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WINNETKA TALK December 15, 1928 -- a nt a ------- -- -- -- -- WINNETKA TALK +3SUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Ill Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 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, obitu- aries, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. As the population of communities in- creases, it is only natural that they should build larger churches. The old edifices become poorly adapted to Church the needs of progressive Expa : neighborhoods, fail to ac- commodate new people who - have come from other towns and cities, or cannot keep up with the de- velopment in new methods and new equip- ment. There are many outside the church who believe that ideas and activities in the church are as they used to be years ago. They foolishly imagine that the church of today is exactly like the church of twenty years ago. They make a great mistake. The church in progressive communities has kept pace with the forward movement outside of the church. Enterprising busi- ness men have worked out plans for im- provement, plans to stimulate buying, and plans to meet the greater demands. In the church also, men, probably many of these same business men, and women, many of them active in other social organizations, see the needs of the church and looking into the future get a vision of a greater church which they work to materialize. No one thing offers more weighty evi- dence of the realty of the religious life than church expansion. When you are fed up on the movies, the funnies, and the radio, read that section in our north shore papers which is produced by our school children. Don't skim it. Read it thoughtfully. Read it as if you were a child again. It will help you to renew vour youth. Does the following little inci- nt remind you of an experience you had ars ago? "Helen Anne McClure went to acine. When she got there it was nine- hirty. In the morning her Uncle Jim woke her up and said, 'Arise and shine!" Wasn't he funny?" Wasn't he? Many a poor soul like ourselves, even right now wearing an office coat out at both elbows and with both cuffs fringed, would feel much poorer had he not received his pleasant little Christmas Savings check. It is hard for us to imagine a more beauti- ful work of art than one of those same timely checks with its charming border of holly in two colors. Every figure is a Christmas Greeting. We are frankly glad that the voters of our north shore towns cast such a heavy vote for Herbert Hoover. To us his program and his speeches alike were highly constructive. We found in them abundant evidence that he has the happiness and prosperity of the Amer- ican home at heart. We look forward to a period of stability and growth. Monsieur Coue, who came to us from France, and told us much about auto-sug- gestion, and also exhorted us to when de- siring to improve, to say to A Little ourselves, "Day by day, in E D every way, I am getting very Vay petter and better." Mon- sieur Coue has returned to France long since and may even now be where there is no need for improvement. But the idea of a little every day is a grand one. We can think of no better. That's the way evolution is getting ahead. A little every day. It's a good deal better than the idea of a great amount at long and irregular intervals. Read a little good literature every day-- don't miss a day--and you're bound to im- prove in literary taste. Exercise a little every day--just like President Coolidge-- and you're pretty sure to keep fit. The influenza is coming, and it will get you if you don't keep fit. A little food three times a day is all you need. Think a little every day about your experiences, and by the end of 365 days you will have accumulated quite a little wisdom. Little by little every day I am getting better and better. There are two ways of studying civics. One is from a book in school. The other is from life in your own neighborhood. The first way is to take civics as a part of your regular school course; to study every day the lesson assigned; to recite on it the next day. That's all. The second way is to go with a group of companions to the village hall; visit the police station; listen to a little talk by some competent village official. That the second way is the better there can be no doubt. To study with an expert a machine in operation is a better way of understanding it than to read about it. To study government machinery and see how the various parts interact is much better Practical Civics _ than to read about their interacting. We hope some day to hear that a group of school children have attended a session of the village council and listened to legis- lators discussing and settling local prob- lems. As winter advances and the cold grows more persistent and more intense, the poor should be remembered. Lack of warm clothing, lack of fuel, lack Remem of food--all these make it ber harder for the poor to bear the Poor! up under the attacks of winter. They must be helped by their more for- tunate brothers and sisters. Food, fuel, and clothing must be given them. When contagious disease comes near, the poor, less able to resist, will fall victims unless aided. Food, fuel, and clothing will help them to resist. Help the welfare organizations in your own town to do this much-needed work. John, the beloved disciple, spoke of the birth of Christ as if it were the shining of a great light upon a dark place. We like to think of Christmas as the birthday of a helpless infant and also as the anniversary of the sudden shining upon the world of a divine light. SHORE LINES SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE! The valued suggestion that ornamental bridges (of sighs) be installed to help Wilmette's walking population across the perilous stretches of the new Main street speedway, might well be considered in official quarters. Failing to prosecute such an humanitarian improvement, an alternative that suggests itself at the moment contemplates the dig- ging of numerous "shell holes" into which the stranded pedestrian could dive at the approach of the ominous motorist. Collapse of above men- tioned suggestions will no doubt result in the formulation of a new civic enterprise bearing the title I. O. O. H. P., or Loyal Order Of Harrassed Pedestrians. Membership would be graded, with especially designed medals designating the various ranks, as for example: leather medal for first scare, tin bar for each additional scare, bronze trophy for partial or permanent disability and a decent burial and suitable epitaph in the event of total eclipse. Gold medals would be presented, with ceremony, to motorists registering in excess of ten direct hits, Episode 111--Revised American History Chilliwack, British Columbia--Bogan and I ar- rived in Chilliwack at 4:30. Frank Bogan is to the Pacific Coast lumber world what Tito Schipa is to the musical world. Bogan is king of timber cruis- ers. He can cruise up one side of a mountain and down the other and tell how many million feet of lumber the stand of timber would make, and be right. We walked the one block to the hotel and passed five drug stores. "How many drug stores in this town?" I asked. Bogan pulled his eyes down from the timber- clad and snow-tipped distant mountains and sur- veyed the block with keen eye. Figuring quickly on a pad, he said: "In this quarter section, estimating the run to be uniform, there should be 1,250 front feet of drug stores, allowing twenty-five feet to a store, leaves net fifty drug stores." "But," I said, "How can a town of 3,000 support so many?" "You doubt it? yourself," he said. "Five drug stores equal 5X to one block. Ten blocks of business equal 10(5X). Result, fifty drug stores. Proves itself! Now remember this, basin valley is fertile and well settled outside the town, and then thirty acres of what was Sumas lake has been diked and drained by the government. Pumps of capacity of 500,000 gallons a minute in flood time pump the water from ditches into the Sumas river. That flows into the Vedder, and the Vedder into the Fraser. That's how the town gets its name--Chilliwack--Valley of many rivers. Set- tlers in this added land buy at $200 an acre from the government and have twenty years to pay. The settlers all trade at Chilliwack. The valley is reasonably healthy, but the number of prescriptions filled at these drug stores is something terrible." Bogan was no different from other people to look at, but he had a great head on him for figures. --Hoyt King. (Note: Hoyt King, arch nemesis of corrupt official- dom in state and county, and champion vote-booster of the north shore, is still resting from rigorous ef- forts expended in the recent election campaign. Other "Episodes on Revised American History" will follow apace). Work it out by algebra for Make No Mistake! There is absolutely nothing in a name, we hasten to explain, in the event you may have heard that Mrs. A. M. Crook of Mr. Yellowley's anti-likker staff gave a talk before the Wilmette- Winnetka chapter of the W. C. T. U. Anticipation Must be getting nigh unto Yuletide--and Wickie is responsible for the attendant demoralization within the confines of the sanctum sanctorum. Ad- hering literally to the exhortations of various mer- chandising emporiums, she rushed in and out early this week laden with potential gifts designed for delivery to a host of deah friends. Result: Every member of the sanctum has submitted an appeal for at least one pre-Xmas holiday spell during which to engage in orgies of gift-buying. Net result: we confidently expect many, many nice things for the high throne of the sanctum. (Note by Wickie herself: Heh, heh!) See next week's Shore Lines! --Mique.