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SPECIAL PAY-UP WEEK SECTION - WINNETKA WEEKLY TAL yy V, NO. 48 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1917 T00 MUCH 'CHARGE This Handy Way of Buying Often Cause for Those Sleepless Nights of Worry. WHAT ONE DOLLAR WILL DO Every Person Realizes Part Credit Plays in Commerce and -Bad Re- sult of Unpaid Bills--So Pay- Up Yours Now. The practice of having a "Pay-Up week" each year has taken well all over the country--and it has now be- come a national habit to consider the importance, in a business sense, of a Pay-Up week. Too many of us get in the habit of paving things "charged." It is so handy, so convenient--seems like get- thing things without pay. We are all Inclined to feel that we are going to have much more money some other day than we find in our pockets today. The reason that Pay-Up week takes po well is because it has been found of inestimable help to the world of eredit. One of the principal slogans used for the occasion has come to be: "Pll Pay My Bills, So You Can Pay Yours." A moment's reflection will show what a splendid thing this is. Think of how many times a single dol- lar may turn over in a single day with a practice like this. You may owe the jeweler a dollar for repairing a clock; and the jeweler may owe the shoemaker a dollar for repairing his shoes; and the shoe- maker may owe the butcher a dollar for the last bacon he got; and the butcher may owe the tinner a dollar for the last garbage can he bought; and the tinner may owe the clothier for a shirt; and the clothier may owe the druggist for a bottle of medicine; and the druggist may owe you a dollar --so0, don't you see, you get back your dollar--and what a wonderful lot of debts it has paid in the meantime, and you still have it. And you can go on for yourself in this line, showing the illimitable good that a "Merry Dollar" can do in a day, by paying neglected bills. Every thinking person realizes the part that credit plays in modern commercialism and the baneful result of unpaid bills. Credit has been so abominably abused that every business man and citizen feels the drag of the heavy credit load he is forced to carry. Hurrah for "Pay-Up Week." URGES MILITARY TRAINING Major General Wood Declares Nation Should Adopt Universal Service --Prepare for Eventualities. Major General Leonard Wood in an address delivered at New York re- cently in which he urged that uni- versal military service "with a sense of national obligation" be enforced declared it would not do "to hang out flags and tell the people across the sea that we can lick any five of them." "Patriotism n e e d s intelligence enough to have us properly prepare, and people will not discharge their responsibility until it is brought home to them," General Wood said. "If it means anything, it means equality of obligation, as well as equality of op- portunity. "Morality never saved a nation. We must be willing and able to fight the fight of men. National defense and citizenship obligations go together." "REMEMBER THE MAINE" Annual Memorial Services to Be Held in Memorial Hall, Chicago, Sunday Afternoon--All Are Invited. Annual "Maine" memorial services will be held at Memorial hall, Mich- igan avenue and Randolph street, Chi- cago, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Com- manders' association of the United Spanish War Veterans of Cook Coun- ty. Reverend Major Vattmann will open with prayer. General Barry will speak in behalf of the Army and Commander Evers for the Navy. Past Commander Baumer will represent the organization and 'National President Mrs. Juneau the Ladies' auxiliary. All patriotic citizens, including the ladies and children, are invited. 'the folks have ever gone to. NATIONAL PAY-UP WEEK, ET In Line and Push the Good Work Along. Six Days from Monday to Saturday, Days of Genuine Good Will Get the Dollar Circulating and Pay Up the Debts. You Will Benefit as Well as others. Start the Ball Rolling Early Mon- Keep It Rolling All the Week. and Fellowship. day Moming. TALKING ABOUT MONEY Here's a Pay-Up Lesson for the Kids at Home. Always Pay Bills Regularly, Because It's Best to Do So--Stingy Folks Usually Become Rusty Though Money Doesn't. If you don't pay too much for fit, Laddie, money is a good thing to get. Some folks forget that money costs anybody anything and they try to get something for nothing--which never happens. It costs sweat and brains and--but you sit down at the table there and write down as many things as you can think of that folks pay for money, health, chum life with children, the spirit of play--and things like that. If you don't pay too much for it, Laddie, money is a good thing to keep. Some folks forget that keep- ing' money costs somebody something all the time it is kept doing nothing. Money doesn't get rusty by being kept, even if some jokers say it does. No, money doesn't get rusty, but folks do who get the habit of making it act rusty. Their joints get rusty, their friendships get rusty, their generous feelings get rusty, and sometimes their bills get terribly rusty--the bills they owe other folks. Some of them--the folks--say they must keep all the money they can get so that they can have a good time some other time. But Oh! Getting the habit of keeping all of one's money is a very costly habit to get--it is almost as costly as the habit of keeping all of other folk's money you can get hold of. If you don't pay too much for it, Lassie, money is a good thing to spend. The kind of stuff you're made of is going to come to the top plainest and surest by the way you use money, by what you have to show for it when you have spent it. The best teacher in the world said that the best way to use money is to buy friends with it, so that when the money fails you will have friends to take you into their homes. Lots of good people think the teacher was talking through his hat. He wasn't, no matter what they think. Some people have to spend money before they get it, but of course they have to botrow it from someone else who will let them take it and spend it. Sometimes they give a note which says they will get back some other money by a certain time and give it back to the man who lets them take his money and spend it; and they pay him for the use of his money. That's business. Sometimes they borrow stuff that a man has paid money for and say, "Charge it." And he charges it. And then when he wants very much to use | the money he paid for the goods and asks the folks who borrowed the goods to let him have his money, some of the folks sometimes get very angry and smite him with hard words and tell him to go to Helena, Arkanas, or some other seaport, and keep on using the other man's money when he ought to have it to use in his business. Nobody calls that business. You will learn when you are older what some folks do call it. It is not nice for little children to says such words. Very many people who like to do business have agreed to set a time when everyone who has borrowed books or umbrellas or groceries or cows or furniture or china eggs, and said, "Charge it," will come together and have a great picnic--everybody will pay all his bills so everybody else can pay all of his bills, and everybody will start in business all over again. It will be the jolliest picnic most of Do you | like to go to picnics? Well, so does. everybody. You may now go and w ash | | your neck and ears. PLANS COMMISSION ORGANIZE TUESDAY Philip S. Post ot Pops Chairman By Village President Rummler. SUB - COMMITTEES NAMED To Be Made Up of Men Specially Suited to Handle Various Phases of Plan --Employ City Layout Expert. The Winnetka Plan commission, re- cently appointed by the village trus- tees, held its first meeting at the vil- lage hall last Tuesday. A large repre- sentation of the membership was present. The meeting was called to order by President HEH. A. Rummler, who outlined the steps which had been taken in connection with the appoint- ment of the commission, and then in- troduced Philip S. Post, who has been appointed chairman of the commis- sion. Village Improvement Necessary. Mr. Post stated that it was unneces- sary to make any argument-as to the value, necessity and opportunities of a movement for a complete plan for the improvement, beautification and future development of the village, and expressed the thanks of the com- munity to the group of Winnetka archi- tects who had generously and loyally tendered their services in connection with the working out of the plan. He further congratulated the village council upon the prompt action which it had taken in the appointment of the commission and in making an appro- priation for the employment of an ex- pert. The matter of organization was then discussed and it was decided that the chairman should appoint the fol- lowing sub-committees: Committees Arranged For. Railroads and grade separation, streets and highways, public buildings and utilities, parks and playgrounds, lake front development, school, churches and social centers; business centers--Indian Hill, Winnetka, Hub- bard Woods; building zones and re- strictions; freight, fuel and lumber vards, and disposal of waste; electric wires and ornamental lighting, drain- age, legality and legislation, estimates and finances, publicity; expert con- sultation committee, composed of architects, engineers and landscapist. These committees will report to an executive committee which will be in general control, and will see to co- ordinate and make effective the work of all the other committees. The chairman announced that be-, fore appointing the sub- committees | he would request the members of the! commission to indicate the subjects in which they were specially interested so that this information might be abailable in making up the personnel of the committees. Employ City Plan Expert. After discussion it was also decided that the practical method of working out the plan was the immediate em- ployment of an expert in city planning and a committee of five was appointed with authority to employ such expert. The village council has already had some negotiations with E. H. Bennett of Chicago, who is the architect of the Chicago Plan commission, and it is probable that he may be selected. The committee on employment of the expert is composed of E. A. Rummler, president of the village; W. S. Miller and S. A. Greeley, village trustees, and Wm. A. Otis and J. A. Hamilton, architects. Mr. Bennett is now drawing up a contract for pre- sentation to the village trustees. The fact that the youth of today can repair the carburetor or the differ- FEBRUARY 19 to 24 ential does not prove that out on the farm he could harness old Dobbin! without getting the crupper over his | nose. j Help to Make the 3 523 BUILDING PROSPERITY The First Step Necessary Is to Settle Book Accounts. County Ought to Make Good Show- ing During Pay-Up Week--No Bill Should Remain Unpaid After This Period. Seven state associations of retail dealers in different lines of trade, rep- resenting about one-half of the total number of responsible merchants, are advising their members to prepare to follow the definite recommendations of the federal trade commission for suc- cessful and economical merchandising, and then to concentrate their efforts on endeavoring to increase the pros- perity of those who trade with them. As the public is interested in having the best service from the retail dis- tributers, the public is invited to help start the movement. The bankers were the first consulted and have offered to do their part. The women's clubs, civic organizations and farmers' associations are going to-help, | too. As a first step the local dealers set- tle up their outstanding local accounts with each other and at the same time with everyone else in town and the ad- joining country, including what they owe to farmers, the lawyer, the doctor, the newspaper, contractors, mechanics, ete. In other words, if the merchants are to begin with a clean balance sheet at a given date they will have to start passing the money along to reach everyone they owe on open accounts and at the same time request others to pay them, so that all book accounts can be wiped out--everything settled up as far out as local trade reaches, ejther with cash or with notes. The fact that all the neighboring towns and trading places in the coun- ty and surrounding counties will be doing the same thing simplifies the matter, as book accounts which reach back and forth for some distance into the country can be settled by the ex- change of checks or notes which are good at the bank. Everyone gains by starting fresh, ready for the next step, which prom- ises to be even more interesting, for in addition to making the towns bet- ter trading centers, it will lead up to subjects for general improvement which should interest everyone in this county. It is understod that an effort will be made to find how completely all the | communities in the state will succeed in cleaning up their open accounts. There is no apparent reason why the people in this county cannot make as good a showing as any county in the state. Modern business methods and secur- ing wholesale cash discounts make it possible to keep good stocks of mer- chandise and sell at lower prices. This benefits everyone and the local patron- age should go to the business houses which display the campaign slogan, "I'll pay my bills so you can pay yours" and co-operate with enthusiasm. So hurrah for Pay-Up week! PAY YOUR TAXES EARLY. This is tax-paying time and no bet- ter time could be had than Pay-Up Week in which to square up your taxes. Collector's office will be open in the Wilmette State bank from 8:30 a. m. until 5:30 p. m., except Thursday afternoons, daily until March 10. In Gross Point village hall on February 91 and February 24. In Glencoe vil- lage hall February 23 and March 1 Square 'em up now. Mr. and Mrs. their daughter, Clara, are spendin some time at Lakewood, N. J. Henry L. Hollis and | Europe Faces Huge Shake-Up Finance and Politics Wh War Ends. ~~ TROUBLE AHEAD FOR AMER Te { This Country Will Have to Pay D and Conduct Business More Ei ciently--Purpose of Pay-Up Week Explained. { All of the nations in Europe bound to reorganize their woe) ness world, their social world, probably their political world. | immense debts that have been pi will compel each of the nations t business in the most eflicient of possible ways, going, perhaps, fi extreme of state control of all ( merce and industry. And this orf zation of business intercourse tinue for many years. The we business competition, manufactu transportation, selling and buying be directed chiefly against Am because of our immense nal wealth and largely because of proverbial wastefulness and slip business organization. ! From manufacturer to whole from wholesaler to jobber, from ber to retailer, and between rel and customer there is bound to! a closer and more compact reli Open book accounts will give plal trade acceptances, credits which be discounted for their full value keep active in open channels money heretofore tied up in open 'accounts. This change is alre ing earnestly advocated. | This change will fall hardest haps, upon retail merchants. 1 persons are the only ones in thet chain of business relations who. act business with acquaintances neighbors and friends, and who approached in business from the. sonal side. Credits will have extended to consumers for long shorter periods of time, but a new ment must be recognized. as hi come in and new relations bet merchants and bankers and const will have to be worked out. : Viewed from the social side! trade has a new and vital import a place in the scheme of communif ganization which cannot safely bei ficed. Much blatant nonsense has published about abstract middle Concrete business men and bus women in most communities pay! taxes in proportion to ability wealth, pay more generously to mote all public improvements, give more time and energy to wi projects for the benefit of the 1 community than do any other clt citizens. Ro (Clearing up all outstanding an secured accounts is one of the first indispensable steps to pi American business on a secure stable foundation. A pay-up erubodies a fine idea, putting a gi, sentiment behind a good work anf ularizing a clearer notion of bu duties resting upon all citizens. The Americans must bear the! of world competition for half a tury or more after the most revol ary war in history. From the blest consumer to the chief ea ist of the nation compact busine sanization ought to be maiutaine( gheer nl insistence, : . 08 WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY PJ} The annual Open House and ¥ party of Bethseda Day nursery be held on Washington's Birl February 22, from two to five | at the nursery, 1902 West M street. A box of groceries has sent by the W. C. T. U, and j will be donated by the ladies. ~ GONE TO FIGHT IN TRENCE Captain F. J. Franklin, who fo past two and one-half years has manager of the A. P. Maynard astate office at Hubbard Woods heen called to England to join his nent. He embarked aboard the land at New York, a few days renchward bound. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Friedl f 558 Arbor Vitae road announ yirth of a son on Sunday, Fel