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WILMETTE LIFE February 19, 1926 Wilmette Man to Build Huge Club at Miami Beach J ames Roy A Hen, 32 Crescent place, Wilmette, we11 known Chicago architect, has been awarded the cont t f th . rae or e erec t ton o f a $5 ,000,000 club house at Miami Beach, Fla., to be known as the Royal Palm club, or "Florida's club de luxe." The club has purchased seven and one-half acres of land on north Miami Beach fronting on the ocean and extending through to Biscayne Bay. The building program, it is explained, ineluded an 800-room residential cfub, constructed on the unit system; a beach club on the ocean front; a yacht club and a fishing club, as well as a yacht basin on Biscayne bay. The club and all its properties will be for the .exclusive use Qf,J)t~ mem_be~s a_nd. thetr guests .. ~he. membersh!p · !~ ltmtted and by mvttabon only, 1t 1s said. Included in the membership of the club are men from all sections of the United States. Paul Schroeder of Wilmette and Mia~i i.s a charter member of the orgamzat10n. Race Problema to Be . IGreater Chicago's , Discussed at Forum Health Better Than "Modern Problems. of Race and Color" will be the subject for discussion at the Chicago Forum Sund~y afternoon, February 21, in the Olymptc theatre. The speaker, W. E. Burgh a~d t D u B ots, · · one o f the most ts in Rural Sections Births outnumbered deaths in Illinois by 53,840 during 1925 according to figures made public this week by the state ~epartment _of pu~lic health. A total of 135,436 btrths gtves a rate of .4 per ,000 population while 81,596 a new shop to make all housekeeping light housekeeping $250.08 Have you that atnount of tnoney availabl~ for investtnent in a Chicago cotnpany that has proven itself able to forge ahead and can grow bigger with additional working capital. Illinois corporation. INVESTIGATE! emment spokesmen for the colored deaths give a mortality rate of 11.7, the people, not only in the country but birth rate being slightly less and the in the world. Dr. DuBois was for- death rate sli~htly greater than 1924. . . · Both are constdered favorable however merly prestdent of Atlanta umverstty · · n with other large states. · ...1· f " 1~ 1 C .. , th m companso and ts now euttor o le rtsts e "F the fifth successive time" said journal of National Association for Dr. Is~ac D. Rawlings, state he~lth di Advancement of the Colored People. rector "the death rate in Chicago was He is the author of a number of books lower' than that for the remainder oi on the negro and race problems, among the state. The reverse was always true which are "The Souls of Black Folk," until 1921. w ·h en considered in the "The Negro," "Darkwater." .. The Giit light of population density and the of Black Folk." more favorable natural conditions in At a later meeting the same subject the open spaces downstate, this fact will be d!scussed b)~ a ~vhit~ man,. S. is signficant and ought to be a source K. Rat~ltffe,_ the . English JOurnahst, lof some concern to people generally. who wt11 bnng ntal and up-to-date "The increase in births over deaths information particularly bearing upon last vear added about one person for the race problems all over the ·world each~ two square miles of land area to as they are related to the movement the densitv of the down-state populaof life in the British Empire. tion while ·it added about 75 persons per ~usical program of negro spirituals square mile in Chicago. The estimat~d wtll be presented before the lecture. densitY of population per quare nuk of lat{d area is now 71 for down-state and 14o2 for Chicago, with an average of about 124 for the state. "This . wide difference in population gives a decided natural advantage to the down-state people in health matter. . That the people of Chicago have hetn able to overcome this advantage and now enjov a general mortality rate lower than that which prevails in the remainder of the state shows conclusin·l~· the value of public health service. It is a remarkable dcn'w nstration of the contention that health can he brought up to certain natural limitations, ancl that people can have in general, the sort of health that they arc willing to pay for. "It is felt that an enabling law. providing the legal machinery for creating countv health departments, would paH· the w·av for giving the down-state peo ple. at · reasonahle expense, the sort of health protection to which they are en titled and ,,·hich they can han· if they want it." 19 1 t A · $1,000.00 ... · -. #, The next meeting of Oxford chapt<'r. Daughters of British Empire, will he held Fridav. Fehruarv 2fi. at the home of Mr. at1d Mrs. 'f. JI. \Vest, 1027 Central avenue. -o~~ r. and ~1 rs. Frank Lincoln Koontz of i 121 Ashland evenue arc leaving Saturday evening for Kew Orlean · and Biloxi. en route to Florida, \\·here they will remain until April. FOR YOUR SOUTHERN TRAVEL · Box C. F. H. Wiltnette Life TAYLOR MADE WARDROBE TRUNK Specials at $35.00-$50.00-$67.SO I · l $500.00 $2,soo.oo· HiW YORK · EST. 1859 :c CHI <:AGO f