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38 WINNETKA TALK July 9, 1927 CONTINUE SWEDISH SERVICE Contrary to rumor, the Swedish services of the Christian Fellowship will be continued throughout the sum- mer on Wednesday evenings at 8, at Christ church Parish House, it was announced this week. Ask Your Dealer for Eleanor Bird Seed A Song In Every Beed. It's better than what you Garden Club Meets Today; Hears Jesse Smith Monday The regular meeting of the Kenil- worth Home and Garden club will be held at the home of Mrs. C. G. Littell, 322 Woodstock avenue, today. Dr. Franklin Martin, a former resident of Kenilworth, will speak about the na- tion-wide campaign against the inva- sion of such vast hordes of mosquitoes upon the summer peace. He is a representative from the Gorgas Mem- onal society, which exterminates the Scout, this year is offering his services to investigate the possible breeding places around Kenilworth. Represen- tatives from other garden clubs will also be present. Following a different trend of hort- icultural thought the Home and Gar- den club will listen to a talk given by Jesse Smith, on "Wild Flowers and Natural Planting" at the home of Mrs. R. C. Johnston on Melrose avenue, Monday, June 11. Mr. Smith is the principal of the Elm Street school in Highland Park. The members of the think is best. Charles Howe, mosquitoes in the Panama district. d Kenilworth Garden club are to be a prominent Boy !invited as guests. esting Times N a levee at a bend in the Mississippi a thousand men were building with sand-bags a second-line defense against rising waters which threatened hundreds of miles of fertile cropland. Over a telephone, housed in a wooden box nailed to a tree, an engineer was talking to head- quarters --reporting on the prog- ress of the work, asking for reinforcements and additional material, receivingWeatherBureau forecasts which would be vitally important to him in planning the strategy of this grim battle for lives and property. The telephone had been put in service but a few minutes before, after a construction crew had worked from sunrise to sunset, often waist-deep in swamp water, to string fifteen miles of line to this isolated outpost. Such is telephone service in an emergency--service in which tele- phone men and women do very much the same things they do every day of their lives, but do them under conditions that give vivid emphasis to the import of their efficiency, devotion, and fidelity to public interests. In such crises, when even the most commonplace of calls may become a matter of life or death, the public realizes its day-by-day dependence upon the telephone and upon the men and women who make of it an instrumentality of human service. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM . One System - Universal Service Motor Club Opens Fight Against New State Gasoline Tax Legal attack has been made against the new Illinois gasoline tax. Freder- ick O. Mason of the law firm of Mil- ler, Gorham, Wales and Noxon, and Joseph H. Braun, counsel for the Chi- cago Motor club, have filed a bill in the circuit court of Sangamon county, drafted for the purpose of testing the validity of the gasoline act and en- joining its enforcement. The bill runs against the state treas- urer, Omer N. Custer, director of the department of finance, A. C. Bollinger, and the auditor of public accounts, Os- car Nelson. "It seeks to restrain these officers from using any of the money appropriated by the legislature for the purpose of carrying out the provision of the act," says Charles M. Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor club. "The bill was not filed by any in- dividual taxpayer, but by the Chicago Motor club itself as a resident and taxpayer of this state on the plea that the organization owns and operates a fleet of motor vehicles using gasoline as motor fuel. The bill for injunction states that A. C. Bollinger, director of the department of finance of the state, is about to expend portions of a $50,000 appropriation for the printing of vari- ous forms in connection with the col- lection of the tax, and is about to ex- pend other portions of this appropria- tion for the employment of clerical help and the purchase of office furn- ishings and supplies and in fact that some of the $50,000 already has been spent. "The bill alleges that the act is in- valid because it violates the constitu- tion of the state of Illinois, which re- quires the purpose of an act to be ex- pressed in its title, in that the title purports to impose a tax on the sale and use of motor fuel, but Section One of the act exempts kerosene oil, kero- sene oil being in fact a motor fuel, and in extensive and daily use as such. Therefore. the purpose of the act as expressed in the provisions of the act is not to tax all motor fuels, but only certain motor fuels. Furthermore, that the lecislature cannot merely by its declaration change the characteristic of kerosene and declare it not to be a motor fuel, when, as a matter of fact, it is motor fuel. Also that the provi- sions of the act itself do not attemot to impose a tax on motor fuel, but only on motor fuel used for one particular purnnse. viz.. the operation of motor vehicles on the public hichwavs, and this purpose is not exoressed in the title of the act; that while the title says the purpose is to impose a tax on the ale and use of motor fuel, the act itself declares the purpose not to tax motor fuel, but to tax persons using the high- wavs for the operation of motor ve- hicles: and that, therefore. the real purpose of the act is not expressed in the title. "The Chicago Motor club." concludes Mr. Haves, "is making this fight on be- half of the motorists of the state and proposes to see the legal battle through to a finish. We feel that it is right and proper that the Chicago Motor club should file the bill in its own name for the reason that the Chicago Motor club has fought the gasoline tax for the past two sessions of the legislature. Our attornevs believe that the bill ul- timately will be declared invalid and its enforcement enjoined. Andrew J. Mouat, 616 Lake avenue, returned Tuesday after spending two weeks at the American Whist League tournament which was held in Han- over, N. H. Mr. Mouat is an old time member of the league, and during the recent tournament obtained five high scores.