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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1918 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The 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 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 postofiice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second elass. under the act of March 3. 1879. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1918 Where Did You Get Your Facts = | Everybody hears in the course of | his day's activities one or more! stories of the sort which have been branded by the government as the work of enemy agents started in the interest of the German cause. Most of them are so obviously made up of whole cloth that the wonder is there are any to give them credence. But it is a human characteristic to like the improbable and to accept at sober thought ought to reject | untrue. And so these stories find | ever ready audience, not ily 1 sten to them but to carry them | eir circle of associates. ) propaganda tales are most loyal | mericans, devoted to their country | not to be persuaded by any ar- ent to betray the country's wel-| They have simply ready ears ceSs of the originator of the story, | 'their reputation for veracity and | Joalty they lend authority to the | statements which they make. A good check for these stories is being suggested by the army of four- minute speakers who appear before all sorts of audiences all over the country. They are urging the per- son who listens to the rumors which tensive public school system and! greater attention to the education of the children. But in England it is a great advance, a material improve- ment over the old system of inade- quate provision of educational ad- vantages for the children of the poor and lower middle class. B-E--R-E-A-D-Y Be Ready For The Liberty Loan At the end of this month the Fourth be prudent Liberty Loan campaign will launched. Patriotic and people are already beginning to plan their expenditures so that they may invest in these bonds to the extent of their ability, both as a means of giving that financial aid to the gov- ernment which is-essential and for the investment of all their available these sure loans to the United States. When the the launching of the loan there will no funds in time comes for doubt be a house to -house canvass made as in the case of the other loans. Fach home will be solicited, each citizen asked to make his con- tribution to the success of the cam- When that it should find the people of Wilmette paign. time comes already determined as to how much they can put into government bonds, in order that they may not needlessly spend the time of the solicitor, that less than they may not subscribe their circumstances permit, or more than they should in reference to the st of these carriers h - . oh Mo < rs of the Ger-| other demands to which they arelf..ence has been made have further subject. - . yo ~ | Most of us in Wilmette stood for We he proesecution of such activities as preparedness, for war. urged could be carried on without a breach gossip and tongues that rejoice | of "3 E = 5 . - . . 3 ellin good t i By thei ; of our neutrality or without arous- |e possible a continuance of the g a good tale. By their very | ing the suspicion of the German gov- gg 1 2 ob gag erity they contribute to the suc-|ernment of hostile intent within us. Now we should apply that same principle of preparedness to our own individual affairs and be ready when the time comes for the subscription to the Fourth Liberty Loan to say just how much we may safely invest without imperiling either business or the safety of the family. Be ready for the Liberty Loan by taking thought now of what you may tend to disquiet the American public "Where did | The object to | to ask his informant, you get your facts?" be attained is to send each member of the audience away with the de- vicious termination to greet every rumor with this query and to apply it to what his own tongue repeats. | | | 1f the four-minute men can achieve this purpose they will have perform- ed the impossible, for it is not only to trouble that man is born as the sparks fly upward. The love of gos- sip is almost as much an inherent trait. and its elimination almost as much an undertaking. The seed of doubt addresses, sown in these four-minute however, may produce some little fruit in the provocation of a small portion of the audience. B-E--R-E-A-D-Y England's New Venture In Education It is significant of the importance which is attached to the education of the boys and girls of today that the English House of Commons, even in the press of business which the war has brought, should at this time seriously consider and pass to the final and third reading the educa- tional bill providing nursery schools for children under five, compulsory school attendance for children be- tween the ages of five and fourteen, and forbidding the employment for profit of any child under twelve. To us in America these seem to be slight protection to the childhood of a nation, because of our more ex- invest. B-E--R-E-A-D-Y WHAT EACH U. S. SOLDIER COSTS UNCLE SAM A YEAR Fach American soldier costs the United States government $2040 a year. More than. 1,600,060 are in France. On the basis of $2,040 per soldier, they would cost $2,652,000, 000. Following is the cost of each sol- dier for a year: SUSLENANCE .iviishhnn sass enveie $430 Personal equipment ............. 280 Service equipment ........... 050 Pay (average Officers and men). 480 Housing, cantonments, etc ...... 80 Transportation (to France) ..... 120 Total .... direasnnsneicinndadives $2,040 CARRY YOUR SUGAR TO CHURCH DINNERS Recent rulings of the Federal Food Administratior include the fol- lowing. No sugar will be allowed for the | home making of wine as this is re- garded as non-essential. Those who desire to co-operate in the conserva- tion of sugar, will take pleasure in foregoing the use of wine this year. No extra sugar can be allowed for public entertainments, church lun- cheons, large dinners, and the like. Those who eat at these affairs, have their allotment of sugar at home. If you attend such an affair, take along a little envelope of sugar for your personal use. B-E--R-E-A-D-Y PLEASE RETURN THEM Will the person who bought the oolf-bag, golf sticks and balls at the Gift Shop, Winnetka, please com- municate with Mrs. Thomas Taylor. As they were sold by mistake. The money will gladly be refunded. B-E--R-E-A-D-Y SANTA CLAUS COMING FOR ALL THE KIDDIES But Older Folks Are Urged To Give Only Useful Things For Presents, And To Begin Buying Now There will be Christmas toys for the kids this year, despite the war. The Council of National Defense has listened to the merchants of the country, and has modified its order concerning Christmas shopping, par- ticularly in favor of the youngsters. Among the older folks the national council urges very strongly that only useful Christmas presents be given, and above all things urges everybody to do his Christmas shopping, not early, but earlier. "The retail interests", says the statement of the National Council, "have agreed not to increase their working force by reason of the holi- day business over the average force employed by them throughout the year and not to increase the normal working hours of their force during the Christmas season. They also agreed to use their utmost efforts to confine Christmas giving, except for young children, to useful articles and to spread the period for holiday pur- chases over the months of October, November, and December. "In order to relieve the transporta- tion facilities of the country from a congestion in the latter half of December which would be so hurt- ful to the interests of the nation that it cannot be permitted, the retail in- terests have agreed to co-operate in the campaign heretofore and now be- ing carried on under the auspices of the War Industries Board to restrict and to induce their cust- their own packages deliveries omers to carry wherever possible. "The retail interests to which re- Thomas Taylor of Hubbard Woods. Lieut. Alan Winslow, son of Mr. W. H. Winslow. Lieut. John Wentworth, Mr. Mose Wentworth. It may be noted that of the original eighteen, but five are left in this squadron which commenced its com- bat work over the lines in April 1918. B-E--R-E-A-D-Y LETTER FROM PRESIDENT WILSON TO THE BOY SCOUTS THE WHITE HOUSE Washington | son of August 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Livingstone: The active service of every scout and official enrolled as a member of | the Boy Scouts of America is depend- | ed upon to help make the Fourth Liberty loan a success. The fact that scouts secured 1,322,649 subscriptions. | representing $203,169,000, in the previ- ous campaigns is a convincing "ett ) monial to the value of organized | boyhood for the kind of patriotic service that is worth while. I am in- formed the Boy Scouts rendered other valuable service throughout the country to the local Liberty Loan committees. I beg every member of the Boy Scouts of America to realize that the service rendered by the boys has been greatly appreciated by the whole nation and that not only the officials of the Treasury and of the various Liberty Loan committees are looking to them for effective work in the Fourth campaign, but that the whole country, which is already proud of them, expects it. There is no better way in which they can show their desire to help win the war. Will you not be kind enough to | arrange at the earliest possible time, | in accordance with the plans of the Treasury department, to have the Boy Scouts of America work out agreed to make an announcement to the above substantial effect in their advertisements commencing in early September and repeating same week- ly thereafter The above suggestions if faithfully and loyally put into ef- fect throughout the country will holiday custom without endangering | the national interests thereby." | The Couneil of National Defense | has called upon all organized busi- ness bodies everywhere to help carry joc this arrangement in good faith, and urges the public to co-operate with the merchants of all communi- ties to make the agreement effective. Hence all people are urged to re- member to buy only useful things for Christmas gifts. and to begin their buying now. B-E--R-E-A-D-Y oe red SUGAR SITUATION WORSE Seven Whys For Short Supplies 1. Our great war program has re- duced our sugar-carrying fleet. 2. The sugar requirements of our overseas army are very large. 3. Our own sugar Crop is less than we expected. : 4. The small island, Cuba, must feed the world with sugar. 5. We have diverted 50,000 tons of sugar shipping in order that Belgium | should have food. 6. Germans have destroyed sugar beet fields and factories in northern France and Italy. 7. More than 50,000,000 pounds of sugar have been sunk off our shores by German submarines. Original List of Men in First Pursuit Group Major Huffer. Major Raoul Lufbery (killed). Captain Norman Hall. Captain Petersen. Captain Kenneth Marr. y Lieutenant Douglas Campbell, (wounded and now in U.-S). Lieutenant Meisener. Lieutenant "Eddie" Lieutenant Reid Chambere, Flight Commander). Lieutenant John Wentworth, (re- cently transferred to another squad- ron of which Lieutenant George Fish of Chicago is in command). Rickenbacher. (first Lieutenant Alan Winslow, (miss- ing). Lieutenant Green, (2nd Flight Com- mander). . Lieutenant Gude. Lieutenant Leemis, (transferred to third group). Lieutenant Thorne Clarkson Tay- lor, (Flight Commander of First Pursuit Group). Lieutenant Davis. Lieutenant Cunningham. Lieutenant Chapman, (killed). In this list which actually compris- es the First Pursuit Group of the American Aerial Service are the names of three Chicago men: Lieut. Thorne Clarksen Taylor, son of Judge B-E--R-E-A-D-Y through their local leaders in co- operation with the local Liberty Loan committees the necessary de- tails for effective service? Cordially and sincerely yours, WOODROW WILSON. Mr. Colin H. Livingstone, President, Boy Scouts of America, Washington, D. C. Fourteen hogs were smothered to death on a farm at Paris, T11., when a bin of oats collapsed, bury- ing them underneath. A widespread rumor of an impend- ing cyclone had a cyclonic effect on the residents of Quincy. Many of the citizens stayed up all night. 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