HE LAKE SHORE NEWS J*e lieu WilmetU and North Shore Xempaprr" PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY By THE BOWMAN PUBLISHING CO. --- Wllmslto, til. -^- : Offices. Room 2, Brown Bui Id Inn. 1199 Wllmette Avenue. Telephone 1640. jt. C. Ferguson. V" .Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR g Entered as second-class matter Marcb IS. 1914. at the postoffice at Wllmette. Illinois, under the act of March 3. 1879. of the past This feeling has been pro- moted la the coming generation by the wild nostrums proposed for re- generation and the bringing about of the mlllennium, by the muck-raking of leaders of pabUc opinion in i Address alt communications to The Xake Shore News. Wilraettc. Anonymous com muni cat ion a will not be noticed. Re- jected manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by postage. All mat- ter for publication in the current week's issue should reach our office not later than Tuesday noon. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1914. "THE MELANCHOLY DAYB." To some of our boys, with the ar- of next Tuesday. September 8, It be a case of "the melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year." for on that day onr public schools wlh' open for the season of 1914-15. No longer will be be allowed to follow the dictates of his own will, but will be a Blare to bells, clocks and tbe multi- farious duties of school lire. This, at least, is t ho popular conception oV Young America's attitude towards the opening of school, and he has heard it talked of so much and has seen it car-. ent and past generations, tending hoi only to weaken the forces of law and order, hot also to sap parental con- trol. The theory that legislation cab ac- complish everything in the elevation Of man will,have, in the course of the next decade, a great many Jolts which will reveal to tbe people tbe mistakes they have made and are likely to make in following any such, view, says Win. H. Taft in The Mother's Magazine. Tbe disposition of one part of tbe people legislatively to reg- ulate the life of others and to make others good, will be greatly moderated In the lesson of their failure. But it is exceedingly important that hi the present saturnalia of millennium-giv- ing reforms, we should not take steps which it will be difficult to retrace, or the evil of which it will take a long, long time to cure. & * * ered, and we submit to the voters that the entire list of candidates should be supported by them. -•*•>■ FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF sftsTVllsf rAllMTY......_______: ■*•*■ %«a: INCLUDING EVAN8TON AND THE NORTH SHORE. ««» SUBMIT THE PLATFORM «•» OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO THE VOTERS -***- FOR THEIR APPROVAL CITIZENS INVITED TO READ AND CONSIDER. THE QUESTION. Immediately after the battle of Sedan, in the Franco-Prussian war, a newspaper correspondent was on the battlefield helping the injured. He came across a Frenchman, mor-1 to represent all parts of the city and tally wounded, who asked him for a ■, county. These candidates invite the Tbe candidates on tbe regular Re- publican ticket for county commis- sioners from the "country towns," which term includes everything in Cook county outside of the Chicago city limits, were chosen by the "Com- mittee of 200," an organization chosen drink of water. After he had finished | approval of the voters of Evanston .o. often in the papers, he hasdrinking, he fell back on the ground |and tQo QQrth shore at the Septcmbei. and looking up into the correspond- j really concluded that he is a martyr to a great cause, tbe value of which be Is unable to fathom. But is it really a fact that tho boys hate school and await tbe opening oi' the fall term with a feeling of dread? It jKro*will watch the average boy dur- ing the first days of school, you will find that while he is undoubtedly full of mischief and seemingly irrepress- primaries, and promise, if nominated, , j to conduct an aggressive campaign, and if elected to ^minister the affairs ent's face asked: "Monsieur, are the Prussians Christians?" "Certainly, replied the newspaper man." "Then," said the Frenchman, "why do we kill j of the county in a business-like man one another?" ncr. This is the question that undoubted- ly thousands of poor peasants are ask- ing themselves today in Europe and this is the question that the monarch!-. of Europe will some day be called upon to answer. The life of a few We call attention to the large In- creases of taxes for the support of all departments of the government tinker the present administration in the state and county, and recall to the public recollection the campaign cries of the Democratic candidate's and declarations of their party platforms In 1912 against high taxes and ap- propriations. The increase of 22 per cent in the aggregate tax rate in Cook county, and from 3S to 70 cents In the state tax rate--the largest in the his- tory of the state--is the answer to Democratic charges and the cend 'x\- j nation of Democratic administrations. County Commissioners. We call attention to the inefficient, wasteful and tuibulent Democratic! board of county commissioners, which • has disgraced the county, squandered the people's money and impaired the administration of the departments of i the county government and the us-;-| fulness of county institutions which! should be devoted to the care of tbe worthy sick and poor. We especially! I emphasize the desirability to elect a : full board of fifteen commissioners who will act harmoniously in the ap- proval of expenditures. We call attend* : to t'.'e h economy and eft: -acy whh ,.ub" -a I. s an i con with the wasteful cx»cn.li£ure: present board. Sanitor; District. which we brand the-most wicked of the many assaults that hare been comment of the supreme court of mi- made against the sanitary district's nois in People vs. McWeeney. 259 hyro-electric plant. We euwha^lxe] Illinois. 171. is rfgniflcant: "Owens the necessity for continuance of! bad no authorityto organize thecon: astute, stern and untiring welfare iveation -ordetermine who should during the nest two' years, while tbe Democratic majority remains in pow- er, to\tbe end that, in 1916. control of tbe sanitary district may be wrest- ed from its enemies and may be en- trusted to the Republican party. The drainage canal is one of the assets of Chicago, upon which the district has expended more than j (he Mgh Etandard maintained by the $72,000,000, and <ts possibilities for j RepubUcan party, and present to the commerce, health and power should j puWfc a ^ ^^ndWatesrwhOWlU re- be developed and conserved for the j store that court to ita former ef- organize It,"anT themaking of the order and personal attempt to enforce it were an inexcusable disregard of tbe law and the statutes." Municipal Court. Wo call attention to the steady de- terioration In the personnel of the judges of our municipal court from vailed in the last 1. r county commission :nony, : pre- ird of rast it )f the largest possible uses. County Judge. We call attention to the scandals which have arisen in connection with the million dollar purchase of voting machines made by the board of elec- tion commissioners and approved by County Judge Owens, and to the re- fusal of Judge Owens to appoint rep- resentatives of tI:e-KepubHcan party to guard the interests'of tbe party at the polls, under the law. The uncov- ering of wholesale frauds committed at the polls at the last general elec- tion has made the presence of Repub- lican party representatives at the poll- ing places a matter of vital Interest to the party and the public," and Judge Owens' action has deservedly engendered uneasiness and suspicion regarding the very integrity of our elections. Our candidate stands conspicuously in this community for honest elec- tions. The bitter, partisan and reck- less spirit displayed by Judge Owens RMe, he Is very much on the alert and j czars, emperors or king* or or a ready for whatever comes his way, j couple of dozen dukes or counts Whether it be in the class room or on j would make but little difference to you will find that he is rot slow to ao-! producers, men who do "something to sorb them. You can harJhy expect I advance civilization,-are wiped out, The committee of two hundred was appointed by the chairman of the Re- pubTTcan county executive committee, Mr. John F. Devinc, under authority conferred upon him by the committee itself. -The purpese of the organiza- tion was to-secure the largest possible participation by the Republicans of the playground. If things are present-j civilization,-exeept-to-advance--it. Butloook county in the selection of can- ed to him In a way at all interesting.! when tens of thousands of toilers and didau-s and the declaration of party principles. The committeemen from the thirty: five wards of Chicago and the six county commissioners' districts in A dispatch from St. Petersburg, j Cook county recommended to the progress receives a knock-out blow m j: m him to be wildly hilarious about a grammar lesson or to bubble over with enthusiasm over a long list of miscel- laneous words which be must learn to I Russia, received recently and pub- \ chairman ohe delegate for each two you? were his age? spell and of whose meaning be prob- lished widely in the daily papers in thousand votes cast at the November ■hly hasn't tho faintest idea. Would! this country, reads as foliows: 'Tho elections in 1912 for President Taft Or rather, did you when you j nobility of this country have agreed an<j Colonel Roosevelt. In this way, None of you cither ex-1 to work in the fields until the harvest tHe partv oi sanitation created by the peots or desires to have your boys look has been gathered, taking the place of \ voters under the primary law in the at life very seriously when they are the peasants who are fighting at the primaries of i:»l2. before the division between the agesof,six and fifteen, and | front." Sure, and wouldn't it be a ! in the partj ha8 found equal repre- lt. certainly Isn't proof positive that grand thing to be able to stand Indentation5 in the committee of two tbe boy is either "backward" or "noisome secluded spot and watch the ^ nundrecL About thirty-ttvu additional good" If he feels that at this season of rC'rand Duke Caviarsky. dressed in the j men Were appoinled to represent the tbe year when all out-of-doors is beck- \ latest fashion, with kid gloves, mon- j DUS|ncsSj professional, industrial, edu- Ofitttg, the days when he is compelled j ode and overalls, pulling tbe bell-coid ■'cati0nai" an,i cfvic organizations, as |o leave his carefree out-door life for lover the back of a plebeian one-eyed well as tlle piesidents of women's Re- the hum-drum of tbe school room are j niule, whil<T the Count de~ Jmabum- puoljcan cl,lbs jn the various wards ovitch, pitchfork In hand, playfully j and c,junlIV ULstricts so that the party ; tosses the golden sheaves onto the migUt naVc (he advantage of the sug- | hay rack? Here's to you, noble nobles, ! and may the blisters in the palms of ' your "lily whites" never be larger Whether the policy of reticence on ... .,,„ i«„.. " than washbowls, and when the day s ^subjects, which came down to us; ^^ |g ^ ^ you flre recHnlng from our Puritan ancestors, was wise | oq th<j shady BWe of the si&c% DUllt or not, it was part of a code of family | by tho sweat of your own noble discipline, tho abandonment of which brows, listening to the far off rattle has not made for the strengthening of Qf musketry and the roar of the can- the race. non, may you be rewarded for your Tbe change is in part due to our arduous toil by the reflection that "it's great prosperity and the increase in better to be a live farm-hand than a |n ^ h|story of the party tnero has material comfort and the desire toi dead, hero." not been such a comprehensive avoid annoyance and disagreeable du-j ~ * * * j investigation of candidates or careful j scrutiny of their records and qualifi- Indeed "The Melancholy Days." * * * A FLABBY AGE. i"We are living in a flabby age. gestions. advice and support of all elements in the party. A ' list of the membership of the committee und also of the subcom- mittee which made recommendations to the general committee, will be found elsewhere in this booklet. The committee of two hundred labored for about one month in the investigation of the candidates to be submitted to the Republican voters. in beating down with an axe the doors Wo denounce the gross abuse of j of tbe Seventh Regiment armory of rv.ver by the present Democratic ma- the Illinois National Guard, which is j< rfty of the board of trustees of the i the property of the state, in order to sanitary district of Chicago, as es-i secure advantages for his faction In I pecially exemplified by swollen pay- tbe Democratic party, shows'his utter nue laws which will make them just rolls, letting of extravagant contracts, j lack of the judicial temperament and in their provisions and equal in their destruction of cfliciency in the staT j his unfitness for the judicial office,! application. Such a revision would of employes and tbe recent effort to and indicates what be might do produce larger public revenues with increase the city- etreet light rate, against opposition parties in order a smaller rate of taxation, and would ulators. fluency and place in the public con- fidence. W.W County Treasurer. We call attention to the dispute be- tween the cbunty treasurer and the public regarding the interest on the public funds in his custody. We hold that the Interest on public funds be- longs to the people, to be faithfully accounted for and lodged in the public treasury. In accordance with these views, our candidate for county treas- v urer has pledged himself to turn the Interest on public funds into the county treasury, and to afford every' facility to tbe public, public agencies or civic bodies-for the inspection of his books and publication of his ac- counts. ""•-- ■ Probate Judge. We point to the long and honorable list of Republican judges of the pro- bate court, and have recommended a candidate who will "maintain the high traditions of the party in the adminis- tration of this great office. Revenue. The intolerable inequalities in the taxation of personal property should be removed by a revision of our reve- satisfy the public that the burdens of government were equally distributed. Short Ballot. V."< favor the short ballot and the consolidation of the departments Dj the government where these reforms can be achieved without sacrifice of efficiency and economy. Woman Suffrage. ^The interest shown by women voters in the limited suffrage granted them by the last general assembly jus* titles the removal of all obstacles fat the way-of granting them full suf- frage, and we favor appropriate actios: to that end. Civil Service. ->- We-believe in the application of the principle of civil service to the public service of the county and of the sani- tary district of Chicago, and favor the passage of a law by the general as- sembly to that end. We call attention to the marked contrast in the enforce- ment of civil service laws under the Democratic and Republican adminis- trations. Examination of Public Offices. We favor the fullest investigation at all times of the public offices by responsible civic bodies, with a view of affecting economies, increasing efficiency and preventing waste and misapplication of the public funds. m , Forest Preserve District. . The last general assembly' passed a - law which will enable the citizens-of Cook county to vole- for the organisa- tion of a forest preserve district fon Cook county. This committee favors the submission of this law to the voters in November next. A matter that affects so greatly the health, comfort and well-being of the com- munity, and at the same time fur- nishes such facilities for wholesome pleasure - and recreation, ' should be submitted to the voters at the earliest 3* opportunity, so that tbe lands neces- sary for carrying out the project may be purchased at reasonable prices be- y fore they fall into the hands of Bpec- aW Evanston, Illinois CALL W1LMET-T.E SIX HUNDRED WHEN YOU WANT ANYTHING GOODYEAR SPECIAL BATH SPRAY............ Basement Specials 39c $1.19 19c 39c QUALITY DUSTLESS RING MOP LIQUID VENEER POLISHING CLOTH ALERT TOILET PAPER 10 for........................ PUZZLED. f ties which a life of ease and pleasure greatly intensifies. But this Is not j That old unenviable position be-1 cations before their selection the only cause. Another is the spread-; tween "the devil and. the deep blue jvidually and collectively these « andi- faig of the idea among our youth that j «**" *« approximately that of the Bu-1 dates represent the best standard of our fathers and mothers did not knOW \ ropoan people who ,ro.or export ooon^he_Repuh4iran Indi- ind if ole< tnd a great deal;..that tho young men and women of tbe present day know more jft,;, fft,.r i^-y, tw is a skeptic- ism as to the wisdom of social, gov- ernmental and religious Ideas that wen accepted in provtous generations, and a flippant disregard of authority baaed on egperieuc* *sd t£ tFbe~Ameriean citizens.4mt who yet\will elevate the administration of the hold property in the home land. They | public offices entrusted to them to a are in a position to repent whichever j higher level. Their nominations were ^the ^outgrowth of harmonious "-stay they turnJ Wise men caution the young against [painstaking work by all elements carrying all their eggs in one basket jjthe party, and if elected they^wiltj The conditions of the present rccom-' work harmoniously in the administra- mend the practice of consolidation of tlon of county affairs. We believe this Interests. iis an important matter to be cocsid- Onyx Grey Enamel Ware m snnsansaaansannna. LIPPED SAUCE PANS 2-qt. 21c 3-qt. 28c 3|-qt. 32c 2-qt. 20c **™*|*» s*5Q ^:■; 5 qt.JUScl _6iqt. 40c Kimono Sleeve mmmmmmm^mmtmmmmmmt^mmmmm iwiiiii mi--■!■■■ ■■■ ■■■ Aprons at 59c Model as illustrated. Gomes in: Chambrays in neat stripes and checks in pink, blue, tan, black and white, and also in plain shades; Percales, neat patterns, stripes and checks on light grounds; Percales, in cadet and navy blue in dots, stripes, figures and checks. Also made in stout sizes in dark and light CCV-% percales. 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