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EEE FE RES 4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Lake Shore Publishing Company 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill. Business Telephone. . .... Wilmette 1921 Editorial Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1920 Winnetka Office Telephone. . Winn. 388 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. 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, thanks, obituary poetry, entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or & collection taken, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. cards of notices of Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, | Illinois, as mail matter of the second olass, under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918 Calling a Spade a Spade. Whether it be virtue or vice, the most common American character- istic is the habit of calling a spade The to camouflage has not been an Ameri- by its own name. resort can subterfuge, not even since we have become possessed of that very useful word to express what we used to call, much less gentilely, "four flushing." Our politicians, to be sure, have been given to a little disposition to paint the lily of the perfections of their party, a disposition which really has profited them little, for every- body knew exactly what they were up to and what they were trying to hide. not a national trait. But that has been a class and Tt is only recently that we have begun to have things seriously called something which they were not. We had our season of heatless days, which were in reality only workless We have had numerous examples of the transfer days in their intent. to the war of responsibility for con- ditions which are only remotely con- nected with it. Doubled, or even trebled, prices are excused because of the war. Inferior quality, substi- tution, adulteration, endeavor to step backwards in reform movements, whatever needs an excuse, finds one today in war and war conditions. There will come a time, and it is to be hoped that it will come soon, when the American people will nol longer maintain their "tranquility" | in the face of imposition upon their credulity, when responsibility for conditions will be placed where it belongs, not consigned to that in- definite quarter, the war. * * * * * What Have We Learned From the Heatless Days? The immediate necessities of the fuel situation have been met, but the question is no more nearly settled than it was before we entered upon the regime of heatless days, with all the loss of time and money which that program involved. Whether or not we have conquered the fuel situatign will be shown by the application which we make of the things which we have learned by the the season which will open in about a experience of winter in the month from this time. If we have discovered the faults in our program of last summer and have worked out a plan to avoid the same mistakes in the year which is about to open, we have begun to conquer the fuel prob- lem If we are going to let the same situation develop next winter by fol- The same | lowing this year the tactics of last, The outstanding lesson for us to have learned by our experience with the coal shortage is the need to dis- tribute fuel during the months when railroad traffic is least interfered with by weather conditions, when there is least demand upon it, when there is time to provide a surplus to make it sibilities of blizzards and impaired | traffic. Before the next coal year opens early in April, we must develop plans to effect equitable distribution of coal, means to prevent hoarding, a system of continuous production I we are exactly where we were before. safe to enter the winter, with its pos- | advertisement, suggests the going about the spreading of information about the which contain alcohol with a realiza- alcohol and beverages tion of the fact that the way into the minds of the people is the same in one matter as in another. If people will learn to use a certain brand of baking powder through an extensive | advertising campaign, they will learn in the same way to avoid the use of la material whose evil effects are kept | constantly before them. One of the advertisements furnish- by the of Churches makes the appeal to the ed Federal Council public to "Strengthen America." It points out that the strong points of | which will make the transportation | of coal a constant factor, not an! emergency condition to be met on! | short order. We must effect a plan | by which distributing centers, such] |as the large metropolitan coal cor- | porations, are able to accumulate a | surplus stock with which to meet emergency conditions which result from impairment of traffic by storm or floods. We have emerged from the fuel famine with heavy loss, both of time and money. As we pointed out in our editorial of last week, it has cost industrial plants $289.35 a ton for the coal which was saved by the eight heatless days, the manufacturing and a high price to pay for coal even in these days of unexampled values, and we have nothing but experience to show for it, for we have not been able to create even a small surplus of fuel. But if we put that experi- ence to use, the loss will not have been borne to no purpose, for we a nation at war are Food, Labor, Life, and shows that liquor wastes | all these. It is a convincing mes- | sage, it will appear in many places, Lighthouse Service. Several employees of the United States Lighthouse Service have re- ceived letters of commendation from Secretary of Commerce Redfield for courageous acts performed under conditions which were more than ordinarily hazardous on account of the severe weather of the present winter Skillful seamanship was required, lives and property were preserved. . season. Protects Soldiers. Secretary Lane has recommended a bill for the future protection of men engaged in the present war who prior to entering the service had initiated claims on public lands. Veterinary Corps. Men who are capable of handling horses are still wanted for the Veterinary Corps. They must be physically fit and not of selective- service age. y "a Buy in Evanston Miia: : | pl SE Singer Rotary wiaaier 4 sold each year ELECTRIC SINGER $32.50 to $50.00 USED MACHINES $5.00 UP Repairing on all machines prices are lower than agents WE DO HEMSTITCHING PATTERSON BROS. Phone Evanston 654. 1522 Sherman Ave. EVANSTON WE HAVE NO AGENTS shall then provide against the recur- rence of the condition in another | year. The question is, will we? kw They Are Seven. The seventh state has been added to the roll of those which have rati- fied the federal prohibition amend- the eighth of January when Mis- | | ment, a considerable showing Hie] { | sissippi endorsed the reform. The advocates of a Dry America are not resting after their strenuous campaign to secure the federal | amendment. They are not thinking | | | | of the years in which ratifications may be secured, but are bending their | efforts to bring into the prohibition | column every state at as early a date | as possible. . It is this policy of keeping con- | stantly "on the job" which has brought national prohibition to the It is this same policy which can be de- | point of a federal amendment. pended upon to secure the necessary | numbers of states to ratify it to make it a law of the land, and that before the expiration of the time limit set in the resolution passed by Congress. * * * * * A Venture in Advertising. It is an interesting feature of the campaign for prohibition which has the Council of Churches that a series of been undertaken by Federal advertisements has been prepared and is being provided to temperance organizations or individuals who may wish to contribute to the success of the cause by helping to extend public education in the facts concerning the liquor problems of America. The spread of prohibition territory | seems to indicate that the existence | of the saloon will-be co-incident with the existence of public ignorance as to the results of the habitual use of liquor by the individual and the| effects upon the nation whose people | are addicted to it. The adoption of the means of spreading information which every | business firm employs, the display | | & iii will be seen by many thousands of N q - eyes, will bring home in a way |N IT'S A PLEASURE \ A through which people are accustomed \ TO DO BUSINESS \ to receive impressions, the evil which \ i6 a modern business man: \ : the use of alcoholic beverages is to N ner. Everybody prefers to N a nation which is at war. \ receive a check for his ac- \ The advertising campaign of the \ i ee] i was anil \ Federal Council of Churches offers \ ness should be without a \ an opportunity for the advocates of \ bank account. i means Bes 3 prohibition to meet the liquor manu- \ Swny for Money Daid out by N facturer and dealer on his own \ accounts as well as those of N ground. The saloon man advertises \ larger size. 3 3 his wares generously. An equal cam- \ : \ paign of informative Bqverdsing to \ WINNETKA TRUST CAPITAL $35 000.00 \ CI ll and SAVINGS BANK SANK OEHK, weven | d ev i se d a g a 1 nst 1 tt. 7 LLL LHL 2 A I EEE LEELA AAA A EE EE FE PE PEALE EP ETE EEE PAPI HAI PIII III PIPE IIE AN \ \ . \ \ 5 \ CN N N . . \ iis \ \ The all-steel Limited 8:24 A. M. North Shore \ \ train affords Winnetka residents the most con- \ . . . N \ venient morning train to \ \ \ . \ \ y \ It takes you to the heart of the city, arriving at \ \ 10:15 A. M. No taxi or street car necessary. \ i . \ \ Fare $1.40, Including War Tax. - \ N N \ Limited service hourly to Milwaukee from 7:28 § i \ A. M. to 10:28 P. M. Running time one hour \ \ fifty-seven minutes. Parlor Cars 9:28 A. M. and \ \ 2:28 P. M. Dining Cars 1228 P. M. and 528 P. M. | \ \ \ \ . Eh N\ N : \ \ N\ \ : . . TH SHO aH . | . g J | | \ \ \ \ N\ +i \ \