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> r - WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918 MILITARY PLANS FOR U.S. BOYS RESERVE Lads for Farms Next Year to Be Specially Trained and Go Out in Cempanies An army of boys specially trained for their work, disciplined and or- ganized on U. S. Army lines, is plan- ned by the Illinois branch of the U. S. Boys' Working Reserve for Illi- nois next year, working in co-opera- tion with the State Counlil of De- fense. Organization and training under the new plan will begin this fall in the schools and on the farms. Boys will be fifteen years of age and boys who will be below the draft age by Spring are eligible to be enrolled in the Reserve. They will then be uni- formed and given thorough training as part of the school course. The boys will be organized into companies of fifty, with each com- pany in charge of an instructor. These companies will form divisions bearing the name of the school the members attend. Companies from smaller schools will be grouped un- der a combination name. In addition to the class room work and military drill, there will be laboratory work and practical train ing in barns and machine shops. The companies will be divided into squads of ten each, and will learn to groom, feed and harness horses, and to drive machinery. Team owners and ma- chinery people will co-operate with the schools by allowing use of their equipment. The method of placing the boys in 1919 will be radically different from methods used in the past. Boys will be sent out in companies. Each com- pany will have an instructor who will remain with it all summer. A headquarters. Each county will some central point where the boys can gather evenings and Sundays, which will be a point of contact be- tween the Reserve, the parents and the county director. Rigid inspection of sanitary arrangements of the farms will be a part of the duty of the instructor in charge. Farmers who make application for Reserve volunteers will pay a fee of $5, which will make a fund to defray expenses of the instructor and the headyquarters. Each county will estimate the number of boys needed to determine the number of com- panies to be assigned to the county. JUST AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT CAN BE DONE The Pleasant Valley Community club, which is the organization of Dow township, McHenry county, af- filiated with the State Council of Defense, reports a record month: September 10, at the farm of J. L. Barnes, plowing contest and exhibi- tion of school work, handiwork and cooking; attended by 1,500 people. September 14, demonstration of milk cooking for the County Im- provement association at Woodstock. September 16, opened the Liberty Ioan advance campaign with a meet- ing addressed by Judge Fenton W. Booth of the U. S. Court of Claims at Washington and David E. Shana- han of the State Council of Defense; band from the Great Lakes training station. September 19, weighed and measur- ed the children of the township. What township can show a better record? War Savings And Gambling H. E. Benedict, executive secretary of the War Savings section of the War Loan organization at Washing- ton, has issued a warning against the use of lottery, raffling or gambling devices in the sale of War Savings securities. The Treasury department is strictly opposed to the employ- ment of such methods whether or not they come technically under a legal prohibition. "Any device in the nature of a game of chance, or which has the aspect of a raffle or lottery, should be stopped," says Mr. Bene- dict's warning. "Of course, the local chairmen or others initiating such movements probably do so in good faith, and after the lottery plan has got under way it is often difficult to stop it without chilling the whole community to the sale of the Gov- ernment securities. It is, therefore, exceedingly desirable that every pos- sible precaution be taken to prevent such movements originating." War Savings Items When you save a thoughtless dollar, Whether put in bonds or war stamps, You help to make the kaiser holler And on his kultur put the clamps. You save the labor it would buy, Release it for more vital work; Our dollars make the bullets fly, Defeat the German and the Turk. Bonds Buy Food For Soldiers. Buy Liberty Bonds. SAVE AND SERVE. } --- I EE si es SA RE 2 ea NI a Lay YHE WHITE HOUSE' WASHINGTON Pier tronas,, aust Lit if fer spe Lorne Hw 0 net tree aud Fo Sutfiol mates of Gerrans, ave fortis > Ld Areal fruegiler gud tt 7 afc our Covprramot was SA ccf Ay arctl ret brea lll--ms wlicdlid. ooton riz This Space Contributed to Winning the War by THE LAKE SHORE PUBLISHING CO. ' ILLINOIS NEAR THE TOP Illinois during the month of August sold $7,552,71820 worth of War Sav- ings and Thrift stamps, and was sur- passed in the amount of sales only by Ohio and New York, according to figures received today from the Treasury department at Washington. Ohio leads for the month of August in War Savings stamps sales with a total of $11,379,866.52. Illinois was BE ------ -- 18th on the list in the August sales and 24th for the total sales of the campaign up to September 1 the figures show. This brings Illincis' per capita up to $6.73 for the year. The figures for the Chicago pwst office sales during the past week are expected to show a decided increase due to a number of special drives held in the outlying postal districts. More than $3,000 worth were sold last week in Austin by a corps of pretty young girls, under Mrs. Bernard J. Ma- honey, director of the Austin postal district. These girls operated booths at the Madison Square theater, and other local movie houses and on street corners. They were assisted by soldiers from the Austin militia units and bluejackets home on leave. Your Money Should Not Be Neu- tral; Enlist It in The Fourth Loan. Buy Today. Save and Pay. C.E BRIDGES 1629 Orrington Avenue Evanston Phone 5886 North ~~ Shore Distributor for Franklin Buick and Dodge Brothers Motor (> fi Ji; AHI HERE