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Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK The Lake Shore Vins Company 20 Prouty Annex, Winnetka, IIL Telephone Winnetka 388 SUBSCLIPTION......... $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. di s "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty." FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1917. NOVICE DRIVERS With the great increase in the number of automobiles, a large per- centage of the drivers are green at this game. The freshmen at the wheel should realize that he is up against a serious proposition. People's temperament soon reveals itself when they get behind an auto- mobile steering wheel. There are some who will take long drives, pass- ing through busy towns with busy streets, the moment they can seem to keep the car from running into the fences. They run at high speed, wobbling from side to side, with a blind sort of faith that if they get into trouble other people will look out for themselves. Automobile dealers, in their efforts to persuade timid people to learn, argue that it is not the beginners who make the accidents. They say it is the experienced men who grow overconfident and careless. There may be something in this, yet the beginner needs to remember that he is in control of a high power machine the force of which he has not begun to realize. Garage instructors are frequently young fellows with little idea of cau- tion. They are skillful enough to avoid accidents themselves. But they are venturesome and they don't warn inexpert novices of the perils of the road. They frequently encourage begin- ners to go through crowded streets with gear in high speed, of course throttled down as low as it will go. But the beginner and, in fact, most drivers would better realize that low speed gears were made for operation in" crowded streets and should be used. They take a little more gaso- line, which makes them unpopular. But using them gives the driver a more complete control and he can run at a minimum of speed. Begin- ners should realize that when trouble comes it comes all in a flash, and one moment's carelessness may bring about a collision that will cause them a lifelong grief. ARMY DISCIPLINE An officer in an army training camp remarks that one of the worst difficulties the army meets is the American boy's lack of training in obedience. Our young recruits are splendid fellows, as alert and clean as those of any race on earth. But American family discipline is loose. Plenty of orders are issued to the young folks, but in comparatively few families are these orders fol- lowed up and obedience insisted up- on. The American boy listens atii- vidual action. It is the unity of the military force that gives it its striking power. The doing of things all in one second, the exact precision of action, makes a company of men formidable and multiplies many times the effect of individual action. To secure that unity the habit of instant obedience must be acquired until it becomes in- voluntary. "Their's not to reason why," is the motto. The private soldier must as- sume that his officers have had a bet- ter training, and that they are in possession of wider information than he is, and that there is a good rea- son for every order. As a matter of fact, discipline is a great safeguard. Every time insubordination is quelled and irregular action avoided, a body of men are enabled to protect them- selves to the best advantage. EES EE Ey CONSCRIPTION The United States is a great big country and, like other large bodies, its government runs slowly. The army conscription bill has gone along through congress with perhaps a lit- tle delay as could be anticipated. Now it remains to create and put in motion the machinery for carrying it into effect. If it takes as long to operate this machinery as it does other govern- mental functions, it will be quite a number of weeks or months before any sizable body of our yonng men is drawn ready for training. But de- lay is not necessary. There is every- wheré the machinery with which the work of conscription can be done readily. Every election district has its boards, whose duty it is to make up voting lists, and, with county and township and other local officers, there is plenty of official organiza- tion to put. through a rush job and do it right. It is the duty of every official who is called upon to assist in completing the roll of names, to act promptly. He should subordinate his other busi- ness to 'doing this work. If every man hangs off a few days before at- tending to whatever duty he is called on to perform, the aggregate of de' lay will be considerable. Whatever method is chosen, there will be some men who will not promptly respond to the call for reg' istration. Officials will hesitate to close up their lists until they get them complete, and there are chances for very considerable delay at every stage of the game. It is the duty of every young man between the ages fixed by congress to attend promptly to the matter and give in his name at the proper time. Those who neglect to do so assume serious chances of penalty. This is a life and death matter, and the au- thorities should not tolerate any dis- position to evade service. It is a patriotic duty to complete the lists at the earliest possible moment, and that can be done only by prompt action by all concerned. Sefetedestofodeiion totedotofeodeiofote footed x [J i Drie the : Point Home! SCIEN p-- ably, and then goes atid does as he pleases. We are a good fiatiired peo- ple and punishment goes against our grain. The American boy coriiés out of it self-reliant, but without fiich recognition of authority. It will go hard with boys developed in this at- mosphere to- submit to the strict re- gime of army life. Many of the regulations will seem arbitrary and without any basis in reason to the boys. They will want to stop and argue, and may land in the guard house for disrespect. Yet army life is built on the idea of in- stant obedience. Only thus can a group of men acquire the habit of action as a unit. The soldier who is allowed to use his own discretion in one thing will try to use it at the wrong time in the moment of con- flict, He may then endanger his own life and those of others by his indj- fof slefeloblofololouloialolnioieleleloloioioiol ofofololofelolee a or] RA oye 2 eS 5) % This is YOUR town. Your interests are HERE. Spend your dollars with the LOCAL MERCHANTS. If you spend them out of town % it REDUCES THE PROSPER- ITY of the town. It reduces your prosperity. + Trade at Home festededeode 4 serio te Fut BS Helen eo i VETERANS For many years on the Memorial Day anniversary, May 30, the Vet- erans of the Civil war have been preaching patriotism. Many times their words attracted little atten- tion. It usually proves very difficult to get a crowd out to Memorial Day exercises. The people are busy with their outings and sports and will not give up an hour for a patriotic pur- pose. The Memorial Day orator frequent- ly had to talk to audiences composed of the families and intimate friends of the veterans and small boys drawn in by the beat of the drum. As the veterans have grown old and their numbers have diminished, they have still kept up their patriotic task in spite of the infirmities of age. They have trudged around to the public schools to give talks, hoping to stir patriotic feeling in young hearts. Sometimes the public may have seemed indifferent, yet all this work 'has had its 'effect... Recent events have proved that the old fire still burns. Our people have finally! cast aside their ease and comfort, and have pledged themselves to a war that means infinite sacrifices. It could not have done this unless there had been a ceaseless effort to keep alive the American feeling. This is a year when all exercises held in behalf of the dead soldier should be greeted with a great out- pouring of the people. An impres- sive popular observance of Memorial Day will arouse still further our feel- ing of American pride, and our will- ingness to labor and sacrifice for it. It is our country that gives us our blessings, and unless the country is safe and secure, our whole future is unstable and hazardous. The pathetic remnant of remaining veterans, both those who wore the Blue and the Gray, should be honored as men who exemplified the spirit of sacrifice without which no country can endure. ' EE Es Ee Stocks being dead low, the public is selling out and preparing to buy in when they get up twenty points. After condemning the slackers who | Much instruction is given a won't enlist, some men will refuse to buy a Liberty bond because it pays one per cent less: than their other investments. The people who plan to destroy the German corps by fireballs have thoughtfully given the Germans 90 days' notice of their plans. | tion, if he lives in a doubtful distri the art of marketing now, but t principal art seems to be to haw little more money in your purse th you did the day before. It is surprising what a respect hearing a newspaper publisher ge at Washington on the paper ¢ phone. same time. The operator over it. Why the Telephone Line May Be Found Busy: The line asked for is in use. Another party on the party- line called for is using his tele- Two calls are being made for the same number at the The busy signal is an auto- matic device that operates elec- trically when a line is in use. Chicago Telephone Company H. B. 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