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WILMETTE 1 LIFE RETURN . FROM TRIP April 12, 1929 ·T~. ; ' 7 I Joseph B. Marshall has returned to . . . . . y · hAD B.BRWDI Specializing in tbt treatment of your best friends, tht his home at 1040 Elmwood avenue after a several week's stay with hh family in Clearwater, Fla. Mrs. Marshall and Miss Uetty are remaining in the South and do not expect to return to Wilmette until some time in May. · "Dol aad C&t" An' Calls Rectivr My Personal Attention LADY ASSISTANT 1 · RW.e Aft. W"almette 3347 Do You Get Full Value Out of Your Telephone? Y OU do not unless you use it for out-of- town calls. Your friends and relatives may be miles away in person but you can be face to face with them by telephone. Perhaps you write letters to them-fine, so far as it goes. But no letter can ever give you the pleasure of hearing their voices. Your telephone will take you wherever at small cost. you wish to go, quickly, conveniently and Bell lines reach everywhere in the United States and connect with Cuba, Canada, principal cities in Mexico and all tele- phones in the princi.pal countries of West- ern Europe. Service is quick and accurate. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY One Policy Fewer children between fourteen and sixteen are leaving school to go to work and those who do secure work· ing certificates before they are sixteen have completed more grades than for, Vote The Peoples Party ~cket merly, according to some statistics gathered by the Illinois League of WoDan Harrison. 307 Abbottdord road, men Voters. A bill to amend the IlliTUESDAY, APRIL 16 Kenilworth, returned to Asheville, nois Child Labor act by raising ·t he N . .C .· last Friday, where he attends educational requirement for the emA Cro11 in the Circle Will Do It ployment of children under sixteen school. years of age from the sixth to the eighth grade has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Cutl)bertson and endorsed by the League of Women Voters. In order to ascertain how much schooling children of fourteen and fifteen years of age leaving school to go to work have had, and how large a number would be affected by such a . law. the Child Welfare committee of the league, under the chairmanship ·of Mrs. Venning Dodge Simons, Jr., of Chicago, wrote to the superintendents of schools in all cities in Illinois with a population of 10,000 and over as to the grade completed by the children who were given working certifiq.tes during the year 1928. The replies showed that the practice is · better th;tn the law, as only a small proportion of the children receiving working certificates during the past year had ·not finished the eighth grade. Two cities gave no working certifi cates to children who had not com pleted at least one year of high school -Canton and Herrin. Several citiesAlton, Centralia, Evanston (District 75), Joliet, Maywood, Moline, and Oak Park-had no children leaving school at the · end of the sixth grade, while other cities gave over twenty certifi cates to children leaving school on the completion of the sixth grade such a s Bloomington, Chicago, East St. Louis. Kewanee and Rockford. Out of 5,719 children who left school to go to work in 40 school districts, 3,829 or 67 per cent, had finished the eighth grade. Many of these had had some high school work . Only 1,097 or 19.2 per cent left school as soon a s they had completed the sixth grade. while 788 or 13.8 per cent left afh:·r finishing the seventh grade. These statistics as .compared with similar statistics collected for 1926 show a decrease in the total number of child ren leaving school to go to work and an increase in the proportion complet ing the higher grades. In the 33 cities which provided similar information for both the years 1926 and 1928, there were 9,018 children in 1926 as compared with 5,499 children in 1928 who left school to go to ·work while stil~ under 16 years of age. Only 63 per cent in 1926 as comp~red with 67 per cent in 1928 had finished the eighth grade. These statistics are encouragiug to those who wish a grammar school education for every normal child, Mrs. Simons says. The League of Women Voters believes that apparently there is a greater desire on the part of the children or their parents for more schooling and that employers a:re probably demanding more education before they are willing to employ children under sixteen. BELL SYSTEM The enactment of this amendment would create no hardship for the child.. One System .. Universal Service ren as the tendency is for them to finish the eighth grade anyway and it would insure a grammar school education to the small percentage of children who might ryot otherwise have it. STRAIGHT Mr. and Mrs. Arthur· C. Hammond. 500 Grer;ory avenue, have returned to their home this week after an absence of five months. They spent some time in Los Angeles and then La Jolla, where they visited the George Glendons, formerly of Wilmette. They returned from California about a month ago and stayed at the Orrington hotel, spending Easter and the following week at French Lick Springs, Ind. Fewer Children Are LeavifJg School to Work, ·survey Shows .. ·· . ® Rollin Spencer Thompson is the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Rollin S. Thompson of 736 Roger avenue, Kenilworth, who wa·3 born March 26, at the Evanston hospital. Mrs. Thompson was Miss Dorothy Olson of Kenilworth.