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I pm » i January 21, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 43 102 FOR SALE--MISCELLANEOUS Coal and Coke Phone 653 Winnetka The Northshore Co. 16 Prouty Annex--Winnetka 102TN46-1tc FOR SALE -- BRUNSWICK PHONO- graph, 125 double records complete, $15. 2 pair Nestor Johnson shoe skates, size 4, $2 a pair, 848 Spruce, Winn. 1400. 102T46-1tp FOR SALE--GIRL"S SHOE SKATES, 6B, $5. 3 pairs net and lace curtains, $30, cost $100. Phone Winn, 608. : 102LTN17-1tc FOR SALE--1 GOCART, 1 BABY CAR- riage, 1 high chair in good condition. Kenilworth 506. 102LTN17-1tc BOY'S LEATHER COAT SIZE 10, sheepskin collar, $5. Slightly used. Winnetka 2047. 102T46-1tc FOR SALE--2 FUR COATS, 1 PERSIAN Lamb, 1 Caracul--size 36. Winnetka 1667, or call 669WR. 102TN46-1tp FOR SALE -- JOHNSON HOCKEY skates, size 6, $3. Winn. 783. Q 102 TN17-1tp 103 WANTED TO BUY--MISC. WANTED _CLEAN WHITE RAGS, luc per lb. 1232 Central Ave., Wilmette. 103LTN14-tfp 105 MISCELLANEOUS SYSTEMATIZE DOMESTIC PROBLEMS Let an intelligent graduate in home economics work out a simplified sched- ule for your particular home needs. Reliable supervision of formal and in- formal affairs. Address Winnetka Talk, B-532. 105LTN16-3te WILL SHARE MY FURN. HOUSE with small family until May Ist. Reasonable, Address B-561. Winnetka alk. 105LTN17-1te FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN--A $200 credit on any new model Studebaker for delivery between now and April 1. Call Winn. 105T46-1tp 31 Sears School Pupils Appointed to Honor Society Thirty-one children of the Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth achieved the honor of membership in the Honor society of the school this period by maintaining an average grade of "E" in five studies or by obtaining an average of "E" in six subjects if he had not before been a member of the society, it was announced by Supt. E. L. Nygaard this week. The children who will wear the little gold pin of membership for the coming month are: George Benson, Jack Byrne, Roger Crowe, John Mathieson, Jim McArthur, Bobbie Merriman, Jule Petersen, Donald Vail, Jane Bisbee, Frances Bluthardt, Hester Dillon, Jeanette Post, Jane McIntosh, Kath- ryn Hepburn, Marion Hedrick, Verna Timmins, Agnes Fraser, Phyllis Dub- sky, Beatrice Driver, Mary Crandall, Phyllis Bosley, Janice Barr, Mary Fowler, Ruth Johnson, Donald Kim- ball, Fred Wetterer, Roger Barrett, Grover Hermann, Earl Moss, Billy Trimmins and George Woodland. Is There Snow on the Roof; If So It Is All Right Observe your roof after the next snowstorm. And don't think that you have any cause for self-congratulation if the snow has entirely melted off your roof and stayed on your neigh- bor's roof. It means that your house is sending up heat which merely melts the snow and tries to do what it can towards heating the vast out of doors. Insulation keeps the same heat in. Like underwear which conserves the heat and keeps out the cold, insula- tion performs its protective dutv. All walls should have some insulation at least and the roof should be insulated even more strongly than the walls, Public Forum Editor, WiNNgErkA TALK: When Louis F. Post died the other day in Washington, America lost one of its most interesting citizens, a loss not confined to our own shores but felt also in many other lands where Post, as author, lecturer, and editor of "The Public," a journal of funda- mental democracy, was well known and admired. As founder and editor of "The Pub- lic" from 1898 to 1913 he labored dili- gently and intelligently, and with the literary skill of a De Tocqueville, to impress his countrymen with the dig- nity and responsibility that is becom- ing to American citizens. His success in this endeavor is well epitomized by the verdict of another distinguished American, Mr. Charles R. Crane, when he remarked to the writer, "Lucky is the man who knows Louis F. Post. It is a liberal education to know Post." Every man or woman competent to pass judgment will cor- roborate Mr. Crane. Born in 1849 Post spent his form- ative years in the atmosphere of those stirring times when the rights of man (even black men) seemed more im- portant than the rights of property. They were days that might be fairly classified as our second revival of idealism, when our greatest leaders thought Freedom a prize worth any sacrifice of blood and treasure. It 1s not surprising that an ardent young idealist 'such as Post, baptized and fairly saturated in the philosophy of Garrison and Lincoln, should be ac- tively engaged in every struggle for democracy that has agitated our coun- try--or the world in the last fifty years. Passion for Justice Although a lover of peace and gentle as a woman, few men have had the courage and tenacity to engage in so many battles for freedom as had this New Jersey Republican. went to Washington to act as Assistant Secretary of Labor under Wilson, he had earned the right to rest from his long campaign. But even at Washing- ton in what to an ordinary man would have been a sinecure free from responsi- bility he was not to find the rest he had earned. It was inevitable that a man with Post's early training and respect for American legal principles should refuse to permit his office to be used by any official, high or low, to im- prison or deport men and women not found guilty of crime. Once his duty be- came clear to him neither threats nor popular hysteria. could persuade Post to allow any one to use the office he ad- ministered to issue warrants of imprison- ment and deportation in the manner of Czaristic or Bolshevik Russian police, and in defiance of American legal principles and fair play. From the day of his appointment in his twenties to the district attorney's office in. New York to the time of his retirement from the Secretary of Labor's office, Louis F. Post fought a long cam- paign in defense of American ideals. An interesting feature of Post's as- sociation with Henry George is the proof lent to the suggestion that we tend to grow into the likeness of those we admire most. It was surely so in Post's case. In the last work from his hand, "The Provhet of San Francisco," Post uncon- sciously, but none the less accurately composed his own best epitaph, when he wrote of George, "With the intelligence of a philosopher, the patience of a scien- tist. the conscience of a saint, and the simplicity of a child, he followed the course of truth as he honestly saw its beacon lights." Held Moral Law Supreme The secret of Post's supremely success- ful life--what it was that made the life of this printer, lawyer, author, and econo- mist a blessing to humanity--is indicated by the faith he had in the supremacy of the moral law. In the last chapter in his "Ethics of Democracy" he wrote: "We know now that the material uni- verse, from largest to least, is a universe of law--invariable law. Except in obedi- ence thereto, no man--whether greatest of inventors or humblest of mechanics-- would any longer think of pursuing his vocation. * % * "As certainly as physical law dominates matter does moral law dominate the physical. Though conformity to the laws of matter alone will enable us, for il- lustration, to forge a knife of keenest blade, the uses of the knife--without which jt has no reason for existing and Long before he. would not be made--fall within the juris- diction of moral law. We may use it to carve things that minister to human needs or the human sense of beauty, thus serving our brethren and moulding our own characters more and more in the divine likeness, while conquering the stubbornness of external nature; or we may make it an implement for torture and murder. In the one case we advance in moral righteousness by conformity to the moral law. 'The stars in their cours- es" fight with us. Though the torture be inflicted and the murder done, the un- righteous purpose they were intended to serve will in the outcome inevitably fail. * & kx "Be their cause what it may, whether material or moral, that of an inventor like the unknown discoverer of fire or the forgotten maker of the first wheel- barrow, of a persecuted and disheartened explorer like Columbus, of patriots on the scaffold or of saints upon the rack, of the philosopher with his deadly potion of hemlock or the Nazarene carpenter upon the cross--whatever the cause, it always has conquered and always must conquer, in so far as it is in harmony with the great order of things." Book Expresses Faith Louis F. Post explored the fogs of a pseudo economic and political science with the lamp of a moral philosopher and verified the truth of what his friend Henry George had taught--that much of the anarchy and consequent misery of man is due, not to some inscrutable decree of Providence, but rather to a clear in- vasion, if not defiance of his beneficient laws. In tracing the beauty and har- mony of these laws, he found more than a cure for undeserved poverty--and "a faith that was dead revived." In the closing words of Post's last book, "The Prophet of San Francisco," he expresses the faith in which he lived and died, in a quotation from his friend George. The quotation contains some very searching questions--questions which interest most people some time or other, questions as pertinent today as when they were written some fifty years ago. "Like the swallow daring through thy hall, such, O, King, is the life of man. We come from where we know not; we go--who shall say? Impenetrable dark- ness behind, and gathering shades be- fore. The one thing certain to all of us is death. What, when our time comes, does it matter whether we have fared daintily or not, whether we have worn soft raiment or not, whether we leave a great fortune or nothing at all, whether we shall have reaped honors or been despised, have been counted learned or ignorant, as compared with how we have used that talent which has been en- trusted to us for the Master's service? What shall it matter when eyeballs glaze and ears grow dull, if out of the darkness may stretch a hand. and into the silence may come a voice, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy chin Keep Natural Beauty to Woodwork in Home In choosing finishes for woodwork the ideal of natural beauty should be kept whenever possible. Any wood that is in itself beautiful because of its grain and figure should be so iinished that this beauty is en- hanced. For the less expensive woods and those of a coarse kind, or for woods that are poorly matched, there are many attractive opaque finishes to choose from. Among the woods which are com- monly given a natural finish are mahogany, American and Circassian walnut, cedar, gumwood, redwood, oak, cherry, rosewood, chestnut and satinwood. If the surface will not be subjected to hard wear, a transparent varnish is best for any of these. The best effects are obtained when the varnish coatings are rubbed to a dull artistic finish. Where real durabil- ity is required, as for floors or any surface that will be scuffed and knock- ed, a highly elastic varnish gives the most satisfactory service. In using stains, never attempt to imitate an expensive wood with a cheaper one. Any wood to be stained should be stained its natural color. Finishing coats of varnish may well be used where great durability is re- quired, but a shellac finish will do where the surface is subject to less hard wear. Frank Windes, 873 Spruce street, left Friday, January 13, for Santa Monica, Cal, to visit his sister, Miss Susan Windes, who has been quite ill, but who is now slowly recuperating. CONDUCT FINAL RITES FOR ANDREW MAC LEISH Noted Pioneer Chicago Mer- chant Passes Away at Glencoe Residence at Age of 89 Years Andrew MacLeish, a pioneer Chi- cago merchant and a resident of Glen- coe for thirty years, died at his home, 459 Longwood avenue, last Saturday afternoon. Death was due to cerebral thrombosis, and was hastened by his advanced age, 89 years. Mr. MacLeish had been a Chicago merchant for more than sixty years and was the organizer of Carson, Pirie, Scott and company's retail store. He retired from active busi- ness only a week before his death, although his health had been {failing for some months. Besides his activities as a merchant, Mr. Macleish was well known throughout the country through his activities as vice-president of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago and president of the board of trustees of the Baptist Theological Union of Chicago. He was a trustee of Rush Medical college at the time of his death. His clubs included the Union League, Skokie, Quadrangle, and City. Born in Scotland Mr. MacLeish was born in Glas- gow, Scotland, in 1838, and was edu- cated at the Normal seminary and high school there. He came to Amer- ica in 1856 and in 1863 became con- nected with J. B. Shay and company in Chicago and four years later identi- fied himself with Carson, Pirie, Scott, with which firm he was associated until his death. Besides his widow, Hillard MaclLeish, who is president of the Chicago Woman's club, Mr. MacLeish is survived by six children: Mrs. Lily MacLeish Day, Mrs. Blanche MacLeish Billings, Bruce MacLeish, Norman H. MacLeish, Archibald Mac- Leish, and Isabel M. MacLeish. Rites Held Monday Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the MacLeish home, "Craigie Lea," the Rev. Douglass H. Cornell of the Glencoe Union church and the Rev. James Madison Stifler of the First Baptist church of Evans- ton officiating. The pallbearers in- cluded Archibald MacLeish, John E. MacLeish, J. Franklin O'Brien, Mark- ham B. Orde, George J. Pope, and Gordon A. Ramsay. Private burial was held at Graceland cemetery. In respect to Mr. Macleish, the whole- sale and retail departments of Carson, Pirie, Scott and company, all of its branch offices, and the Chicago Wom- an's club, were closed on Monday. Mrs. Martha Friction Operates Window : Sash Without Weights Many firms now make several varie- ties of sash balances or sash sustain- ers which operate by friction against the casing, instead of the usual sash cord or chain with its necessary weights and pulleys. The devices are usually constructed of noncorrosive material, and the friction is maintained by a spring which presses outward. Shrinkage is accommodated by the same means. Benjamin Bosley Buys $50,000 Home in Glencoe Benjamin Bosley, member of the Thomas E. Sullivan Company, Real- tors, has purchased from the Foreman Trust and Savings Bank, Trustees, the new nine room residence located at the southeast corner of Sheridan road and Hazel avenue in Glencoe. The property fronts 160 feet on Sheridan road and 100 feet on Hazel avenue.