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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 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. 358 _BUBSCRIPTION......... $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance 7 : : Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilmette, Ill Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The sanie applies to rejected manuscript unless return postage is encltséd. © Articles for publication should reach this office by Tuesday afternoon to insure appear- ance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, 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. cards of Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail ao ek of the second 8, un 1879. i 1, 1918 ord Roads The cause of good roads for Illi- _nois is considered of 'sufficient im- portance by the governor of the state to warrant a trip to Evanston to speak to the people of the north ' shore in the behalf of that measure. ~The Good Roads proposition will be presented to the voters of the state on the small ballot in the elec- tion of Tuesday. Its passage means a great advance for the state, a development which will mean much in the future. A system of hard roads - penetrating every county of the state will bring the remote districts "and the city districts into a com- munion of interest that can be ac- . complished in no other way. The governor will speak in Foun- | tain Square, Evanston, Saturday "morning at nine o'clock. It is hoped that every resident of the north shore + towns who possibly can give the | time will be present to hear the ar- : gument which will be made at that time for the Good Roads proposi- tion and other propositions that will be presented to the electorate on the small ballot. 'The Good Roads all those on the small ballot, must ,to pass, rs, e'a majority of _all votes cast at: "ure election. Tt is "aot enough not to vote against the méusure, for such a vote is equivalent to a vote against. A cross after the word "Yes" will alone serve, to count as one vote for the proposition to provide nearly five thousand miles of hard roads, distributed over the state, without any special taxation, without any drain upon the labor supply of the state made short by the war. The necessary funds for providing for the bond issue of sixty million dollars for the building of the roads, money for the interest and for the redemption of the bonds when they come due, will be supplied threugh the license fees upon auto- mobiles. Hence it is only automo- bile owners who will pay for the building of the roads to be enjoyed by all alike and they will pay no more than they would pay in taxes under any other circumstances. The plan under which it is pro- posed to build the system of hard roads in the state is one financially sound, according with right principles of public improvement. It conforms with the war policy of the govern- ment and is in the direction of the best development for the state. Only men may vote upon the Good - Roads proposition. Good citizenship demands the attention of the electo- rate and a vote marked upon every ballot. One must be either for or against. A negative vote and an un- marked:* allot are of equal effect to defea' ue measure. Voters must re- mem ber to vote and they should vote "Yes" upon the Good Roads proposi- tion. CONSTITUTIONALCONVENTION VoteYes. proposition, as Equations It is rather a surprise to the ex- change editor to discover the office copy of the Christian Science Moni- tor wrapped 'in a full sheet of white paper, blank except for the announce- ment on its inside of the change in style of wrapping which has been adopted in order that the outside sheets may not be soiled in the mail To compensate and to secure per- mission from the War Industries Board to expend a full sheet of print » paper for this protective covering, the announcement is made of the suspension of the publication of the Wednesday Household Page. This is, in our experience, the first real endeavor to estimate the value of the household page. The blank sheet seems a fair solution of the problem. But how the War Indust- ries Board, under the present neces- sity for saving print paper can con- sider the elimination of one page each week the equivalent of six blank sheets used for protecting the out- side page of the Christian Science Monitor is an equation which cannot prove to our satisfaction. CONSTITUTIONALCONVENTIONVoteYes. we Conservation of Doctors It is a duty that everybody owes to the general public to conserve his own health, as well as to protect others from any infection that may develop. About one-third of Amer- ican physicians are in government service, leaving the remaining two- thirds to do the full work of the! caring for the civilian population. For everybody's sake it behooves each of us to see that the demand made upon the lessened force of doc- tors is reduced to the minimum. serve" in this way. the general rules of health. We know that we should avoid exposure, over eating, over work and insufficient sleep. We know that we should take enough exercise to keep up the body tone. We know that no one can persist in burning his candle at both ends and still continue to shed light. We know when to exercise a little extra care, when to listen to the warning of fatigue, when to give to the body the extra protection of clothing or rest that it needs to keep in the best condition. But we seldom apply what we know. We don't like to wear overshoes or to carry umbrellas. We like to keep our homes warmed to summer tem- perature, to wear clothing of sum- mer weight and we fail often to put on that extra protection against the cold when we go out. We see women and girls wearing thin silk hose and light summer: Oxfords or pumps, see children still wearing socks, knees bare. We see throats swathed in fur and ankles exposed to the cold and wet. We see tired child- ren dragged about on shopping tours or kept up late at night at the movies or other sort of adult enter- tainment. We see, in short, all sorts of abuse of the bodies which it is a particular duty to keep well just at this time. : ~ Every home should institute a new program of sane and sanitary liv- ing, Plenty of sleep, adequate ven- tilation, good wholesome food in sufficient but not ober-abundant quantity, clothing suitable for the temperature, and shoes that protect the feet both from cold and damp- ness should be established as the standard of living. If this change in our habits should be adopted gener- | ally the reduced number of physi-| cians would be adequate to the de-| mand made upon the profession and vet others liberated for service in the army. SONG OF THE HUN HUNTERS By Samuel G. Blythe, in Saturday Evening Post The skipper stood upon the bridge, and blood was in his eye; Sez he: "We'll get that blinking Hun, or know the reason why." {So he threw her over, and off we leg, And when we made the slick of oil the Old Girl dropped an egg. boys, And then dropped several more; And the Huns down in marine Will never get to shore Will never get to shore, my boys, It's good-bye, Ger-ma-nee; For every egg the Old Girl drops Is filled with T. N. T. plied to the Church to the church. And it is entirely possible to "con- | Most of us know went, hell bent on the starboard The Old Girl dropped an egg, my that sub- Re-construction after the War as Ap- o'clock in the Congregational church, to discuss re-construction as applied War Emergency Union Activities NEXT YEAR'S GARDEN A SUBJECT FOR NOW Illinois gardens gave good service this year. It is nowt the turn of the gardeners to do something for the gardens, or the gardens cannot re- peat such good service. A pamphlet on this subject suggests: Autumn is the time to apply a good dressing of coarse manure and com- post to each garden, and spade it in; not commercial fertilizer, for that will seep away in the winter rains. Stable manure is best. All who can should get it. For those who cannnot there is a good fertilizer close at hand.--Autumn leaves. No one is likely to get too much compost or manure on his garden. Truck growers use as much as six inches. In a plot twenty by twenty feet, 400 to 600 pounds can be used. | When the manure or leaves have {been spread on the plot, it should be {spaded under, deep. A spongy soil {will collect rain and store it, and the |compost will rot into an excellent [seed bed for spring planting. No weeds or diseased plants should be spaded into the soil, but should be gathered carefully and burned. Another tip to the home gardener is to collect now good seed from his garden or that of his neighbor for use next year. There may be seed shortage. The committee especially recommends that all gather beet, carrot, Swiss chard, lettuce, tomato, radish, turnip, bean, parsnip, onion and sweet corn seed. The pamphlet gives full directions for garden fertilizing and seed gathering, and may be obtained free. Have You a small Talking Machine To Give Away? The War Emergency Union has had a call from one of the camps for a small portable talking machine. Have you one to give away? There has been a generous response to the call for records, and the War Emer- gency office will be glad to receive a small victrola. TIN FOIL IS NEEDED BY THE GOVERNMENT Save and Send To The Red Cross It has been estimated by the War Industries Board that the United States is facing a shortage of 5,000 tons of tin for 1918 alone. It is this shortage which the Red Cross has been asked to overcome, and, as there are no new sources of supply, the shortage must be made up by conservation. Therefore, the people are being asked to supply the short- age under the guidance of the Red Cross. You are asked to save all collaps- all tin foil, lead foil, and combina- tion foil. The wrapping around tobac- co, cigarets, chewing gum, chocolate, and flowers are some of its varieties. You are asked to save all collops- |a part. Precious stones are not in- cluded in this agreement. Your government wants these ma- terials. Your Red Cross agrees to send them. Will you give them? WAR PERSONALS Harold I. Orwig has entered the S. A. T. C. at the University of Illinois. Bissell is a Aviation Field, Woodbridge mechanic at the mi, Florida. motor Mia- Alexander J. Mills is with the American Red Cross at Camp Keene in the mechanical department. The War Emergency Union an- BE inounces that there will be no Naval | dance or supper at Community House | this week. It is hoped, however, to 5 have this entertainment resumed at 1 an early date. Corporal Hobart Smith is in the Air Service Disbursing offices in Chicago, at present. Ensign John lL. King is Assistant Navigation Officer, Transport sery- ice. Ernest E Ellis has been trans- ferred overseas and is with the 342nd Infantry, Medical department W C Dietrich has enlisted for tank service and is now waiting to be called to North Carolina Arthur Anderson, company E, 420th Telegraph Bn. is on the way over- seas. John Lasier, attached to the Me- dical corps, is now overseas. M. J. Keil has entered the service as an aero mechanic and is stationed at Payne Field, Miss. Willis Erne is now a Corporal. Carl A. Anderson is on a Receiving Ship, New York. Everett Dewey is with the 33rd Division, 108th Sanitary Train, 129th Field Hospital corps, overseas. Harry Willis has been transferred from the Great Lakes to the Navy Rifle range, San Pedro, California. Sydney Williams is at the Univer- sity of Illinois in the Signal Reserve corps. . Sergeant Sanford Bissell is now stationed in an Infirmary Camp, over- seas, as surgeon's assistant. Seward I. McKinney has entered service in the Marine corps and has left for Paris Island. Milton Maack is now a Corporal, stationed at Paris Island. is located at the Queenstown, Ire- Marshall Knox Naval Air station, land Harry Wildman has been made a Sergeant. William Kirby is overseas with a Motor train. Captain Wallace Taylor Downing | has been transferred from the 361st ible. tubes, such as those containing tooth paste, shaving cream, salve paint, etc. articles of every kind. Pewter con- tains a large precentage of tin and iis oreatly desired. You are asked to sacrifice what | platinum you have on the altar of your country. You are not asked to save tin cans. The shortage of platinum which the United States facing is not so large nor so immediate as that of tin--but neither is platinum so plenti- ful nor so cheap as tin. There is enough platinum in sight to last the government for several months, but there is no reserve stock. The war is not over, therefore, the government wants to lay in a stock to make sure that there will be no desperate shortage. The giving of platinum demands a real spirit of sacrifice on the part of the individual. It is absolutely need- ed by the government for the mak- ing of X-ray tubes, hypodermic needles, laboratory instruments, and many other as vital purposes An individual who gives platinum to the government performs double service. He not only furnishes the govern- ment with a material which money cannot buy in the open market, but he contributes indirectly to the Red Cross funds of his local chapter. Our government does not ask for is = the other precious materials used A discussion club was held on |with the platinum, but the United Thursday evening, October 31, at 8 States Assay office will pay full mar- ket value for the gold, silver, or other precious metals which may be in the jewelry of which the platinum forms fd li cl You are asked to collect pewter |,ry forces, France. Infantry to the 3rd Bn. Army Can- didates school, American Expedition- Harold Seymour, who has recently won his commission as 2nd Lieuten- ant in the officers' training school at Camp Zachary Taylor has been in Winnetka on leave of absence visit- ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Seymour of 598 Lincoln avenue. Lieutenant Seymour has now re- turned to Camp Taylor. Winnetka Boy Has Thrilling Exper- ience On a Torpedoed Ship Carl A. Anderson, who is home on a brief furlough, visiting his sister, Mrs. Charles Bergh, 910 Spruce street, has had an exciting experience with a submarine. He was returning by one of the southern routes on a cargo ship, when, on the night of September 16, it was torpedoed and sunk in seven minutes. There were seventeen men and three officers lost, out of a crew of 93 men. The remain- der of the crew crowded into the life boats and spent 87 hours in the open sea. The boat in which Ander- son was placed was jammed in launching it and constant bailing was necessary to keep it afloat. They were finally picked up by a small Spanish schooner off the coast of Spain and landed at Corunna, Sep- tember 20. They spent four days in Spain and through the kindness of the American consul were sent back through France to America. Mr An- derson expects to leave this week ROBERT M. SWEITZ Democracy's Candidate FRANK J. WALSH FOR CLERK OF THE PROBATE COURT Able and Efficient as a Public Official Indorsed at the Primary Election by The Chicago Daily News and Chicago Tribune ANTON J. CERMAK DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF Recommendations: The Daily News (Sept. 7, 1318) A forceful man of ability, Anton J. Cermak is commended to the voters. The Tribune (Sept. 9, 1918) From viewpoint of public interest, and after a comparison of the respective merits of candidates, we recommend Anton J. Cermak for Sheriff. Republican and Demoeratic Judges of the Municipal Court The management of the office of Chief Bailiff of this Court has been honest and efficient. Vote for ANTON J. CERMAK FOR SHERIFF Tuesday, November 5, 1918 RE-ELECT 2 FOR COUNTY CLERK oy Sweitzer's popularity is due to Mr. his pleasing personality, genial and democratic ways, and to his constant efforts to serve all taxpayers, as well as his many friends. Born and raised in Chicago he worked himself up in the business world from an humble position to a trusted and Democratic one in the employ of one of the great business firms in the world--J. V. Far- well Company. When Mr. Sweitzer ran for County Clerk the second time, Farwell and Company as well as other prominent firms and the newspapers generally, commended strongly his business capacity and executive ability, and his integr ity, and his devotion to for naval duty. | his duties. ru Ww «Cw