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= WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918 =} Em My RE Ey Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by 'Phe l.ake Shore Publishing Company 1222 Central Avenue, Wilmette, Ill Busi Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1921 Editerial 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, _Alinois, as mail matter of the second / eiass, under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1918 Germany's Fleet. i: A very great many plain people | have wondered why the plan put for- | Admiral Fiske destroy the German fleet, penned up ward by Rear to in the Kiel canal, by aerial attack, had the United States or to England. Many have not occurred 'to commented rather causticly upon the failure of the war departments of both countries to take this easy and effective step to strike Germany in a vulnerable and mortal spot. It is not possible that this solution of the war has not occurred to the -rayed 'against "Germany, ly because there is realization hot the German feeri mains intact in harbor for the same reason that England's fleet, bottled up in some foggy port of the North Sea, continues safe and whole. It isn't as easy as it appears to the novice, or, perhaps, there is less com- pactness in the arrangement of the ships of the two fleets than is gen- erally supposed. It is an assured fact that if it were a possible thing for a fleet, held as 'the navies of both the great naval to be there powers of Europe are held, by attack, would have been repeated attempts destroyed aerial on the part of the German Zeppelins to drop bombs 'upon the ships of Great Britain, just as there would have been a persistent air campaign against the ships at Wilhelmshaven and in the Kiel canal. Neither nation would keep all its naval eggs in. one magnificent basket, if there were not entire assurance that that basket is safe from destruction. * 3k kk 3k Small Savings for Thrift Certificates. The thrift stamp, more than any other form of financial aid to the government, typifies the spirit which will win or lose the war. It is to be by co-operative saving, by indi- vidual sacrifice in little things and in . small amounts, which will bring about + that spirit: of national unity neces- to the 'successful issue of the sary war. It seems a small thing to buy a twenty-five cent stamp to apply to a thrift certificate, but it is a contri- bution which can be made by prac- tically everybody in the country, and hence is a means of patriotic grace which should not be neglected. Every man, woman and child in the natiens at war must be brought to the realization that this war is the war of the individual, that there is no hope for victory except through complete co-operation of all parts of the country, of all classes of society. | have not been | cate, and the continuous endeavor to | | fit It is not a rich man's war, not a poor man's war, not the war of any group, but of the whole world which be- lieves in the rights of men to govern themselves and to live their lives as they elect to live. One's interest mounts in any move- ment in which one has a part. A part purchased with a thrift certificate will create that interest which will lead to other sacrifice, other econ- omy, other endeavor to be of service to the nation. Not everybody has been able, in these days of high cost of everything which must be bought, to find the money for the purchase of a liberty bond, even upon the easy terms of payment which have been The which is felt by those who by sacri- offered with each loan. pride fice have been able to apply their savings to the purchasing of a bond, may be had by those others, who | able to. do so rch | [ | by the possession of a thrift certifi- the spaces with the necessary stamps. The thrift certificate offers par- ticularly an opportunity for children to save their little bits of money to lend to the government, an oppor- tunity which promises rich reward in the spirit which its practice will pro- duce. A child possessor of a filled thrift certificate may be as proud as the adult holder of the liberty bond, and may lay claim to as high a type of citizenship and patriotism. Parents should encourage their children to put their small savings to this use, both for the good which the aggre- | gate of their savings will be to the government and for the benefit which the experience will be to the child's character. kak x x Prohibition. With tha nascage of t federald prohibition amendment recently the cause of prohibition hds won its greatest victory. This legislation comes as the culmination of long years of earnest and continuous effort on the part of women, and a few men, who have given the service of their lives to producing that state of public opinion which should bring about this result. Nothing shows more conclusively the cumulative nature of the.prohibi- tion movement than the history of the success of the efforts made in the individual states. The first pro- hibition victory was won in Maine in 1851, a success which was followed by twenty-nine years of unsuccessful effort before a second state, Kansas, North Dakota came next, in 1889, and not another 1207, alcohol as a thing forbidden within adopted the reform. until, in Oklahoma set aside the boundaries of the state. Georgia followed in 1908, North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee, in 1909, and West Virginia in 1914. In the last three years nineteen states have come under the prohibition banner, with Alaska and Porto Rico by way of good measure. This rapid falling into line shows conclusively the effect of the long campaign of education, the growing sentiment in favor of the saloon free country, and promises for the future |. of amendment by the necessary number the early ratification the of states to make the amendment permanent and general. * prohibition # ok * Potato Banquet. Now that the Ministry of Food cooking expert has shown us how to 34 ways, somebody ought to give a pub- prepare the potato in different lic. potato banquet. That was one of the methods pursued in the days of Louis XVI. by Auguste Parmentier, who was the. first to popularize the tuber in France. At this fashionable new | spread no dish was served that could not be accurately described as "po- It lesson, more particularly when the tato." was an excellent object diners were informed that even the drinks, which included liqueurs and "brandy," were derived from the THEATRE \ T A EVANSTON FRIDAY & SATURDAY 10 A. M. to 6 P. M. Special Showing AND THE "ALADDIN WONDERFUL LAMP" BRING THE CHILDREN Entire Change of Program 6to11 P. M. All Seats 15 Cents INCLUDING WAR TAX TEUTONS TAKE BRONZE DOORS FROM BRUSSELS The massive bronze doors of the Brussels Exchange are being taken down by the Germans and will be shipped to Germany, French dis- patches state. 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