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4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 Winnetka Weekly Talk| ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Lake Shore Publishing Company '1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill. 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, Ill. Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The same applies to rejected manuscript unless return postage is enclosed. Articles for publication should 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. 18769. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 Ely And The Liberty Loan Dinsmore Fourth Every man and woman in Winnet- ka will feel proud at the prominence given and tribute paid to Dinsmore Ely in the full page Liberty Loan advertisement to be found in this issue of the Winnetka Weekly Talk, the first of a series of full page ad- vertisements the space for which is contributed by men of Winnetka. As a daring and dauntless aviator Dinsmore Ely always was to be found in the fore ranks of fighters and it is fitting that he, above all others known in Winnetka, should be the inspiration of the first great an- nouncement of the Fourth Liberty in Winnetka. but will continue to in: us who are not at the front to do our part, in helping to take care of the brave fellows who are left and who are now fighting that we may live free men and women and that the world may be saved from auto- cracy. BONDS, BAYONETS, BERLIN What Winnetka Did For The Third Liberty Loan Number of subscribers ......... 1,823 Amount of bonds subscribed for, in dollars 4%... 0%] ARREST $490,150 These figures are published in or- der to let you know what Winnetka will have to do for the Fourth Lib- erty Loan, the drive for which be- gins September 28. BE READY. BONDS, BAYONETS, BERLIN Self-Education Uncertainty of the future and the feeling that it is not worth while to start a career when military service appears so clear upon the horizon has drawn many a boy out of school at the completion of the high school that. This unsettling of their plan of life, course, or even earlier than coupled with patriotic desire to be of use to the country, will be respon- sible for the return of many men af- ter the war into civic life, unequipped for taking the place which they might have had had they remained longer in school. For those who are wounded the reconstruction work in the hospitals will serve to remedy this lack in pre- paration for work, but those who go through the term of the war unin- jured ond return to their old pursuits with. the experience of the war as their only addition to their educa- tional equipment, will find themselves handicapped for taking positions that require a deeper acquaintance with technical things than they have been able to secure in their few years in school. There is but one remedy for this situation, a remedy which is open to all, but optional and not in ac- cordance with American habits, It \ 'is self-education after leaving school, the seli-setting of study to be done, persistence in the endeavor to secure education under the handicap of the necessity to engage at once in work Jor remuneration. America is the land of opportunity. [t is a country in which what a man springs from is of very much less importance than to what he achieves. We have numerous examples of men who have attained important posi- tions with a record of scant oppor- tunity and indefatigable determinai- tion to secure the education neces- sary to success. ' For the large number of young men short their school who have cut work to enter service, this regula- tion is of no effect. And for them re- mains only the course of self-educa- tion, mode difficult, to be sure, but only the more likely to be effective for that. It is their example which ought to be held before these young men of the America of today who have dropped their school course to enter the service of the country. It is the opportunity which lies open to men of ability to make up for the lack of early advantage by application to the task of securing education after their first youth has passed. It is the pos- sibility of overtaking the opporunity once lost that should be impressed upon the boys who are leaving school before they are properly equipped for the work that they have the ca- pacity to do in the world. The need for educated men after : ized in the attitude nme nt has taken in se young men who Cogn e gover at tue ag? of ergnteen are called upon to register for military service. They are to be kept in school, trained un- der government supervision, prepared as long as they can be spared from service for the work which they will be called upon to do after the war. BONDS, BAYONETS, BERLIN Silly Prudery pruddish women in Bloomington, Ind., have been offend- ed because the women who are work- ing in the plants engaged in the pro- duction of war supplies have adopted Excessive overalls as their dress during the working hours. They have brought the question of the propriety of such a costume before the city authorities and an investigation has been made. Fortunately to save the reputation of Bloomington for an intelligent grasp of the conditions of the day, the girls are to be indulged in their desire to dress in conformity with rules of and safety and efficiency in work those other women whose slight grasp of the situation is revealed by their opposition to overalled women in dangerous employment have been given the rebuke which they deserve. When the question of modesty is really raised between the women clad in the all enveloping overalls, made of heavy denim or linen, and their the which are affected by womankind to- critics clad in sheer materials day, there is just one possible result. if the jury is made up of men who the women are giving to their appreciate the service which working country. The outcome of the dis- cussion in Bloomington ought to be that of every such exhibition of false modesty and disposition in persons of leisure to interfere with what does not concern them. BONDS, BAYONETS, BERLIN Record Year For Canning Sure proof that American women are heeding the call for home can- ning comes in the report of manu- facturers of canning supplies that there has been an increase of 300 per cent in the demand for rubbers of standard quality. | War Emergency Union Activities | J ASK REGISTERED MEN 0 JOIN MILITIAMEN The following letter directed to every man in Winnetka registered for military service should be read and its contents seriously considered by every man in the Village who ex- pects at some time in the future to enter the active service in the Unit- ed States army. The letter comes from the headquarters of the War Emergency Union and is complete as follows: Dear. Sir: By your registration on September 12, you are subject to call by our government for military service. It therefore becomes your privilege and your duty to avail yourself of every opportunity to acquire military information and training so that, if you are called to the colors, you will have acquired the rudiments and thus save the time of military instructors who are needed overseas. It is ap- parent that all military knowledge and experience now acquired will render advancement more rapid af- ter you have entered the service. The Illinois Volunteer Training Corps and the Illinois Reserve Mili- tia were organized with four primary purposes in view, viz: (1) To provide an organized force of drilled men to meet any emergency within the State during the absence, in Federal Service, of the National Guard. (2) To furnish instruction in mili- tary drill to men who expect to en- ter the service through the draft, or otherwise. (3) To disseminate and develop knowledge of military matters and the beneficial results of military training. (4) For the moral effect upon the community. Winnetka has a Company of the Illinois Reserve Militia and a Unit of the Illinois Volunteer Training Corps, the outgrowth of the Win- netka Volunteer Training Corps which was started the day after the war was declared. Most of the men who have entered the service through these ogranizations are now either commissioned or non-commissioned officers, due largely to the training received in these units. The oppor- tunity to secure similar advantages is now afforded you through mem- bership in the Volunteer Training Corps which meets Monday night at Community House, for drill and in- struction. You are therefore earnestly urged to present yourself at Community House on Monday night. September 23 or September 30. at 7:30 p. m., for enrollment into Unit 307 1. V. T. C. Winnetka War Emergency Union, Horace Kent Tenney, President. Further information can be ob- tained from any of the following Re- cruiting committee: Frederick Dickinson,' chairman, phone 648; Barrett Conway, phone 616; Cuthbert C. Adams. phone 137; J. W. F. Davies, phone 470; Arthur R. Dean, phone 241; Eugene A. Rummler, phone 1097. As indicative of the importance of this training. the Chicago Tribune of September 16, 1918, contained the fol- lowing editorial: The Reserve Regiments "Here is delivered a suggestion that seems wise. There have been re- ristered in a new draft thousands of men for the army. Most of them are new at the game of war. There are in Chicago several regiments of Illinois reserves. They are officered by seasoned military men who gladly are taking time from their business to train younger men. Those who expect to take up service will act wisely and forehandedly by enlist- ing in one of these reserve regiments, thus receiving without loss of time from their work a great deal of ad- vance military knowledge which will prove of advantage in the future. Colonel A. 1.. Bolte of the Third re- giment reports that from his com- mand already more than 350 men have been sent to service with ad- vance training which enabled a majo- rity to become non-commissioned of- ficers and many to take commis- sions." EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS RECEIVED FROM PARIS (Interesting notes concerning Dr. Jrown's work with the Winnetka Dispensary.) July 24, 1918. "The Winnetka and St. Paul dis- pensaries are located near Nancy and they have found a great need of some place where the tubercular patients of these two activities can be cared for. Miss Brent has secured for the co-operative work of the Red Cross and the American Fund for French Wounded a very beautiful pavilion which was formerly famous for the | baths on the place. Here one finds | all the mineral waters and the house | itself is a very charming structute of white stone with concrete pillars. These pillars have a long .collonade about, I should say thirty feet wide. | There are two of these verandas and | the place will accommodate perhaps | hundred and thirty chaises| tungues. The idea is to take the! tubercular patients from these dis- | pensaries and send them in the early | morning to the tubercular rest home (as we will call it for the moment.) These will be placed in the sun and air and will receive good care during the day, with two meals. Most of them are ablé to go home at night, but probably there will be a room arranged should they have to remain more than one day." "As for the Winnetka Dispensary-- the work that they have done in the Meurthe-et-Moselle is simply trem- endous--it is one of the most perfect pieces of organization that I have seen, and although Dr. Brown is no longer a member of this unit, the work. has gone on. They have a very remarkable physician, Dr. Par- ker, who is one of the most energetic, one of the most capable women I have met in years. She has fallen in with the Winnetka unit as if she be- longed to it. They have made a real achievement and the work cannot be stopped. They are all so impressed with its necessity and its importance that they are staying on beyond their year's contract. Madame Delebec- que feels this so sincerely that she has written to Chicago that she will not return for another six months, as well as Miss Van Aiken. Miss Van Dyck does not even talk of going back." | | | one Isabel S. Lathrop. WAR PERSONALS Captain Henry F. Tenney is now Adjutant of the 1st Mattalion, 332nd F. A. overseas. Otis A. Skinner III, is Chief Petty Officer, Public Works Department, Great Lakes. Arthur S. Anderson is in the 13th Service Company, Signal Corps at Camp Vail, Little Silver, N. J. Sidney Nelson has enlisted in the service and is in the 161st Depot Brigade at Camp Grant. Frederick E. Dexheimer is 3rd Class Carpenter's Mate, overseas. Fritz K. Miller is 3rd Class Carpen- ter's Mate, overseas. N. Landon Hoyt, Jr., has gone to Great lakes for three weeks. After- wards he will go to the Municipal Pier, Chicago. Irwin Hale is in a Navy Training camp, Detroit, Mich. Lieutenant Clarence Happ who is 'n the Air Service has been trans- ferred to Bolling Field, Washington, D.C. Sergeant Milton Lyons of Com- nany C, 18th Field Signal Battalion, is overseas. Clarence E. Schafehen has entered the service and is at the Old South Division high school. George Leichsenring is at the Bren- nen Auto School studying to be a Gas engineer. Guilford Windes who is at the Har- vard Radio school, Cambridge, is ill, in the hospital, there with pneu- monia. Keep on Canning The canning season 1s at its height; the Food Administration says there is a possibility of a twenty-five- pound sugar allowance for September canning; there are a few more weeks before other war work for the fall gets into full swing ;and another can- GIVE FREE LEGAL AID TO ALL REGISTRANTS Draft Board Announces That Legal Advisory Board Will Establish Headquarters at Wilmette Village Hall Men of New Trier and Niles Towni- ships, between the ages of 18 and 36 inclusive, who registered for military service, Thursday, September 12, will receive their questionaires within a few days. The local draft board, with head- quarters in the Brown building, Wil- mette, while at work this week ad- dressing and mailing the question- aires announced that the Legal Aid- visory board would be in attendance at the Village Hall in Wilmette, daily from 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. except Sun- day, for the purpose of giving free advise and help to registrants in filling out questionaires. The Legal Advisory board was created for the express purpose of being of assistance to the registrant in filling out questionaires and de- termining his status in the draft. The board is composed of lawyers who have a thorough understanding of exact method of procedure in filling out the questionaires. It is im- perative that every registered man appear at the Village Hall as soon as possible after receiving his question- aire. This will prevent the possible necessity of appearing at the draft board headquarters later for the pur- pose of correcting errors made in aid of a legal assistant. Questionaire forms will go out at the rate of 10 per cent a day. The first draft of men of the 18 to 36 class will be called to military order in which they will be called to camp will be' established by a draw- ing held in Washington. Given Seven Day Limit General Crowder made an appeal to registrants to aid in speeding up the draft machinery by returning questionaires, properly filled out, as soon as possible after receiving them. "Under the regulations," General Crowder said, "the registrant is given seven days within which to fill out the questionaire and return it to his local board. It is, however, the earnest hope at his office that the registrants will not require as much time as this." Printed leaflets, inserted in questionaire, will instruct registrants desiring to claim deferred classifica- tion on the ground of being employed in necessary industries, occupations, or employment how to make claims. General Crowder announced this week that concerns engaged in the transportation of necessary com- modities may claim deferred classifi cation for their employes. Registrants 3,624 Strong Draft board officials stated today that, up to date, 3,624 men had been counted as registered in district 3 last Thursday. This figure includes registrations which were reported the day of registration at which time 3,023 names had been counted. BONDS, BAYONETS, BERLIN TELLS HOW STUDENTS WILL BE INDUCTED How to enlist in the students' ar- my training corps has been a fre- quent question asked of the local draft board, but until today no in- structions have been received from the government and the applicants could receive no definite information. Instructions just received from the provost marshal general's office say that after the men enlist in college their names are to be sent to his office. Then a competent order for the individual induction of each man will be sent to the local draft board in his college town. A separate or- der will be sent for each man, and it will bear his name. He will then be notified by the board to report and either accept or decline induction, and every man accepting will be in- ducted separately, according to the method used up to date in the army. If a man is from out of town. his papers will be obtained from his local draft board, filled out as far as possible by the board in his college town, and completed by the universi- ty authorities. Two copies will be made one to be sent to the students' ning season is a year away. So here is the message to spread broadcast: If men from your family are in the rmy or navy. put up a few extra jars of food for them, they might need it; and if there are no men from your household in the military service, put it up for yourselves for you will need it. At any rate, CAN own exemption board, the other to the provost marshal general's office, after which the man's induction will be complete. Toledo street cars will be com- pelled to use less heat and less light next winter. Officials of the traction and let events decide whether it 'is 'or peace Or war, company said cars would be heated only when necessary. filling out questionaires without the duty before the end of October. 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