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Bishops' Day to Be Ohserved by Wilmette Parish; Blshop. Martin Preacher Three bishops ofý the New (united) Methodist Church, will be special guests ini Wilmette Sunday, Decemn- ber 10. Bishop William C. Martin of Orna-' ha, a former bishop ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will be the guest-speaker at the services in. Wilmnette -Parish Methodist church in the morning at 10: 45 o'clock. Membership i n t h e Wilmette church encompasses iresidents of Wil- mette, Kenilworth and a portio n of Winnetka. * Arrange Open House *Sunday afternoon, from 4 to 6 o'clock the Rev. and Mrs. Erskine Mi Jeffords of the Wiimette parish, will hold Open House at the church for the entire church family of fr iends and mem-bers in honor of Bishop and Mrs. Ernest Lynn Wal- dorf of Wilmette, Bishop Martin, and Bishop Edwin Hoit Hughes of Wash- ington, D. C., former resident of ýWilmelte and resident bishop at the time the local church was dedicated. A program of music will feature the afternçoon, and refreshments will be served. FIVE CENTS"A COPY TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, Decem ber 7,,1939 Supreme-Court Upholds Handbill Distribution At Sunday Club <JO North Shore Villages Effeci, of Decision on - ~1 Ordinancesi Stu dy Local The United States Supremé court, aiccrdIig to press dispatches, has declared unconstitutional Los An- geles, Calif.; Milwaukee, Wls.; and Worcester,^ Mass., city ordinances prohibiting the public distribution of handbills and circulars, and an Irv- ington, N. J., ordinance subjecting house to bouse distribution of such literature to police censorship. The- court reversed the decision of state courts which- had upheld the, ordi- n1anes Legal Publie Hearing Date. WilI Be Set, After Careful ýCon- sideration of Proposais On pages 12 and 13 of this. issu~e o!ý WILMEtrE LinE thereappears a, map shocwing the classification under Which- every piece of property An Wilmette bas been zoned. according to the proposed ame ndment to. the. zoning ordinance. This proposed. ameradment, tenta- tively completed and submitted to the people o! the village at11 two pre- liminary publie hearings on Novem- ber 15 and 17,',is'now' a majortopic for, discussion among those with a personal interest in its provisions, as well as those interested only in the general welfare of the village as a whole. 8ugwet Changes While the amendment i its en- tirety is regarded as an excellent piece of drafting, some suggestions for changes have been made, and these are beinggiven careful consid- eration. I*owever, it is the belief of the Village board and the Planning and Zoning commnission that the ina- terest among citizens so far elicited bas not been of sùfficient volume t«a properly support the work of the of- 1 iriI wiii be flearc inialocal pulits. More than forty bishops representing the New Methodist Church will. be in Chic ago from December 6 to 11, their visit occasioned by the meet- ing of the Council of Bishops at the Stevens hotel, theý first meeting of the coundil since, the uniting of! the thrèee main branches of Methodisn., UusinutLr bIstets so onrg as they do not abridge "the constitutional. liberty of one rightfully' upon the 'treet to impart information through speech* or the distributionof, litera- ture." METTE LiFE - iat ne appoint a citizens' committee of 15 to serve in an ad- visory capacity to the village board and the zoning commission, and re- quested suggestions from the village trustees as -to its personnel. Legal Bearing Later Emphasîs 'is placed upon the fact' that the two public hearings already Entered as second.claas matter Marcit,: 1912, ut the post oflice us. Yilmette, filinois, under the uct ot March 3, 1879.