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2T a a rt ee TE A WEEKLY Ta Nearly Everybody in Winnetka Reads the Talk 203% a TERT es Vis 2 VOL. VI, NO. 15 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1917 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS - _ 3D WINNETKA WOMEN To JOIN HOOVER'S ARMY Patriotic Mass Meeting Will Be Held + sat the Winnetka Woman's Club, Monday, June 2, at 3 P. M. ? EDGE CARDS WILL BE GIVEN TO LOCAL WOMEN Registration for Work in National Unit to Be Held. The économy and conservation 'committee of Winnetka will hold a patriotic mass meeting at the Wo- "man's club on Monday, July 2, at 3 o'clock. An attractive and instruc- tive program has been arranged by rs. W. P. J. Dinsmoor, chairman of the committee. - Mrs. Antoinette Funk, a member of the executive board of the Council »f National Defense, will speak on the difference between the national i 4 © registration card for women and the food pledge card issued by H.C. Hoover, the director of food conser- vation in the United States. Mrs Funk has taken an active part "in the program arraaged for the wo- en By the national council, having offices in Washington, D. C. The valuable services given to the de- partment by Mrs. Funk in this branch of work has placed Illinois as one of the leading states in con- servation of foods. Miss Harriet Vittum, director of .the Northwestern University Settle- ment in Chicago, will speak on the ethical side of the work being done under the supervision of the national board. : Mrs. W. P. .J Dinsmoor, chairman of the Winneika committee, ~ §peak on the work that has been ac- complished by the women in the vil- lage in this department of war work. The plans for the work to be carried on by the local unit willbe discussed at this meeting. WB "It is hoped that every woman in Winnetka will realize the importance of the meeting Monday afternoon," Mrs. Dinsmoor said. "This program will give them a clear understanding of the most important situation that has ever come hefore the women in the United States. Sign Pledge Cards. "The women organizing" to con- serve foods in the country have been called the 'second line of defense and it should be the aim of every woman to take her place in that line. "The work of the economy and co rvation committee of Winnetka wi oe resumed in the fall, following the vacation period. Our work has been confined to what has seemed the best of substitutes for foods, and the assistance that has been given through the courtesy of many Chi- cago concerns and local merchants has made this work possible." Food pledge cards will be available to sign accepting membership in the 'United States Food Administration. These cards will be sent to H. C. Hoover and the signer will receive an official pledge button and a house- hold tag from Washington, D. C. The Winnetka committee hopes to "list one of the largest registrations in this national campaign and every woman is urgently requested to at- tend the meeting on Monday after- noon. . There will be a demonstration in "canning" at the Community house, Monday afternoon, July 9, at 2 o'clock. Miss Grace Smith and her assistant, Miss Helen Holden, will explain "The Cold Pack Canning Method." Following the demonstration Mon- day, the weekly demonstrations will be discontinued until the fall. The conservation and economy commit- tee will devote its time to the prob- lems of canning foods for winter, during the next few months. CEE ph gE ~ Crosser to Speak. *. Dr. John R. Crosser, formerly of the Kenwood Evangelical church of ' Chicago and later of the American church of Berlin, Germany, will preach Sunday morning, July 1, at © 1 o'clock, at the Winnetka Congre- i gational church. will | GE WINDES IMPROVES AKTER RIOUS ILLNESS Winnetka s Stricken While Hearing Motions on Bench. Judge Thomas G. Windes of the circuit court, dean of Chicago jurists by virtue of his twenty-five continu- ous years of service, was stricken speechless in court with facial neu- ralgia and was forced from the bench because of the resulting loss of speech, it became known today. He was rushed to his home in Win- netka and physicians called. or a time it was thought he was in a seri- ous condition. His daughter today said he was improving, however. The judge's vigor is responsible for his successful fight against the attack in his sixty-ninth year, physicians say. Victim of Many Attacks. "Father has been subject to the at- tacks for some time," the daughter said at the family residence today. "He was stricken Saturday while hearing motions and could not speak. Attorneys cared for him, court was adjourned and father was taken home. "He is under the care of Dr. E. C. Stolp of Wilmette. We expect him to be back on the bench again next week." His Career Sketched. Judge Windes was born in Morgan county, Alabama, in 1848, and after receiving the preparatory education, he studied law at the University of Virginia. He married Sallie C. Humphrey of Madison, Ala., in 1868. He served in the cavalry forces of the confederate states in 1864 and 1865, and from 1868 to 1870 he taught school. For the next two years he was a farmer, and then followed the legal profession. He was a master in chancery in the circuit court here from 1880 to 1892, and has since been a judge in the circuit court, being the presiding justice in 1908. His pres- ent term expires in 1921. J ATHLETIC PROGRAM FORK MEN AT SHERIDAN PARK Playground to Be Opened on July 10 for Winnetka Young Men. The public playground at the Hor- ace Mann school for boys and girls, under the personal supervision of H. P .Clarke and C. J. Anderson, is from 9 to 1:30 o'clock. An evening playground for boys and young men will be opened on July 10 at Sheridan park. Athletic games will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:45 to 8:15 o'clock. Soft ball, volley ball and quoits will be the events for the evening classes. Instruction in swimming, diving and life saving is offered to the resi- dents of Winnetka, without charge, by C. J. Anderson. The first of the lessons will be given Monday, July 2, and every day during the season, with the exception of Saturday and Sunday, from 2 to 4 o'clock. ES PICTURES TAKEN HERE FOR ECONOMY CLASSES Chairman of Local Committee Ar- ranges for "Movies." Present day efficiency was given another boost in Winnetka last week when motion pictures of a canning demonstration were taken by H. E. Brown of the Pathe department of the International Film company. The demonstration was complete in every detail, from the picking of the vegetables, which took place in the gardens of Mrs. August Magnus, 650 Sheridan road, and Mrs. W. P. Dinsmoor, 213 Linden avenue, to their preparation and actual canning. This was done on the porch of Mrs. Dins- moor, with Miss Grace Smith and Miss Helen Holden officiating. A copy of this film will be given to the Community house and will be shown every Friday night as a sup- plement to the regular program. It is expected the first run will be on July 6. A copy of the film has been presented to Mrs. Dinsmoor for use in Winnetka in appreciation of her assistance, as it was she who sug- gested the idea and helped to put it into effect. LB 0_-F_ 0 Need Workers. Mrs. Roswell B." Mason will have charge of the hospital supply work Tuesdays and Fridays at the Parish house. Women are urgently re- questéd to attend and help during the afternoons. WINNETKA WILL GET CALL TO HELP CAMP War Department Training Camps Will Begin North Commission on Shore Campaign for Help. PROGRAM FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ARRANGED Towns Are Asked to Provide Recre- ation Centers for® Men. The War Department Commission on Training Camp activities has adopted a very interesting program to be inaugurated during the war. Many residents of Winnetka are tak- ing an active part in helping promote the commission's plan along the north shore. The work of the Commission is di- vided into three branches. The Y. M. C. A. has been assigned certain duties within each camp, especially the establishment of their famous recreation buildings, which have been so successfully carried on by them in the camps on the Mexican border and in military and prison camps of Europe. There will be one such building for each brigade in the U. S., with books and magazines, pro- vision for writing letters, lectures, games, moving pictures and other educational and recreational activ- ities. The second branch of the work will be to aid in the exclusion of vice and vicious resorts from the neighborhood of each camp. The third branch of the work is of a more positive sort than the second. Tt is the belief of the commission that a purely negative policy as re- rat reser Ul ielS. ullside of theta ps would come very far from meeting the needs of the situation. The un- derlying cause of the great and ob- vious evils which have attended the establishment of training camps in this country and in Europe, has been the result of the cutting off of the men in the camps from normal so- cial intercourse and recreation. The resulting evils include not merely {vice and dissipation and their conse- quences, but homesickness, depres- sion and a general loss of moral and physical tone, which are almost equally serious. The public resources of the com- munity should be placed at the dis- posal of officers and men. Public institutions might well extend their Saturday afternoon hours and re- main open on Sundays, the soldiers' one day off. The north shore towns could furnish official receptions for the soldiers, showing that the com- munity welcomes them as guests in the villages. The adoption and carrying out of the program, outlined by the com- mission, in each community in the neighborhood of the training camps, is not the responsibility of the com- mission, but of the community itself. North shore towns offering recre- ational activities are requested to register them with the commission. The workers in charge will help to bring appropriate soldiers and sailors into relationship with the opportuni- ties offered. Charles E. Reed, 466 Adams street, Glencoe, is representing the Com- mission of Training Camp activities on the north shore. He will concen- trate his efforts in the communities from Evanston to Waukegan. Mr. Reed has been loaned for this war-time service by the Playground and Recreation Association of Amer- ica. He was employed by the Chi- cago Association of Commerce be- fore joining this association. EREEN COLLINS WILL OPEN NEW RECRUITING STAND HERE Lathrop Collins, who has charge of the Winnetka office of the Offi- cers' Training camp, will have a re- cruiting stand opened all day on the Fourth of July. Information on what must be done to register for the second camp will be given out by Mr. Collins. Appli- cation blanks may be signed at the stand and these will be sent to Chi- cago BET) O R] NORTH SHORE TOWNS TO DISCUSS SOCIAL PLANS Meeting Will Be Held at Community House in Winnetka. The national board of the Young Women's Christian association will hold a meeting at the Community house in Winnetka for the residents of the North Shore on Sunday eve- ning, July 1, at 8 o'clotk. The pro- gram will be under the auspices of the Winnetka War Emergency union and Mrs. Herman B. Butler will have charge of the meeting. The subject to be discussed will be in regard to the social conditions among girls and women in the neigh- borhood of the military and naval training camps. Mr. Whitehair of the international Y. M. C. A. commit- tee, Miss Martha McCook and Miss Louise Holmquist of the national board of the Y. W. C. A, and Rev: Charles W. Gilke, who is in charge of the Y. M. C. A. camp at Fort Sheridan, will speak on the work that must be done. The plans for creating social cen- ters to entertain the men in the camps. will be discussed Sunday eve- ning. The residents of the north shore are urgently requested to at- tend this meeting, as they have many opportunities to help at Fort Sheri- dan. EE Es KLOEPFER EXTENDS THE DELIVERY SYSTEM HERE Carriers Will Cover Territory to the Boundary of Kenilworth. A. M. Kloepfer, postmaster of Win- netka, announces that the delivery service will be extended to the south- ern limits of the village on July 9. Delivery service will be given to the people living between Elder lane, east of the tracks, to the boundary line of Kenilworth. There will be two deliveries, morning and after- noon, and the New Trier High school reficiais mav- take advantage of ile order and get their mail at the Win- netka office. The official notice, authorizing Mr. Kloepfer to extend this service, was received this week from the depart- ment at Washington, D. C. Residents in the new community to have postal deliveries petitioned for this service in August, 1915. Mr. Kloepfer was unable to ask the department for the extension until last month, as cer- tain improvements had to be made to comply with the government's regu- lations. RR 0_ WINNETKA WOMAN GIVEN HONOR BY U. S. OFFICER Mrs. Frederick Dickinson Writes Song to Aid Recruiting. "The Spirit of '17" is the title of a patriotic song which has just been written by Mrs. Fredesick Dickinson, 952 Pine street. Mrs. Dickinson, who is the wife of the village attorney, heard of the call for patriotic songs to be used for recruiting purposes, and sent in this song, which, together with one other, was published at the recommendation of Captain Franklin Kenney. The music, of which Mrs. Dickinson is also the composer, is catchy and stirring, and gives every promise of attaining popularity. The chorus is as follows: Then we'll march to the front And we'll help bear the brunt Of the struggle against a giant foe, Though with heavy hearts and tears, We bid farewell to the loved ones as we go; Yet we'll enter the fray, And we'll hasten the day When the turmoil shall end across the sea; And we'll gladly fight the battle For all humanity! 000%] : WINNETKA GUEST BLAME CIGARETS FOR SHORTAGE "Lady's Cigaret" Held Responsible for Lack of Wheat. If women didn't smoke so many cigarets there would be more wheat in the world, according to Mrs. Henry M. Dunlap, wife of State Sen- ator Dunlap of Savoy. Mrs. Dunlap, the guest of Mrs. Augustus S. Peabody of Winnetka, spoke at the afternoon session of the wonlan's war convention, which opened this week in the Fine Arts building. VILLAGE TO OBSERVE THE FOURTH OF JULY Attractive Program with Opening Events at the New Skokie Play- field in the Morning. CADETS WILL FURNISH MUSIC FOR COMMITTEE Executive Board Cuts Expenses in Afternoon Entertainments. A program with many interesting events has been arranged for Win- netka's thirtieth celebration of the Fourth of July. The events will be- gin in the morning with athletic con- tests at the Skokie playfield and Lake Front park. The program for the afternoon and evening events, which will be held on the village green, will differ in several respects from that which has been presented heretofore. The Fourth of July committee, after con- ference with the War Emergency union, has decided that it would be wiser and even more patriotic this year to omit some of the more ex- pensive features. Accordingly, there will be no dancing on the village green in the evening, nor any profes- sional entertainment. however, be a band concert given by the Naval band from the Lakes Training station, and an ex- hibition of moving pictures. Preceding the events of the after- noon, there will be a parade by the Military Training Corps of the Win- netka War Emergency union, ling this, there will be a pat meeting and speeches. also he read excerpts frem } bration of Tudepengence nd recent war address by Pre: son. Ea Open Playfield. But perhaps the most unusual and important event of the day will be the formal opening of the Skokie playfield which, the board of c.m- missioners of the Winnetka Park district announces, will take place on July 4. A schedule of events has been arranged for the morning, un- der the direction of the general com- mittee in charge of the annual Fourth of July celebration. The pro- gram consists of baseball, volley- ball, games, putting, and driving con- tests. The golf course will not be open for general play until after these events have taken place, which will be about 11 o'clock. The new Field house, with dress- ing room and shower baths for the use of golfers and ball players, has just been completed. The golf course and the baseball diamond are both in good condition. Tt is hoped and expected that the use of the play- field this season will be constant and growing as the people of Winnetka become acquainted with its ad- vantages, which are open to all. The following are names of the chairmen of committees in charge of the celebration: General chairman, Donald Mec- Pherson; athletic committee, Harry P. Clarke; finance committee, Mancel T. Clark; prize committee, Robert 8S. Laird; music committee, Ernest S. Ballard; entertainment committee, Frederick Scott; program committee, Lawrence Howe: grounds commit- tee, Arthur R. Dean; chief clerk of course, Calvin Fentress. SR LIGHTNING DELAYS THE NORTH SHORE SPECIALS Crowds Held Thirty Minutes When Sub-Station Is Disabled. The sub-station of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee railroad, at North Chicago, was struck by lightning during the electrical storm yesterday afternoon. The plant was disabled for several hours. A quick change made in dispatching trains from Milwaukee and Evanston brought a large crowd of "sight- seers" to the Great Lakes Naval Training station thirty minutes late. 3 Telephone wires were affected dur- ing the storm and the officials were handicapped in transmitting messages trains. for the change in the operation of There will, pr Great J oy