Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Apr 1931, p. 69

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The airpiane is to bc vonsidered basically as a means of transporta- tion, ,and not as a flying circus and thrill gatherer. This constructive angle on aviation was seen from the viewpoint of Thomas Wolfe, district traffic manag:- er for National Air Transport, Int., Speaker at the regular monthly meet- ing of the Wilmette, Chamiber. of Commerce in the, Masonic temple on, Monday nigbt of this week. t Speed and 'safety. were te. two: transportation factors emphasized by Mr. Wolf e in bis discussion of the *airpiane. The locomotive raised the social and.eonmî calé of liing the, motor car raised the scale stili higlier; and now commercial aviation, not more. than four Yeats old,- is bringing a tremendous. speed1 which is affecting economic life, for the cost of everyrthing we buy and *sel is in-, fiuenced by transportation. ashbrifk" Country. FErthernir.e, Mr. Wolf e poinited out, business engagements in distant citles niay bc met by airplanes whosi. speed is shrinking the United States to the size of Texas. A Wilmette business man may take a plane to KanasCiy n-the morning, keep his. appointment, and then speed home to supper. "Phat man'y persons are using air- planes to save time is indicated by the' fact that there are eighty-two * arrivals and departures daily f rom the Municipal airport lu Chicago. Discount Thrills "We're trying to make aviation as commonplace as going to work in the morning," Mr. Wolfe said. "On the basis of its merits as a transp9rtatiofl factor the aeronautical jndustry ' lias grown faster than anv other industry in the wrld" 1 Save time and create wealth, is the aviation. formula. according tb Mr. WIewho stressed that thé tceth *of air-îra1nspoitatiofl lies 'in speed. The fastest arplane speed recorded, he said, was 357.7 per hour, while. the îàfstest time ior an automobile, swift- est of land vebicles, îs approximately 245 miles per hour. cita Safety, Factor Photo by Toloff, John1 A. Roi. Photo by H. Holbrook Roerot Wlehad Robert W'ieland and John A. Roisait arceiebers of the cast in "Vour Uncle Dudley'> zuhich j: presented tonight' and ts'morrow night at the Wlmnette Woman~s club as a bene fit of the building fund of the new St. Francis Xavier church and is -sponsored by the Woman's Catholic club of Wilmette. Robert Wieland j: a 9raduate of Northwesten university and tuas a pro minent member of th.i Northtuestern Players zuhile attending school. 'He presents a splendid interpretation of "Robert Kirb y." John A. Ronass is a reuident of long standing in. Winette. He has been active in community affairs and lias always backed civic pro jects. He lays the role of- «Charlie Post," Dudie Y' friend, ini "Your Uncle Dudle y."* gettlng out of control, a tube has been devised for use on the w1flg's edge. When the tube le expanded by the pilot, the ee' is push ed off the wAng. Secon- dary ice le encointered only' under rare conditions." 1Atter hie talk, Mr. Wolfe showed mo- tion pictures, glvlng Interesting vlews of the. Graf. Zeupelln, the' sixty-passen-, ger DO-X, and an atrplane trip fm Chicago to New York. At thie.. tartof. hie talk, Mr. Wolfe was most appreciative. Thie prograin included .Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Songs," Tschesnokoff's "Cherubic Ilyffi," Rachmaninoff's "Prel ude," and several negro spirituals, some of which were very modern.and popular' arrangements. Miss Kaplan,. who 'was..forced to cut short her program before thie club last year because of laryngitis, gave the -second haîf of a short sketch Nearly 2,000 teachers will as- semble at iEvanston High sehool Mon- day, Apr. 2, for the annxuaI meeting of the Lakce Shore division of the~ State Teachers' association. Schoo will be dismissed for the day and al1 .E'vanston public school teachers will take part in the proceedings. General meetings wil be -held in thé' morning and afternoon and will be followed by sectional discussions. 0f> intereat to members of local parent- teachers associations, which are wel- come to attend, will be the parent- teacher, meeting at -noo n. This will be' addressed, by Dr. Ernest Hornof the University of Iowa *ho, will speak. on «Tendencies, lnModern Educa- Peatured- at the general meetings will be- Dr. Thomas Briggs of Colum- bia. university and: Miss Florence Hale of Augsa Me., an. authority où, rural eduatin. Big T«n Cémmisslomu.. ta T.l Mai-or John L Griffith, commis- siner >of the Big Ten, will adMress the physical education section' on "Physical Education and Athletics," and Charles Eaben Kelley of the Chi- cago Art institute wilil speak at the fine and applied arts meeting on "Art Education for Industrial Design." Other principal speak~ers will be Prof. William A. I. Beyer of thie normal school at Bloonungton, sub- ject, "Changes. Ahead"; Prof A. Eustace Haydon cf the University of, Chicago~, subject, "Putting Ideals into Behavior"; and Felix Borowski of the Chicago Symphony orchestra. S unmer Session of University to 01fer Interesti-ng Classes New and interesting features for the summer session of Northwestern universityare announced in thie suni- mer, session bulletin, 'which will be off the press this week. The session wiIl begin June 22 and continue untul Aug. 15, £iccept in. thie schools of music and speech, where thie session know 'what tb do in case youdoe-sm mnnraRusa couuter i 'and mnaeto gv h .The secudarýy e e xpands, on mnaetiheti v In n a shape that destroya theîr I arge choral gmoup. It àse, l'mt"n1 power. lu order to preet planesý ing, and the audience last ,t. LucyJ 'e start- ' lui the Mrs. Lloyd' Crouàct, iýother of gers do. 'Mrs, George Kingsley of' 529 Cumnor cti of a road, lCenilworth, left TueÉday for. y amnaz- hemÊ home in Genesco, N. Y, after a, dnesday 1Wînter's staY. in Kénilworth,

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