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. POTLISHBD «VBRY THURSDAY THE BOWMAN PUBLISH3NO CO., aibert H. Bowman . Managing gaiter fcrtha K. Bowman . Associate Editor law Leonard Lee .. . City Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, ?2 A YEAR all matter for publication la any . . ik*s issue nuouiu reach our office ■» nitsf uiou uuuu Ou ulOuiaJ.-- Entered as secono-eiass matter June 3,1911, at the postofflce at Evanston, llnois, under the Act of March 3, with ■£■:. Itances are taxed la conservative Britain on a scale never dreamed of here, and $1,000,000 is collected in death duties from an estate of only $6,500,000. In the world of labor the older "bourgeois" labor organisation competes with the new revolutionary one--inspired by European agitators. The mass of dough is very full of yeast--but, at the dawning of the new year, who despairs of the loaf? * * m"■",." WORK WHILE YOU WORK. PLAT sfi i!!tiM M fk •**: ^THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1914. "A STRANGE VISITOR AT SCHOOL" pEsny;:of -pur readers, no doubt, but by no, means ail,.- read rei New York Independent. pl|r the For those rho do not, we are printing elsewhere In this Issue "A Strange Visitor at School," a story written by the editor of the magazine and published in a recent issue. The story is well worth reading for Its own sake, but we have another and a better reason for offering it to the public through the columns of The jfews.:.-'. It has to do with public schools, aid just now Evanston needs all the light ahe can get on that important matter. We therefore commend "A Strange Visitor at School" to your at- tention, trusting that the message it £sS5l6S"Bjay»faH«upon willing and heedful ears and that it may help In the formation of a theory concerning the best course of procedure In our own high school dilemma. 35 5*f 5K THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The change which has been work- WHILE YOU PLAT, The utilisation of a child's toys and playthings for educative purposes Is the basic Idea upon which Dr. Mabia Montessoei has constructed her theory of educating young children, a doc- '■-"'i'"'-"'"i,"^"r ATTHEEVANSTONj THEATER r<i>imniiiiiiiiiniiii trine Zfor which the founder is being widely honored. Heretofore the meth "UNDEktSOutHEkN SKIES" By Lottie Blair Parker, author of "Way Down East." r . i--~: Players. Major Edward Crofton.A. C. Van Slyke Stella Crofton.........Richie Russell Leila Crbfton.....-•••'.......Nolle Redd iCol. Robert Mavor... .Chas. D. Brown Burleigh Mayor....Harry L. MInturn u.■■■ii»RiMiirr mi«u»->i ^■■■■•■■»ni B---,:Ambiwe.-MavorWiv.^.Edwai^--EwaId uuiii|iaiiy wititu,- ^•«»w«w^:{Mta.DM.^toW.ii^esata!Royae Col. Paul Daubeny.... .Gale Satterles Steve Daubeny........Jean CJarendon S*lfy Hampton..........BeasleiMoore Uncle Joshaway.... .James G. Morton Aunt Doshy...,...... .Florence Guise Phlny ..............Alice Armstrong Anner Liser..vi......BiHee Leicester LonzO .;.v.Y.•;. i-i ,w~~~Bart-'• RIoux merit Giving Pensions to Em- fo^es^Wneii^They^tevl"^ Reached Certain Apes. and sweet, one which will be enjoyed by the young and these not so young as they have been. The setting Is ap- propriate and up to the high standard which prevails In our little theater and the play shows the Evanston Stock company at its best. HEALTH HINTS FOR CHILDREN GIVEN ' V* ^k ^ j RUST COMPAN Witt AFFECT ABOUT 200 The Public Service Company of Illi- nois, which supplies the electric light- ing in us so gradually that we have been unaware of its coming until1 the startling realization is brought that we- have completely faced about in many of the fundamentals of life Is summarized in the following editorial from the latest Issue of Collier's, un- der the caption, "The Times": America has opened wide eyes upon sex*^ The new modes and tne new dances accentuate the change. Story- tellers and dramatists and illustrators are at last permitted freely to Indulge tbe> senses---some honestly, in the in- terests of what they think art; some ethically, in the cause of wAst seems to them the twentieth-century moral- ity; others hypocritically, with sly aide glances, masking them now as disinterested artists, now as the false prophets of virtue enlightened. In the schools physiological instruction is :ai: tnal jwimltiiv '+*» *v*»*»itw*™ 4Ka w%1n**n. I* «*v iuhv wuiiuq s>v ■u%*%*%*trjr buv jiiavc «* ought to hold, and is more frankly presented than ever in the squeamish past. The chief danger is excessive self-conBciousnesa on the part of teacher and taught, and the invitation of the- enemy through .giving him a disproportionate share of thought. It is the eighteenth century restaged, with many filmy Pamelas and Clab- issas i reincarnate (vulgarized), and an injection of nineteenth-century science, but no vigorous Joseph An- drews, no male Tom Jones, to correct the balance. Some of the churches exude Socialism; some others give off a sickly smell of inanition. The world is too much occupied, by a kind of re- action, with the7 study of diseases, and the abnormal generally; prisons and convicts and harlotry fill many minds to tuO CaCiudiGji Ox xartns and work shops and simple good health. For almost the first time there is talk of creating this republic a democracy in- stead of a paradise for the already arrived, t^s^ usual^there: Is at the same time a development of Individ- ualism; and a President who, as, a university don, thirty years ago wrote a textbook on the usurpations of Con- gressional government, dictates to cau- cus and Congress the party program and; the people's cause. For the first time taxation of the too rich rather than the too poor is introspect. A jSwtwtUfe^iaSi 1--is Amojica in the form of the income tax, and the single-tax idea Is spread- ing where. In Henbv Geoece's day, it ods of the Italian educator have been applied only to little children, those in whom the belief that everything which is of benefit, is Irksome and to bt> avoided, if possible, has not yet been inculcated. It Is said, however, that Dr. Montessobi is contemplating the adaption of her methods to boys and girls of school age, a course from which she anticipates very great and good results. Even the most optimistic of us and those most eager to embrace-the new in educational systems must look with a little dubiety upon the removal of the elements of work and discipline from the experience of the student, Tor our Ideas are the result of long lines of generations of belief that work' Is a wholesome experience in life; that the discipline of accomplish- ing well a distasteful task is effica- cious in character building and that the hard knocks received in the early period of school life make the man or woman the better able to withstand successfully "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," when he goes out from school to tako a place in the busy life of the world. When a theory becomes so univer- sally believed to be true that it is in- corporated In nursery rhyme and copybook matter, it is rather hard to dislodge. And so, We may prepare to wait for'a long season of trial of edu- cation through play at the exclusion of work. & * $ HOMES OR HABITATION St Three times have delegates, among them city officials--mayors, health oflV cere, building inspectors, architects, social workers, in fact representatives of all professions and trades interest- ed in the housing problems in cities, gathered together in a National Hous- ing Conference to discuss ways and means to improve conditions among those whose choice of residence is di- rected by other consideration than suitability to fill the family needs. Men sitting in the third National Housing Conference which met recent- ly in Cincinnati, see in the Increasing number of apartment and tenement houses a menace to the homes of the people. One session of the conference was largely given over to the discussion of this question, thus directly put: How shall we keep our cities cities of homes? It is not to be expected that a definite solution should be wrought out but the way toward its final set- tlement in these suggestions: First, we must enact and enforce housing legislation that-will set minimum standards, that will require light and air for every room, sanitary and con- venient toilet facilities, an adequate and convenient water supply, protec tion against fire, such a number of rooms and such an arrangement of rooms as will permit of at least a minimum of privacy. Such legislation will tend to discourage the- butSdrng of tenement barracks and to encou- rage the building of small houses. is Second, we must educate; educate the community so that ItrwITl^deniandthe enforcement of proper housing regula- tions, educate the owners as to the significance of bad houBin, wWcbrtBeT draw a revenueT educate Act I. ;-^5j|e«flse. rs%i« ■ v*?. Scene--Exterior o¥ Major the tannnlR to the proper ase-of-the^-W^ f. *1"""",LS, c > includes service in the Public Service: property in their care, and educate importance onvenienc- women ns to the rola of essentials and of mere es. Third, we must stimulate the building of good types of small dwell- ings. ;■:;:; ~~ '^^■~siZ'~r.7T7~~~- ■ ing to Evanston, the north shore and a score of cities in the northern part of the state, has decided upon a pen- sion system for its employes. By the plan the employes will receive a pen- sion in the form of service annuities hereafter when they have reached cer- tain ages and have worked for the company certain periods of time. Because of the youth of the com- pany, first payment of the service an- nuities will not begin until March. 1917. That yearTtny employe 66 years old, who has worked fifteen years for the company or its constituent * com- panies, will draw an annuity if he chooses to retire. Decided Upon Dee. tl. The pension plan was prepared at a meeting of the board of directors on Dec. 11. Announcement of the plan was withheld until Saturday so that it would come as a belated Christ- mas present to the workers of the company. The Public Service com- pany has nearly 200 men employed in Evanston who will fall under the regulations of the pension system. Under the plan announced, every employe will be eligible to a pension of not less than $300 per year or ap- proximately $6 per week. This is the smallest pension which will be paid. From this amount the pensions paid Will increase according to the wages or salaries paid the* men during the five highest-paid years they worked for the company. There are three classes of pensions to be given. An employe may elect to retire either at the age of 55 years, .at GO or at 65 years. If he retires at the age of 55 years he must have been in the serv- ice of the company for thirty years; if he retires at 60 he must have been employed for twenty-five years; if at 65, be must have been employed for but twenty years to receive the full advantages of the pension plan. I Effective Dec. 1. ! The new plan was made effective with Dec. 1 of this year and the em- ployes.-have been operating under it all of this month, though none of them knew about it until today, when for- mal announcement was received «t the Evanston offices in a letter over the signature of Samuel Insult, presi dent of the company. The pension plan of the Public Serv ice company is perhaps the most ad- vanced of any of the pension plans which in the past years have been advanced by the big corporations op erating throughout the country. It is based on the same plan which has - been in operation in all of the plants 3fnhe United States Steel corporation, plans go farther than that pension plan and give more latitude to the employes in order to get its advantages. The plans provide: What It Provides. First. That any employe who shall have reached the age of 55 years, and shall have been in the service of the company for thirty years or more n«pj£ preceding his retirement, shall, upon his request, if approved by the serv- ice annuity committee be retired from active service with a service annuity. Second. That any employe who shall have reached the age of CO years, and shall have been in the service ot the company for twenty years or more next preceding his retirement, shall, upon his request; and at the discretion of the service annuity committee, be retired from active service with a service annuity. Third. That any.employe who shall have reached the age of 65 years, and who. shall have been in the service of the company for fifteen years or more next preceding the date upon which he shall have reached the above age, shall be retired" from active serv- ice with a service annuity unless the board of directors shall, for Bpecial reason, cotitimie-*ny-such employe^ii: active service without a service an- nuity. Subject to the provision of the plan, the amount of the service annuity to be paid each year to an employe retired under Ihe system shall In-gen- eral be as follows; ______ One and one-half per cent of the average annual pay of such employe during the particular consecutive five years of service when his average pay the highest, multiplied^ by the number of years of his.service, provid- ed th»*L in no, case shall the service to any employe-in any year be less than $300. Service in Crofton's house.',„.,.. Act niirnBeenei-Ihterlor of Major Crofton's house. ; Act III. Scene--Interior of Major Crofton's house. Act IV. Scene--Exterior of Major Crofton's house. Time, 1876. Locale, Southern Louisi- ana. By the presentation of "Under Southern Skies" at the Evanston this week, the management of the theater has shown appreciation of the neces- sity for a good and wholesome play for the holiday season, a time when boys and girls are free from the du- ties of school and have opportunity to enjoy the pleasure of the theater. As the name implies the scene is ■laid In the^suans^fsouth-andr-as-natur- ally follows, we meet in the cast the ceremonious colonel and major,.-titles which Suggest dignity rather^ than military rank. One Is not unprepared for the complications of family feuds and rival lovers nor for the shining black faces of faithful servants of the "before the war" type. Miss Redd makes a most attractive and winsome southern maid, and a most pathetic - unwilling bride. Mr MInturn achieves his usual success in. the rdle of the lover triumphing over difficulties to win his lady's hand, and Mr. Clarendon lives up to the most exacting demands as a Jealous and somewhat unscrupulous rival of the hero. Miss Leicester is a delightful Ahner Liser, a rdle of the character She does best and apparently most en- joys. The Evanston audience has never before ^een Mr. Ewald in the guise of a young" clergyman, a part Which he this Week will play quite successfully-even*to the point of offici- ating at the wedding which is all but Solemnized, complete even to the tiny ringbearer. The play, Is.pretty; it is wholesome The Chicago health department has Just issued a bulletin on the manner in which to guard against sickness iimeng^he-cWid^^ gives pointers on how to avoid pos- sible contagion from disease. The ad- vice is good and would be applicable to Evanston families as well. Exclude from your holiday parties: Children with,throats tied up. Children With, rashes or peeling- skin. - 4 ------------------------------ Children with whOopy coughs. -J-- - Children or adults with bad colds. Dr. Young, head of the Chicago health department, calls attention to the fact that at this time of the year there are numerous gatherings of chil- dren and at these gatherings there is an inadequate amount of care used In the protection of the children against the possibilities of being exposed to contageous diseases. Dr. Young rec- ommends the placing of a doctor at the .door where all such gatherings, are held and have him see that no one with any affliction gets in. The local health officials believe tbat the advice contained in the Chi- cago bulletin Is good and that the same care advocated in that city should be used here. THIS bank Is an ideal bank in which to carry, your eh^king account tthw the people" of the North Shore for oyer thi^tyiniiie years; it is well known as a .conservative^yet progressive institution and its capital, Surplus and profits fund ^mounl^o^cveM^^ It receives small as well as large accouhtsT HOMEANDAID IN ANNUAL ELECTION The annual meeting and election of officers of the North Shore Advisory board of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid society will bo held at the Evanston home, 826 Ridge avenue, Monday morning, Jan. 5, at 10:30 o'clock. Monthly and written reports from the officers and chairmen of com- mittees will be read. Luncheon will bo served at 12:30 o'clock to advisory, -associate and sustaining members at 50 cents per plate. The afternoon pro- gram will start at 1:30 o'clock. W. S. Reynolds, superintendent of the Illinois Home and Aid society, and Mrs. Wray, assistant superintendent, will speak of the work of the society at large. Mrs. F. VV. Pomeroy, 1832 Asbury avenue, the secretary, an- nounces payable. EVANSTON THEATRE PHONES 2898-2899 FOUIMTAIN SOU A RE____ EVANSTON AMUSEMENT CO., PROP H. L. MINTURN, MANAGea A Happy, Prosperous New Year to All AND BALANCE OF WEEK .,:,• Presenting the Most Successful Southern Drama Ever Written | Extra Matinee Friday, January 2 j By LOTTIE BLAIR PARKER, Author of "Way Down East" Matinees Tees.. Th-jrs.. Sat. Best Scats 25c. Rear Balcony 10c (Except Holidays) Nights-2Sc, 35c. 50c; « few at 75c '■■ , .^ In Preparation, "THE DAWN OF A TOMORICOW" When 01iop|>!ng In . Evanston l.unrli (it Evanston Woman's Exchanso CAFETERIA Lillian Davidson 1627 Chicago Ave. Telephrne iSSl MEAL HOURS DAILY SUNDAY ^, A , , , Bioikfast 6/5 to 8:0 Preakfast 7:Wto9:fO that annual dues now are lunch - rrawtowu Dinner - i2:Q0to2:3; I Dinner - 5:30 to 7:3) no sl'ppeb LADIES' TAIL0K$ Paulson, Hanson & C4. Exclusive Ladies' TaiUrs ; < Formorly located in North American Bids' --t o:v 616-620 South Michigan Av., Su te 910 Telephone Vabath 5195 N.'w Imported Goods Will Arrive in January. i^inpany.,^.^Njoith£tni..„IJllnolfb„^ni ai^SiMai^,5I^tft03^4a:^sy--coxBpaay which hag--been wholly merged into, ot Cases at "Special January White SaU Prices or acquired by, the Public Service Company ot Northern Illinois or any of its predecessor companies: prior to We offer only the old reliable brands of which everyone knows the true value. They have proven the most satisfactory for general use. All are full sizes, olentv of the extra long sheets, and are torn, not cut. The hems are neatly and strongly sewn. Oakland Mills Brand | CASES 42x36 in, . SHEETS 63x99 in., 72x99 in., 60c 65c 75c 90c 45x36 in., 50x36 in., 15c 16c 18c 81x99 in., . 90x108 in., . Unbleached Defiance Pillow Cases: 42x36 or 45x36 in. Each \2%c Dwight Anchor Brand SHEETS SOxTTtpr,--r 39 in., . 72x99 in., . 72x108 in., . 81x99 in., . 11x108 in., 90x108 in., -5$<7 75c 85c 90c $1,00 $1.10 CASES •4-2x331 m., . 45x381 in., . 50x381 in., . 54x381 in., . HEMSTITCHED 42x36 inv, "r 30c 45x381 in , . 35c Aurora or Pep- penell Sheeting These well known brands have been favorites for years: 10-4 or 2\ yds. wide; bleached 27c yard; unbleached 25c. IF-4 or 2\ yds. wide; uVachfiiL 25c y<ird; unbleached 23c.___ 8-4 or 2 yards wide; bleached 23c yard; im? leached 21c,: ^ 7-4 or \\ yaids wideLbleached 21c yardj unbleached 19c. j 6-4 or li yards wide; bleached 3?c yard; unbleached 17c. iJ 5-4 or li yards wide; Uea*h/d 14c yard;'uubleached 13c. 7 Pequot Sheeting The standard cf qi alily. 7j 10-4 or2£ yds. wide; bleached- 31c yard; unbleached 29c. /: 9"'4 or %\ yards witle; bleached l ' -4 r ----- 29c yard; unbleached 27c. 8-4 or 2yards1 wide; b!each« d 27c yard; unb'eached 25c. 7-4 or l^yards wide; bleached^ 2oc yard; unbleached^23c. ^ V-bl^aHied^-1 21c yard; unbleached 19c, 5-4 or 1\ yards wide; bleache<T lUc yard; nnblcached 15c. ; Kxchisive" Jkgmis an. " JMtUIMIW Journal "Pattenris I Fountain' Square Evanston, Illinois Evahston Phoae^l^t ZWIBnlite ytfowBQO'-' No charge for connectionai I