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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 Winnetka 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, Ili Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. 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 & collection taken, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, | Illinois, as mail matter of the second elass. under the act of March 3. 1879. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 Christmas Shopping The appearance of the Christmas| shopping advertisements thus early should serve to remind a procrastin- ating public of the fact that the buy- ing of Christmas gifts for this year must be done early or not be done at all. We have adapted ourselves to all sorts of new conditions, we have ac- cepted cheerfully the many forms of regulation of our private affairs, and we should be able to see in this powerful decree concerning Christ- mas shopping another instance of providing for a condition which can- not be avoided, and seeing, accept the advice and act upon it. . It will be something gained to miss the maddening rush of the days just preceding Christmas, but it will not be pleasant if that freedom is ac- companied by the realization that re- membrances which should have been bought are not available. There are many reasons for short- ening the Christmas list this year. The ever present need to economize in order to accumulate money for in- vestment in the government securi- ties comes first as a reason for mak- ing some other form of remembrance on Christmas day serve for the gift of happier times. Added to this is the necessity to make the demand upon the resources of the country as light as possible. to limit to the utmost the labor and material spent in the manufacture of non-essentials, and to afford the example of this concrete evidence of co-operation with the government in a plan of general economy and conservation, All these considerations should result in the early planning of the Christmas purchases, the immediate execution of the plans, and the relief which that program will provide for every- body. ; Obedience Without Thinking Tt has heen the boast of the mili- tary caste in Germany that the youth of the country is so trained in mili- tary discipline that they "obey with- out thinking." It is this habit of obedience with- out question that has made of the German nation the great military machine that it has shown itself to be, for by eliminating thought as an element of obedience, it has made the individual men of the military organ- ization function the inanimate parts of a mechanical device. Jt is unfortunately true that the habit of implicit, unthinking obedi- ence destroys in some measure the ability to exercise intelligent thought upon matters of public concern. It is that very habit in the people which has made it possible for the military party in Germany to persuade the German people that that nation entered upon the war in self defense when, in 1914, it threw as aside treaties and national obliga- tions and hurled its massive army across Belgium, hoping to reach Paris before the other nations could rally their forces sufficiently to offer effective resistance. It is this habit of obeying without thinking that we must correct in the German people before they can be- come proper members of the family of nations. They must be made to see that they have been led into ways that are wrong. made to realize that their [Kaiser is not the appointed representative of God, that the rest The same | German | George W. Peterson has _enlisted| In addition to above, during three 5 5 War E Union Activiti ar Emergency Union Activities == WAR EMERGENCY UNION Infant. Welfares.... Wo, co 500. 150 WAR PERSONALS {Local Charities: "..........\ cide. 480 A Red: Cross: .... ic oti vw .am -- | Lieutenant Gutekunst is stationed | United Charities ................. -- Jak Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas. rere | _-" 1,278 in the Red Cross Ambulance service | months ending September 30, 1918. {and is at Camp Scott. Chicago. | we have: | -- | 1. Furnished 80 models to other Thatcher Nelson has been promoted | similar organizations, to the rank of Captain. He is at| 2. Furnished 80 pattern to other | Spartanburg, South Carolina. similar organizations, -- i 3. Explained to 47 other organiza- | David Nethercot who is in naval tions desiring to do this work. | aviation has been transferred from Other Conservation work: { San Diego, Cal., to Pensacola, Fla, 3 Aviator Jackets, i | 20 Bags of pieces for school child- Elmer Brady has enlisted in the | ren for quilts. {air service and is at Gerstner Field, | 30 Baskets of scraps for Red Cross | Lake Charles, La. | Salvage department. | 10 Bags of snips for snip pillows. 14 Knitting bags to Gift Shop. 6 Baby bonnets to Gift Shop. During September 18 patriotic talks} for State Council of Defense. Mrs. Frank D. Fulton, Chairman. been sent to Fortress Monroe in the RED CROSS REPORTS heavy artillery. am i , August and September 1918 |e ; wp : i Edward Keil has enlisted with the | Marines -at Paris Island, South { Carolina. } -- | - . Preston Kavanagh who enlisted at | [Northwestern University in the | Student Army training corps has Charles Wood has been promoted | [to the rank of Corporal. | Report of Surigcal Dressings Com- 4 = or mittee | Wilmarth Ickes who is in the 331st | Dressings shipped during July IF. A. overseas is now with a School 11.701. 3 t detachment in France. Dressings shipped during August. { 1,196. . The Woman's Committee of Na-| "Dressings shipped during Septem- tional Defense urges that the follow- ber, 1.982. Isabel Dammann, ing notice be given publicity. A Vice-chairman. When To Use a Checkbook i The next time your telephone rings | The North End Winnetka Navy and a pleasant voice asks: "Won't | committee of the Red Cross reports you buy a ticket for our Camp Fire |the following work completed dur- Concert? You know it's for the bene- | ing the month of September, 101 fit of the Comfort Kit committee," | Hospital shirts, 102 Pajamas, 10 Un- don't reach for your checkbook at | dershirts, 19 Sweaters, 11 pairs of once, but ask first this question: | socks, 3 Scarfs, 1 pair wristlets, 2 "Have you a license from the State {helmets, 10 Kits. Maud R. Winne Council of Defense?" | Chairman. Nobody is permitted to solocit | funds for any form of war relief in | Report of Italian Relief Refugee IMlinois without being licensed to do | Garments so by the State Council of Defense, | (October 7. 1918) which means that their plans have | Shop closed during August. Have been communicated to the Council: | had four meetings since reopening. approved by it; that the cost of |Sent to headquarters 221 Barbetti, 42 launching the concert, bazaar. ex- | Children's garments. {position or whatever the money-rais- | Bertha P, Lynde. ing enterprise may be, will not ex- | : Chairman. ceed 15 per cent of the money collect- | ed, which in turn may only be used | 1 During the month of July there for the specific purpose for which | were 21 kits, 1 special kit, and 3 it is solicited. : : | packets filled and delivered to the In addition a report has 'to be War Emergency Union. turned in to the State Council within During August 25 kits were filled a Axed number of days, which in this land delivered, and during September manner takes upon itself the work 12 kits and 1 special kit were filled' of investigating the worth of every and delivered. appeal for contributions. Mrs. A. L. Withers. There is a penalty of one thousand Chairman of Comfort Kits. dollars' fine for any one soliciting war funds without a license, and no one may have even a "cake sale." or a "Hallowe'en corn-husking" with an admission fee without "authority from the State Council. Good news, this, that business methods are being applied to the fine art of giving! Friday Afternoon, French Children Garments August 23, 3 Baby Children dresses. EleanorD.Husband. 27 dresses, | Report of the Hospital Garment Committee The Illinois State Council News | The hospital Garment committee Urges That Shells Be Saved To | finished and sent in to the Chicago | Make Gas Masks | office on September 1, a total of 392 | earments. This was all the finished | Red Cross work on hand. During the month of September 50 { Hospital bed shirts have been made Save the shells; pits, This means the shells of walnuts, also the fruit | Hickory nuts and Brazil nuts: it | for the Italian Relief Committee. means Peach stones, Plum pits, As soon as the Red Cross quota Olive pits, Prune pits and Date seeds. | arrives we hope to have every machine busy on Tuesday afternoon land Wednesday morning, Alice Farnsworth, Charman Hopsital Committee. The saving of nut shells and fruit nits nt the saving of American lives on the battle front. I'hey are the raw material and the! Raw pane | only raw material from which the | gl | very best grade of gas masks can |e | Report of Sacred Heart Auxiliary for I made for the men who are facing! the Months of August and Sep- German poison gas shells. So it is | tember, 1918 shell against shell; the usually | ; = : thrown away nut shell against the | . During the monts of August and most diabolical artillery shell the |September seventy hospital shirts enemy can devise. The nut shells | were made, twenty-three sweaters, fruit pits and the like are wanted |¢ighty pairs of socks and five pairs {of wristlets were knitted and turned for the carbon they contain, a pe- |¢ ; I lin during July, August and the first culiary pure grade of carbon which | < is the basis of the mask | Week of September. best gas , ' : EY which has yet been devised. They Two boxes of clothing, weighing must be dry. This is a real war serv- | : ed Fuki ya (Continuea on page five) ice; it 1s everybody's job: and it will _- pm OLIOL OEIOIX = OEX0 OEXO : COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF MUSIC CLARE OSBORNE REED, Director CHICAGO 4 | WINNETKA BRANCH © KATHLEEN AIR, PRINCIPAL NEW BANK BUILDING i PHONE WINNETKA 974 LINCOLN AND ELM STS. SCHOOL NOW IN SESSION Private and class instruction in Piano, Farmony, Ear-training, Sight Reading and Rhythm. 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