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WILMETTE -.~LIFE . October 5, 1928 WILMETTE L'IFE 18811JID P&IDAY OP BACB WBBK bJ' LLOYD BOLLISTBR. llfC. USt-tiSI C'.entrat Av~. WUmette. Dl. Clalca«o oftlee : I N. Mlcblpn Ave. TeL State All tii.,io·· . . . ......................... Wllaet.. tiM 8t1B8CBIPTI0lf PRICB ·.··..··.·..·.·I.H A. YBA.B All communications must be accompanied by the name and acldreu of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednellclay noon to tnnre appearance In current Issue. RM01utlons of condolence, cards of thankl!l, obituaries notl~s· of entertainments or other atraln where an admittance charge Ia published, witt be charged at ,....,Jhtr ,.,v,.rthdn.: rates. Bv popular vote Wilmette has decided t.o allo~v Sunday movies. -· The question as to whether the people of Wilmette favored Sunday movies . h a s Sunday Movies been ,open fo~ seve_ral years. The dtscusston for wamette has been heavy and often hot. Good and not-so-good arguments have been advanced. The evil consequences of Sunday movies have been pictured more or less vividlv. Pennsylvania and pop-corn have played their roles. The relation between business prosperity and seven-day shows has been on occasion pointed at and emphasized. It's all over now. The people have spoken. Wilmette wants Sunday movies. We might acid as a po~tscript that the election was calm and friendlv. The voters cam~ to the polls with their ~inds already .made uo and settled. As a r~sult there was no excitement and little electioneering. :i Many years ago when there were no parent-teacher associations ; mothers and father~ had no \vay .o f finding out about their children's school i·' PareJit ..Teacher ,· life except from the 1 · ' · children themselves. Associations This information was : irregular and usttallv <t ~?Caggerated. Was there ever a child i~ those days who in telling parents of punishment received in school did not represent himself as abused and most unjustly treated? It was the . surprising and very rare pupil who told the bare, unvarnished facts. . · As a consequence the teicher and the parent instead of _co-.ope~ating more and more harmoniously almost inevitably becanle antagonistic. Teachers failed to understand parents, and the parents did no better. But with the organization of the parentteacher associations, parent, teacher, and pupil also, began to work together with less friction. Teachers and parents helped And the child profited. one another. Whereas in older days the trio produced discords and difficulties, today, as a rule, the trio produces harmonics, pleasant to hear and conducive of good results to all concerned. It is not easy to understand 'YhY O\vners · of property at street intersections do n_ot do what some have done, namely, trtm down their corner shrubs so as to help prevent collisions at corners. M.ost drivers slow up on approaching intersections, but those who don't slow up would do less damage if the corner shrubs were trimmed down or removed. Surely the appearance of one's property is not worth so much as human life. Of all the worthy activities of the church there is none more worthy · than those of that department known as the s.unday School, s o m e t 1 m e s The Modern known as the Church School. Here is conSunday School ducted the religious education of the you1pg people of the church. It is difficult to find anything in the work of the Sunday School of 30 and more .years ago to be greatly proud of. The lessons were portions of the Old or New Testame?t lifted b.odi-ly from their context. The puptls very seldom looked at the lesson outside of the weekly session. The teachers were not generally selected for their teaching ability but bcause nobody else could be found to take charge of the classes. Any normal person who was willing to be a teacher was gladly appointed by the superintendent. The results were what might have been expected. Th~ boys paid virtually no attention to the teacher or to the Jesson. They spent the time talking with one_ another or in more troublesome occupattons. like sticking pins in other boys near by or in throwing spit-balls at others not so near. The amount of religious education received was not far ab.ove zero. But methods have been greatly improved since those dark days. Efforts are now made to interest pupils as well as to inform them. Real teachers take charge of classes. Lessons are prepared by experts in the field of religious education. One of the most interesting and up-todate features of the modern Sunday School is the Men's Class. To its \veekly nteeting-s, tt"ttallv held at an hour tnost convenient for men of the community. are invited all men interested. The discussions are open without reserve to all and are . not g-overned by restrictions and rules. Usually the meetings of a well-conducted men's class are renlarkably well-attended. If the church is to prosper, the Sunday School must be prog-ressive _in every sense of that often-abused word. One of the outstanding aJ?d most serviceable institutions on the north shore, The 'Vilmette Sunday Eveninv, Club. began its fourteenth s e a son Wilmette Sunday on Sunday evening, September 3 0, at Evening Club 7 :30. To all residents of our shore towns this means the resuming of meetings that have for all these years been found both entertaining an~ edifying. T.o many this opening night each year has been, and "'ill continue to be, the principal event of the year. The Club is not merely a Wilmette institution. even though its meetings are held in a Wilmette church. It is a north shore institution, making its appeal and offering its program to all people from Evanston to Hi~hland Park. Those v:ho appear on these programs are national and in many ca,es international characters. The prog-ram given on September 30 was typical. The participants represented several foreign countries as ~ell as our own. They delivered messages that were instruc-:tive and inspiring. Every hearer must have felt that he was not only a resident of a north shore town but a member of the brotherhood of men. SHORE LINES GUESS HE'S RIGHT, FOLKS ]t;ST AS WE WERE CONTEMPLATING THE PROSPECTIVE UNRESTRAINED JOYS OF THE FOREST PRESERVE AT THIS ~l.J. TUMNAL SEASON, ALO!;JG COMES THAT FUNNY- NAMED MAN ON THE FOREST PRESERVE BOARD \VITH THE STERN \V ARNING THAT \NE'RE TO REFRAIN FROM TEARING DOWN BUSHES AND TREE BRANCHES AND FETCHING SAME HOME TO GLORIFY THE PARLOR. DURNIT, 'SGETTING SO ONE CAN'T HAVE ANY FUN IN THESE DARK, THOUGH NOT DREARY DAYS OF PROHIBITION. Still we are inclined to sympathize with the estimahle Mr. Szmthyx, or what have you, after obst:rving some of the homeward bound motor tourists last Sunday. At first ~~~nee we th~>U~ht the landscape gardeners' a3soctatton was stagmg a parade. Penalty of Fame Th Old Plug reminds us that aome peculiar twiste of fate may have been responsibl~ for ~he all but simultaneous motor accadenta anvolvang three well known news objectives of the clayJohn Coolidge. Gene Tunney, and Ruth Elder. May be so, but, 'tenny rate, the circumstance helps us fill up a bit of apace. Lost Would Find Work · Dear Mique- Noticed in Wn,ME'l'TE LIFE . Lost and Found column of September 21, that qmte a few girls were lost in Wilmette. Have an~ been found? It seems too bad that all expenence~ and efficient girls seem to get lost. Why don t you ask our policemen to help find them? . I know thev will be glad to look for them.. I thmk all the cooks, maids, and the other gtrls were lost while looking for work.-Yours _truly, \Valter vonReinsperg, 726 Laurel avenue, Wtlmette. Note: For a lad not yet in J:tis teen~, Walter d~; plays keen powers of, observatwn, don ~ yo~h~~ 1 ~ot Now when we w~>re that age, well, wed ra h ear more nbnut it. office th. e other night and see some of the ~oys from school. The office was noisy, the machmes were going, each person bad about t-:n square feet of space apiece. The air was blue. wath smoke . and the lancruage wasn't fit for the society column. · 'tY room at It was reminiscent of daya . an t he ca the university when, at 4 o'dock in the afternoon, a hundr. e d reporters crowd in, stand twenty dee~ for the telephones and aU the rest. of them. figh for the typewriters or ask que·bons unt·! the editor ia exhausted and runs out at 5 o cl~ck for a stroll down Green street on a day .lake this, and a coke, a hand or two of bndge, a lit~e loaf before the 6 o'clock rush to make up t e dummies before the shop men st.art to work ·at 7. Well, that's all gone-given way to pobt~ journalism. "The melancholy days are come· · · · -Beth. Now Try the CP It seemed pretty good to go down to the AP !·II Aftertbou~rhta vVhat little Walter probably doe3n't know, is that summoning cops to fare forth i.n quest of cooks and maids is, at best, a precanous proposition. To the layman who has not as yet deciphered the AP and CP reference in Beth's current contribution, may we suggest that the first me_ntioned is assuredly th~ lesser of the two qmte necessary evils. Yea, yea, we speak from experience! Now that th~se matters have been duly clarified, we wilt venture the customary (and strictly con .. versational) wager that the Cardinals trim the Yanks, the Cubs crush the Sox, and that Northwestern will shade the Butlerites. With Boy Scouts admitted gratis to the. PurpleButler fracas this week, with the provt30 that each troop be accompanied by Dads as chaperones, the leaves on most north shore ]awns will not be raked away this week-end. -Mique.