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4 EEE Em RE * WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, ¥RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1917 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Lake Shore Publishing Company 1222 Central Avenue, Wilmette, IIL Business Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1921 Editorial Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION. ........ $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilmette, 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. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1917 The Home Guard. The company for the regiment of the state guard is in training. Men of the north shore are enlisted in the Many of the most physically fit of our young man- field service in France. hood are already gathered under the draft. sought by nearly all men who are Some sort of service is being able to be of use to the country or the state. Many other men have not entered any branch of service be- cause their domestic or business ties make it impossible for them to en- gage themselves for anything which absence from home for a But there is work also for these, if they are of means period of any length. an age and physically able to carry arms, in the home guard, locally known as the Military Training Corps. Every community needs an organ- ized body of men for the defense of the home district, men who are not subject to call outside their home towns, but who are trained and offi- cered, ready to give efficient service This is strife. in their immediate environs. a time of dissensions and Agencies are about with the single up No man can know when purpose of stirring internal trouble. the spirit is going to strike a com- munity. The only safe course is for every town to be in readiness to meet any crisis which may arise. The home guard is the logical answer to the question of defense against such trouble, the best safeguard against its need. All men who are qualified to serve in such an organization should accept it as their duty to un- dertake the training and to put them- selves into that physical condition which will make them effective as defenders of the safety of the peo- ple at home. Es hy The Food Inventory. With each announcement of proj- ect or achievement of the food ad- ministrator realization is brought of the careful planning which was going on that time need not be wasted when Congress should have talked itself out and the necessary authority given for action. The inventory of foodstuffs held in local shops already well under way is evidence of the working out of a plan of action which could be immediately put into opera- tion. It is well for us that President Wil- son and Mr. Hoover were not dis- couraged by the balking of Congress on the establishment of the neces- sary control of food materials, that they did not sit idly by. waiting for the growing and harvesting season to come and go while power was withheld from them to take an active hand in the regulation of the prices and distribution of food materials and fuels, well for us that at this time, when stores are being laid by for the winter, there should be that effective supervision which the coun- try believes Mr. Hoover knows how to give. It speaks well for the merchants of New Trier township that they are receiving the recommendations of the food administrator gladly and co- operating with him to the very best of their ability, but it is what was to be expected from our business men, whose public spirit and rightminded- ness is evident in all their relations to the people of the community. Es Es Es EE News from Home for the Soldier. Anybody who has been away from joy news- home and friends knows the which comes with the local paper with its accounts of the activ- ities of those related to life at home. It mean to the boys who are to leave is a realization of what it will for camp and to those who are al- ready gone overseas to be kept in touch with the affairs of family and friends that has made the publishers of the local paper extend the offer of the reduced rate to the men of the army and navy. We have done what we could to bring this pleasure into the lives of the young soldiers. The friends and families of the en- listed men are showing a disposition to take advantage of it by placing their orders for the placing of the names of their soldier boys upon the mailing list. Life in the training camps is one continuous round of activity during the daylight hours. The evenings, Sundays and holidays are left empty with little to offer as an antidote to the homesickness and soul-weariness which is bound to come with leisure to think. The home paper with its gossip of home affairs will come to the tired boy as a voice from a friend and help to maintain the tie between the absent one and those of the circle. broken Send your boy the news of yourself and his friends. | R-0 0.0 A Real Test of Courage. In some sections of the state the knitting bee has reached even to the men and masculine fingers are seen to be busy with the ivory needles, pro- ducing those garments which will be so needed by our soldier men when Re- port comes from an Illinois city of the cool days of autumn come. one man, a traveling salesman, who, being beyond military age and pre- vented by his business from taking part in the war work of the organi- zations of any one community, has taken his moral courage in both hands and set about utilizing the time which he must spend on trains between points knitting sweaters for the men at the front. Fellow passengers are inclined to smile at the work of the patriot who is thus doing his bit to help the men of the fighting forces to meet the duties before them with the least possible hardship, but there comes a final realization that it requires more real enthusiasm and patriotic ardor to face the misunderstanding grin of men who are spending their leisure time playing cards or gossiping with fellow travelers, more real courage, to knit in a public conveyance, than to face the bullets of the enemy and all the discomforts and perils of life on the battle front. EEEEEN Register Your Car. Everything that can be done to make more effective the work of the men who are assuming the duties of the National and the Home Guards should be done without stint by those i private citizens whose lives and prop- erty the energies of the military or- ganizations are to protect and con- serve. The call for automobiles to be had in the event of emergency is one which the good citizens of the vil- lage should and will heed, for it is the only way to put this means of quick transportation at the disposal of the state troops and the Home Guard. When the time comes, if it does come, to make the demand for auto- mobiles there will be need for such haste as to make delay for the so- licitation of machines and drivers de- of accord with the cidely out urgency of the occasion. A registry of available cars will facilitate mat- ters by acquainting those in charge of the exact location of cars whose owners are willing to give their use and that of a driver. Expression of such willingness to serve makes small demand upon the owner of the auto- mobile and may be the means of con- tributing greatly to the efficiency of the work of the home troops. HUMANE TREATMENT Philadelphia Bulletin "The Germans," said Admiral Coche- prat, of the French Mission, during his visit to New York--"the Germans don't know what humanity means. When they talk about being humane, they remind you of little Marius. "Marius was very proud of the new kittens, and went one day to get them to show to a visitor. "As he returned through the hall, the kittens made a frightful noise, and his mother called: "'Don't hurt the kittens, Marius! "'No, mother, I won't, said he. 'I'm carrying them very carefully by their 9 stems. Unfortunate Beginning Atlanta Journal Sometimes, to be sure, the opening is so unfortunate as to incur instant resentment and positively invite re- fusal. Take the case of the diminu- ORTH SHORE Electric trains bring you quickly to scores of delightful vacation spots within a few short hours of your home. 2%, NORTH SHORE For points in Michigan about Ludington, Manistee and Frankfort take the North Shore Electric to Milwaukee and connect with Pere Marquette steamers. Visit the beautiful lake country near Area, the terminus of the Liberty- ville branch -- take the North Shore Electric to Lake Bluff Junction and from there to Area. Dia- mond Lake and Area Lake are among the pretty re- sorts. wr, Oconomowoc, Delafie! Peewaukee, and Waukesha Beach can be reached by T.M.E.R. & L. line mak- ing convenient connections iy Chicago North Shore Electrictrains at Second St. # Grand Ave., Milwaukee. For information ask North Shore ticket agents or any hotel or travel information bureau. CHICAGO CITY TICKET OFFICE 137 S. Clark St. Phone Central 8280 tive man of kindly appearance who was accosted in the loop by a seedy purist with the words: "Sir, I am looking for a little suc- cor." ; "Well," snorted the wearer of the size 13% collar, "do I look like one?" AN INDULGENT BOSS Buffalo Express Boss--"Why don't you let the office boy do that, instead of doing it your- self?" Self-important Assistant--"The of- fice boy isn't intelligent enough." Boss--"Well, then, all right. But keep the office boy busy--better give him some of your work." NOT HOPELESS Boston Transcript Would-be Contrib.--"Do you think there is any chance of my getting my poems printed in your paper?" Weary Editor--'There may be. I sha'n't live forever." Not Their First Apperance London Chronicle Be not deceived; the jolly sea-dogs over here with the magnificent flo- tilla of American destroyers, are not the first, since Paul Jones, to reach The of them came 56 our waters "on business." fathers of some on a wicked-looking years ago, American man-of-war. They were angry with us over the Trent and Alabama affairs. They anchored off Osborne, where the Court was in residence; and refused to show their flag. They caused a doubling of the Court guard, and the appearance of two British {frigates before they raised anchor and went off with a surly honest growl. MONEY IN CAMPHOR Youth's Companion Camphor groves may some day be as familiar to us as peach orchards and orange groves. Agents of the department of agriculture ha that when planted in hedge feet apart camphor trees w each year about eight tons mings to the acre, from whi two hundred pounds of gum ca can be distilled. At present that means a profit of about acre. 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