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oy WINNETKA WEEKLY TA Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by Lake Shore Publishing Company The TIL 1222 Central Ave, Wilmette, Business Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1921 mditorial 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, 111. 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 postoffice at Winnetka, [linois, as mail matter of the second elass. under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1919 On The Last Lap The ratification campaign that is being waged by the National Amer- ican Woman Suffrage association is not lagging. Already four states hava ratified and telegrams have been sent to the governors of the fifteen full suffrage states asking that they call special sessions if that is necessary i for ratification of the Anthony amendment in order that all the women of the United States may cast their votes in the next presidential election. : In addition to the appeal to the governors of these fifteen full suff- rage states, telegrams have been dis- patched to twenty-two other gov- ernors asking each if he would be] willing to be one of twenty-two to, call a special session in order to se- cure ratification by thirty-six states in time for women to vote in the 1920 election. Two governors have so far wished to help that they have, on their own account, wired the gover- nors of other states asking that special sessions of their legislatures be called in order to ratify the) amendment. The governors of New | York, Kansas and Missouri have al- | ready called special sessions in order | that thes legislature may act upon | the ratification of the amendment. | The passage of the Anthony | amendment by the national Congress | has not been the occasion for re-| laxation from the strain of endeavor | by suffrage workers. - Rather has it been the signal for redoubling their energies to the end that the neces- sary ratification action may be taken to give the two-thirds approval es- sential to make the amendment law. The President's Return President Wilson will be back at his post in Washington very soon now, and not too soon to serve the advantage of the United States. There is nothing to be gained now by questioning the wisdom of the President's course in the matter of his presence at the Peace Conference. That is beyond change. But it is not too late to remark the vary urgent need of the executive head of the government in Washington, to the end that there may be a directing hand to the events that are there taking place. If the animosity that is driving the leading Congress in their present course is without other foundation than parti- san politics and personal dislike, it is time that the American people should be given some actual facts to estab- lish that assertion. If, on the other hand, there is a real basis for the element in conference. The sooner that hap- pens, the better will it be for us all No Excuses Accepted During the last two years there have been a number of happenings to prove that the impossible is not im- possible at all, and one of these has been the ability of the United States to get along without a president. If it had been anything but the call of the peace conference that had kept the White House without an oc- cupant for seven months, we should have insisted upon action to fill it. We never would have thought that the nation could go on in its accus- tomed ways without the hand of the chief executive at the helm of the ship of state. Six years ago, shortly after his in- auguration, President Wilson pro- pounded his idea of the duties of the president. "He is expected by the nation," he wrote, "to he the leader of his party, as weil as the chief executive officer of the government, and the country will take no excuses from him." This is certainly true now as it was in 1913, particularly the part rela- tive to the lack of disposition of the country to "take no excuses from him." It is this that will be demon- strated when the President returns to take up his duties as "the leader of his party and the chief executive officer of the government" in Wash- ington, after the business of the peace conference shall have been brought to a close. And it is unfortunate that the ver- dict of the country will not be based upon the work that the President has been doing, nor even upon the indi- vidual opinion as to the propriety of the chief executive leaving his post of duty at home for service in a for- eign country, but upon the measure of success that follows his operations abroad. If President Wilson comes home with the palm of victory for his principles in his hand, there will be no need for excuses and the coun- try will demand none. The nation, as the individual, always glorifies success and the success of the Presi- dent will be taken as a thing to have been expected. If, on the other hand, President Wilson returns to America without having accomplished the pur- poses for which he left tha nation to get on without a president, it will make offer explanations, for, indeed, "the coun- try will take no excuses from him." be futile to excuses, to SIX -- LAKE SHORE The Theater The history of the theater has been one of ups and downs, mainly downs, for it has been the mediocre that has flourished in other eras as well as in our own. that a great name appears in the annals of the stage, but the few have attainzd a position in the literature of the stage that tells how the public does accept, if it has the chance, what is of real worth in the drama, for all the tale that the box office receipts seem to tell of the prefer- ence of the public for the type of play that makes its sole appeal to the senses, demanding nothing in the way of intellectual effort. It is hard to believe that there is little that is worth while to be had today even though there is quite ob- fered the public. The manager stands between, makes his choice upon what he has found, or what he thinks he has found, to be the public taste, and nothing else is likely to be brought before the theater going public unless some revolutionary record that has been made in Con- gress, it is time, too, that the Amer- ican people should be made ac- quainted with the truth in that re- gard. Wherever the blame lies for the hostile relations between the two branches of the government of the United Statz2s, the fact remains that there can be an adjustment of mis- understandings, a development of a policy that is dictated only by con- cern for the well being of the United States, only by a closer relationship between the Capitol and the White House. The complex situation that exists today will only become more complex until President Wilson comes personally before Congress and the American public with the in- formation that he has withheld as to the business transacted by the peace 1 change is brought about. It is gratifying to know that the practitioners of the art of the stage are beginning themselves to rebel against the limitations that are placed 'upon the wvehicles through which they may give expression to the talent that they possess by men whose only knowledge of the dram- atic art is the drawing power that certain types of "shows" have prov- ed themselves to exert. It is being suggested that the Actors' Associa- GOOD USED CARS -- SEE -- BRIDGES & GAGE It is only occasionally | viously little that is worth while of- tion of London organize a co-operat- ive society, with its own board of expert directors, to organize reper- tory companies to play the best of every sort of drama, both new and old, in circuits of their own. 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