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6 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1918 Wisastka 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 2dvertising rates. tered in the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second olass, under the'act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, "MARCH 8, 1918. Are We Unworthy The Trust? In every part of the village there are organizations of women doing war relief work. Circles, 'large 'and small, are engaged in making the hospital supplies and the clothing which the men of the army and the navy need for their safety and com- fort. In the number of its organizations Wilmette is making a reputation for herself, but in these organizations there is yet room for many, many women who have not yet found their proper place in the group. Only about one-third of the women of the village are engaged in war re- lief work, a proportion which is far below what ought to be the case. Only about a third of the homes are observing the food regulations. Only about a third of the people are mak: other chafige in their manner of than 'the necessities of the 'tary power 'which' the world has ever The problem for the country is how to bring home to the delinquent two-thirds of the people of America the solemn fact that we are engaged in a war which is going to tax our strength and our endurance to the utmost, which is going to call upon us for the sacrifice of our treasures and our resources, for the lives of our men and the labor of our wom- en. It is the inertia of the great mass of the people of America which is the greatest difficulty to be over- come before the country will be able to rise to its full strength. It is inertia which is keeping women out of war work, 'inertia which is pre=. serving in the unpatriotic homes the old regime of tlie free use of food: which ought to be saved, inertia which is keeping so large a portion of the population steadfast in the old way, the easy way, the way of no sacrifice, no hardship, no change from the old program of the time when we were free from 'the weight of a war against the greatest mili- known. Hitherto we have been given the opportunity to put ourselves volun- tarily upon a regime of war econo- my. We have been put upon our the self-denial which we ought to practice. Hitherto the system has failed and the appli- cation of compulsory. regulation. of honor 'to practice the details of our lives seems to be the only solution of the situation. ~The American people seem not to be able to 'realize the immense tri- umph it would be for us to achieve of our own free will that height of self-control which is indicated in a successful application of a voluntary program of conservation. Today make utiavoidable. We must that it is the same one-third | there is little promise that we are going to show ourselves big enough Asking the Impossible. Germany has furnished, such is in existence. And Germany seems not to recognize the meaning of such an admission. There can be in the council of civilized nations today none which is unprejudiced against the Central empire of Europe. The philosophy of the Germany of today is a philo- sophy which.denies the humanity of man. As Tallyrand said of Voltaire, 'there is some. one wiser than the German emperor and the .German school of thought which has pro- duced the present regime in Ger- many. "Clesh tout le 'monde,' the prin- ciples of the German war party be- cause it is in contradiction to the 'and 3 "everybody" must deny iprinciples of humanity. : "There will never be found an un: prejudiced board of. arbitration be- fore which the differences between the Central, empires of Europe and tried, because, as soon as the facts of the present: war are known, con- demnation. must spring up in the mind- of the normal person. Count von Hertling is perfectly safe in of- fering submission of the cause to a board which is: equally friendly to the Central the allied because none such can be America, and America's al- powers and nations, found, lies, may as well realize at this time that the only treating to 'be done with Germany must be done with Germany on her knees, unless it is to be an abject submission to the in- human terms of the German Kaiser. The sooner we get that fact into to be worthy that trust. our heads, the better off shall we be. signified a willing- ness to talk peace, provided an un- prejudiced board of arbitration is but complains that none cause it is ing contradiction of thel the rest of theicivilized world can be It is a lamentable fact that it to be the government agencies in the war to seems impossible for who are in a position to know with- out laying itself open to suspicion of collusion with the and that men who have achieved that their which makes their advice valuable cannot "interests," success in business offer their services to the country without exposing themselves to the Ignorance a Certificate of Character. ask for expert advice from those | charge of conspiracy to defraud the public and to dupe the government. The case reduces itself pretty much to the point of the only acceptable service in technical work being given by persons entirely unacquainted and unrelated to it, and the govern- ment seeking advice and council in matters which it does not understand from menwhohavehad noexperience with that particular matter and no relations whatever with any one who has. and the hour. servant. ment and to the public. end of the war. What the Bell System | ig Is Doing ~ reac Gi, is the" essential element' of the times The telephorie operator is a Pealidd public Before she is allowed to take her place at the switchboard she indergoes a systematic course of instruction, so arranged as to develop alertness of thought, concentration on the work in hand, re- sourcefulness in"emergency, and speed of action. To handle the great volume of business pass- ing over its"long distance lines alone, the Bell System has specially trained 12,000 operators in long distance methods and practices: Upon the speed in handling messages, de- veloped by these thousands of operators, depends the usefulness of the Bell System to the Govern- Speed, in the transmission of messages which have to do with the construction of air-craft, ships, munitions, and the like--- with all Government activities in fact--will be a factor in saving human lives, since these appliances will bring nearer the CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY OTICE VILLAGE OF WINN ETKA OF ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a GENERAL ELECTION i is to he held in the VILLAGE or W INNETKA on TUESDAY, APRIL 2ND, 1918, for the purpose of VOTING for the following officers: THREE VILLAGE TRUSTEES ONE VILLAGE TREASURER ONE VILLAGE CLERK ONE VILLAGE MARSHAL AND COLLECTOR TWO VILLAGE LIBRARY TRUSTEES 0 I zzz 000 // Z 7. 2 T7077 TH FI pz 4 7 That the office occupied by PRECINCT NO. 1--Shall be bounded on the north by the north limits of the Village, on the east by Lake Michigan, on the south, east of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, by the center line of North Avenue; on the south, west of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, by the center line of Fig Street; and on the west by the westerly limits of the Village. That the office occupied by Wm. in the Village of Winnetka, is hereby designated as the polling place in PRECINCT No. 1, for the purpose of holding said. election. PRECINCT NO. 2--Shall be bounded on the north, and North Western Railroad, Aitkin, located at 1065 east o by the center line of North Av north, west of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, by the center line of Fig Street; on the east by Lake Michigan; on the south by the center line of Elm Street, and on the west by the westerly limits of the V illage. 3yron Nelson, at 807 Elm Street, Gage Street, f the Chicago enue; on the in the That for the purpose of holding said election the Village of Winnetka shall be divided into four election districts or precincts as follows: Village of Winnetka is hereby designated as the polling place in PRECINCT No. 2, for the purpose of holding said election. PRECINCT NO. 3--Shall be bounded on the north by the center line of Elm Street, on the east by Lake Michigan, on the south by the center line of Willow Street, and on the west by the westerly limits of the Village. That the office occupied by the Winnetka Weekly Talk, at Number 22 Prouty Court, between Elm and Oak Streets, is hereby designated as the polling place in PRECINCT No. 3, for the purpose of holding said election. PRECINCT NO. 4--Shall be bounded on the north by the center line of Willow Street, on the east by Lake Michigan, on the south by the southerly limits of the Village, and on the west by the w esterly limits of the Village. That the Store known as Indian Hill Inn, located on Winnetka Avenue, near Wilson Street, in the Village of W innetka, is hereby designated as the polling place in PRECINCT No. 4, for the purpose of holding said election. That for the purpose of said election the polls shall be open at the respective polling places above mentioned at the hour of 6 o'clock A. M. and shall remain open from such hour until the hour of 6 o'clock P. M. on the said 2nd day of April, 1918. W. A. RatnE: Village Clerk Liziizzzz 2 2) 0 ZH ZZ 7 7 7 Z 7 7 2k 7 7 7 707 4 7 7