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Formerly The Lake Shore News ess. PULAR rtain eastern ·s -tolling the cult, because of revues are shows girls shears have no sign of h in the terrice company, 1ctors of the department. e to be had air. And the tontinues un- A Clean NewapatHr lor a Cl.an Community \"OL. XIV, NO. 2 r DON'T FORGET STAY-AT-HOME MUSIC PATRONS KEENLY ALBERT WIGGAM DR. HUBERT CARLETON AWAIT HOMER RECITAL VOTER SCOREDj AT SUNDAY CLUB R<v~U~,~~~~. ~~~ REGISTRATION! I - WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1924 = --TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE FIVE CE'""T~ Rev. George P. Magill ~ Deplorable Election Statistics to Local Club DELINQUENTS On Wednesday e\·ening, October 15, · one of the foremost opera and concert singers in the world, Madame Louise Homer, will give a recital in Cites the New Trier auditorium. This will Famous Journalist-Lecturer to Address Second Meeting October 12 . IS BRILLIANT ORATOR ~MS of the Public ~iving instrucThey are aseach week in At the conourse followed ross examina[JC fourth first Ized. GAINI~G .' ... St. Augustine's Episcopal church, was elected president of the Wilmette Church Union at the annual meeting Tueaday, October 14, Ia Final of that organization this week. Date for Registration for Dr. Carleton has been identified with Wilmette church work during November Ballot the past four or five years and has taken a keen interest in the activities of the Church union, which combines in its membership the se,·en Protest- PROTECTS YOUR 'VOTE ant churches subscribing to the combined Church advertisement found each week in the columns of \Vn:,M£T1'1t LIFE. Non- Voting Citizens Could Decide Election Ranks with Foremost American Newspaper Men \\"hile a considerable number of Albert Edward Wiggam will be the Less than 50 percent of the qualivoters heeded the advice to register speaker at the Wilmette Sunday Evened voters in the United States went la~t Saturday for the approaching ning club, Sunday, October 12. His to the polls in the 1920 presidential presidential election, there are many address will be one of the features election. Rev. George P. Magill told who have not as yet given their names of the entire year's program. his fellow memberc; in the Wilmette to the election officials in the various Mr. Wiggam is one of the foremost Optimist club in a talk before the north !.hore precincts, it was stated students of social biology in America. cluh, Tuesday of this week, in which thi week by local precinct officers. He is a New York newspaper man he stressed the importance of utilizTho se who failed-for whatever the and magazine writer on the staff of ing the privilege of suffrage. reason-to register on Saturday will the Century, the Pictorial Review and ha\·e the opportunity to perfor~ this Following through, largely, statistics other magazines, as wc11 as a staff function on Tuesday, October 14, made public recently by. Simon Michwriter on the George ·M atthew Adams which is designated as second regiclet in the interest of the National Newspaper syndicate. For five years stration and revision day. At that Get-Out-The-Vote club, with general he was extension lecturer of the Unitime the polling places wilt be open offices in Washington, Mr. Magill exversity of ·wisconsin. and is regarded Mme. Louise Homer throughout the day and election ofplained the the percentage of voters as one of the finest orators on the ficials prepared to enroll the names o.fi going to the polls on election day was he an occasion of outstanding signifi- American platform. His subject this the registrants on the poll hooksrna teria 11~· on the decrease and at a cance to north shore mus.c patrons, Sunday night will be, "Heredity and October \4. will he the final day oE pan· that wa ~ actually alarming. inasmuch as n Lver bdo:·e has so im- Human Progress," and will be ilregistration. The ccno,:1". of 1920, he pointed out, port;..nt a recital been given in this lustrated with dramatic charts and Many citizens who have been un;.;a·. r: the ( mted States a population vicinity outside of Chicago. Mme. diagrams. accustomed to the business of re~i of persons 21 years of age and over of Homer is known by almost everyone "Truly Gr eat" Lecturer stration are questioning the necesstty 60.886.520. The total of the presiden- as a contralto of preeminent vocal Glenn Frank, editor of the Century School Cenaua Shows Male of periorming this task. They argue tial vote in that year was 26.713.832. and interpretative ability. Magazine, says that he regards Wigthat. inasmuch as they were never beResidents Reduced or less than 50 percent of the total This rec:ta', first of the MacDowell gam as one of the truly great lecturers fore requested to register in the nortt. voting pQ_i)ulation. of the day. He further says that his club series, .s certain to be well atshore precincts, there is little reasono Z!ijJIS,OU Fail to Vote "New Decalogue of Science" is a sort tended becau,c it will be an evening of for doing so at this time. They haveObviously, there was an increase in rare enjoym ~ nt. Mme. Homer is not of Magna Charta of the new socia 1 Wilmette has 9,326 persons living in voted in their precinct for many yearsf the total number of voting persons only a gre<Jt artist but also very popu- statesmanship. Those who miss next the school district, according to the one is informed, and arc "therefore wet over the presidential elections of 1916 lar. Her a udiences always fee\ that Sunday night's address will be miss- school census taken during the past known to the electiott officials. and 1912, yet, for every 100 votes cast she is getting real joy out of her sing- ing one of the real treats of the summer. Thi shows an increase of S weit aer Gh,ea R ea-na for President in 1920 there ware 96 ing and th;.t feeling adds always to year, it is explained. The answer of County Clerk Robert 83 persons over the census reports of stay-at-homes or absentees-the total one's own appreciation. At her very The music this Sunday evening will 1923 when there were 9,243. These M . Sweitzer to this argument is brief ·tay-at-home vote reaching the vast first appearance a bond is establishe!l he furnished by Miss Gladys Swarth- census reports do not include the peo- an<l to the point. ill'.i ;~.. .a·g~;re$~lte of 25,705,063.1 T h is fig:ure is between her and her hearers and for out. youngest member of the Chicago ple living west of Ridge avenue nor "\\'hile it is a well known fact that · at .after deducting 8,467,625 the remainder of the e\'ening one feels Civic Opera company, who will ap- those dwelling cast of the canal in voters in Cook county outside the dtsqu~lified. citizens of 21 years and that she is singing to friends. pear in leading roles with the opera the southeast section of the village. jurisdiction of the election commisover tncludang about 6,200,000 alien or company this season. The Sunday "Many names that should be on the ~ioners of Chicago are not compelled unnaturalized foreign borns and over Evening club started off Ia t Sunday list are not there," remarked Superin- to register in person, the judges at 2,000,000 illiterate citizens, white and night with one of the largest cp· ning tendent of Schools J. R. Harper. A the various election precincts sitting colored, disenfranchised under the night attendances in its history. large number of residents in the school as a hoard of registry and entering election laws of 12 southern states. district were on their vacations iJl other the name s of all known eligible voters The stay-at-home vote, Mr. MagiiJ parts of the country and thus the from the previous poll books and regiLeague of Women Voters declared, was not characteristic of real growth of the population is not , it is equally well established that any particular section, but was more Launches Member Drive accurately indicated by these figures . ster manv of these officials have not been or less common to every section, North A drive to swell the membership of able . to maintain a careful check in Comparing the figures of this year or South. East or West. the \Vilmette branch of the League with those o£ last year, there was an their precincts because of frequent The astounding decrease in the perof Women Voters has been launched centage of those who make use of George Dasch Players Given by that recently established organiz- increase in the number of women and chan~es of re idence and the steady girls, ' nd in the boys, but the man influx of new resident;;. their J?rivilege and responsibility as Warm Welcome ation in the community. P recautionary M eaaure population suffered a small loss. The voters IS made apparent in the followWorkers in the campaign will make \924 figures show 4,426 male and 4.900 ··con. equently, to make sure that his: ing- comparative figures qudted bv a determined effort to secure the active female inhabitants in the school dis- name is registered correctly, a voter Mr. Ma~rill: · interest of every woman voter in the <ihould proceed to his polling place o~ Figures S how Decr e a se It's open! The musical ~cason on \'illage. To this end copies of a de trict as compared with 4,436 male and Regi tr. tion Day and have his name In 1896, the number of those who the north shore was opened last ~{on luxe edition of the Bulletin, official 4,807 female residents in 1923. plac<>d on the rc g i~tcr books. One The male population, tutdcr 21 years, voting memher . ted Wa$ 80 percent of the total vot- day evening, October 6, at the . ew state organ of the league, will he disof a family is qualified m g population: in 1900. 73 percent; Trier auditori::m. It was done by the tributed among prospective members as shown by the 1924 census, is 1,852 to register for all tllc voter:. in his as compared with 1,793 in 1923. The 190R, 66 percent; 1912. 62 percent; 1920, Symphony Pkyers of Chicago. George in every section of \Vilmette. familv." le " than 50 percent. Dasch at the , irector\ stand. and 45 An excellent program has been ar- female population under .21 years is The presidential election this year tatistics further show that native players befor e him. It was quite fit- ranged for the current year, members 1,774 in 1924 and 1,758 in 1923. promi-,es to be one of the most closely born citizens are the worst offenders ting that the initial step of the new of the league explain. Those who join Forty-four of the total increase of contested ballots in the history of the in ·. the matter of v<!~e delinque_ ncy. mu:.ic year should haYe been taken during this campaign will make their 83 were children under six years of country, County Clerk .. weitzer pre. The fact. tands, ~r. Ma~r_1ll con,- hv so important an event as a sym- membership valid through the year age. The 1924 census shows 438 male dict s. and it is strictly to the interest of and 462 female children compared to the individual voter that his identity tln~INI. ~uotmg from Smwn M·chelet s phonv concert. 1925, it is pointed out. 425 male and 431 female children in as a qualified elector be definitely art·cle. "that the enormous stay-at· · fi 1 h 11 home vote of today is sufficient to The evcn1n:-; was 1ne. t 1e a was 1923. estahli~hed. His status is absolutely chang-e the result of the presidential fille~ . to the ,·er:¥ doors, ~nd ~he B ETTER HOM E E D ITION The school enrollment. which is a-;sured if he takes the time to register. election in a vast majority of the mustc1ans were 111 spl_end1d tnm. Next w eek'· iu ue of Wilmette slightly more than that of last year, Failure to register, particularly in state-;. The stay-at-home arm of Herbert _B. ~fulford: pres1dent of the just passing the 1,500 mark, practically the instance of the newer re idents, L ife w ill contain an a ttr a ct ive (Continued on page 8) y Ne~ !'ner Townsh1p ?rc.hcstra:l . ~sverifies the small increase in the child will mean serious loss of time at the soc1at10n, put the evenmg s actiVIties and inatruct ive aection dnoted polling places on election day since, population. into motion by an apt speech. which to the Better Home movement. The complete population of Wilmette under those circumstances, it will be informed the audience and intr<?duced Do not fait to aee thia unuaual the orchestra. He called espectal at, unquestionably exceeds the 11.000 necessarv for the voter to make out feature ! mark, including the inhabitants in the an 'affidavit of non-registered voter' teu~ion to the ~ftcrnoon concerts, territory annexed that was formerly and to ecure a supporting affidavit wluch are to be~m on November 3. known as Gross Point, and including from a householder. He made the point that these after"A void inconvenience and the possithe people living in that part of Wil. Thursday, October 16. is approach- noon concert are of vital importance ble loss of your vote," Mr. Sweitzer mette east of the canal. mg none too rapidly for several hun- in the children's education and thereconclude , "by presenting,yourself for dred Wilmette children who like just fore should have the support of all registration at your po-lling plac.e on parents. awfully well to see the movies. Hearing on Main Street Tue day, October 14 (second registraThe first number played by the The kiddies know-if their elders tion and revision day) and make cerZoning to Be October 22 tain do not-that next Thursday will take orchestra was Henry Hadley's overthat you are entered on the regi~ them to St. Augustine's Parish House ture, "In Bohemia." a melodious. A large number of interested citi- ster as required hy law ." after school hours for the first of this vivacious composition much enioyed zens plan to attend the puhlic hearseason's showings of the Children's hy the audience. This was followed ing to be held before the Wilmette State Bank Arranees to Fr~e. Movies.. The season begins au- by the feature of the evening. Tschai-qoard of Appeals on Zoning, WedPathetique." spiCIOusly wtth the presentation of kowsky's "Symphonic Display Football Scorw lesday, October 22, at the Village hall tha~ wonder picture of a notable This is the first time that a ymphony on the proposed rezoning of a speciYou"!! he getting your football scores e~utne performer known as "The in its entiretv has heen given on the fied district on Main street, from "8" ri~ht hac in the village beginning thi~J Kmg of Wit~ Horses." Showings will north shore bevond Evanston. It was commercial to "A" residential. Saturday. The Wilmette State Bank be. at .3 and. A :30 o'clock and every plaved in a ma-sterly manner, the ideas The hearing will be held at the re- has arranged to display the Big Ten chsld m Wtlmette is invited to be and feelings of the composer being quest of a large number of petitioners Confennce and other football rether~ for the. grand opening. Lloyd effectively prcsen ted. It evoked vigliving in the district. Proceedings sult on an electric sign that will be in ~olhster, P~bhsher of WILMtT'I'~ LxF~ orous and long-continued applause. wer~ started last No~~n;',ber after ~he evidence in the window front of the Following the svmphony, came three IS the contnbutor of this film. terntorv was zoned Il commerc1al, bank. FOR SALE - H 0 !\f E A IT E ; Features of the Children's Movies pieces from Grieg's "Sigurd Jorsalfar." f\Ox300 ft.; Rf'Wer. water, elechut deiays prevented the petition~ 1 f you want to get the scores when f~r the near future include "Dinty." This concert suite included "P1 elude" tric sf'rvlce Five blocks to from being presented until August of they'r till warm, walk over to the With \Vesley Barry. "Nanook of the (ln the Kin~'s Hall), "Intermezzo" stntlon. Pricf' $700. Terms. this year. village any ~aturday afternoon and get North;" ;:q:anrlma's 'Boy," with Harold fBorgnil<l's Dream), and "March of WYATT &. COONS your eli cho·ce tanding room on the Lloyd; Nmeteen and Phyllis with Homage." In response to the audTel. Northbrook 104 broad sidewalk in front of the bank. START PIANO INST R UCTION S Ch~rles · Ray; "Mud;" "The' Jack- ience's demand Director Dasch preThe Meis ner ea y system of piano Po itively no charge to watch the core kntfe M~n ;" "Daddy," with Jackie sented a minuet hv Bolzoni, a charmThe program closed instruction is to be started at the board, we're in formed. ~~,...._..C,roro,gan; . The Call of the Wild," and ing tittle bit. FIND with Johann Strauss' "Morgenblatter home of Mrs. \Villiam Sa11derson, 914 MaJesty." BUILDS SZ7.... H O M E . Central avenue, next w ek. The e T~ese pictures are contributed by Waltzes." in a Y..'. ] . \\'illiams ha been ranted It was announced that a few tickets in tructions, for children in the ~ublyc sp_irited individuals and organpublic school , are given at a moder- buildin~ permit by th(" Villa e of tzatiO.ns tn the vi1lage. The programs were · still available for the remaining CLASSIFIED AD. ate co t and have the endor~ ment of Ken·h\orth to build a dwdlin at. 211 are gtven under the personal direction concerts, the next of which is to be Monday e,·ening, ~othe school authorit ie , it i explained. E ex road for $27,(XX). of Hubert Carleton and a corps of given on asststants. vember 3. Dr. Carleton succeeds Rev. Francis Carr Stifter, pastor of the Wilmette Baptist church, as directing head o i the Church union. One of the outstanding features of the union's service to the communitv is the annual Daih· Vacation Bible school conducted for children several weeks each summer at the Byron Stolp and Central schools. The union has also been instrumental in unifying the efforts of the various }OUR~( people's organizations in the churches of the village. It has also sponsored educational work among teachers in the various church schools. Inconvenience and Delay Are Avoided OUR 'MAN-POWER' ISFAWNGOFF FIRST SYMPHONY WINS·· AUDIENCE I CHJLDREN'S MOVIES TO RESUME HER£ THURSDAY NORTHBROOK BARGAIN In e xp en s iv e and desirable. A chance to own your hom e. YOUR HOME pr.