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f ! WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919 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. 3588 ' | SUBSCRIPTION. ........ $1.00 A YEAR | Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilinette, 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, Llinois, as mail matter of the second elass. under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919 Health Promotion | The week of May 11-17 has bien] designated by the State legislature as Health Promotion Week. Health Promotion Week includes | this year the "Clean-up Week," that we lrave been accustomed to hear about each year at this time. But Health Promotion means far more than merely what has been ordinarily regarded as the period of the year when houses, basements, alleys and streets were to receive the annual cleansing. It means more than just cleaning out the winter's accumula- tion of confusion of trash in the at- tic and basement, more than simply raking up the door yard, the sweep- ing of the streets and carting away of refuse from the alleys. Health Promotion has a far broader signi-! ficance than just that. Health Pro- motien suggests a careful plan of education. It means that we are all to think seriously about cleanliness, the cleanliness of our environment not only, but the condition of our bodies as well. Then to act promptly in a general clean-up. Health Promotion is beginning to be considered a highly important part of the school curriculum. It suggests to the child mind the simple logic that if it is essential and con- ducive to health and good citizen- ship ¢o keep things about us cleanly, neat and orderly, it is also quite as important that we look to our bodily health. The child is taught that he is a better scholar if he is neat and healthy. That he will become a real asset to the community and to his country in the extent that he prac- tices conservation of health. Health Promotion suggests an edu- cational campaign calling the atten- tion of every citizen to the value of an actual necessity for sanitary and hygtenic living. It aims to teach health and cleanliness. It seeks to remind us that if we would live hap- pily and be valuable citizens we must chase disease breeding filth from out of our environment and wage cease- less warfare against contagion which annually takes its appalling toll in! human lives and robs us of millions | mn money. The number of physically unfit! men in our country as revealed dur- | ing the war was startling even to the | most confirmed pessimist. We have learned that "wealth without health | is a hollow mockery;" that to be al valuable citizen one must be a healthy citizen. ! Most diseases, and particularly communicable diseases are directly' attributed to ignorance, carelessness and disregard of the simple rules of health. The necessity for immediate | and decisive action is evident. Every man, woman, and child in the Village should regard it a patriotic | duty to "clean up" and keep clean all | about them. "The hope of the nation lies in the | Healthy citizens." oe Americanizing Nebraska . -- | the pink or the white carnation as a How much we are to profit by the | testimony of the affection that they hold for their mothers. | war will depend largely upon how weil we apply the lessons that it has taught to the problems that daily! served mainly in the churches and arise. There were certain imperfec-' Sunday schools, but it stands for a' WINNETKA VOTES $90,000 FOR CITY FILTRATION PLANT] Winnetka's ambition to become the most beautiful village of the north shore was brought nearer realiza- tion Tuesday when the citizens by a vote of 8 to 1 expressed themselves in favor of the $95,000 bond issue for a municipal filtration plant. Another phase of the movement was initiated last week with the start of work on a $200,000 paving contract: In addition there are con- templated a new village hall and a new municipal yard and utility build- ings. | | it will arouse indignation is be taught in any school below the (April 29, 1919) | Filtration Plant Policy Precinct Men Women {| Yes No Yes No No. 1 80 6 42 4 No. 2 103 3 69 1 | No. 3 36 18 39 2 | No. 4 55 2 52 4 296 29 202-1 Summary: For v.00... 408 | Agalnst®. 0.0. 40 f| Total void alii hin vo 538 oA Bond Issue for Plant Precinct Men Women Yes No Yes No No. 1 67 19 41 5 No. 2 98 10 64 6 | No. 3 55 19 38 3 No. 4 53 4 43 5 273 32 191 19 Summary: For 0... naa. 404 Against Joa. 71 Total oo in dz ay as3s tions in our habits of life that the war and war conditions brought out with all the clearness of the spot- light: One of these was the great need that exists everywhere of mak- ing Americans out of the people who take up their abode with us. In Nebraska they are beginning to apply the facts that they learned as a result of the draft to the solution of the problem of making Americans out of thousands of Nebraskans who, born across the seas, have taken up |, permanent residence in that state. They found, when the draft called for the registration of all men within the age limits, that out of a popula- tion of 1,300,000 more than 300,000 were of German descent and a large | percentage born in Central Europe. One out of alien man seventeen was an It was also soon dis- | enemy. covered that there were schools in the state in which there was no word of English taught. In many of them German was the only language used, but others employed Danish, Swed- ish and Bohemian. Most of these were parochial schools maintained by Lutherans or Catholics. To meet and correct this situation two laws have been passed in Ne- braska, the Foreign Language law and the "Parochial and Private Schools Act. Under these the teach- ing of any foreign language is for- bidden in public or private school under the seventh grade, parochial and private schools are compelled to maintain a coursg¢ equivalent to that of the public schools, inspectors ef all schools must be certified, reli- gious instruction in any foreign lan- guage is forbidden on any day of the week except Saturday and Sunday and all schools are placed under the jurisdiction of the State Superin- tendent of Education. |) This is a comprehensive program of Americanization, so far as the] children are concerned. That it will! bring results cannot be doubted. That | equally | That it is extreme may be | particularly assured. charged, in the pro-| vision that no foreign language may seventh grade, but it is erring on the | safe side and for a season can do no! harm. i For Mothers' Day Mothers' Day is to be celebrated | Qn that Sunday in May men | and women and children, too, wear s00Nn. Mothers' Day has been a day ob- | under which sentiment that might well broaden its scope from the religious service life. The man or woman in whom there is a to every department of full respect for motherhood is safely embarked upon the right path. How fiting would it be if there could be a national observance of Mothers' day, delayed as it would have to be | | this year, by the United States amendment to the Congress of the the Constitution of the United States to give "Mother" her proper voice in the passage in government she lives! SUBSCRIBE NOW 2,000,000 Singer Sewing Machines SOLD EACH YEAR Used MachinesL$5 Up MACH NES RENTED [3 REPAIRING ON ALL MAHINES J LOC , ated 1950 Irving Park Blvd. 828 Davis Street, Evanston Open Tues., Thurs. and Sat. Evenings Telephone--Wil. 526--Ev. 654 0YBUR 615 Davis St., Evanston Matinees 2 and 4 Evenings 7 & 9 Friday May 2 The Picture You Have Been Waiting For DOROTHY GISH in "PEPPY POLLY" ENID BENNETT in "THE LAW OF IMEN" NEXT WEEK Mon. and Tues., May 5 and 6 "For Better--- For Worse" Cecil B. DeMille's Special Production Saturday Wednesdzy May 7 LILA LEE in '""The Rustling Bride' and "The Carter Case" Thursday May 8 "GINGER" A Sweet Story, Featuring Violet Palmer, Garreth Hughes and Paul Everton Y There's the Rub Said the facetious feller: "As oper- | the washboard." I ators, the modern girl would rather st | apstisy for the switchboard than for LH HH TH RG EL TR A TTT UHUURTHI rug cleaners and repair- ers of your home town. We kindly call your attention to the cleaning of your rugs for this season. We clean rugs by an oriental method, we use no chemicals and acids. 20% less from the regular price for the months of March and April. All our work is guaranteed. 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