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14 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1923 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill Telephone ............ Winnetka 388 'felephone ............ Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Winnet- ka, Illinois, as mail matter of the sec- ond class, under the act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1923 PUT SIGNS ON POSTS Don't abuse the trees! It is the duty of every citizen to re- frain from doing anything that is disfiguring nature. If any one wishes to call attention to prop- erty for sale or for rent, let him nail his sign to a post, but not to a'tree. Trees make the north shore towns. If a tornado should up- root or destroy every tree on the north shore, where would be its beauty or its attractiveness? It would soon be like any treeless city of the barren stretches of Arizona. The lake would not save it. On a ride along Sheridan road from Central avenue north into Glencoe one can see dozens of trees with one, two, three--and sometimes four!--signs attached to them. The trees near a build- ing under construction are most often plastered with notices of all sort, telling who did the work, who supplied the building ma- terial, etc. The trees thus im- posed upon remind one of beau- tiful women wearing advertise- ments. Among the offending signs, strange to say, are notices put up by the Winnetka Park Board and Village Improvement associ- ation. . There are, or were, in Wilmette, tacked to stately elms or oaks, proclamations by the Village president at Wilmette, re- garding muzzling of dogs. As an example of the best way of advertising property we call attention to a real estate sign on Sheridan road near Kenilworth avenue. Our trees are our pride. disfigure them? Why LAWN TENNIS Who that attended the recent ten- nis matches at the Skokie Club was not thrilled with the exhibition of human speed and skill? With the miraculous adjustment of body and limb to meet the attacks of the ad- versary? But most of all with the marvelous power of the human mind ? Compare the ability of these men and women with that of little chil- dren. What an increase, in the years between infancy and adult life, of strength and almost super- natural adjustment of mind and muscles to continuously changing conditions! Which seems to you the more ad- mirable, the match between Alonso and Tilden or that between Demp- sey and Gibbons? SCHOLARSHIP Fortunate is the lad who studies hard, remembers well, and thinks clearly. He wins honors in and out of school. He is held up as a mod- el of scholastic behavior. When a boy appears who, like Dwight Chapman, graduates from his high school with the highest grades ever attained by a boy in the history of the school, the commun- ity pauses a brief moment to pay a tribute to such skill and persever- ance. May his career at Harvard be equally brilliant ! Foreman--"T'll give ye a job sweepin' and keepin' the place clean." "But I'm a college graduate." "Well, then, maybe ye'd better start on somethin' simpler." --Life. MILE A MINUTE! Sixty miles an hour on Sheri- dan Road! And it cost Francis Keirman, the Chicagoan whose enthusiasm led him to this horri- ble outburst, a total of $125; $100 for the mile-a-minute sprint, and $25 for resisting a right arm of the law. : | More than $350 to the village of Winnetka for one week's fractures of the speed rules! Well, on the theory that an ap- peal to a man's pocket book is a telling argument, fining is an ef- fective deterrent. Money, how- ever, is no compensation for loss of life. It's one consolation to see so seldom a Winnetkan's name in the list of offenders. TAX REVALUATION Do it in July! If you want to know what valuation the Cook County Board of Assessors set upon your property in 1923, take your latest tax receipt down to the Assessors' offices on the third floor of the County Building in Chicago. The receipt will ident- ify you. After they have been convinced that you are the real owner of the property described on the receipt they will tell you the 1923 valuation of your prop- erty. But you must find this out in July. Otherwise you can raise no objections to the size of the tax bill you will get next year. Act now! COMMUNITY HOUSE Foundation in, the walls partly erected, the first roof trusses on --Community House is expand- ing. Mr. Davies and his corps of workers must be enthusiastic at these signs of progress and in- creased opportunity. Anyone who is conversant with the history and ideals of C. H. knows what this expansion means. A route clear through Win- netka for heavy truck traffic is designated in a letter by Presi- dent Miller to the Board of County Commissioners. A step in the right direction. No road improvement on the North Shore is so greatly needed as this through Route for Heavy Trucks. LIME JUICE If you never take a vacation you can have the great pleasure of telling that fact to other peo- ple. It will give you such a feel- ing of self-sacrifice as will almost make up for the lack of recre- ation. When you say to your hostess, "I'll have to be going," go as quickly thereafter as possible; otherwise she won't believe you. [f you want to become unpop- ular, expect people to sympathize with you, but don't sympathize with them. On a scorching day remem- ber the cool days gone by; on a pleasant day, be glad you're alive. Buttermilk BOWMAN"S PURE CULTURE BUTTERMILK is prepared with scientific care from pure, fresh milk pasteurized and bottled in the coun- - . | iry. HI BUTTERMILK is an excellent aid I to digestion. Try a quart of this invigorating, warm weather drink--today. It's Pure! Insist on Bowman : DAIRY COMPANY Listen to 'others, and you'll coon get a reputation for being a model conversationalist. Restaurants ought to give re- duced rates to reducing ladies. | When in doubt, do the regular | thing. THE CELESTIAL SURGEON | If I have faltered more or less In my great talk of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vam: Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, Choose Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in! Robert Louis Stevenson. Chicago & North Western System C.&N. W. Ry. - C., St. P., M. & O. Ry. Reasons Why the Transportation Act of 1920 Should not Be Changed A CONSTRUCTIVE MEASURE: The Transportation Act provides the basis and specifies the method of arriving at just and reasonable rates. It is a piece of highly constructive legislation and was enacted after the most careful and exhaustive study. It clarified and gave certainty to the then ex- isting law and promises justice to all. It did not guarantee the carriers against loss subsequent to August 31, 1920. SECTION 15a--RULE OF RATE-MAKING: This section of the Act provides a basis for fixing rates that will produce revenue sufficient to meet operating costs, taxes and a 534 per cent return upon the value of the prop- erty used for transportation purposes, as ascertained by the Interstate Com- merce Commission. This is fair to the public and is intended to be fair to the investor. It does not create any new principles, but defines clearly principles which were established by the Federal Constitution and have been repeatedly applied by the Courts. SECTION 13--CO-OPERATION BETWEEN COMMISSIONS: This section insures a uniform system of state aand interstate rates. It protects and maintains the supremacy of interstate rates and denies to the state the power to nullify or disregard rates established by the Interstate Commerce Commission. It clarifies and reaffirms the principles of our Constitution, abolishing the cause of many contentions and frequent litigation over rates, and has for its justification many of the reasons underlying the adoption of the Constitution. It makes it possible for the Federal Government to es- tablish and maintain its interstate rates, and to secure the co-operation of the state commissions, and thereby to simplify the railroad problem. NATIONAL PROGRESS: Our nation is making progress. Our wealth is increasing. Our commerce is expanding. Our future prosperity is de- pendent largely upon adequate transportation. It is imperative, therefore, that the regulation of railroads shall be just and wise. This is what the Transportation Act undertakes to establish. TRANSPORTATION ACT SHOULD HAVE A FAIR TRIAL: The Transportation Act has been in effect a little over three years. During that time the commercial conditions have been very abnormal in this and other countries, and the Transportation Act has not been tested under normal conditions. It has only partially realized the benefits contemplated, but has justified itself, and should be continued in effect until experience demon- strates the need of a change.