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WILMETTE LIFE January 17, .1930 News of the North Shore Clubs Voters League to Hold Open Meeting To Impart Information on Women on Juries Question at Meeting on January 27 Shall women serve on juries? The voters of the state -of Illinois will have a chance to decide this question in the November election. Believing this to be a question of paramount interest to all women whether they are members of the League of Women Voters or not, the Wilmette league is holding an open meeting on this subject Mo~1dav, January 27. Mrs. Edmond M. Simonds and Miss Helen Cerise wilt be the speakers. The league feels that any danger of defeat for the measure in the November referendum -lies in lack of infor!llation and a subsequent apathy on the part of the public. That it is the duty of every educated woman to become enlightene4. and then to make up her mind on the very important question, is the opinion of the league. In a radio address over WLS Judge John P. McGoorty made the following points: Hln twenty of our states, women are serving on juries. The result has been according to statements made by judges, attorney generals, and the ·bar of the several states, that the presence of women on juries has materiatly im proved the administration of justice. "Under the Nineteenth amendment of the Federal Constitution, women are entitled to vote. We find women among our law makers and on the the bench. One of the members of the Supreme court of Ohio i_ s Florence Allen. Judge Mary M. B_ a rtelme of the Circuit court is the presiding judge of one of the world's greatest courts, the Juvenile court of Cook county. "If jury service may be regarded as a duty and an obligation, which it certainly is, I believe the great majority of the women of Cook county, and the great state of Illinois will cheerfully assume such obligation in the discharge of their civic duties. It is sometimes urgeg that certain cases in our court involv·i ng social cause should not be heard by women. There is every reason, howeyer, why our women should aid in solving our social problems. It is also urged as against women serving on juries, the impracticability of keeping a mixed jury together in criminal cases. The law provides for separate quarters for women jurors, with provision for women bailiffs. "The adopti~n of this law by the people will be a forward step. It will undoubtedly, in my opinion, improve the administration of justice. Women now can sue and be sued. They frequently appear in court as witnesses. The adoption of this law will give them the right in such instances to have some members of their own sex on a jury. . "Shall it be said that women, politJcally, or in the exercise of any attribute of citizenship, are subordinate to men? Fairness, justice, and the experience of other states of our country should a.;sure that this proposition be adopted by the people." The Alpha Phi alumnae of the University of Ilinois are giving a card party for the benefit of the house fund at the Hotel La Salle Saturday afternoon February 1. Miss Marian Thayer of Kenilworth is chairman of the affair. Business Women Hear Lectures on Thrift "Investigate before you invest" was the advice of W. B. Robinson, Jr., of Wilmette in his informative talk before members of the Business and Professional Women's club Monday evening at the dinner meeting which observed Thrift week. "Systematic <;::tYing with wise investing" was his recipe for effecting a future income and the climax of his remarks about "Saving for an Income," which was one event of the evening's program which followed the dinner hour. Mrs. Eleanor Young Skillin divided the program with Mr. Robinson and spoke on the thrift po:;sibilities of life insurance. The speakers were introduced by Miss Emma Schreiner, program chairman. Mr. Robinson, who is assistant cashier and assistant trust officer of the Wilmette State bank, spoke first. He remarked that saving was an ~'old custom·' and told of its origin in England about the Seventeenth century and its start in Philadelphia in 1816 as the first savings bank, the Philadelphia Savings Fund society. He traced ~he growth of the savings fund as a parallel development with industrial, commercial, and business advancement and told of the different methods of saving funds that banks of today offer. He stressed the importance of saviilg and safe investing during one's most productive years so that a regular in come would be forthcoming in the future and touched upon the problems of investment, pointing out their pitfalls and dangers. Mrs. Skillin, who is associated with the Massachusetts Life Insurance company, tolrJ clearly and concisely of what insurance investment means, what it offers, its various policies and its safeness, and declared in her opinion that "there is no exchange for insurance.-. In the course of her exchange of ideas about life insurance she quoted statistics which state that more than onehundred billion dollars is represented in insurance investment in the United States, au amount which is twice the value of farm land investment, three times the value of that in homes, six times that in automobiles. The program followed a short business session over which the presid~nt of the club, Mrs. Florence K. Freund, presided. Ensemble singing of club songs filled the interim between dinner courses and the opening of the program, and brought the meeting to a close. 8on. J. H. Edwards Circle Sponsors Will Give Lecture Lecture Series at Neighbors, Club Margu~rite Calkins Taylor's Talks The Neighbors of Kenilworth wnt hold the annual Men's night meeting at the Kenilworth Assembly hall the evening of January 21, at 8:15 o'clock. The Hon. ]. Hugh Edwards, the noted Welsh member of Parliament, intimate friend of David Lloyd George and keen obs~rver of world politics in the years since the war, will be the speaker of the evening. Mr. Edwards is a brilliant orator, a virile thinker and in his speech "Where Is the World Today and Whither Is ft Going?" he will talk of the Naval Disarmament conference, the definite growth of peace ideas as they are supplanting war ideas, the financial situation in Europe and international relationships. Mr. Edwards' ~~David Lloy~ G~org~, t~e Man ~nd the Statesman, wtth 1ts 1ntroductton . by. Secretary of ~abor, .J ame.s ] . D~vts, 1s one of th_e mterestlng b1?graph1es of the new yea~. The .Impen~l Male. quar.tet of Chtcago w1ll prov1de mustc durmg the evening and Mrs. Burt ~· Cro'":e w!ll he hostess fo~ the occasiOn which IS an open· meetmg. on Interior Decoration to Swell Church Fund To Address Meeting The North End branch, Friend.., of the Chicago Junior school for bovs and girls, will hold its next regular -meeting at the Sovereign hotel, Chicago Tuesday evening, January 21, at 8 o'clock. Professor Frederick Heidbriilk of Northwestern university will talk on lhe subject of "Laughter ::md Applause." Miss Gladys Bezazian, pianist, and Miss Evelyn Ewert, soprano, w11l give groups of piano and song selections. Hostess to Club Group Mrs. Samuel H. Moore, 707 Laurel avt. 1 ue, will be hostess to eighty members of the ways and means commit~.ee of the vVoman's Catholic club of Wilmette a·t luncheon and bridge Tuesday, January 21, at her home. TO MEE'T AT FIELDS The Protestant Women's Service club meets Wednesday, ] anuary 22, in the Wedgwood room at Marshall Field's. Luncheon will be served at 12 :30 o'clock. Ma_rguerite Calkins Taylor, prominent artist and a member of the North Shore Art league, will give a course of lectures on interior decoration f0r five successive Fridays at 10:30 o'clock in the morning. The talks will be given in the rooms of the First Congrega- · tional church under the auspices of the East End circle for the benefit of the building fund of the church. The series commences February 7. The first lecture will be concerned with historic backgrounds dealing with the great creative period in architecture and decoration when contjnental customs influenced design of furniture 'and other household appointments. Canopy beds and period fireplaces are examples of what continental custom effected. ' The second lecture will be on color: the third and fourth on decorating and furnishing problems, such as walls, draperies. floors, furniture arrangeClub Juniors Informed ment. balance and grouping. of work of Big Sisters The fifth t?lk wi.ll.be a discu~sion. of textiles the1r ortgm and htston~al The regular meeting of the J ttnt?r . backgr~und, and their connection with auxiliary of the Woman's club of the present good taste in decoratior. mette was held Thursd~y evemng, The entire course is planned to emJanuary 1?, at .the Woman s club .. ~he phasize the practical and not the techfirst meetmg m. J anuar~ ~as omtt :ed nical in interior decoration. R h . p M H on accouat of 1ts proxtm:ty to N~!w Year's day. Mrs. a1 p otter, rs. arry Hooker and Mrs. Ralph Huff are in . The g-uest and speaker of the eye- charge of the sale of tickets. nmg was Mrs. Ira L. Reynolds of · Wilmette, chairman of the general -------membership of the Service Council for Club Invites to Tour Girls, an organization of more than of Places Ar'tistic five hundred members and whose board. A tour of interesting spots in Chiis composed of .fi'fty representative women of Cook county. Mrs. Reynolds cago has been arranged for members gave an informal talk on the work of of the \Voman's club of Wilmette and the Service council which deals w1th their guests Friday, January 24, by the Juvenile court girls, a work originally ·ways and means committee of the c!ub started by Judge Mary A. Bartelme, as a benefit for its building fund. Last hut the bulk of which now is done by week preliminary announcement was a volunteer group of Big Sisters made, this week, indefinite details of under the direction of two expert soctal the tour are definite. workers. The Tavern club; the Chicago Galleries. where two one-man shows are Club Is Offering Book current, those of Myron Boyd and Wilbur G. Adam, who offer brilliance RevieW Series to Public and unusualness in their canvasses: Morning book reviews that are open the Elks Memorial, and Ciro's unique to anyone interested in literature, and famous restaurant will be visited whether a member of the Woman's during the day, and at Ciro's the guests club of Wilmette or not, are offered will stop for luncheon. without charge by the literature deMrs. Harry Barnhill is chairman of partment of the club. The first of these events occurs Wednesday morn- the tour. ing, ] anuary 22, at 10:30 o'clock, and is in charge of Mrs. Summer R. Ma- Sponsoring Bridge son. A card party will be given at the Miss Anne Whitmack, Wilmette li- Woman's club this afternoon by the brarian, will give the opening pro- sanctuary department of · the Woman's gram with a survey of the best books Catholic club. Mrs. Mae Rowan, 924 of 1929 and a resume of "A Room of Fifteenth street, is chairman of ~he One's Own" by Virginia Wolf. Mrs. committee in charge of the arrange~ ]. Melville Brown of Kenilworth is ments. Her assistants are Mesdames chairman of the department. C. A. Barton, G. J. Biehl, E. J. Schager, H. Schmidt, J. F. O'Neill, and G. E. Routh, ] r. It was erroneonsly Sew for Welfare Today Sewing is being done at the Wom- stated in WILMETrt LIFE last week an's club of Wilmette today for the that the century department was sponbenefit of the Infant Welfare society. soring the affair. Work is arranged under the auspices of the philanthropy department of the Sisterhood Meeting club, of which Mrs. Frederick Tilt is There will be a meeting of Junior chairman, and luncheon is served at Sisterhood of the North Shore Con12:30 o'clock. Th~ sewing, which gregation Israel Sunday at 2:30 o'clock commences at 10 and continues until at the temple, Lincoln and Vernon ave4:30, ·is open to any woman in Wil- nues, Glencoe. Miss Mabelle Payton, mette interested in doing a bit for instructor of English at New Trier charity. High school, will be the speaker. "Y·I-