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4 THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918 THE LAKE SHORE NEWS Established 1912 With which is combined THE WIL.1HKTTE LOCAL NEWS ___________Established 1898___________ ISSUED THURSDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Luke Shore Publishing Company 1222 Central Ave.. Wilmette, 111. BBstneas Telephone................1021 Editorial Telephone................1020 WUme<kw Office Telephone........ 888 SUBSCRIPTION.........«2.00 A YEAR _________Strictly In advance_________ Address all communications to The Lake Shore News, "Wilmette, Illinois. Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The same i applies to rejected manuscript unless return postage is enclosed. Articles for publication should reach this office by Tuesday afternoon to insure appear- ance tn current issue.________________ Resolutions of condolence, card 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 postofflce at Wilmette, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3. 1879. THURSDAY, EKBRUARY 21, 1918 The Heatless Days Are Gone. The end of the "heatless" days is come, the brake removed from the even progress of industry which was, apparently, going at a pace too fast for the transportation systems of the country. The inference is that we have caught up with ourselves at last and are again to be permitted to proceed at our normal rate, without the loss of time and money which the ten heatless Mondays of the program entailed. We shall not regret the inconven- ience, the loss of time and money, the hardship which the stopping of the wheels has brought to thousands of persons if it has been productive of good, if we have learned the lesson which we ought to have learned last summer to provide in the months of easy transportation for the storms and the stress to be expected in the winter. If we have taken in the significance of the reason for the famine, which has afflicted us since the country fell into1 the grasp of the storm king; if we have discovered what should have been a patent fact, that coal should be distributed in summer in such quantities that every community should have a surplus to provide against just' the conditions which we had this winter, if we have learned that there must be some centralized system of railroad man- agement, a system which works all the j'ear around, we shall have en- dured the hardship and the suffering and the anxiety to good purpose. But if we settle back into the groove of irresponsibility, letting the past be forgotten and the future take care of itself, we shall have invested our experience of the last six weeks to very little purpose. ***** Thrift In the School*. The interesting of the school chil- dren in the sale of the thrift stamps will be productive of good far out of proportion to the amount of money which is thus raised. The carrying of the interest into the homes is no small consideration. The reasons for the campaign for the sale of the stamps will impress upon child and parent alike the circumstances of the times. The fact of the war will be brought home to those who have not as yet been made to realize it fully. But this is not the greatest benefit of the thrift stamp campaign among the boys and girls in the grades. The instillation of the idea of thrift into the mind of the chiltl when he is most open to impression is the important product of the endeavor to sell thrift stamps to the pupils of the public schools, and its importance cannot be overestimated. The great American weakness, lack of thrift and providence, will be corrected in a part of the student body at least, and a new generation given a character- istic which means much to the wel- fare of a nation. Everything has come so easily to the American of any attainment at all that our prog- ress towards a high degree of im- providence and extravagance has been the natural result. If we can succeed through the sale of the thrift stamps in impressing upon the child- hood of the country the fact that there is an intimate relation betweerj the saving of the small sum and having money to invest in larger amounts, we shall have accomplished a reform of {he utmost value to the nation. Sidelights On the Food Situation. Well meaning propagandists and newspapers witli accepted reputation for probity continuously tell the pub- lic of the starving babies in Germany, and lead us to hope for an early peace with a nation starved to sub- mission. An interesting sidelight on this information is furnished cmite casually by the United States food administration which has just issued a bulletin containing the following paragraph: "Since occupying northern Vrance, Germany has seized about 2,700,000 French and Bel- gian cattle. By this depredation and increasing restrictive meas- ures at home, Germany has maintained practically her orig- inal number of cattle." , . It would seem from this, then, that t he German babies are not entirely without milk, else the Teutonic cat- tle are not being put to the best possible use, and in the realm,, of. material things we have coine to be-: lieve that the land of the kaiser is the last thing in efficiency. As a striking contrast between the cattle situation in Germany and that in the lands of the Allies, there conies froth the same source the statement that they had a million fewer sheep in Great Britain in 1917 than in 1916. that hogs have decreased in the Brit- ish Isles as follows: In Ireland 26.4 per cent, in England and Wales 11.5 per cent and in Scotland 9.5 per cent. a decrease in the number of swine in the British Isles aggregating 600,- 000; and the slaughter of cattle in the large market centers of the United States reached over 11,500,000 in 1917, as compared with 9.500,000 the previous year, an increase of 21.8 per cent, and during the same time the veal slaughter increared from l^ss tha-n 1,725,000 to more than 2,225.000, or nearly one-third. While figures are not available showing the number of cattle now in the United States, at any definite period, it is certain that such a large increase in the killing of mature cattle cannot be maintained when an even greater in- crease in the killing of calves is allowed to continue. Students of the meat situation in America, as it af- fects us at borne, as well as our allies abroad, are beginning to agitate, as an accompaniment to the restrictive .measures imposed by the food ad- ministration upon the consumer, a compulsory elimination of the kill- ing of veal, young hogs and lambs. While an estimate of the exact increase in supply of beef pounds that might be obtained in eighteen months by this method is not avail- able, it is obviously true that such an order from Washington would render unnecessary the restrictive measures that are now being voluntarily prac- ticed by a part of the public but not uniformly enforced upon the people of the nation. War and the Dress of Man. War's effect is being seen in man's dress as well as in that of women. One of the conspicuous features of the season has been the simpler cos- tuming of women whose financial position made it entirely a possible thing for them to indulge in what- ever luxuries of dress they have been accustomed to buy. There has been the lack of occasion for elaborate dress, the feeling that it is not be- coming to indulge the vanities when there are so many, many places to put money to such good purpose, the lack of interest in the things which used to amuse when the mind and the heart are with the boy "over there" or filled with apprehension as to what is to be the news brought on tlie next mail. l;cwcr dress suits and tuxedoes and more uniforms is the experience of the tailors. Men who have in other times bought tlie clothing which is necessary to the person who is wont to amuse himself have this year from the burning of soft coal, thereby facilitating the conservation of fuel, and will also avoid having an excess of. soot discharged into the air, for which the burning of soft coal is noted. "Yours very truly, "EDWIN PHELPS." This is the Garland article he re- fers to: "Soft coal is dustless, sootless, and smokeless if properly used in most any kind of a cook-stove, coal heating stove, hot-air furnace or steam boiler. "It will be dustless if you see that it has been wet before delivery, and it should then be kept sprinkled just enough so the dust will not fly. Damp coal burns just as well or better than dry, and should be used in residences or wherever dust is objectionable. "The ashes should also be made dustless by the same simple method of soaking them before being moved from the ash pit under the grate. Once ashes have been wet they may be kept in the cellar all winter and they will handle like wet sand. "Obey the above and the ashes and coal will be dustless. How to Eliminate Soot. "Simply by putting your soft coa! on one side of the fire or under the fire, and let the fire burn down into , !x ., • „ r,,,. the coal from the top. Never put bought the suit of khaki or navy _ ».___, ^„ „ /- « im. c u i~ b J soft coal on a fire. The fire below blue serge, the uniform of the coun- try for which he is ready and willing to give to the uttermost. It is a significant index of what has hap- pened in the country, this announce- ment of the tailor of the change experienced in the business of pro- ducing clothing for the men of the country. THE DAY OF DAYS New York Posi Oh, the coalless days and the heatless days, , The meatless days and the wheatless days, - .......■".,.;."! And the days* without .sugar and sweet, ■ ■-•:-:> - ' And the days without ham, and the days without lamb,-: ... And the days with just nothing to .;. eat., :..... .... ' And the da'ys without rice, and the days without ice, ""■""•"■ ' •" - ( ■ .... . And the days without corn, beans, or bread; But we'll never despair, we'll feed .upon air, , ,,, . And make soup of the old fcather- . bed. THE HAND OF AUTHORITY London C/ironcile Two Basutoland chiefs arrived in London yesterday afternoon. They are paying a visit to England, and will be given the opportunity of see- ing most of our available "sights," as well as visiting centers of war work. Usually African dignitaries are most impressed by the power of the Lon- don policeman's uplifted hand con- trolling traffic. Burn Soft Coal Soft coal is dustless if handled properly, according to a communica- tion received from Edwin Phelps, 260 Wood court, who writes as follows on the subject: "January 24, 1918. "North Shore News, "Wilmette, Illinois. "Gentlemen :— "The attached article by J. C. Gar- land came to my attention a couple of weeks ago. since which time I have been following the directions given therein regarding the firing of my furnace at my home, 260 Wood Court. In so doing I have convinced myself of the merit of the suggestions made in this article and have the satis- faction of knowing that I am getting better results out of my furnace than I had heretofore. "Inasmuch as there are a large number of people in Wilmette, and in other towns along the north shore for that matter, who are voluntarily or involuntarily burning soft coal, it seems to me that the publication of this article in your paper would be a community service. If such facts are brought to the attention of the com- munity, and are followed, it will re-| suit in obtaining a greater efficiency' will immediately evaporate the rich fuel gasses and throw them out of the chimney before they can be burned. If the chimney cannot carry them you will have smoke in the house. Perhaps you do not know that the fire will burn down from the top into a pile of soft coal. If you do not know this, try it. Fill a stove or furnace and build your fire on top, and convince yourself that it will burn down to the bottom. "If your furnace is large your fire may last two or three days. Gases will come out slowly from the pile of coal below and will be perfectly burned in the fire above. The heat will be at the top where you want it and your grates will not burn out. Satisfy yourself on this point and your doubts about the method we propose will vanish. "" Coal On Top. "Where the fire goes out and is to be rebuilt each time, the above method work to perfection. Simply clean all ashes out of stove or fur- nace, shovel in soft coal, and build a wood fire on top of the coal. In most cases this will last a day and will only need regulation of the drafts until it burns out. If more fuel is needed push the fire over on one side and put fresh coal on the side of the fire, never on the fire. "In a furnace, clean one side at a time and then put in as large a quantity as it will hold, on one side of the fire. See that there is no fire under the coal. You can do this with shovel and poker. Three Directions. "First. Put soft coal on the side of the fire or start the (ire on top the coal. Never put soft coal on fire. "Second. Never leave the fire with- out a blaze on top. Use wood or kindling if necessary to start a flame. Gas and smoke burn only in a flame. "Third. Give it some air on top. This will mix with the gas and burn in a flame. "If you have gas, soot, or black smoke, one of the three things have been neglected. Correct it imme- diately by adding wood or kindling to cause a good fire on top. Combustion. "Comhustion of coal takes place partly in the fuel bed and partly in the space above the fuel bed which is commonly called the combustion space. The process of combustion in the fuel bed consists chiefly of the gassification of the fuel. Combustible gases rising from the fuel bed are burned in the combustion space by uniting with the oxygen in the air admitted through firing door, and the combustion is complete if the supply of air and size of combustion space are sufficient." John er says: "It seems to me that retail advertising is a very simple matter in these times, when the newspaper goes into every home in the land. I believe that the retail merchant who fails to advertise, fails in his duty to his customers. The public has a right to know what a mer- chant is doing; it has a right to know what sort of goods he has in his establishment, and what kind of service he renders, and what the conditions of his service are. It has a right to know when he receives new goods, and has a right to know what the new goods are like. "No merchant nowadays ought to expect the public to give him its patronage unless he comes out frankly and tells the public what reasons he has to expect its patronage. And he ought to do this in the daily news- papers—or the weekly newspaper if there is no daily in his town. That's the way for him to stand fair and square with the people whom he expects to come in and buy his goods. "Let his advertisement be the truthful news of what he is doing, and let him print it in the newspaper, where news belongs, and then he will be playing fair with the public and deserving of its confidence/' Advertise in The Lake Shore News