Mrs. Wilson A. Reid, Mrs. Davies Lazear, Mrs. Fred F. Par- sons. NEXT WEEK IN WINNETKA January 17--Woman's club, 2:30, Woman's «club meeting. (Art committee in charge of pro- gram) January 17--Community House, 4- 7:15-9, Motion pictures January 18--Community House, 7, Congregational annual church dinner January 20--Community House, 12:15, Rotary club luncheon January 20--Community House, 4-7 :15-9, motion pictures January 20--Morton, 7:30, Basket- ball, New Trier at Morton January 20--Skokie school, 8:15, North Shore Theatre Guild January 20--Masonic temple, 8:15, North Shore Congregation January 21--Skokie school, 8:15, North Shore Theatre Guild. Congregational Church Dinner Next Wednesday The Annual Parish dinner of the Winnetka Congregational church will be held in Matz hall, Community House, Wednesday evening, January 18, at 6:30. The dinner is in charge of the Young Woman's Auxiliary of the Woman's society and will be followed by a program arranged by a committee appointed from the Church council These dinners are looked forward to as a high water mark in the fellowship of the church and those who attend will have opportunity to learn not only of the progress of the last year, but also of the thoughts and ideals of the church about the year ahead. The fact so many will be served makes it necessary to obtain tickets just as early as possible and certainly by Monday. They are on sale by Mrs. Bowman in the church office, Winn. 539. COUNCIL GETS "FLATS" PROBLEM NEXT TUESDAY Zoning Commission Expected to Present Recommendation: 300 Attend Hearing Monday When the Winnetka Village council meets Tuesday evening of next week, it is expected that it will have as one of the foremost matters for its con- sideration, the recommendation of the Winnetka zoning commission relative to the proposed amendment to the or- dinance relating to the building of apartments in the village. The recommendation of the com- mission, it is thought by many, will be that the number of families permissible to the acre in territory zoned "C" Commercial, be reduced. rather than favoring the more drastic amendment proposed, by which only two-story buildings would be permitted, instead of three, and the second story limited to omly fifty percent apartments. At present, 72 families per acre are permissable, a number, it is said, much larger than in most villages in the same class as Winnetka. The commission will make its report and recommendation to the Village council committee on Plats and Zon- ing, of which Mrs. Doris D. Benson is chairman, and the committee, in turn, will report to the Village council Make Careful Study The finding of the commission, what- ever it may be, will come as a result of a comprehensive study of the situa- tion, covering a period of several weeks and after an informal public hearing on the subject a few weeks ago, and a formal public hearing last Monday evening before an audience that packed the Council chambers at the Village hall, the attendance being estimated at over 300. It had been anticipated by the com- mission that subsequent hearings of this nature would be necessary, but the subject was so thoroughly dis- cussed Monday evening, by both pro- ponents and opponents, that the com- mission felt additional data was neither available nor necessary, and announced there would be no further hearings. Offsetting the resolutions from the Hubbard Woods Improvement associa- tion and the Indian Hill Improvement association, favoring the drastic amend- ment, presented and filed with the commission, were equally strong and forceful resolutions and addresses by the opponents. Find Strong Opposition The latter included the Winnetka Chamber of Commerce, the North Shore Real Estate board, and eighty- eicht of the one hundred ten owners of the property affected, the latter rep- resenting that the proposed amend- ment would result in a depreciation of their property to an amount conserv- atively estimated at one and a quarter million dollars, attendant with the con- secuent loss to the village in taxes, which, it is pointed out, would follow. There were also numerous talks on the subject by others who are in no wise interested in property which would be affected by the proposed amendment, but who urgently coun- seled against the proposed drastic change on the grounds that it would be confiscatorv. unjust. and that its enactment would jeopardize the opres- ent zoning ordinance of the villace, which, it was pointed out, is regarded as a model of its kind, throughout the country.