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mE Es EN WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1917 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Lake Shore Publishing Company 20 Prouty Annex, Winnetka, Ill . Telephone Winnetka 388 SUBSCRIPTION. ........ $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Winnetka, IlL 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, card 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 for at regular advertising rates. Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. ug "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty." FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1917. Good-Bye Boys! Among 'the thousands of young men whom the kaleidoscope of time is taking from their homes today are many New Trier township lads. They are the creme de la creme of their respective communities. Called to the defense of the glorious Stars and Stripes that floats proudly on the breeze, these youths have nobly responded. Their's is the path of glory. In school, on the athletic field, the diamond, the gridiorn, and, above all, with the fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters; in the home, these boys are favorites. It seems hard to be- lieve that these boys are soon to be factors in a world war. They are no longer units in a home community. They have stepped upon the running board of Time and henceforth will figure with presidents, kings and emporers. Boys, it seems as if it were but yesterday that you were shooting "mibs," "belly-busting" on your sleds and getting into innumerable mischievous boyish adventures. Keeping track of the seasons for us with your changing games. Why, it is but a day or two ago that you were put into long pants, and to some of us it seems even a shorter time than that since we used to cradle you in our arms and hush- a-bye you to the Sandman's land. Why, it appears incredible, boys, to think that you're going away from us to be soldiers. You, our very heart's blood. Good-bye, boysr You know, we hate to let you go, but we would not have you stay when you feel within you the urge of patriotism and loyalty--the worth- while things of life. Ah, how many fathers and mothers and friends have bade their boys good-bye, and now it is up to us. New Trier is proud of her sons who have enlisted. It always takes the best blood, doesn't it? They go with the others from this town and that town, this city and that city, with the prayer of a people bidding them God-speed. We of New Trier hope you will be back before long. In the silent watches of the night, wherever you are, the home folk will be thinking of you with that catch in the throat and that something that blinds the eye and drops acrid on the lips. Ah, these soldier boys, may God bless them and care for them and watch over them. For as the train bears them away something is gone from our lives. Good-bye, boys, and good luck! * kk kk Why Enlist? "Why should T give up a good job in the country and go to war for 50 cents a day?" The above illuminating remark was overheard in a railroad train the other' day. Apparently the fellow was not worrying so much about the hazards of war. One would infer that if the government would pay him something more than the $2.50 per that he might be earning out in the fields, he would see the thing in a quite different light. Perhaps he would recognize that that is just about what his neck is worth. In contrast to this one sees the flower of our youth in colleges and schools assuming cheerfully the hazards of battle. It is the pathetic side of war, that while sluggards and slackers would stop a bullet just as well as anyone, it has to be the men of initiative and courage and decision who are subjected to this futile waste. There are some men so constituted that they do not feel under obliga- tion to their country. The pay en- velope is their flag. If an enemy country offered them better wages, they would cheerfully go there--if they could get there without harm to their precious skins. Such men may have great hulking bodies, but the soul seems left out. Of course people of this kind bring their own peculair punishment upon themselves. They are psychologically constituted without the sentiment of loyalty. They may have animal strength and are able to dig ditches or hoe crops. They will not starve as long as their hunger drives them into the corn field. But this lack of loyalty will not show itself merely in shirking their duty to their country. It will also be apparent in their re- lations with their employers and their home comunity. A disloyal worker is of little use in any gang. If hard times come, they may wish they had taken Uncle Sam's meager 50 cents a day and the board and clothes that go with it. Cok RS TR Building Up a Reputation. The essential element in making a success in the selling of retail merch- andise is building up a reputation. There are some merchants who try to build up this intangible factor of reputation by sitting down and wait- ing for trade to come to them. It was the old style way of doing things, and possibly good enough for their grandfathers. But peoplé are not making money on that basis today. A man who is very faithful and honest in his business may get a certain reputation for reliability. But even at that if he never pushes out for new business, the public impres- sion will be that he is deathly slow. That is almost more of a than a reputation trickiness. Even if after many years he does get a certain limited reputation, he has to wait long and tedious years for it, and be satisfied during the waiting time with very meakre re- turns. The cheapest and quickest way to build up a reputation is by means of newspaper advertising. An intelli- gent expense for advertising for six for downright months will go a long way toward] putting a hitherto unknown merch- ant on the map. People will be curious to see what his store will look like, then they will be per- sonally interested to test out some of his offerings. Life is short and time is money. The man who doesn't advertise may have saved a small item, just as he can always save a small item by turning some clerk out of his sales force. But he has postponed the day when his store will become well known, and will acquire a reputation for business enterprise. While he is sitting still in a penny-wise and pound-foolish way, his active com- petitor has got busy and is gather- ing in the business. * kk kk Supervising Garden Work. If the garden movement is to be something more than a producer of weeds and stunted vegetables, it ntust have some competent supervi- sion. A lot of people who never be- fore handled a spade or hoe have un- dertaken this summer to raise a back yard crop, and if left to themselves the results will be disappointing. It calls not merely for work, but for some knowledge of plant life, the insect pests that have to be fought, and the methods of fertilizing and cultivating. A good deéad of back breaking work will be done that ac- complishes little results, and at crit- ical times the *garden will be over- looked. Under supervision a boy can pro- duce a very respectable back yard product. He needs to feel the spur of competition and to look up to some authority over him whose ap- proval he desires to obtain. Left to himself, the garden will suffer be- side the attractions of the swimming hole. Every community where be- ginners are trying it out needs some regular inspector and advisor to help the novices produce a satisfactory result. CR eo ad GE Wasting Food. The story of the experience of the Gerard party in traveling from Ber- lin gives an interesting side light about food. They tell how after the scanty food conditions in Germany, the comparatively free use of food in Paris seemed perfect waste. take much pains to conserve 'such parts of the food supply as come under their own control. and restaurants, high and so when prices are so people are sui- hoodoo | of each, and all the rest goes to the | garbage pail, or is supposed to. Per-| | haps the cheap restaurants get more | than the public realizes. But at least | there is a great and lavish rejection | of good food. Of late years operating | more | reduce the a { Once people pay for what they eat, want. It is the operating an eating room busi Most hotel proprietors would be g gener: It tends 1 ount of food use now in road trains. It house boarding --and ] ful American somehow more liberal. plan prevails to a large extent. anyone wants. It is our on the market. high. *: od kak Lk Read All the Newspaper. Yet | no doubt after the party got home, | the use of food in this country | seemed far more wasteful than in| France. And yet our papers are full | of food scarcity. But few people The waste of good food in hotels| fering, is pitiful. People order lavish table d'hote dinners, they demand a . . . | dozen dishes and only taste a little | the European plan of | dining rooms has become | greatly to | consumed. | realize that they have to they confine | only sound basis for | |g gt WINNETKA TRUST = SAVINGS BANK CAPITAL $35,000.00 i FORMERLY | BANK OF M. K. MEYER ESTABLISHED 1894 MONEY TO LOAN at 670 on Improved Real Estate. SAVINGS and COMMERCIAL to put it in.' [t is in quite general city hotels and on rail- is not yet popular in resort hotels: | where a course dinner on the waste- |}! seems In private homes the same spirit | We all help ourselves to a mammoth potato | when half of it would give all that | national | temperament, inherited from the day | when foods were plentiful and a drug | The public pays for | it all, and it makes prices needlessly | LAKE FOREST PREPS DRAW COLOR LINE IN ATHLETICS Refusal of the southern students at the Take Forest academy to com- pete against a negro led to the cal- ling off of the track meet scheduled for Saturday afternoon between that institution and New Trier Township High school, according to Coach C. H. Hyatt. The colored athlete is Kelly of New Trier, who vas entered to participate in the dashes. The academy students of southern birth declined to compete with New Trier while he is on the team, ac- cording to Coach Hyatt, and at the suggestion of Lake Forest the meet was called off. . 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