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WIL~TTE LIFE, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1924 lry we berilmette. :1ing it :onstant he best affords stomers business ore cuswe are Citizenship Deeper Than Politics Aim Of Woman's Clubs ERVICE is the word that .expresses the spirit of the age. It IS a word c .·1ed by the pagans, a word hallowed ni neteen hundred years ago by humanitv's Divine Teacher, a word that is u~1r blessed heritage. At the time of the World war, the wc.m well as the men, justified and ,ancti that heritage. Inunediately after the war there followed enfranchisement of women the world over. The women of our Republic accepted the tribute as their rightful heritage. The women of the Tenth District, Illinois Federation of Woman's clubs, have earnestly endeavored to fulfill the trust. The Clubs of Tenth District have universally arranged lecture courses, given by experts on American citizenship, on current events, on use of the ballot. The study classes have been earnestly attended, thus showing a desire for knowledge of public affairs. The American Citizenship committees are working unceasingly through their clubs. Mr~. William C.· Farrell, chairman of tht: Department of American citizenship, urges intelligent registration of citizenship at the polls. The monthly mcctings at her home have been stimulating; they breathe a fervor for concentrated conununity effort; they advocate adequate playgrounds, clean films, crlebration of national holidays in community centers, flooding of prairies for icc skating, organized play, all the things moth ers have a right to give to their childrcn. These earnest workers in Tenth District would express the beauty of art and music in civic enterprises. All u\·cr these United States our club \\'onH:n arc working for a "citizenship that lies deeper than politics." Hut how can we accomplish such things if we fail to select proper officials to run our government? Kow, that we have come into a great privilege; now, that we have a share in running our public affairs in city, state, and nation, it is unbelievable that so plain a duty should be so neglected. In the past presidential election, women were enti tled to vote for the first time . The realm of public affairs was a strange land to most of them. But four years of work and study have made the women oi uur country a power. A splendid ilbtrument has heen placed in our hands. th· instrument of government. \\'c share thl' use of that instrument with the Tlt,oug!& :~~ us -we :111.. J>ri ·:ikgetl select 'oflicJals at the polls, to honestly criticize or praise the conduct of public affairs, and to hold public office whenever the call for service comes. These dutirs arc not reserved for some of our citizens; they fall upon all, and no one can escape the burden except by hcing a ~hirhcr, or in war times a s lacker. \Vhen in a common enterprise for the good of all, any per son fails to do his part, it merely means that he i allowing other~ to carry the load, a part of which hdong~ to him. If anyone cnr dcseT\'cs the condemnation of the rightl'ous, it is he who fails to carry hi' part of a common hurden to the hill extent of his ability. There is grave cause for apprehension when we find that 25,000,000 citizens over twenty-one years of age stayed away fr om the polls in 1920, when a president and many governors of states were to he chosen. After malcing allowances for the sick, disabled, imprisoned, insane, etc., we find that 15,000.000 citizens. with no excu~e. did 110t participate in the common duty of clcc!ing the officia ls who carry on our pubhc work. We worry over Americanization of the newly arrived immigrant, but in the presence of this infmitcly greater need for the performance of plain civic duties on the part of millions of our citizens we should stand appalled. We need now a campaign of universal civic education which will bring everyone to the polls in the primary and general election. As we approach the time when the citizen is put to the test in the great game of government, in a year when local, state and national ofijces are to be filled, let us hope that we shall be stirred to study and action. During this year the citizen has . a. bi~ role to play in the drama of c1v1c hfe. Let us hope that he may play it well. IWINNETKA T llN WOMAN'S O.UB S I?arlor. fat; sun rms. sleeping s. NNOUNCEMENT is made of six lectures to. be ~iven at Northwesterr umvers1ty on the Nornetka Woman's club was held on man Wait Harris foundati on by Dr. March 6. The first vice-president, Alexander Meiklejohn. Following is Mrs .. Wallace Chickering, called the the program for the course. The public mect mg to order, and Mrs. Arthur \V. is cordially invited to attend these talks c .ushman read the minutes of the pre- which will commence at 8 o'clock at VIOUS meeting, in the absence of Mrs. G. Fi k hall. No ticket of admission is Donald Dallas, secretary. required. Mrs. Cushman announced that the Friday, March 14-What Have We to next meeting of the club would be held Teach? March 20, with Honorable Ira Nelson Saturday, March 15- Thinking and Morris, former minister to Sweden, the Its Difficulties. speaker. The next musical. which will Monday, March 17-Conduct and Its he on Thursday, March 27 will b a Difficulties. r~cit.al given by Miss Mar'g~rct Farr, Tuesday, March IS-Democracy as an p1amst. Experiment. Mrs. Cushman then called upon Mrs. Wednesday, March 19-Thinking in John Vennema, chairman of the proDemocracy. gram, to take charge. Mrs. Vennema Thursday, March 20-Learning What introduced Mr. Dudley Crafts Watson, to Teach. whose lecture on "Art and Life in Alexander Meiklejohn was born in Spain" proved to be one of the most Rochdale, England, and was brought to delightful afternoons of travel and art. the nited States as a boy of eight. He The lecturer's introductory remarks re- received his undergraduate training at ga~ding the early history. climate, vege- Brown university with postgraduate tatiOn, the people of Spain and their "-·ork at Cornell. After four years of customs gave his audience a realistic teaching at Brown, he became Dean in background for the work of the artists 1901. Eleven years later he was elected which followed. President of Amherst college. Honorary Reproductions of many paintings of degrees have been conferred upon him ~urillo. and Velasquez and other Span- by Allegheny, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, ~~h art1sts were shown on the screen and Williams college, and by Brown with the stereopticon slides. At the university and the University of V erclose of the program Mrs. Venncma mont. expressed her appreciation to all who Recently he has published "Freedom helped toward making the exhibit at and the College," a collection of paper Community house on March 2, so suc- in which he attempts to define and decessful. .scribe the teaching and the learning of The program of the day being the freedom. closing one of which 'Mrs. Vcnnema is Dr. Meiklejohn's general argument, in chairman, made it opportune for lier to the present series of Harris lectures, i thank her committee and members of that we are trying to establish a scheme the club for their generous assistance of educa tion without adequate knowlduring the year. edge to support it, that we are at presThe meetmg was adjourned with tea ent in a stage of agnosticism concerning served in the parlors. the main issues of life. In a very real sense, there£ ore, we have nothing to Winnetka Art Exhibit teach. In this situation one finds education based upon formal notions such Proves Great Succeas as growth, freedom, and right method. ESIDE TS of the North Shore These notions seem to him insufficient were given a rare treat 011 Sun- in the face of the fact that our intelday, March 2. when the Art and kctual and moral situations arc beset by contradictions and dilemmas which can Literature committee of the \Vinnetka be dealt with on ly by some positive at\Vomnn's club gave an exhibition of the · · · work! of the \Vinn etka artists. Much tc1r.pt to escape from our m1sg1vmgs .. In the second lecture an attempt IS favorable comment was heard and Win- made to out lin e the intellectual dilemma netka residents may well be proud of with which we have to deal, and the thcit artists. · third docs the same for our moral dilem1\lrs. Anita \Villeto; Burnham shower! mas. In the fourth and fifth lectures, her interesting collection and the work Democracy 15 studied as a positive theury 0f her d :u.1n:hter. Carol r. ou Burnham of· s<.cial living, as an experiment to pt~er e~h1b1t?.!'U~~. ~'.d\~rd Butler, · . IVL ·'"· .... ,: uugiil ~u iJc-tt, 111 "..:.h.:J 01!~. or~ o. uav1es, 01ls. and past~ls, -toward which, therefore, education F~ank Dillon, pastel portra1ts, ~r~denck should be directed. · \\. Bond, Kate Bacon Bon~. m1111atures, The last lecture attempts to indicate ~ rs. George Engelhard, oils and etch- , what must be done to overcome our formgs, Mrs. A:lfred .Freeman, pottery, Mr. mali'm and to deal with intellectual and Gate . pottery, M1ss Grover, stage sets moral problems, that is, what we mu t and parchment lamp sha~es, Mr. and give by way of preparation for thinkMrs. Charles Haag, weavmg and sculp- ing them through and dealing \vith them ture, Hugo von Hof sten, water color ~. "i el 1\[r~. Hubbard, water colors, Mrs . Peter ' ~ y. Johansen, pencil sketches, Ralph Steph M orriS . H ughes cnS\!11 johansen. sketches, Mrs. Rudolph I tam ~tatz, painting~. Walter Murphy, oil>, of Australia to Speak Allan Philbrick, etchings and painting~. ILLIA:\f ~!ORRIS HUGHES, Mrs. Shippen, paintings, Mr. Snell, r~ctntly Prime Minister of sculpture, Ruth Phillipps Stein. minia Australia and admittedly the tun's , Harry L. Timmins. oils aAd water colors, Sybcll Vcnncma, water colors foremost leader of the Australian peoand modeling. ple will speak at the Evanston Country Among the young people exhibiting cluh tht cvming- of March 22 for the were : \Vilf red Barton, Helen Bell, hl'nefit of the fund<; for women's buildGeorge Dickinson, Phyllis Ferry, An - ings of Northwestern univcrc;ity. As one of the leaders ot this great toinette Lackner and Peggy \Vaidner. Of all the interesting committees of country, William Morris Hughes has the club there is none more progressive hlcome recognizerl as a statesman an.d than the Art and Literature committee. political leader tl f the first order, h1s Mrs. Vennema and her as istants never fame having spread to all parts of the fail to bring pleasant and profitable en- world. During the peace conference at tertainment to the club and to the vil- Versailles, which he attended as Auslagers. tralia's representative, he attracted general attenti n by his remarkable ability, and it is admitted today that had his HOUSEHOLD AID Rust is an enemy to the efficiency and counsel been followed in many important long life of the gas stove oven. To rc~pccts, Germany would .now be on. the eliminate it, open the doors of the oven road to solvency and paymg reparations, for a few minutes after the burners while France would have settled down are lighted. This permits escape of ac- to peaceful occupations instead of main. cumulated moisture and prevents rapid taining a large army. \V'ith a thorough understandmg of incondensation. l cnvnt I I HE regula~; meeting of the Win - A Alexander Meiklejohn Offers Six Lectures a ·ernational questions, Mr. Hughes will Rogers, Reverend and Mrs. George d scu s "THE PACIFIC, THE COM-~ Craig Stewart, Mis Cornelia Lunt, lNG WORLD PROBLEM." He has Honorable and Mrs. Martin M. Gridley, the reputation of bejng one of the great-~ Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Shennan. e.s t living orato:s. his capacity as a pubTickets at Chandler's or J. R. Withe speaker havmg often settled the fate ' of a hotly contested election in Australia. bur, 1224 Maple avenue, Evanston. In England, where he has addressed vast audiences, he aroused such enthusiasm Bureau of Occupations . that he received the unique honor of beMeets at ing appointed a member of the supreme council. HE regular meeting of the ChiThe patrons for this lecture include : cago Collegiate Bureau of OccuPresident and Mrs. Walter Dill Scott, pations will be held at the ChiMr. and Mrs. William R. Dawes, Dean cago College club on Saturday, March and Mrs. John H. Wigmore, Mrs. and 15, at 10 :30 o'clock. Mrs. Robert W. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Oates, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Tenth Diatrict Meets Rew, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Patten, on Tueaday, March 18 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Shaffer, Dr. and Mrs. William G. Alexander, Mr. and T HE Federation of Clubs of the Mrs. William S. Mason, Dr. and Mrs. Tenth Congressional District of W'illiam R. Parkes, Dean and· Mrs. Illinois will meet with the RavensJames A. James, Mr. and Mrs. Robert wood Woman's club at 10 o'clock, March L. Scott, Reverend and Mrs. Arthur .18, at the Edgewater Beach hotel. T Colleae Club PCDL & PIPER ·INC· CHILDREN'S SHOE SPECIALISTS HIKING SHOES ELK ARMY BLUCHERS Made heels a11d wit/1 mbber t oc plugs. 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