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~RELER TR Ea 1919 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, JULY 11, Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by ¥he 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, IL Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The same applies to rejected manuscript unless refurn postage is enclosed. Articles fer publication should reach this office by Tuesday afternoon to insure appear- amce 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 qilinois, as mail matter of the second alass, under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919 Reforms Advocated A very significant sign of the times is found in the report of the Can- adian commission on industrial rela- tions, just presented to the House of Commons at Ottawa. It gives un- qualified approval to the right of the workingman to organize, the princ- iple of collective bargaining and the; eight-hour day, and recommends far reaching changes in the industrial system of the country. This commission was appointed to investigate the causes of the indust- rial unrest which spread through Canada as an aftermath of the war and instructed to make suggestions for a permanent improvement in the relations of employer and employee. Among its recommendations are legislation for a maximum working day of eight hours, a minimum wage for women, children and unskilled labor, government action to relieve unemployment through public works, and government aid in the building of workers' homes. Canada has already taken a long step in this direction by the advanc- ing of money to soldiers to enable them to acquire farms, and this rec- ommendation of the building of workers' homes goes a step further. In this connection it must be noticed that the Winnipeg strike has been traced in its inception and agitation to the radical reds and the L. W. W. and it was ended by raids of the Northwest Mounted police under the direction of the federal authorities. The Reds are adepts at propaganda and make use of many misguided per- sons in inciting these strikes, but cannot stand against federal authori- ty either in this country of Canada. People are much the same, and con- ditions, too, on both sides of the line, but Canada appears to have the ad- vantage of us in prompt dealing with the emergency. Labor's Demands Included in a platform which they | will try to have incorporated in the new Illinois constitution when it is made, the Illinois and Chicago Feder- ations of Labor will ask for soldiers, sailors and marines pay from the state, and to allow the workingman and the farmer to borrow money from the state with which to build homes in the city or buy farms in the country. The soldier's pay is put at $50 a month for every month they served and it is to be raised by special tax- es on excess profits of firms and in- dividuals, if the suggestion is adopt- ed by the constitutional convention. There will be but meager excess profits after labor has had its say in their distribution. Jobs For Fighters In this state the government, which was conducting extensive employ- ment bureaus, has closed all of its offices in Chicago and elsewhere, with the exception of one placement office. The reason given is lack of funds, but the state has made an increased appropriation for its em- ployment service and this will, in a measure, take care of all the service men. According to the general superin- tendent in Chicago, there are more jobs waiting than men to fill them. This is particularly true of the farm- acting | ing districts. Wages are very high and men so hard to get that premi- ums are being offered for them in order that the crops may be har- vested. The bureau maintained by Chica- go organizations especially for serv- ice men will still function, independ- ently of the state or the government. | At the office at 120 West Adams | street they are now taking good care of the majority of those who apply, the wages they seek. The New Tex Board Governor Lowden succeeded in get- ting the legislature to wipe out the old state board of equalization, to the great satisfaction of the tax pay- ers, and his appointment of the new tax commission of three members gave hope of the introduction of new methods which would eliminate tax dodging. The appointments to the new board are men of high standing, and north shore residents who have | for years been fighting for this tax | reform get some recognition in the | naming on that commission of Col. Joseph B. Sanborn of Chicago and formerly of Winnetka. While the new board has been get- ting ready to get down to work at once, the old state board of equaliza- tion is dying hard. Its members claim that they were elected to serve for two years longer, and have an- nounced that they will go right along with their work just as though noth- ing had happened to interfere with it. They say that they will appeal to the courts to maintain what they claim to be their rights, and it may be that it will be some time yet be- fore the new board will be able to so adjust things that the public will get the benefit of its work. Roosevelt Road With the celebration of the chang- | ing of the name of historic old | Twelfth street in Chicago to Roose- | velt Road, came the announcement | that it was to be the first link in a i national highway, extending from the [lakes via St. Louis and the Mississip- { pi to the gulf all named in lof the late president. President John E. Wilder of the Roosevelt Memorial association told erect a monument to Roosevelt at Michigan avenue and Roosevelt road. In an address Mr. Wilder said that Mr. Roosevelt would have appreciat- ed the demonstration made at this celebration, and that to him it would have typified the throb- bing heart of the great city of Chi- cago. : It is their hope to induce the state highway commission to follow the plans to carry the Roosevelt Road west to the Desplaines to Starved Rock through Peoria, and along the Mississippi to St. Louis and the interstate plan is to connect St. Louis with Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans. which was river, Seek Dry Farming Bartenders who have lost their jobs are said to be responding in numbers to the cal®for farm workers and to be really in earnest in offer- ing their soft hands for a hornhand- ed job. The pay is better than they received for pushing schooners over the bar and the new occupation will serve as a Sunday school text for aenerations. This transfer from con- sumers to producers will be subject for congratulation white | ribboners congregate. REMARKABLE RUN MADE BY FRANKLIN ON WAGER wherever Fost time in a Franklin car won 2 $2000 wager in Pittsburgh a few days ago. The record performance was not just a short jaunt "down the pike," but on the contrary a continu- ous run from Pittsburgh to Phila- Adelphia and back, a distance of 624 miles. Here is how it happened: C. F. Mason, of the Mason Oil company, recently became the owner of a Franklin car which had already been run 5000 miles. In true Franklin- owner fashion, he was enthusiastic- ally praising the car to H. A. Fri- day of the American Sales company. In the face of Mr. Friday's skeptic- ism, the new owner made the asser- tion that his Franklin could be driven to Philadelphia and return within 24 the only difficulty being to fit the | men to the jobs and secure for them | honor | of the plans to build the road and to | hours, and as a retort the doubter stated that he had $2000 to bet that "it couldn't be done." Mr. Mason promptly accepted the wager and immediately proceeded to call up his friend, J. M. Eyler, a prominent insurance man, and 'a long-time Franklin owner, who thinks nothing of taking a drive of 1000 miles or so, and asked him to pilot the car. Despite the fact that it was then 5 o'clock in the after- |in his own car after a hard day's work, Mr. Friday stipulated that the trial should begin at once. So away | went the party, with no preliminary preparations. A Starting at 7:10 in the evening, the driver and party kept going at a rapid gait in the four-passenger roadster, and at 6:10 the next morn- ing had reached the Quaker City. Mr. Eyler checked in at the office of a Philadelphia newspaper, .took a few minutes to eat breakfast, and was on | his way again to Pittsburgh, which | he reached at 5:10 that afternoon-- | "fresh as a daisy," he says, and will- | ing to bet $5000 that he could repeat | the performance without rest. His | friends evidently believed he could, | because nobody accepted the bet. The run was completed within 22 | hours elapsed time, while the actual | running time was slightly less than | 20 hours. The average speed was 32 miles an hour; and the gasoline con- sumption, 20.7 miles to the gallon. Approximately one gallon of engine oil was used. MAKE AUTO CHECK AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS The Southern Pacific Railway re- cently took a check on 20,000 cars and the way the drivers operate at cross- ings. Five hundred and twenty-five cars crashed through the gates while they were down and the warning set. Sixty-nine and one-half per cent of looked both ways. cent looked one way. Nineteen and three-tenths per cent, | or 3,301 cars, dashed over the tracks | at a reckless rate of speed. noon, and that Mr. Eyler had just returned from a hundred mile trip | | the drivers looked neither to the right nor left. { Two and seven-tenths per cent Twenty-seven and eight-tenths per! | Only thirty-five drivers of the 20,- | | 000 stopped their machines to make sure that trains were not approach- ing. It is easily understood why there are so many "accident stories" run damage suits arising from deaths at railway crossings are thrown out of court. Think it over. J. NORMAN ELLIOT IS J. Nerman Elliot has been appoint- ed freshman football, baseball and varsity basketball coach at North- western University and is to begin his duties September 1. He was for- merly a star athlete at Illinois Wes- leyan University and member of the championship Illinois Athletic club basketball team. 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