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i WINNETKA WEEKLY Nearly Everybody in Winnetka Reads the Talk VOL. VI, NO. 38 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1917 SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS ANSWERS IN DRAFT CLOSED TO PUBLIC War Chiefs Rule Registrants Under New Draft Laws Will Be Closed to the Public. That Answers of PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS Draft Board Fixes Penalty for Viola- tion of Order on Information. Many inquiries have reached the members of the exemption board as to how far the information contained in the questionnaires will be avail- able to the public. It was recognized by the provost marshal that an in- justice might be inflicted upon indi- viduals if all the information elicited should be made public, and the fol- lowing regulations were drawn by Provost Marshal General Crowder to cover this point: All records required by these rules and regulations to be filed with and kept by local and district boards, ad- jutants general, and other persons in connection with the registration, ex- amination, selection, and mobilization of registrants under the selective service law, and these regulations shall be public records and shall be open during usual business hours for public inspection of any and all per- sons. Health and Dependency. Provided, however, That the an- swers of any registrant concerning the condition of his health, mental and physical, in response to Series II of the questions under the head en- titled "Physical fitness," in the ques- tionnaire, and other evidence and rec- ords upon the same subject, and the answers of any registrant to the questions under Series X of the ques- tions under the head entitled "De- pendency," in: the qguestionnairg, ex. cept the names and addresses of the persons claimed to be dependent up- on such registrant, shall not, without the consent of the registrant, be open to inspection by any person other than members of local and district boards, examining physicians, mem- bers of medical advisory boards, gov- ernment appeal agents, and other persons connected with the admin- istration of the selective service law and these rules and regulations, and United States attorneys and their as- sistants, and officials of such bureaus or departments of the United States government as may be designated by the secretary of war. Penalty for Violations. Any person connected with the ad- ministration of the selective service law and these rules and regulations who shall divulge or impart to any person not entitled under the forego- ing paragraph to receive the same, | any information contained in a rec- ord as to a registrant's physical con- dition, or as to his answers concern- ing dependency as above provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun-| ished by imprisonment not to exceed | one year. : The portions of such records as are hereinbefore held to be confidential shall not, without the consent of the registrant, be produced and published in response to any subpoena or sum- mons of any court, except that they may be so produced and published for the purpose of being used in the prosecution of the registrant, or of any person acting in collusion with such registrant, for perjury or for any viglation of the provisions of the selective service law or of these rules and regulations. Inspection Not Permitted. Whenever any registrant or other person (except one of the classes of persons named in the proviso of the foregoing section 11 of these rules and regulations' applies to a local or district board to inspect any of the records of such boards, such regis- trant or other person shall not be permitted to search through such records, but it shall be the duty of members or clerkc of local and dis- trict boards and other persons hav- ing the custody of such records, to discover, open, and point ont to the registrant or other person, the por- tion of the record containing the in- formation requested by such person (Continued on page two) Conservation By Mrs. W. D. McKenzie Last Monday afternoon Mrs. Laird Bell discussed "Corn Products" in a very interesting way at the Horace Mann school. We learned ground from cereal, | about | that a corn corn, contains or oat cereal. This is the reason why corn meal is hard to keep. Mer- chants offer a great deal of corn meal that has had this fat extracted. It is good corn meal, but not as rich a food product as the meal which contains North Shore Man Is Editor of "'Recruit" Christmas Number of the Great Lakes Recruit Makes Big Hit with Readers in Winnetka. The Christmas number of the Gre Lakes Recruit, the monthly publica" one of the handsomest periodicals on the newstands today. The maga- zine was put on sale in Wilmette i this week and their sale was rapid. The cover design is in several col- ors and depicts a great American the fat. This kind keeps well in win- ter and can be purchased from our | local grocers. Chemical examination shows that there is no difference be- | tween yellow and white corn meal It is merely a matter of preference. Hominy. ! discussed. They are all corn products | and are hearty foods. Flake hominy, wives, may be cooked as the other kinds because it can require several Hominy is a very inexpen- it should be used hominy cooking. sive cereal and freely. Mazola Oil. Mazola oil, or the oil which is ex- as a butter substitute with great suc- cess. It is a little less expensive than fard because a smaller quantity of it is used for shortening the same amount of flour. It burns at a higher degree of temperature than lard and so may be used for frying with less smoke and odor. Mazola oil makes a very good salad dressing. It may be used all alone, with no other oil, in either plain French dressing or mayonnaise, or it may be used in con- nection with olive oil. A very good dressing with the olive oil flavor may | be made by using half olive oil and half Maso pr ~ A Karo Syrup. : Karo korn syrup is another corn product which is very valuable to the housewife. It is the best grade of glucose, which we have been told is a valuable food product, and a good sugar substitute when sugar is scarce. The agitation against glucose, as used by candy manufacturers a few years ago, was due to the fact that they were substituting glucose for sugar because it was cheaper and then sell- ing the candy as sugar. Glucose is not as rich a food as sugar is, and so the candy manufac- turers are alleged to have heen de- frauding the public. In the present condition of sugar shortage, it is proper and right to use glucose in candy. well informed that they know that candies contain a large amount of glucose. Among these are hard can- dies, caramels and marshmallows. | Children's Pledge. Mrs. Charles S. Buell, chairman of the Parent-Teachers' association, pre- sented the matter of a children's candy pledge, which the children are formulating. It is hoped that the re- sult of this pledge will be the elimina- tion of the harmful use of candy on the playground or on the way home from school. It will assist the par- | ents in the control of their children | eating candy. Next Meeting. The next meeting, under the aus- pices of the food conservation com- mittee, will be held in the domestic science room of the Horace Mann school on Monday, December 10, at 4 o'clock. The teachers and children of the first four grades will present a program entitled "The Great Food Products." Everyone is urged to at- tend this meeting and see what the schools are doing. TY Receives Commission. Howard Vernon O'Brian, Pine street and Blackthorne road, received a commission of first lieutenant at the Second Officers' Training camp at Fort Sheridan. Lieut. O'Brian's name does not appear with the names of Winnetka men receiving commissions in the Talk of last week, as he was registered from Chicago. Holden Sells Residence. Hale Holden, president of the B. & 0. R. R,, sold his residence at 844 Bryant avenue to Henry A. Gardner of Oakley avenue, Hubbard Woods. The different kinds of hominy were | | which was new to many of the house- | |§ rice 1is| cooked, and it has an advantage over | [f be | [8 cooked quickly. The other kinds of | [§ hours of | The public is becoming so | tracted from the corn, may be used | [gm Ensign J. C. Waldron. dreadnaught on foreign duty Christ- mas morning. Another feature is a page picture of a living American flag, 10,000 bluejackets entering into its composition, and a page descrip- tion opposite by Ensign J. Clark Waldron, the editor. When Ensign Waldron was asked to direct the work on the Great Lakes Recruit, which at that time was, a statipr great possibilities of giving the jackies at the station and their friends a magazine that would be in- teresting and worth reading. Im- mediately he outlined his plans for enlarging the bulletin and today he is publishing a real magazine with 150 pages of pictures and stories about the Navy. Ensign and Mrs. J. Clark Waldron live in Wilmette. TRAVEL TALK BILLED FOR WINNETKA WOMEN Mr. Percy B. Eckhart of Kenil- worth will give a travel talk on Fri- day evening, December 14, at 8 o'clock at the Winnetka Woman's | club. His subject will be "Rome and Sicily," and he will use photographs which he has taken to illustrate his lecture. | The proceeds of the entertainment {will be used to maintain a visiting | housekeeper at the Henry | House Settlement in Chicago. | visiting housekeeper will explain and instruct the women in this concerning the use of cheaper foods and how to prepare them for their families. The members of the following com- mittee in charge of the entertain- ment will act as patronesses: Mrs. Francis A. Lackner, chairman, Mrs. James 1. Houghteling, Mrs. William C. Boyden, Mrs. August C. Magnus, Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. Raymond Durham, Mrs. Roswell Mason, Mrs. Louis B. Kuppenheimer and Mrs. Lord Whitman. The admission will be seventy-five cents. Another Performance. The Thanksgiving Pageant, which was presented by the grammar school children last Wednesday afternoon at Community house, will be given at the Skokie school on Wednesday eve- ning at 8 o'clock. Pierce Goes East. Lieut. R. H. Pierce, who received his commission in the Second Officers' Reserve camp, left this week for "somewhere in the east" for active service. Buys Aitkin Residence. The residence at 500 Maple avenue, which was built by William Aitkin, has been purchased by S. G. Ingraham of Evanston. Mr. Ingraham will move to Winnetka in March. "pulletio.o be. saw. thes Jooth | The | district | | War Activities By Otis, A. Skinner | impressive cere- in Winnetka, the village paid tribute to n who are in the service of "Government, last Thursday by un- "turling the Winnetka Service Flag three times as much fat as a wheat | tion of the naval training station, is|in their honor. ! The Winnetka Volunteer Training corps had charge of the ceremonies and they were assisted by the Boy { Scouts. Both of the units assembled {at the Community house and marched i through the village and back to Elm {and Linden streets, where the flag Iwas raised. FEileen Lee and Ethel | Hale, both of these girls having three brothers in the service, assisted in the flag raising exercises. | Rev. E. Ashley Gerhard of the Christ church spoke of the signifi- | cance of the service flag, and, after the singing of patriotic songs, the | people marched to the Christ church, | where union services were held to | celebrate Thanksgiving Day. 1 The flag was a gift of the Winnetka | War Emergency Union, and there are one hundred and sixty-two stars in the white field. Fach one stands for |a representative from the village. { A new bulletin board has been erected by the War Emergency {Union in the park opposite the Chi- lcago & North Western railroad sta- tion to display signs suggested by | the local food conservation commit- tee. The bulletin board was erected upon the suggestion from the United States Food Administrator's office. The local war organization has erected this board to interest every- one in Winnetka in the food admin- istration's drive to bring about a successful issue of President Wil- son's plans for the conservation of food. Everyone is requested to read the bulletins displayed on the board, as they will be helpful in assisting both local and national conservation comimiteees im their work. The Winnetka War and Relief Aid society, which is now a part of the War Emergency Union, distributed a most generous contribution of can- ned goods and provisions received in the Thanksgiving Offering at the Union services last Thursday. The society will also supervise the spend- ing of the money contributed, which amounted to $125. Calvin Fentriss, chairman of the Winnetka Y. M. C. A. committee, re- ports that the campaign for funds in Winnetka was very successful, and that 966 persons contributed during {the drive, which brought the total amount of money subscribed up to $50,221.45. Mrs. Allan Wolff, chairman of the registration committee, reports that 1,800 women have registered for war service in Winnetka. A new War Emergency Union bul- letin board has been placed near the | Hubbard Woods railroad station. Bulletins announcing the activities of the local union are posted on the board and the honor roll of the vil- lege is displayed. The board was made by the members of the manual training classes at the Horace Mann school. Corrections of the names on the honor roll will be gratefully received by the War Emergency Union at the Community house office. | BENEFIT WILL BE HELD TO ASSIST DR. BROWN A benefit will be held Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 12, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith, 915 Sheridan road. The proceeds will go to a fund which will be used by Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown in her relief work among the women and children of northern France. Christmas cards and sketches, de- signed by Mrs. Alfred Burnham of Hubbard Woods, will be sold during the afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock. Card pictures also will be sold, which can be colored by the children. Gift cards have been donated for this benefit by the following artists: Mrs. Bertha Jacques of Chicago, Mrs. Beck of Hubbard Woods, Miss Olive Gro- ver of New Trier High school, and Miss Florence Willetts of Minne- apolis, Minn. DR. BROWN DIRECTS WORK IN VILLAGE Winnetka Woman Writes of Her Work in Northern France in Giving Aid to Mothers and Children. DIRECTS WORK IN TOWNS Fund From Winnetka Enabled Dr. Brown to Begin Work at Once. Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown, who is di- recting relief work in the northern districts of France, in recent letters to Winnetka friends tells of her as- signment to take charge of six French villages. Dr. Brown also writes that she has been able to begin her work immediately because of the response from Winnetka people when she cabled for funds. Her letters read as follows: "Paris, France, : "Nov. 14th, 1917. "My dear : "You will see by this address that 1 am again in Paris. I came from Toul this morning and have come to the Grand hotel to have a good, hot bath! You do not know the joy of it, and a warm room, 'when you have been deprived of both. I shall stay here only a day or so. "At last the dispensaries are start- ed. I began the work Friday, Novem- ber 9th,--went to two towns with the Sec'y--Gen'l of the Department of Meurthe et Moselle, in his car in grandeur--was introduced to the Maire in both towns, they were most cordial. The prefect, M. M , of the Meurthe et Moselle had his sec- retary, M. Martin, arrange for this dispensary work. He has given me six towns. in which to work, two of them are munition factories and are constantly being bombarded. Yes- terday, while we were working in one, we could hear the cannons. "They telephoned from Nancy, Tuesday night, that 1 could begin the work. Dr. S had gone to Paris and when I started I went without a nurse to Mme. Delebecque --just with my chauffeur, a Miss Marion Mitchell from San Francisco. She speaks French fluently and I put her "First Aid" work to a test. In the morning we had ten patients, and in the afternoon forty. When we are in working order we shall have many more. Some of the children need to go to our hospital, and I shall take them when I go next week. . "I came to Paris to get-the Camio- nette which is now ready, and also my uniform, as both are necessary for the work. I am hoping I can have a picture taken of the car before I leave Paris for the people at home. "It seems that some physicians have been here four months before doing dispensary work, and have not vet started. The prompt response of Winnetka to my cablegram has en- abled me to get into the work that I came to do sooner than the others have done. In other words, I seem to have 'put it over' some of them. Having the Camionette and the A. F. F. W. back of me has meant a great deal, and of course we could not have | gone into the war zone without the sanction of the Red Cross. "Well, my first French baby was born November 3, and I named him Joffre. His full name is Rene Joffre Chanal, and I am to be his god- mother. He is a husky youngster, the fourteenth child of his mother, who is only 29 years old. Mme. Che- nal has never had such care before and she will be much stronger for it. My second baby came November 8&-- a girl. I was hoping she would arrive before I left for Paris, and she did. We fitted up a room for mothers, where they are well taken care of by a Miss Kilpatrick, an Irish girl trained in Cambridge. I would like always to have her with me, she is so clever and charming, and a splendid nurse. The group of English nurses are only loaned to the Asile for two months. We shall leave the Asile and move to Nancy, which is nearer our work. That means that we need not start so early in the morning or use so much essence (gasoline), and everything must be considered. M. Martin is looking for a good pension in Nancy for fouro f us, or a fur- nished apartment. We may be able (Continued on page five) | | |