Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Apr 1936, p. 1

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Prosidoet -Kinne and Other Wil-g mette fiii to * ka L.unchoon Fridey Village leaders, including President Ilarry C. .Kinnie, Village Manager Boyne H. Platt andVillage Truste George F.: Ilf9 are going to, let mem-i besof Wilmiette Civic leagué and their guests in ona deep'. darik secret It's something only a select few know about; that .a lot of people would like to know about, and that scarcely. anyone understands how to find out about. The Village -officiaIs iill tell aIl about it at the Civic league mionth-, ly luncheon meeting, to'be' héild at, noon, Friday, April 24, at Marshall: Field and companly's retail store, sevetath floor, nortli. Challenge t. Citizen& Subject titie will be "The Annual Village Budget." Meat of it will be not how much the Village fathers sMand, but what they spend it for. N~how many of the taxPayers' dol- lars flow through the Village hall, but what the taxpayers get for their money. League president, Elmer D. -Becker, plainly states that every citizen owes ýA LETTER PFROM Mit.BLAKI April 20, 1936 The articles' appearing in the April l6th, issue- of the WL TaLin relative t o the recent school board elcin .eed correction. The, procedure objected to is in accordance with the.laws of the state ivith regard, to school board eetos Space is left on the ballots for writ- ing in namnes' of candidates under conditions which apply, to our v.Illae The s'tatement that the "ýwrite-m" protest was a "furtive attempt to take, the election" by means of a rush vote at the eleventh hour and to introduce factionalism latte>the ichoel systemi were completely in error. The first protest vote was cast at approx- imately 2:30 P. M. Saturday, gr about 23/2 hours after the polIs opened. There was nto thought on the part, of anyone connected with the pro- test to take" the election nor was there any desire on the part of the men whose naines were used to de- feat the recommendations of the caucus., It seemied desirable to utilize, election will -bec onducted wlthout objection to the rightful efforts of al desiring îto bring about the best and broadest educational policy. Very truly yours, Bernard S. Black,. 2112 Beechwood. avenue. ABSOLVES YOUNG MENS 1CLUB L'itor, WIMmTTKLIX : Your editorial entitled "The Kinder. garten Clase" which appeared in the April l6th issue of tbe WTILMam Liyz, has been carefully perusedby mne as well as other members and ,t>%cers of the ýlOth> District Young Men's club. 1As' hnmediate .past president of that organization, 1 feel called upon to express my 'hearty disapproval of the inference contained ini the editor- jal, whereby the Ith District Young Men's club is held responsible for the recent attempt of certain Minmette citizens to place opposition candi- dates on the Wilmette School board. -For your information our organ- ization had nothing whatsoever to do :Plesèd With' ][e isiators i Relief Qumndary OfficiaIs of .Wihnette Commlùty Chest association have forwarded to members of the fllinoi s' pneral 'as- Sembly froms the 7thsenatorial dist-, rict a resolution strongly urging thetu to extend the life of the 111in4 Emergenicy.,Relief comunission u1à july I., The' législature had pre4l- ously voted to disband thée comn-, sion on May 1, placing relief, in thé. hanids of township authonities. The, special. session on. relief' re- convened Tuesday. But -the imne un- tiI May 1 is so short' that social àgenies. and relief aut1aorities f 61 adequate measures cannet be passed before that date, nor can township agencies be established to take over the relief load on such short notice. Local relief people also urge tRut the Cook County Bureau of Public Welf are be continued, rather thaau abandoning it for administration by local township bodies. The Chest organizations of Evans- ton and. Winnetka are taking an IFacts is, he says, people wno pay taxes should be fully informed on tax. levying as well as tax paying, and that as exactly wby the Civic league is giving Village authonities, who le.vy, the Village tax, an opportunity to tell the insicde story of. every single tax dolla r, why it is needed 'and what thetxae will get for it. Mr. Beker adds that, he hopes many Wilmette citizens. wilI show enbugh interest in taxes to be present at the a nomianating committee consisting of delegates of ,a limited group of vil- lage. organizations which in nio real sense represent the majority of the citizens. Sufficient notices of the election were flot posted and it is doubtful if 1/20 of t he residents of, t he village even knew that an eîec- tion was to be held, wihich undoubt- edly accounts for the negligible vote cast. The lth District Young Men'sIThe RPolution club is not interested as a club ini thel 'the rsotluti a pre s as fo school board elections of any of the mmeso h eiltr sa o- New Trier Township villages. The lows.: ~c+i~rn<>fr.i.~Av<.in nminrl WHEREAS, the abandonmnt of the quesionof poceure n nm*n Illinois Emergency Relief commission candidates for the school boards in May 1i baves the administration of relief any of the villages has neyer been Jin this utate, and In our county and brought before our organization, and tonhpI a totgliy disorganized con- as far as 1 amn personally concerned "-wEEREAs, our local township au- [ see nothing wrong with the manner thorities have neither organisation flor i which it bas been handled in the funds for assuanlng the relief load, If action of the legIslatureprior to May 1 past by the-respective civic organizSi- should throw tils respnslblnty . upon dions. - - ern, & usim i -u . .... u- & Real Este .. .. .. .. . .. .. .54 .............. 12 SocityPet" ...4%5 torious.I lit was announced.

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