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WEEKLY Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk VOL. VII, NO. 33. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS AERO DIRECTOR GIVES MEN'S CLUB BIC TREAT Address by Captain B. B. Lipsner, Formerly of the Department of Aeronautics, Enthuses Men of the Village DOLLAR AYEAR MAN TALKS 'E. S. Harrold Is Elected Secretary of Club To Succeed Darrell S. Boyd, Resigned At tl e meeting of the Men's club of Winnetka, held at Community House last Tuesday night, those as- sembled enjoyed a rare treat in the talk given by Captain B. B. Lipsner, formerly of the department of Mili- tary aeronautics, United States ar- my, now director of the United States Aero-Mail service, and Mr. John A. Jordan, of California, a dollar-a-year man who has had twenty years prac- tical mechanical experience in the development of aeroplanes. Mr. Jor- dan showed from the standpoint of history how every pioneer in the mechanical arts was considered a "nut", but prophesied great things for the future of the aeroplane. Tells of Aero Mail Route Captain Lipsner informed the men that he was so convinced of the cor- rectness of his views and urged them with such persistence upon his super- ior officers in the army that he barely escaped court martial on several oc- casions. Even British officers of "high rank visiting in this country said that his project was impractic- able. Despite all of this opposition, since May 19 last, there has been dai- ly aero-mail service between Wash- ington, Philadelphia and New York. Beginning December 21, there will be instituted between Chicago and New York a daily Aero-Mail service which will carry a letter delivered at the Chicago post office before six o'clock p m. to the addressee before six o'clock the following morning, in New York City. It will be possible "to have wn cuswer from your reply within twenty-four hours after mail- ing the letter. Impressed by War Work Captain Lipsner was much impress- ed by the activities of Community House, especially the Gift Shop and very generously promised to make a gift of great value to this very pa- triotic work. His gift will consist of one of the first letters sent by Aero-Mail in the United States, for one of which $10,000 was bid in New York City during the last Liberty Loan drive. This is a rare opportuni- ty for the Gift Shop to realize a great sum of money for this work. Owing to the resignation of Mr. Darrell S. Boyd, who was elected secretary last year, Mr. E. S. Harrold was nominated and elected in his place. : . CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoteYes. MRS. JOHN H. HARDIN AIDS WELFARE STATION Winnetka peopie will be given an opportunity Saturday to view Mrs. John H. Hardin's wonderful collec- tion of chrysanthemums. Each year residents of Winnetka have visited the Hardin home at 201 Sheridan road, Hubbard Woods.. Mrs. Hardin, who is an active worker for child welfare stations, conceived the idea that she would throw her two greenhouses open to "the people so that they might see her "mums" and at the same time subscribe to the welfare station lo- cated at Gross Point. To accomplish this she is charging a fifty cent ad- mission fee. Mrs. Hardin will be at the green- houses from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. and will show each person through, ex- plaining the various blooms and at the same time collecting the admis- sion fee, which will go to the child welfare station. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoteYes. Resume Chapel Service Northwestern university resumed chapel = services - Octohyer 28. None have been held for several weeks on | account of the quarantine. They will he held three times 2 week, on Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday, instead of five times a week, as formerly. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoteYes: Vote For A State Constitutional Convention Every resident is urged to make favorable decisiort on most important issue of Nov. 5 election The most vital issue to be decided at the election on November 5, is whether Illinois is to have an oppor- tunity to modernize its outgrown State constitution of 1870. Because of the details of government written into the present constitution nearly half a century ago and because it was made almost impossible of amendment, the State is now totally unable to obtain changes which for many years have been sorely need- ed. Some of these necessary changes are revision of the taxation system; a shorter ballot; reforms in court procedure which will lessen the law's delays; and complete suffrage for women. Hardly less important is the necessity of putting Illinois in a po- sition to deal properly with the great problems of reconstruction which will have to be met and solved at the end of the war. Necessary to Bring Reforms It is no exaggeration to say that Illinois must have a Constitutional convention in order to get any of these important reforms or others almost equally important. such as greater control of local affairs for cities and consolidation of Chicago's absurdly numerous taxing bodies. The calling of a convention is favor- ed by all political parties, as well as by the leading newspapers and civic organizations of the state. At its last session the General Assembly of Illinois adopted a joint resolution by the necessary two- thirds vote declaring that a conven- tion is necessary to revise the State constitution and providing that the question of calling such a convention be submitted to voters. In order to be adopted the convention proposal must receive a majority of all the votes cast at the election, so that if a person votes for candidates on the main ballot, but fails to vote in favor of the convention on the little ballot, his vote is counted against calling a convention. It is therefore essential that voters be reminded of the neces- sity of voting affirmatively for the proposition on the little ballot, which will be handed to each male voter along with the big ballot. Appoint Campaign Committees For the purpose of arousing the voters of the north shore towns to the importance of getting out a full vote in favor of calling a Constitu- tional Convention, campaign com- mittees have been formed in Wil- mette, Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, under the chairmanship of Fred W. Burlingham of Winnetka. Although women cannot vote on the Convention question, they can give effective aid by using their influence and by reminding voters of the im- portance of voting the little ballot next Tuesday. The personnel of the above men- tioned lows : campaign committees fol- Wilmette George E. Cole R. W. Bodinghouse Wm. H. Maclean Harry M. Gardiner John R. Harper Arthur L. Rice F. B. Crossley J. D. Roth Louis K. Gillson Albert C. Wenban J. E. Maass S. M. Singleton W. S. Shurtleff Mrs. G. E. Cole Henry Fowler Mrs. L. K. Gillson John D. Couffer Orville D. Jones Mrs. M. LI. Paterson Mrs. T. C. Moulding Oscar W. Schmidt Mrs. L. J. Pierson Harry W. Hopp Mrs. B. F. Brown Arthur H. HowardMrs. A. H. Howard Roy C. Osgood Mrs A. L. Rice Lyman M. Drake Mrs. S. M. Single- Leland V. Pierson ton Earl E. Orner Mrs. J. C. Baker Robert Stoddard Mrs. C. P Evans W. D. Matthews Mrs. A. L. Gale Hoyt King Mrs. A. W. Hostet- Charles S. Dinger ter A. E. Rouland Fayette W. Reed Jesse W. Tuthill Lewis B. Springer E. W. MecCulliugh Mrs. J. R. Harper Mrs. H. J. Richter Mrs. W. D. Matth- ews Mrs. E. J. Hoffman Rolland A. Putt Mrs. M. C. Beymer Louis 8. Becker Mrs. J. D. Emrich Karl D. King Mrs. W. Harridge Walter J. Cox Winnetka Mrs. N. K. Ander-V., M. Harding son Paul L. Hunter Edward Boulter Albert M. Kales William M. Bersac S. Bowles King N. H. Blatchford, JrJohn E. Lutz Roval Bell R. B. Mason William C. Bell F. L. Maloney William C. BoyvdenMrs. J. R. Mont- F. W_ Burlingham gomery H: Wallace Beals Mrs. J. S. Miller, Jr Wallace ChickeringDr. V. Massman C. Carlson J. R. Montgomery William J. Carey Harry Mclain A. B. Cooley Jonas H. Madsen A. W. Converse Mrs. M. Newman A. B. Claighorn L. A. Needham Barret Conway J. Olmstead . E. Durham Mrs. C. S. Ostrom A. W. Duncan Mrs. J. Olmstead Mrs. J. W. Davies C. S. Pitkin Mrs. A. R. Dean Mrs. W. D. Peck F. Dickinson Mrs. Carrie Prouty W. S Elliott TL. H. Roach Jerome Frank Mrs. B. Ransome Stenhen A. Foster E. A .Rummler I. K. Friedman Dr. C. O. Schneider Athur R. Dean A. F. Sterrett T. Friedlander Mrs. H. C. Seymour B®. Farwell Mrs. H. F. Thurston Mrs. A. Freeman G. D. Wolf George W. Gordon J. E. Winterbothan M. IL. Greeley Frank Whitney Mrs. G. W. GordonMrs. C. P. Wortley Mrs. M. L. Greeley Mrs. W. G. Walling "ather Harth Mrs. A. I. Wolf R. M. Heller T. N. Wheatley E. S. Harrold R. D. Whitman J. LL. ~Hamilton Warmington ND. Hallinan R. H. Wallace W. A. Haire Glencoe Andrew McLeish -Mrs. W. A. Fox Mrs. A. McLeish Merle B. Waltz W. H. Johnson F. D. Jackson M. B. Orde H.| C. Champlin, Jr. E. H. Cassels Mrs. B. McLeish 2. I. Davis B. T. Duncan H. H. Brigham B. L. Miller O. R. Barnett E. E. Haight Mrs. H.C. HollowayH. C. Holloway 5. M. Groves Mrs. G. H. Taylor Mrs. G. M. Groves J. A. Davis 1. F. McGuire W. H. Onderdonck Bruce McLeish Mrs. D. C. Orcutt Mrs. G. H. Pope E. R. Johnston H. T. Smith H. C. Johnson = TL. Walters Mrs. S. Booth Mrs. Alfred Wash- W. A. Alexander ington Sherman M. Booth Kenilworth C. T. Chandler Mrs. G. Ridgeway W. Pease Mrs. E. Parmelee W. W. Wheelock Mrs. Leon Allen James Prentiss Mrs. Gilbert Keeley Bruce Grandall Mrs. R. Farwell A. F. Reichmann Mrs. R. C. Cope E. E. Jackson Mrs. F. D. Flood Amos C. Miller Mrs. E. C. Andrews UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN STARTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 The United War Work campaign begins in Winnetka on November 8 and will continue through the week of November 11. Winnetka's quota is $40,000, which is large, and every man, woman and child in the Village must do their utmost to put Winnet- ka over the top. The canvassing will be done by the Woman's district committee together with a fine squadron of men. The executive committee for Winnetka is as fol- lows : 2 N. H. Blatchford, Jr, chairman: Mrs. Maurfie L. Greeley, Mrs. S. T. Burke, Rev. F. J. Haarth, John Stuart, Roger Sherman. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoteYes. Ralph E. Ellis Dead Ralph E. Ellis of Hubbard Woods. vice president of Sherman and Ellis, incorporated, died early Monday morning at Mercy hospital, of pneu- monia. Mr. Ellis is survived by his widow: and two small children. his father, and mother, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ellis of Kansas City, Mo., and two_hi'others. Frank H. Ellis of Chi- cago" and Cu, tain Joseph Ellis, in- structon, S. A. T. C., at Yale. "THE CLOTHESLINE LADY" TELLS YOU HOW TO SAVE "The Clothesline Lady" is the name by which Mrs. F. D. Fulton of Win- netka has come to be known In tion department of the Committee of the State Council of Defense she tells her hearers how useful articles may be made from various old garments which might be eaten by moths Mrs. Fulton's | "clothesline," which she hangs up as she lectures, is full of children's dresses made from old skirts; of bags made from silk stockings, and caps from coats Mrs. Fulton is on the roster of | speakers for the speaker's bureau of Ithe Woman's Committee, and is available for speaking engagements at any time and in any place in the [state the only cost being her travel- ing expenses. Application may be made to Mrs Edward H. Taylor, chairman of the speaker's bureau of | the Woman's Committee, 120 West | Adams street, Chicago, or Mrs. Ful- ton may be found at the Conservation Shop here each Friday, from 1 to § o'clock. She has new ideas concern- ing conservation with reference to clothing and women desiring expert | advise and assistance in mending or | | remodeling garments are requested to see her at the shop on Fridays. CONSTITUTIO" ° CONVENTION VoteYes. ' CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoizsYes. her work in the thrift and conserva- | Woman's | otherwise be thrown away or left to | {accident at Wilmette several months HEAR GOV. LOWDEN ON "GOOD ROADS" Resident Here Especially Requested To Hear Executive At Evanston On Saturday SMALL BALLOT; BIG ISSUE "Good Roads" Means Hard Roads Reaching Every County in Illi- nois, Election November 5 Fountain Square, Evanston, will be the rendezvous Saturday morning of all good road enthusiasts of the north shore. At nine o'clock Governor Frank O. Lowden will mount a temporary platform in the famous square on Davis street and explain to the vot- ers the necessity of voting for the $60,000,000 bond issue at the election, November 5. The governor had planned to speak in Evanston Wednesday morning but was prevented by the influenza quarantine. His acceptance to speak Saturday was accompanied by a re- quest that all the residents of the north shore come to Evanston to hear him, for, due to a slight indis- position, it would be too much of a tax on his strength to speak in each of the north shore municipalities. The governor is especially anxious to see the little ballot carry and it is in an effort to have the people be- come enlightened that he is coming to the north shore Saturday. "The bond issue for good roads, if approved by the people," says Gov- ernor Lowden, "means a comprehens- ive system of hard roads, reaching every county in the state. Therefore the little ballot this year becomes a great ballot. It contains but three squares to mark. But if the voters mark each of these three squares 'ves', they will have done the best work, in my opinion, they have done on one day at the polls in many URGE VILLAGERS TO HEAR TRAVEL TALKS Famous Course of Lectures To Be Given at Community House on Three Sundays, Beginning November 3 VIVID PICTURE OF WAR "Paris-1918" To Be Subject of First Lecture; Motion Pictures Are a Feature The 1918 series of Newman's Traveltalks at Community House, at 8 o'clock, will be presented here for three consecutive Sunday nights, be- ginning next Sunday, November 3. Newman's Traveltalks have been famous for their vivid pictures and word descriptions of foreign coun- tries. It is doubtful if in all his successful career. this great travel lecturer has ever had such a wonder- ful subject for this year the New- man Traveltalk takes you to the war-torn countries of Europe where he spent last summer under the auspices of the Allied Governments so that he might bring back to Amer- ica a real picture of the war, a picture so vivid, so interesting, so full of startling facts and glorious achieve- ments that no travel lecturer ever had such an opportunity. Paris in Wartime The first of the series will be "Paris-1918". It is the Paris of to- day, not the gay, light-hearted, frivolous Paris of years gone by; but a serious, a tragic, a deeply earnest Paris, a Paris that is the throbbing heart of the great Allied battlefronts, the Paris that has risen former out of the ashes of its frivolity infinitely noble, tremendous- ly patriotic, supremely heroic. Newman sailed for France on one of the transports that took the Rain- bow Division overseas. His trav years." CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTICN VoteYes. REV. J. L. WALKER IN FIRST SERMON AT THE M. E. CHURCH If you go to the Methodist church at Wilmette on next Sunday morning you will be sure to hear a good sermon by the Reverend J. L. Walker who was recently District Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church on the south side of Chicago, and has just been ap- pointed pastor of the Wilmette church by the Rock River Confer- ence, Reverend Walker has the reputa- tion of being one of the most elo- quent speakers in the conference. He is a graduate of Northwestern Uni- versity and was admitted into the Rock River Conference in 1895. He has served as pastor at the Cuyler avenue Methodist church, Oak Park; Galena Boulevard church, Aurora; and Paulina street church, Chicago. In 1914 he was appointed District i Superintendent on the south side of Chicago and served in that capacity | until appointed to the local church. MOVING TIME ON FOR "COPS" AND FIREMEN; CHIEF ON THE JOB With Chief Waino N. Peterson |again on the job at Police headquar- ters in the Village hall, preparations talk shows you the great convoy der the protection of destroyers, planes, captive balloons and war ships threading its way through the submarine infested waters to a great French base seaport. He was with the troops when they landed, he fol- lowed them to their training camps, to th battleline. : Saw Marines at Chateau Thierry He was just behind the lines when the glorious Marines stopped the Hun advance on Paris at Chateau Thierry and he brings back vivid pictures, motion pictures, slides, and word pictures of that fateful event. He shows the wounded returning from that smash that shattered the hopes of the Crown Prince on the Marne and the triumphant parade of the Marines in Paris at the historic Fourth of July celebration in Paris where all Paris went mad over the sturdy Marines swinging in parade through the historic boulevards. They. are pictures that are historic, that are thrilling, that set you on fire with enthusiasm. No finer motion pictures of these events have been shown. All pictures are exclusive--they will never be shown here again. "Paris-1918" is the first of the three. Tickets for these pictures are on sale at the Drug stores for the course of three lectures. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoteYes. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FRANCES POOLE are being made for the housing of the police and fire departments in | the west half of the lower floor of | the building. The section of the floor | formerly utilized by the light and | water department as a storage room | has been fitted out into a splendid | garage for police vehicles. The chief will maintain his officers in the southeast section of the floor where it is easily accessible from the main | entrance of the building. Though = still compelled to use crutches the chief is at his offices daily and has been directing the de- partments with excellent efficiency. Chief Peterson was injured in an ago when, while riding a motor- cycle, he was struck by a speeding machine. His right foot was badly crushed. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoteYes. | A memorial service for Miss Fran- ces Poole, daughter of Mrs. C. Clar- ence Poole, 1123 Maple avenue, Fv- anston, formerly of Winnetka, was held Sunday at evensong at St. Luke's church. The Reverend Fred- erick G. Budlong, rector of St. Pe- ter's church, Chicago, and old friend of the family, delivered the mem- orial address, telling of the heroism (of Miss Poole, who was an army nurse in general hospital No. 5, at Camp Ontario, Oswego, New York, at the time of her death. Miss Poole died of influenza which she contract- ed while caring for the soldiers in the army camp who were victims of the epidemic. The Reverend Budlong was rector of Christ church here at the time the Pooles were members of that parish. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VoteTes. J i or) IE