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a cup donated by Charles E. Graves 1 Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk NOL. VII, NO. 16. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1918 SIX PAGES PRICE. FIVE CENTS BIG WEEK-END FOR "NAVY AT RAVINIA 'Ravinia' Club Prepares to Entertain 1,600 Boys from Great Lakes, Saturday and Sunday The Ravinia club weuld like to tell the public that on Saturday 1,600 boys from Fort Sheridan and Great Our Jackies " Avenge" With Kindness To French Children Ravages If you have ever entertained Jackies in your home and long for an inkling of just what the effect of your kindness to the boys in blue has been, the following remarkable letter, exceedingly well written, ad- dressed to Mrs. J. Allen Haines by a Lakes entered the grounds and were given supper and enjoyed the various |@and now on. transport entertainments planned by the club. Jackie, once entertained. at her home duty, will answer your questionings. Every line A baseball game played between |sparkles with red-blooded American- Fort Sheridan and Great Lakes re- sulted in a victory for the army in the 10th inning and the Fort Sheridan © team were presented with a silver cup donated by C. D. Peacock. vy Silver Cup Prize : On Sunday two teams from Great Lakes played cageball for a silver "and Company, which the team from the Hospigal school won; 800 men - stayed for supper. - On Monday and Tuesday over 700 men were admitted on each night for the Opera, making a total of 3.800 men entertained in four days. Next Saturday the same team will play baseball at 1 o'clock, and Great Lakes is working hard every day, hoping to redeem their fallen laurels. A section of the band of the 40th Infantry from Fort Sheridan will play and a large audience is hoped for. Kenilworth gives Supper Kenilworth will provide the sup- per for this week-end and the com- mittee consists of Mrs. W. Cresap, chairman, assisted by the following. Mesdames F. E. M. Cole, Percy Eckhart, H. H. Everett, H. A. Fores- man, Grant Ridgeway, O. W. Ruf, W. W. Wheelock. : "Mrs. Leeds Mitchell, Charman Publicity. Men in draft district No. 3 who have been placed in deferred classes and who hold "non-essential" jobs, are to be afforded a reasonable length of time, by the members of the local board, to get into usefnl positions in accordance with the provost marshal general's "work or fight" order. The members of the board were busy all this week going over the lists of deferred men and advising such of them as are employed in non- essential work to seek other employ- ism. Every thought interprets the true spirit of Uncle Sam at war. "Over There" June 3, 1918 Dear Mrs. Haines :-- Indirectly, the Germans are to blame for this latest atrocity which I am about to subject you to, so now you have a tangible personal reason for being so vitally interested in the successful prosecution of the war. If they had not sunk the President Lin- coln, which resulted in our being or- dered to stand by to take the sur- vivors home, we would have been well on our way home 'ere this, and the experience that was mine today, and which was the deciding factor oper- ating in favor of the decision to write to you, would not have been. Some Sinister Thoughts I was ashore today, staggering un- der an attack of the "Blue Devils" that would make an ordinary one look like an exaggerated grin, and had arrived at the determination to go down to the Chateau and shove a few German prisoners down the hundred and fifty foot "drop" onto those cute little iron spikes which so patiently await one's arrival; and then, as I chuckled and chortled in fiendish glee, I would open the moat and as in the days when it was rather popular form of amusement, bet the water carry the bodies out to the sea. The more I pondered on the proposition, the more it appealed to |me and i-actuaiiy made a Start to put the plan into execution, when I noticed a youth with the everwel- come "U. S. Naval Training Station" on his hat. The fact that he still wore the hat band indicated that he was a new arrival (Sh! Sherlock Holmes) so I rushed over and wel- comed him with open arms. It was his first trip over, so of course it was a task to take his eyes from the un- | accustomed sights, but on my as- surance that the costumes did not in- dicate that a street carnival was in 'progress and that the girl driving the milk wagon was not simply an advertising dodge, he graciously con- sented to give me the news of the ment referring them, at the same time, to the Federal employment bureau. | The board announced that no| drastic measures would be employed | to force the men into useful jobs but that ech man would be given | a reasonable length of time to] change his occupation so as to meet with the government requirements. It was stated at the board head-! quarters that practicall ighty per | cent of the question: ailed to the men in the new returned; filled out, before day noon. The last of the question- aires were required to in the hands of the board members by Fri- day evening of this week. Two men were inducted into serv- ice on July 1 from the local draft board headquarters. Ernest McClenahan 1b Wednes- cen he N of Wilmette was assigned to the Wendall Phil- | lipps High school' in Chicago for | training in automobile mechanics. John Henry Lyk, a new registrant, enlisted corps and was sent to Fort Oklahoma, for training. Sill, JACKIES ELATED AT RAVINIA PROGRAMS A recent article in the Great Lakes Bulletin, the station daily, announced that the tickets were "going fast" and that the men in blue were dis- playing great enthusiasm over the prospects for the summer days of entertainment at the park. Blue-jackets at the Great Lakes. says the Bulletin, are prepared to enjoy to the utmost the entertain- ments planned for them at Ravinia Park, under the direction of the Ra- vinia club of the north shore. | cured |at the station r a nt, jamusement which is going to keep in the military aeronautics | them fit to play the game over here, station. Bond of Friendship He did not know any of the fellows that I did, so I lost interest and had {caused you to be included in the victims. My superior is sitting just opposite me, so I decided to camouflage him | by using the machine, his natural conclusion being that I am engaged on official business. He does not un- derstand that you belong to the Navy, and that one may discuss things with you that one could not with an outsider. There is twice the secrecy about the transports other ships of the Navy, and we are not allowed to state that we are a transport, what port we make on this side, our home port, or dates of sailing or arrival. In short, if one were to write simply to civilians, one would discuss nothing save the con- ditions of the weather or the state of one's health. Because your under- standing of the changes the war has made, I feel that you will forgive me. First Pleasant Voyage This is my third trip over, but is the first one I really enjoyed. On the other occasions the weather was miserable and the sea not at all nicely behaved--no, I was not sea- sick--but this time over the weather was wonderful and the sea like a river, and when the ship was darken- on the boat deck and let my fickle fancy wander where it would. And as the ship throbbed its way in the silence, and clouds drifted across the moon and the moon's light, fitful and strange, fell on the little, fine, crimp- ed waves--so different to the moun- tainous ones of the previous voyages --it came to me-- the wonder of the sea. I do not know that you have ever been to sea. If not, you will not understand. If you do under- stand and love the sea, you will need no word from me. You will have but to close your eyes and it will come back to you, the feeling that is part Lsadness, part exultation, part neyer- ending amazement in and love of its beauty and responsiveness. For years I have read of the love of the sea, and since being on it I have listened ,to those whom it has mothered for years tell of their fondness for it, but I have smiled skeptically and passed on wondering at their folly and madness. Now that I do under- stand, I am quite contented. Not, you understand, that there is the slightest chance of my making this a permanent vocation, but it were well to be contented. Would "Get" the Huns Every time I go ashore on this side, I resolve that I shall never re- peat the performance, because I be- come so blamed angry that I am tempted to strike out alone for the German lines. about determined to resume my! search for pleasure as heretofore stated when he arrested my atten- tion by saying: i'seen you at Mrs. Haines' parties at | Winnetka?" My determination to "shake" him was instantly forgotten, a bond of sympathetic understandi was instantly established such | when one meets a fraternity broth and we > wandered into a and drank vith in some derful French Mineral water--: Champagne. I found him a i likeable chap, and we spent interesting afternoon together. oc- to me that meeting of this nature are not unusual, and I thought it might interest you to know that you are not only providing the boys with that form of nearby c¢ narrated your heal won- really a ver but you are establishing the founda- tion for friendships when two who have enjoyed your hospitality meet in the out of the way places of the world. I am writing this from one of the most beautiful harbors in the world, on a night that causes even one with my prosaic disposition to rant of beau- tiful girls, music, and the madden- ing moon. 1 have just returned from shore--you know we rate liberty only until 9 o'clock on this side because good little sailor boys must not play with naughty little French girls-- and because it seemed to me to be almost a sacrilege to seek to ap- proach Morpheus on a night like this, I determined to write a few letters, and my experience of this afternoon "9 ack, havent I! : Say, Jack, have'nt I i they could never handle a gun; if| little | > | women--not © type would beg from door rather than take some of the slackers from that side ashore with me over here. | dies with their hands cut off so that they could see some of the girls with their tongues sliced off he- cause they stuck them out at the in- vading Huns; if they could the peasant va either--doing work that the | | | | | | | s¢c do; if th some of the things that e (but which the conventionalities f bid me to discuss that the infinitismal spark of man- hood now dormant in them would be fanned into a respectable sized flame that would not be quenched until the Hun had perished from the earth. I think that I am normal, Mrs. Haines, but T have an almost uncontrollable desire to stay every time I visit this port, and I have a greater under- who, pondering, on the wrongs done German lines. for the people at home to get the right perspective when they hear such utterances as "The war is three thousand miles away;" and when they are told by those who do know, they either say very frankly that the speaker is a damn liar, or else pity for a moment, shrug their shoul- ders and operate a convenient memory. pity the fellow with no-one dependent on him and physically fit who remains at home at a time like (Continued from Page Two) as | dn 1apuem 03 juom sem [ JySiu Je pa | I wish that I could | If | i they could see some of the little kid- | with you, I am sure | N standing and sympathy for the fellow | to loved ones, suddenly jumps out of | the trench and, alone, "charges the | Of course I realize that it is hard | he 3 | War Emergency Notes IL = | William C. Boyden, Jr, and Cor- [poral William Y. Wildman, of the | Field Artillery, are now in the re- serve officers' training camp, at J, Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Ralph M. Jaeger, formerly Lieute- nant (j. g o.), has won his mission as Senior Lieutenant U. S. IN. R. F, 'Great Lakes. He is now {aide to the executive officer, Lieu- | tenant Commander Roberts. | + + + | Victor Farnum Johnson, who en- | tered service, May 2, 1918, is with the [5th regiment of infantry, Com- pany A. Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas. +: 3} Charles Sheahan of the 15th Field Artillery overseas, is now Corporal Charles Sheahan. + + + Adolph A. Kieson who recently en- {tered the service, is with the In- | fantey. Camp Jackson. His brother Albert is a radio operator at sea. + + + Wilmarth Ickes is in Battery A. 331st Field Artillery, Camp Robinson. Rae Smith has won his commission as Second Lieutenant and is at the second aviation instruction center, overseas. up leh Captain Donald McPherson of the national army has been made Gen- eral Purchasing Agent in Switzer- land, for the American Expedition- ary Forces. + + + Paul Starr is now at the 24th school of fire, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. SWIM AND RECREATE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL Swimming Classes Grow in Popular- ity. Many Beginners Learning * "Safety First Ait. -- ea ot By E. B. Jackson Residents of the New Trier Town- ship and our north shore suburbs should feel justly proud of the splendidly equipped "Water Gymna- sium" of the local high school and should come to know that it is a real community asset during the summer months as well as during the school year. Fach day from 8 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, with two family nights, Lake New Trier is teeming with swimmers and non-swimmers, not only recreating and exercising, but also becoming expert in one of the most useful of safety-first expedients. Every non-swimmer along the north shore should avail himself of this opportunity to learn to swim in water tempered to suit one's bodily com- fort. Swimmers should become more proficient. Swimming is the most democratic ; nothing sports like a good duck- > 1S NO recreation more joyous: you ever s 1 athers? een a solemn group of Swimming is form of if once learned func- throughout life. We know of and in a sport which their men s who women swim and dive. ectors of the New Trier torium are d adult; lirectors and are whenever the pool is in use regardless of how proficient the users may be. The re- gular classes are arranged to suit the needs of the applicants. supervised in the locker room and showers as well as in the swimming | pool. | Visitors are welcome at any time during hours. Mothers of boy swimmers may visit and watch their {boys on Fridays. Any information | matter pertaining to the New Trier Natatorium may be had by telephon- ing E. B. Jackson, Winnetka 588. Rhodes In New York Superintendent and Mrs. E. N. Rhodes of the Village schools left Monday for New York where Mr. Rhodes will attend the summer session at Teachers' College, Columbia University. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes will not return to Winnetka until early in September. com- | "4 vill so stimulate vocal expression. | Children are | regarding classes, fees or any other | ) WOMEN LAY PLANS FOR 4TH LOAN DRIVE Local Women Interested in National Sessions at Chicago, July 15-18 Local women are interested in the meetings to be held for the purpose |of mapping out the organization plans for the Fourth Liberty Loan | campaign, when more than sevénty women leaders from all sections of the country will assemble in Chica- go on July 15 for a series of meet- ings to take up the problems of the next war loan drive, which is sched- uled to start in October or November. These women leaders will include the twelve members of the national Liberty Loan committee, headed by Mrs. William G. McAdoo; the twelve federal reserve chairmen and the forty-eight state chairmen, including those from Alaska and the District of Columbia. The sessions will be held at the Blackstone hotel; and as far as arranged, the program an- nounced by Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank, a member of the national committee, will be as follows: July 15, meeting of national com- mittee. July 16, meeting of federal reserve chairmen. July 17, meeting of state chairmen. July 18, another session of state chairmen. There probably will be other meet- ings, formal and informal, and pro- visions will be made for the enter- tainment of the war workers. URGE WINNETKANS TO SEE WAR PAINTINGS A wonderful exhibit of aerial battle paintings by Lieutenant Henri Farre will be given from July 12 to July 31 at the Art Institute, Chicago. On the opening day, July 12, there will be addresses by famous French aviators in addition to the aerial paintings ahd THCGOW picturss-of the French aerial warfare. ; Tickets for the opening day, from 2 to 6 o'clock, are two dollars. On other days of the exhibition the general admission for adults will be fifty cents and children twenty-five cents. This includes the motion pictures shown in connection with these paintings. The exhibit will be open each day from 11 A. M. to 10 P.M. The proceeds are to go. to the children of French aviators killed in battle and the American Fund for French wounded. Do not fail to see this wonderful exhibit and these motion pictures which were photo- graphed by the cinematographic di- vision of the French army. These | tickets can be obtained in Winnetka {from the Winnetka Drug and Me- dicine company and Adams Phar- macy or from Mrs. Thomas Taylor and Mrs. Lyman T. Walker. GROSS POINT SETTLER SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS 5. Christine 86 old, of Gross con ted from St. Jo- seph's 1 Monday morning. Bur- ial w >t. Joseph's. Mrs. Schaefgen had been ili during he past three years. She died, Fri- ay morning, June 28. Mrs. Schaefgen was one of the oldest residents of Gross Point hav- ng resided in the Village over 75 | years. | She was born in Germany and came | in 1849 with her parents to this coun- i try who settled in Gross Point. | She is survived ty 9 children, 51 grand-children, and 38 great-grand- children. t i | 1 | | War Savings Stamps - a The record of Winnetka for the [sale of Thrift and War Savings [Stamps for June is the largest of | any month, so far. The sales for | the month amounted to $11,438.04 as against $10,830.46 in May. The total sales since December amounts to $39,083.41. ? Temperance Address Dr. George McGinnis, superintend- ent of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois, will be the speaker at the morning services at the Wilmette Baptist church, Sunday. a