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2 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Lake Shore Publishing Company 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, IIL Business Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1921 Editorial Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1920 Winnetka Office Telephone. . Winn. 388 SUBSCRIPTION......... $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilmette, IIL Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The same applies to rejected manuscript unless return postage is enclosed. Articles for publication sheuld reach this office by Tuesday afternoon to insure appear- ance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary poetry, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second elass, under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918 No Age Limit To Duty It is growing increasingly apparent to all that the fact that a man hap- pens to be over thirty-one years of age does not free him from duty to his country, even though it does at this time serve as sufficient ground for exemption from military service. The very fact of citizenship in America invests a man with dignity One shirk responsibilty without impairing and responsibility. cannot his dignity and losing the respect of But + duty call us all to the battle front. his fellows. does not For most men who have passed the thirty- first mile stone there is a niche at home in which he can do far better if he We must have skilled and service, particularly has de- pendents. experienced men to carry' on the business of the country. We must have professional men to serve the civilian population and to serve as a nucleus for post-war times. We cannot send our whole wealth of power and skill to the front, lest there be none left to keep things at home. But we can recognize such service at home as war service and apply that test to those men who have passed what is now recognized as military age to determine whether they are doing or shirking their duty "Work fight" applies to every able bodied as American citizens. or person, whether he is within or without the limits set for compulsory military service. Our National Sin Evidence of profiteering are un- fortunately not lacking among those native born Americans who have been so generously treated by the country that they have been able to amasss most comfortable fortunes. Rumors which are so persistent as to defy entire disbelief point out to doubtful patriotism in many depart- ments of our industrial life. Is it then remarkable that we should find a similar disposition manifesting it- self in those newcomers to America who are charged with the manual labor of mining the coal of the na- tion and similar tasks for which cir- cumstances have permitted a wage increase far in excess of that of otlier years? Everybody complains that the coal miners, content with the financial re- compense for three or four day's labor each week, decline to descend to the depths on the remaining days and rest to They are quite as well off under the new preferring sunshine diligent toil in the darkness. schedule of high wages and half time as they were under the old regime of six day's toil. Why should we ex- pect them to work every day in order to secure more money when their part time pay is sufficient to provide whatever they demand for comfort and happiness? The coal operators themselves have made no complaint against the part time policy of their workmen, be- cause the scale of prices has, through the shortage of fuel, recompensed them for the lessened production. Theirs is the same type of patriotism | as that manifested by their men, and is, besides, in strict accord with that displayed in other, even higher quarters. This is the fundamental difficulty which the government will have to meet before the United States is put upon a basis of fair prices and just wage scales. It is the foundation of all profiteering, of all abuse of the trust which is placed in individual patriotism, of all attempts to impose upon the public through a thin dis- guise of patriotic purpose. It is the 1 individual disposition to profit by the unusual circumstances incident to the war and to make advantage of every vague understanding of the necessities of the times. If, or when, a remedy is found, we shall have ad- vanced a great step in our standard | of citizenship and patriotic service. He Prefers a Deficit | In view of circumstances it is in- teresting to note that Postmaster General Burleson does not wish a profit in the postoftice business, pre- ferring a deficit, as has always re- warded the management of that pub- lic enterprise. The public would be less interest- ed in the question of profits or de- ficits, if there were better service to show for the money spent. No one wants the postoffice to be run on a profit making basis, except as the showing of a profit would tell a story of increased efficiency. It is the question of getting one's mail and having one's communications de- livered promptly and correctly that It that is assured there is likely to be littie appeals to the general public. complaint about rates and little look- | ing into the matter of profits or de- ficits. Efficiency would perhaps be a bet- ter basis for estimation of the value of the postoffice system to the pub- lic and the efficacy of government ownership than the matter of on which side of the ledger the balance is set. Bendjamin Franklin acknowledged that he had passed the border land between frugality and luxury when he began to eat his breakfast bread and milk from a china bowl and with a silver spoon instead of from the two penny porringer and pewter spoon of his days of thrift. Something like this standard might be adopted today to tell us when we have reduced our luxuries to the limit, that we may know when we can no longer buy thrift stamps. Most people of today have a basis of comparison with some condition of their early lives when their expense accounts fell far below what they have learned to think nec- essary today. A Philadelphia newspaper remarks that "every young man in Ireland who refuses to go, sends a young American in his place." Much more to the point would it be to say every | voung man of any couwfty enlisted in the war, when he refuses to dc his part, puts a double duty upon the shoulders of another man who has undertaken to do a man's share of the work of bringing the Kaiser to he realization of the fact that he "7as made a monumental mistake in his venture looking to world do- mination by Germany. pn Draft Men Get Order Numbers 1 Allen M. Danner, Glencoe 10 2 Giovanani Tagliapietra, Glencoe2 3 John C. Ide, Chicago 17 4 Fred J. Fullhard, Morton Gr. 74 5 Joseph Meier, Gross Point 57 6 Allan Ross, Merton Grove 76 7 Matthew M. Heinzen Wilmette 78 8 Joseph J. Engel, Gross Point 87 9 Henry P. Dietrich, Glencoe 4 10 F. E. Dexheinmer, Winnetka 70 11 Chas. J. Weier, Morton Grove 108 12 G. L. Krejsa, Niles 28 13 Orian A. Galitz, Wilmette, 89 14 G. J. Loutsch, Morton Grove 90 15 George A. Lohan, Dunning 65 16 C. C. Proesel, Norwood Park 45] 17 A. M. Taylor, Kenilworth 72| 19 W. S. Thayer, Wilmette 91 | 20 W. D. Rubenstein, Winnetka 31 21 A. P. Borre, Gross Point 63 | 22 Harry Giles, Norwood Park 41| 23 H. J. Schopen, Wilmette 84 24 Cloice Wieder, Glencoe 25 G. J. Riha, Morton Grove 66 26 P. J. Kellen, Morton Grove 16] 27 E. H. Jawarske, Glen View 32 28 C. W. Linster, Morton Grove 55| 29 W. E. Basener, Glencoe 33] 30 V. Walaszcyk, Gross Point 56 | 31 Ernest Krause, Morton Grove 102 | 32 John H. Lyk, Niles 43 | 33 E. C. J. Jenne, Norwood Park 13] 34 H. H. Springer, Niles Center 3 35 Nick Jennetten, Gross: Point 64 | 36 Edw. Schultz, Norwood Park 11] 37 Ferd. E. Hartjen, Winnetka 69] 38 Peter H. Krier, Niles Center 33 39 Raymond Sullivan, Wilmette 113] 40 N. J. Schaefgen, Gross Point 62] 41 W. C. G. Kutz, Morton Grove 18 42 S. Czyzewski, Norwood Park 54 43 H. A. Richter, Wilmette 81 44 N. J. Bree, Morton Grove 88 45 Alfred Cless, Norwood Park 114 46 T. F. Cox, Wilmette 39 47 A. Misantoni, Glencoe 30 48 F. W. Becker, Morton Grove 98 s 49 A. H. Marquardt, Morton Grove49 50 W. P. Ruesch, Norwood Park 25 51 P. J. Huerter, Gross Point 58 52 A. Wagner, Norwood Park 12 53 D. Duncan, Jr., Winnetka 34 54 H. W. Pitts, Glencoe 112 55 M. P. Karlesky, Niles Center .2 56 C. D. Ustick, Wilmette 95 57 J. P. McArdle, Wilmette 77 58 O. J. Raumel, Norwood Park 46 59 A. H. Mehlhorn, Glencoe 8 60 A. J. D. Yehl, Morton Grove 10g 61 W. J. Struck, Morton Grove 93 62 E. M. West, Wilmette 99 63 O. F. Jonas, Morton Grove 94 64 E. J. Tilges, Morton Grove 67 65 M. J. Baumhardt, Niles Center 49 66 W. J. Trapp, Hubbard Woods 38 67 FE. Schaefges, Morton Grove 7 | REPORT | on the 68 A. M. Suckow, Niles Center 27 69 I. Turvey, Winnetka 1 70 E. D. Scully, Winnetka 52| 71 P. A. Trausch, Niles Center 6 72 Romeo Bernardini, Glencoe 24 73 C. Torbick, Norwood Park 14 74 R. H. Fjellman, Winnetka 71 75 E. C. Deu, Morton Grove 19 76 H. F. Hartmann, Gross Point §) 77 I. P. Yopp, Hubbard Woods 37 78 A. A. Schroeder, Niles 35 79 C. A. Schmitt, Niles Center 68 80 L. F. George, Wilmette R5 81 J. J. Conrad, Glen View 83 82 C. E. Schafehen, Winnetka 82 83 L. J. Schildgen, Wilmete 92 84 T. V. Bidamon, Wilmette 103 85 M. W. Jergensen, Wilmette 79 8 O. H. Shaw, Norwood Park 15 87 J. G. Kozak, Norwood Park 26 88 E. R. Brigham, Glencoe 110 89 E. F. Brooks, Wilmette 104 90 T. Musyl, Niles Center 31 91 R. H. Bottom, Wilmette 96 92 C. N. Lischka, Norwood Park 5 93 F. N. Sturgis, Winnetka 43 94 F. H. Miller, Morton Grove 106 95 C. G. Delhaye, Wilmette 80 96 Albert Krell Morton Grove 101 97 John Nikeke, Glencoe 23 98 Finn Barthold, Glencoe 22 99 A. I. Salmen, Chicago 2) 100 G. L. Guenther, Morton Grove 75 101 J. K. Klauke, Winnetka 50 102 F. 1.. Thiede, Norwood Park 47 103 E. T. Winzell, Wilmette 3H 104 Paul Meyer, Gross Point 60 105 F. H. Ely, Kenilworth 73 106 R. C. Klehm, Portland, Ore. 111 107 L. M. Schweiger, Glencoe 9 108 E. W. Bitter, Norwood Park 20| 109 C. A. Eckert, Wilmette 100 110 Levi Nevison 111 L. C. Jones, Wilmette 112 G. Sievers, Glencie 113 'C. E. Schuetz, Morton Grove 10 114 J. Taraba, Norwood Park 4 115 C. T. Zaremba, Wilmette RED CROSS APPEALS FOR SEWING MACHINES There is a shortage of sewing machines for Red Cross work on Surgical garments at Community House and the Skokie school. If you are leaving your home for the summer, will you not send machine to CommunityHouse, and the Skokie school for this needed work and thereby render a patriotic serv- Single thread machines can not be used. For further information call Mrs. Arthur Barrett, telephone Winnetka 1504. . (OFFICIAL PUBLICATION) OF THE CONDITION OF Winnetka State Bank | located at Winnetka, State of Illinois, before the commencement of business First day of July, 1918, as made to the Auditor of Public Accounts your | | | | | | es BRIDGES | | 1629 Evanston ~ Phone 5886 | - North | Shore Distributor of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. RESOURCES | 1. Loans and Discounts....$115,748.27 | 2. 346.00 | 3. Securities | 4, Investments 119,521.91 | 5. Banking house Furniture and fixtures... 900.00 Real Estate other than Banking "House" *........ 712.67 6. Cash and due from banks 71,304.51 7. 50ther ResSOUrcCes .... «i 7,075.82 | Total resources........ $315,609.18 | LIABILITIES 1. Capital stock paid in. .$ 25,000.00 2. 'Surplus fund.......... 5,000.00 3. Undivided profits (net 6,300.00 4. Deposits: Bank vi edn, i All other deposits. . 279,234.18 5. Dividends unpaid ....... . Reserved for taxes and interest: wii vai es , 75 00 Contingent Fund ....... 8. Bills payable and redis- QOUNLS, .. aouteis ais vas widens 9. Other Liabilities........ . Total liabilities....... $315,609.18 I, Henry R. Hale, Cashier of the Win- netka State Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. ENRY R. HALE, Cashier. STATE OF TLuINoIs, 1 COUNTY OF COOK, 8s. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of July, 1918. (Signed) JONAS H. MADSEN, (SEAL) Notary Public. for Franklin (Official Publication.) REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF Winnetka Trust ana Savings Bank located at Winnetka, State of Illinois, before the commencement of business on the First day of July, 1918, as made to the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois, pursuant to law. RESOURCES vesa$ 71,651.46 TE ER 146,700.76 Loan and Discounts Overdrafts Securities Investments Banking house Furniture and fixtures... Real estate other than banking house (sold on contract) 6. Cash and due from banks 7. Other resources resources....... $294,918.24 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in..... $ 35,000.00 Surplus fund 2,450.00 Undivided profits (net).. 2,940.00 Deposits: Bank ici nic onivesise. All other deposits....... Dividends unpaid Reserved for taxes and interest... . ddaienieee Contingent Fund Bills payable and redis- COUNLS Sr se si vdvsnasonss Other Liabilities mss or 9,409.89 5,255.00 61,811.13 Total 254,528.24 © »2 am Total' liabilities. ....... $294,918.24 I, M. K. Meyer, President of the Win- netka Trust and Savings Bank, do solemnly swear that the above state- ment is true to the best of my knowl- edge and belief. M. K. MEYER, President. STATE OF ILLINOIS, | gg COUNTY OF COOK, 2? Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 5th day of July, 1918. P. W. BRADSTREET, (SEAL) Notary Publie. WINNETKA TRUST and SAVINGS BANK ALL CHECKS ON THIS BANK are payable upon presentation. We carry far more than the legal cash reserve and are amply able at all times to meet any demand for cash that may be made upon us. In addition our entire assets are so placed that we can turn them into cash at the shortest notice. In short, this may be called "a ready money bank". CAPITAL $35,000.00 Formerly BANK OF M. K. MEYER Established 1894 Buick and Dodge Brothers Motor I [LULL ( (NLT Ic iT Ai; a Orrington Avenue