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September 21, 1928 WI~ME TTE : LIPS : "SUNDAY CLOSING" ON - .. . TRIAL WITH REALTORS North Shore Board Members Vote to Lock Offices on Sab· . bath for Three-Month Peri~ By an almost unanimous vote, the stamp of approval was put on Sunday closing by the members of the North Shore Real Estat~ board after vigorous discussion at the monthly meeting of the qrganization held last Monday evening at the Glengables tea room in Glencoe. . :from some sixt)5 members and ·associate members there came but one dissenting vote. While the voting indicates that Sunday closing is popularly favored by the great majority of members it does not mean that the rule which will close every real estate office of every member of the board beginning the first Sunday in October i-; to be enforced permanently. What it does mean is that "Sundav closinq" is on trial. If it is found -successful after a three months' trial it will be continued. That a closed office on Sundav · would be ex.verimental was determined only after all angles involved were disct.tssed at length. Failure to take an y definite action on the Sunday closing question at the August meeting a questionnaire was sent to each member for the purpose of learning just where they stood 6n the proposition. The answers were read at the meeting last Monday and the three questions asked in the <!ttestionnaire brought varied and interestin({ opinions. Answer Three Questions The questioils ~ ·asked were ': Shall the_ offices of the members of the North. Shore Real Estate Board be closed on Sunday? Shall the members of the board close on . Sunday, but advertise and show houses on Sunday? Shall the members of the Board make appointment~ on Sunday? The answers showed forty-seven offices in favor of closing, but the other two questions brought a conflict of opinions. Some members favored showing houses and after a considerable debate on the matter of making qppointments on Sunday it was decided to ignore the question of appointments and call a vote on the first two propositions, the rule, if passed, to be effective for a period extending from the first Sunday in OctQber to January 20, when the monthly meeting is held. As has been mentioned this was passed almost unanimously and the first Sunday next month will find all membership offices locked. Also no houses will be shown. Display Lively Interest The importance of this issue brought out the biggest attendance in the history of the North Shore Real Estate board. Seventy-five percent of the membership was present. A · few of the members who were absent, it was reported, had failed to answer the questionnaire, and of course their views on t-he subject must be labeled "doubtful," but judged by the overwhelming vote in favor of Sundav closing and the fine spirit shown at the meeting the absentees will step in the harmony movement which has made the North Shore Board one of the larg·est and most important in the state. uwe wanted to do the right thing and with a month of deliberation the members had the opportunity to decide this Sunday closing issue to the satisfaction of all," said President Lewis T. Dodds who presided. "The majority, a great majority answered the question . If we find that the rule is not -workable after a three months trial, it may be rescinded. If it is successful it witt become permanent." The offices to be effected by the new ruling are locat~d in numerous north shore . suburbs- principally itt a · Whitfield Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W . Cook, of 531 Eighth street, Wilmette, has attracted the attention of critics by a three-act play of his own composition, "The Harpies," which was feently enacted in · Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Cook, who has not taken any regular playwriting courses, wrote the play during his summer vacation. . It was presented at the Vagabond playhouse in Nashville, a laboratory theater under the direction of Hale Shaneherger, from the famous 47 Workshop of Yale university. . The Banner, Nashville newspaper, said of Mr. Cook's play: "Some of the ingredients which best please the palates of the metropolitan theatergoer of today have been included, and ultimate Broadway production was predicted by more than one of its audiences who know something of play selection an~ prod~ction along the Great White Way." Mr. Cook, who is a New Trier High school graduate, will return to Yale university this fall as a sophomore to study under the famous George Pierce Baker. He will begin his regular playwriting work this year. Whitfield Cook's · · TO STUDY" EDUCA.TION "The H4rpies, Is Supt. Frederick E. C~k,,of .N ew Trier Sch~ wm IDftati..te School Lauded b:v Critics Hiah Methods in Europe Supt. Frederi~k E. Clerk, of New Trier Township High school, will leave with his f~mily early next month for Europe, where he will spend six months stu4ying ·se.c~ndary education. Su9~rintendent Clerk will go as a representative of the New Trier Board of Education, which authorized the European trip at its regular September meeting at the high school Tuesday night of this week. His special · fields of study will be physical education and preparation jor university and college training. It is g~nerally known that students in European countries go to cotl~ge earlier in life than American students, and Superintendent Perk wilt. inv~stigate the reasons for this. His trio will take him to England, France. Germanv, and Belgium, and possibly to the Scandinavian countries and Russia if time permits. Incidentally, Superintendent Clerk will investigate also the functiom and management of Ministries of F.ducation in Eur9 pean countries for the Federal Bureau of Education of the l.Tnited States. This bureau, together with the National Educational association, ~s working for the E";:t~blishment of a Department of Education as one of the regular departments of the United States cabinet. 'Vhile in Europe Superintendent rtf'rk olan3 to have his two children, Frlith Grace and Frederkk, Jr., attend the international school at Geneva, Switzerland. The school is primarily for children of repres~ntatives to the League of Nations. Mi~s Rt!th Johnson. of Kenilworth, will accomoany the Clerk family to EurC'pe and will attend hoot ith Edith. Grace. 5 c · .w S . Cl k' b Dunn~ up~nntendent er s a !'f'nc.e Mts~ Ehzab~th E .. P~cker. dean of ~gtrls. :w·tt be actmg pnnctpal at New Tner High school. · REAL" BrAT£ BOARD: . ., · SEEKS STATE.AIARD North -$hore o;:p-nization P to Take Firat Honora in Joliet Coavention Parade Mem·b ers of the North Shore Real Estate board are going to put on a "big front" at the annual convention of the Illinois · association of Real Estate Boards which is to be held at Joliet, October 4, 5 and 6, and if the north shore boys don't come home with the attendance cup it will be a big sur.p rise. That was the sentiment which found expression at the meeting of the board held at the Glengables. tea room in Glencoe last Monday night: Robert Wyatt, a realtor, whose middle name is "Pep," stepped on the gas and told the members tliat this convention was their "big shot." · "We've got one of the biggest boards in the state and we did our stuff at the last convention at East St. Louis:' he said. "Bu.t we fell . a trifle sh~rt at East St. Louts a::d we're not gomg to ·d<-? that at. Joliet. It's only a short tnp ~o J ohet and every member a~d ass<;>ctate member sh<-?uld m~ke ·Jt, regt~ter and step out m the btg parade. It seell!S the North Shore board has a whole!rome respect for the Aurora board, for . the slogan of the N. S. boys is going to be: "Beat Aurora." And to beat Aurora and a number o.f other boar.ds means s~me preparatton .. There IS no question as to ep.thusiasm, for when the !Datter. .of expe~ses was brought. up tt met mstant response. A suggestion was made that_ an .assessment of three dollars be levied to purchase black an~ gold canes and black and gold necktt~s to form a part of the parad<: eqmpment (~r whatever canes and ties form) but Jt was turned down. It was turned down· because the members thought the as-· sessment too small and they increased it to five dollars after a unanimous vote. New Trier Student J Roster to Surpass 1700 Mark, Report :Enrollment at New ~,Trier Township Htgh school had · reached 1,678 by Tuesday noon of this' week. \Vith thirty-three more students expected to register late, the enrollment will pass the 1,700 mark. This is about the normal increase for the school as a ~hole, accordiQg to Wesley L. Brown, dtrector of res&rch at the high school, although the freshman class is not as large as last year. The number of students in each class ~s : . Freshman, 468; sophomore, 470; JUntor, 405 and senior, 335. At present the boys outnumber the girts- by a scant margin, 840 to 838. However of the 33 intending to enroll later, 21 'are girls and 12 are boys, whicn will throw the balance in the girls' favor. · The fact that there are so many boys is rather unusual, according to Mr. Brown. Missjnn 1.,:.,.,1~"" to Sneak Dr. Willett Returns to Pulpit at Union Church Dr. Herbert L. Willett of the Kenilworth Union church returned la·5t Saturday from his vacation and took charge of the services at the Kenilworth chur~h la.st Sunday morning. Dr. Willett iPent the first three weeks of . July lecturing :tnd preaching at Chautauqua, N. Y., after which he took ::~n auto trip with Mrs. Willett through New York and New England. Returning westward he spent most of August with his family at their summer home in Pentwater, Mich. Before returning to Kenilworth la·st week Dr.. Willett spent two weeks in Colorado. Dr. w. 0. Carri~r, who has recently returned from a trtp around the world engaged in the study of foreign missions. will preach at the First Prec::byterian church Sunday morning, Sep,. tember 23, at the 11 o'clock services. His subject \\·ill be, "Modern Missions in the Orient." Dr. Carrier was formerly pastor of the Third Presbyterian church in Chicago. at Presbyterian Church Wilmette Baseball Team Wins North Shore Tide ATTENDS CONVENTION Daniel M. Davis, director of recreation, will leave next Saturday for Atlantic City, N. ]., to attend the annual recrt'ation congress of the Playground and Recreation Association of America. The congress will be in session five clays. Mr. · Davis will be a representative of the Wilmette Playground and Recreation board. Wilmette, Winnetka and Glencoe. Real estate men who are not members of the Board are to be reouested to follow the Sunday closing lead. The new rule does not effect subdividers . offices. for a few cents a classified ad will ring more doorbeJis and talk to more people than you could call on personally if you worked at it from now until Christmas * · By admini·5tering . a lacing ·to the Glencoe baseball 11ine last Sunday, 8 to 7, the Wilmette A. C. diamond combination clinched the North Shore championship trophy in l. three"7cornered tournament with the Winnetka . and Glencoe outfits. Wilmette boasfs a record of four games won and no losses in the competition for the ~ov eted award, having ·aken each· ofi the opposing nines into camp on two . occasion·s. This Sunday the Wilmette team w~ engage some strong semi-pro aggregation, the identity of which had not been revealed at this writing. . Big crQwds have been out to the games of late and the fans promise to stick it out until the ·end of the current season... which is only a week away. P. T. A. MEETING . There will be a meeting of the St. Francis Xavier Parent-Teacher association Fridav. September 28. at the school hatl at 3 o'clock. A delightful program has been arranged. Mr~. ]. H. Walker and Mrs. H. E. Lersch entertained at bridCT~ for the ohil:mtl1ronhv df'n~rtmPnt of thP Woman's Catholic cluh of Wilmette Tuesdav afternoon at Mrs. Walker's home, 1535 Lake avenue. CORRECTION In the automobile section of this issue, a story concerning Chandler cars mentions Tames J .Pvv ~" dealf't".' l't should have read· Tom Hay, dealer. Mrs. W. H. Firth of Milwaukee hat hP.Pn the ho11c;evuest of Mr~. · "Pichard Wilson of 801 Forest avenue for the·. "J)ast few · days ... · · ··.-. · ·.