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tio 3 Ba INNETKA WEEKLY TALK Nearly Everybody in Winnetka Reads the Talk have 3 new spapet f the . VI, NO. 22 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1917 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS tion to fi ng statio he attitud e boys h are you NORTH SHORE MEN FOR OFFICERS all Amer They con : : dation thi Forty-two Are Granted Shoulder lantry raps on Finishing Work at ors at th ces 4 gid Fe. Sheridan Training School eir stay easant on r ome, whe GH RANK FOR SOME untry, th ; SRS h pleasa ct Some of the Men for Draft where the Army and Others for Regulars. come tou idering t 10 are sta orty-two men of the north shore e awarded army commissions at am Whi t Sheridan in the Illinois division eaders my the first officers' reserve corps ly what ti appointed to various branches hink of th the United States army. The ap- a Station, lists were issued last irs, ek by Adjutant General McCain Washington, and those who were ed for commissions in the of- cers' reserve corps are waiting to assigned for duty. Following are names of the men appointed: Wilmette. PP ad 1) /| LC 2s Attorney medi- tenant, en- nt, a second lieutenant, ted b srve. et J * d lieuten- quaran : TPE - ; ' Be icu- ; reser ond lieut€nant, erve. econd lieuten- Exeserve. 11 be st "whoo ported. ptain, in- "harles B. Stuart, captain, artil- , officers' reserve. William P. Lester, second lieuten- nt, cavalry, officers' reserve. uy A. Osborn, second lieutenant, ping coug e house, o ard, he minfantry, officers 'reserve. m of sami Zero Marx, second lieutenant, ot come i rtermaster's corps, national army. lden J. Sears, second lieutenant, ren. martermaster's corps, national army. be trust eon B. Allen, second lieutenant, f the healartillery, officers' reserve. ' their une arren Pease, Jr. second lieuten- hey remifpant, artillery, officers' reserve. ind dolm live J. Taylor, second lieutenant, p tillery, officers' reserve. er childraf = Wi k h hoon i innetka. ; : Whoopi John S. Miller, major, artillery, of- o leave cers' reserve. + Ee . . . em away! James H. Linn, captain, artillery. conveyaif 01 ficers' reserve, o patient William M. Rutter, captain, in- he infectlfEiantry, officers' reserve. . Preston Kumler, captain, infantry, sent of {i . tional army. tained. H. W. Snell, captain, infantry, of- family Wi ers' reserve. cough 3 Fraser Hale, first lieutenant, artil- in the i , officers' reserve. remain gf Charles 3 Matz, first lieutenant, J infantry, officers' reserve. though 8 reston B. Boyden, first lieutenant, BF infantry, officers' reserve. 10 have MF {in D. Bradstreet, first lieuten- be remowfant, infantry, officers' reserve. ses, provid G. H. Scrivener, second lieutenant, reafter the illery, officers' reserve. i rederick W. Copeland, second contact wif y : lieutenant. artillery, officers' reserve. rederick E. Swanson, second lieu- family Y nant, infantry, officers' reserve. ooping COE Frank O. Magie, second lieutenant, 1 from alry, officers' reserve. | come fn Glencoe. . event thd Ralph B. Richards, captain, infan- d , officers' reserve. ed rT ancel R. Foote, captain, infantry, : cers' reserve, 0 the he arry D. Wiley, first lieutenant ificate tof geon, medical corps, officers' re- al knowleds e. ave had ff F. L. Foote, second lieutenant, ar- § tillery, officers' reserve. Yiaice ; Bligh Grasett, second lieutenan,t peri = O5R or d visits ry, efficers reserve. Y 27d vis ert 'D. Johnson, second lieu- strictly pr , artillery, officers' reserve. about the orge V. Pope, second lieutenant, I illery, officers' reserve. e these ri ohn E. Bradstreet, second lieu- . fine not. gn. quartermaster's corps, na- al army. ? offense 3 a Under Draft Law. unty jail 'he men accepted for the national or both. ny under the draft provisions: ted to ima Wilmette. 1ealth offi y J. Rollins any violat 1d D. Hill lich come Guenther ] mas W. Casey "HNEIDER August Ohlson ge of William Henning GLENCOE GIRL KILLED IN WRECK AT STATION Electric Trains Meet, Cars and Injuring Passengers. Mrs. George Whittaker and daugh- Telescoping {-ter, Elizabeth, 533 Green Bay 'road, died from injuries received when two trains on the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Electric railway crashed into each other at the Great IL.akes Naval Training Station on Wednesday afternoon. Jacob Port- ney of Chicago was killed and sev- eral other passengers were bruised. All the injured were removed at once to the Naval Training Station hospital. Those injured were in a train of two wooden cars .which had just stopped at the Naval Training Sta- tion to discharge passengers. The train had scarcely made its stop when a steel coach limited rushed around a bend 300 feet to the rear. The crash came, followed by cries from the injured, as the heavy steel car telescoped itself into the wooden coach. Mrs. Whittaker and her daughter were buried under the debris. The others were injured as they were thrown in the aisles of the wooden coach by the crash, or by flying splinters or glass. Ten 'thousand people watching a sham battle at the station rushed to the scene. Among the first rescuers were Lieutenants Kauffman and Hall of the medical corps. For half an hour they worked with others to res- cue the three persons buried under the steel coach. Sailors who had been taking part in the mock battle rushed to their assistance, bearing stretchers, and what had been a first aid drill among the "dead" and "wounded" of the sham fight became a grim reality. Lieu- tenant George Dewey, in acting com- mand at the station, soon took charge. NORTH SHORE BUSINESS MEN HELP NAVY LEAGUE Proceeds of Annual Outing Donated to Assist Women in Work. Five hundred people attended the annual picnic given under the aus- pices of the New Trier Commercial association at Skokie Playfield in Winnetka yesterday. The business men of the north shore marked August 16 on their calendars as a "Roman Holiday," and their employes enjoyed an attractive program which began in the morning and continued throughout the day. A Great Lakes Naval Training Station, and an athletic program, were the main features of the day's events. Prizes were awarded to the win- ners in a varied sport program, which included races, golf and .baseball contests for men, women and chil- dren. The judges of the athletic events were E. ber, H. N. Mclain and G. H. Stew- art, The proceeds of the annual outing amounted to $150. This money will the local branches of the society in their work for the sailors. Ee Ee Ey SHOULDER STRAPS FOR LOCAL NEWSPAPER MEN Examinations at Camp. Two newspaper men from Wil- mette were among the men in train- ing at Fort Sheridan who received commissions Lloyd Hollister, editor of The Lake Shore News, and Frank Lemon, his tion. Both of the young men were members of the Sixth Infantry, I. N. their senior officers. EE EE In the Mrs. Hoyt N. Service. on active duty with the regular army at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Lewis S. (Continued on page eight) at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, O. E. Orner, H. M. Lie- | be given to the Navy League to help | Hollister and Lemon Passed Army as second lieutenants. | assistant, each passed the examina- | G., and were transferred to the train- | ing school upon recommendation of | McClain and chil- | dren, 258 Ridge avenue, are spend-| ing the summer at Trout Lake, Wis. Major Hoyt N. McClain, U. S. R,, is! McClain is on active duty with the | Thirteenth Aero Squadron, U. S. A. Health Notes by C. 0.Schneider, M. D., Health Commissione The epidemic of whooping cough can only be controlled by the strict- est enforcement of the quarantine rules and regulations now in force in the village. There were reported during the month of July, forty-six cases of whooping cough, and this is three times the number of cases that were reported during the preceding month of June. : In order to control this epidemic, rules and regulations have been formulated to govern those having whooping cough. Violations of these rules and regulations during the past month resulted in three successful prosecutions by the village. Maurice Davis, 572 Provident ave- nue, was arrested and fined for the violation of the whooping cough quarantine law, by Justice Nelson. Archibald Norman, 894 Linden ave- nue, was arrested and fined by Jus- tice Northrup for his failure to re- port a case of whooping cough. William D. McAdams, 746 Foxdale avenue, was arrested and, fined for failure to report a case of whooping cough. Notwithstanding the fact that whooping cough is a preventable dis- ease, there was one death in Evans- ton and one death in Wilmette from this disease during the last week. It is a highly contagious disease-- especially during its early stages. Whooping cough is most common- ly contracted by direct contact with a child or person having the disease. The disease develops from seven to ten days after exposure. Whooping cough in infants and the aged is a very serious affection. The death rate under one year of age averages twenty-seven per cent; be- tween one and two years, fourteen per cent; two to five years, three per cent; and five to fifteen years, -one and eight-tenths per cent. Whooping cough is characterized by catarrh of the respiratory pas- sages and a series of convulsing coughs, ending with a "whoop," the whoop being a long-drawn inspira- | tion. The early symptoms of the disease are those of an ordinary cold-- slight fever, running at the nose, congested eyes an da bronchial cough which is usually dry and somewhat | spasmodic in character. | tinues for a week or ten days and | instead of subsiding, the cough be- band concert by the jackie band from | comes worse and' more convulsive | inary call has gone forth to some | {and whooping in character. | A fit of coughing is sometimes pre- | | ceded by a deep inspiration and then (comes a series of fifteen to twenty [intensit | child's y, without face becomes inspiration, the blue and then with a deep inspiration the air is] | drawn into the lungs making the | whoop. Whooping cough ranks third] among the acute infectious diseases las a cause of death in children under 5 years of age. Never expose your child to whoop- jing cough. Don't take, chances with the child's life. Get the silly notion out of your head that whooping | cough is a very simple disease and | that all children must have it. | Fr Attention! The local office of the Win- netka Weekly Talk will be moved to 1222 Central avenue, Wimctte, on August 1. The management of the Winnetka paper, wishing to give this | community the best service, has ordered this change in order to have all business and editorial matter come to the | managers personally. In the new arrangement no toll charges on telephone mes- sages will be charged, and all communications will receive our prompt attention. After : August 1, the telephone num- I'll bers for the Winnetka Weekly i Talk will be Wilmette 1920 and Hl 1921. LOCAL DRAFT BOARD CALLS 900 MEN FOR EXAMINATION More Men Notified to Appear for Physical Tests to Furnish Quota Assigned to This District for New Army CROWDER ISSUES NEW ORDERS GOVERNING EXEMPTION batant to Assist INE, HUNDRED men were final tests will be given Saturday. quota. amined it will bring the total of aminations. The men who are making themselves liable to serious trouble. According to the ruling of Provost Marshal General Crowder, persons who do not respond to the notifications from the exemption board are classified among those not claiming exemption and automatical- ly become members of the national army. Then, if they fail to answer the call to the colors, they are sub- lject to desertion penalties. Draft Ruling. The statement of the provost mar- shal general on this phase of the draft law reads as follows: Press reports and other advices re- ceived indicate that in one or two widely separated districts individuals, misinformed as to the purpose of the law and misguided as to its result, are threatening forcible resistance to the draft. There is nothing to resist at this! stage in the execution of the law. | This con- | | | G = All male persons between the ages | of 21 and 30, inclusive, have been en- | rolled for military service. A prelim- such persons, but 'the immediate and actual object of this call is merely | to provide an opportunity for such | persons, or for some one else in re- ernment reasons why they should | not be finally ordered to report for military duty. If such persons do not appear and present their rea- sons, they have simply neglected to take advantage of an opportunity | that was offered solely for their | benefit. Subject to Military Law. The failure of persons to take ad- vantage of this opportunity does not interfere with the raising of the army and interests the government only as purtishable crime of omission. If they do not desire to make any such claims or if for any other reason they fail to appear, their names are automatically posted as having been called and not exempted or dis- charged. Automatically, also, they are inducted into the military serv- ice and made subject to military law. | Failure to appear merely hastens this automatic process. When the time allowed for making | these claims has elapsed, these per- | sons will be enrolled as in the mili- | tary service. They will then be or- | dered to appear as soldiers. From | this point on they will be under the | swift and summary procedure of ts martial. Failure to report for | cour | military duty when ordered to do | so constitutes desertion. Desertion | in time of war is a capital offense. Apprehension of Deserters. Deserters may be apprehended by either civil or military authority, and after the mandate of the federal gov- Conscientious Objectors Will Be Drafted and Assigned to Duty Which President Wilson Will Class as Non-Com- ; in Army Work called by the local draft board to appear at the Wilmette Village hall for physical examina- tions this week. The additional number of men called were started through the physical tests on Wednesday, and the The draft officials were unable to fill the quota assigned to this district from the number of men who were called last week. Fol- lowing the examinations of the first 250 men on Wednesday, the number accepted by the doctors and not claiming exemption helped to boost the total number of men accepted from this district, and if the average is maintained during the other examinations this week, it will not be necessary to call more men to furnish this district's When the 900 men already notified to appear have been ex- those who have appeared before the physicians up to 1,504. The next call will be for those immedi- ately above this number on this district's draft list. ; "A number of the men notified have not appeared for their ex- avoiding the physical tests are g phy forcible short coughs of inereasing | spect of them, to present to the gov- ernment has gone forth the whole strength of the military army of the government is available to apprehend deserters if it is necessary to use such force. Demonstrations against local boards are simply futile strokes in the air. All the records necessary to hold such persons are already on file at state headquarters and at the na- tional capital, and since local beards have no occasion to use any force in simply offering a beneficial op- portunity to registered persons, there is no field for resistance. If resist= ance is attempted later, when the army seeks to apprehend deserters, it will instantly encounter troops of the federal government. New Draft Rulings. It became increasingly evident this week that the government is in- fluenced by only one consideration in applying the selective service law--raising of an army. Here are some of the new rulings from the provost marshal general and the secretary of war: 1. Conscientious objectors will be drafted and assigned to duty which the President will class as non-com- batant. 2. If abuses of exemption privi- leges continue, all exemption privi- leges will be withdrawn. 3. The first increment of the new army will move practically a's scheduled, on September 5. There may be a delay of a few days, but no serious delays through shortage of clothing and equipment. All those increments will be in camp by Octo- ber 1, 4. Persons whose dependents are abroad will not be permitted to claim exemption on their behalf, because such dependents cannot become a burden to the United States. 5. Drafted men will not be per- mitted to enlist in the navy after they have been called, as erroneously announced some days ago by the Navy Department. Religious Objectors. General Crowder's ruling on the conscientious objectors means that members of sects and individuals who claim their beliefs do not permit them to engage in war or killing, will be compelled to render service to the nation, if exempted on no other grounds. They will be drafted, credited to their states' quotas and localities, sent to the cantonments and assigned to the huge body of men who, in modern warfare, never enter actual combat. These are the medical units, sani- tary troops, transportation units, en- gineer units, workers in mechanical departments of the aero squadrons and scores of other activities,