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6 = WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1917 EmEEaRE Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK The Lake Shore Publishing Company 20 Prouty Annex, Winnetka, Ill Telephone Winnetka 388 Lloyd F. Hollister.....Managing Editor G. Bdwin Secour....... vi 000 Editor SUBSCRIPTION. ........ $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Winnetka, Ill Anonymous communications will be passed to the waste basket. The same 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, card of thanks, obituary poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. "hE "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty." FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1917 People who can't get their names in the paper any other way can always sign a patent medicine testimonial. | =0---0_-0 0 The Menace in the East. Newspapers report the purchase from Japan by the Carranza govern- ment in Mexico of ammunition and other war material costing some two millions of dollars. The same report states that twenty-seven Japanese gun experts sailed for Mexico on the steamer carrying the war supplies. Other reports are reaching this country of the forming of a German army beyond the Mexican border for the purpose of making war upon the United States. Recruits have been enlisted within the United States and furnished transportation across the boundary line. It is claimed one thousand German reservists have en- tered Mexico each day of the past week. Mexico and Japan, Mexico and Ger- many, or Japan, Germany and Mex- ico? Which? Neither of the three are improbable. All are possible. Japanese and German agents have been active in Mexico for some time past. Several years in fact. That activity has not been of a character favorable to the United States and it certainly has not been unfavorable to either Germany or Japan. It is time for the people of this country to awake from Rip Van Winkleism. It is a time for the peo- ple of this country to give heed to the thousand and one signs that point unerringly to what is in preparation. It is time for the people of this country to give attention to the West as well as to the South. It is time for this country to PREPARE. To prepare to battle for its principles, its honor, its lifeblood. For its very existence. Regardless of protestations of good will, of friendliness, of kindness; re- gardless of misleading and misguid- ing protestations of any and all char- acter, prepare. - Remember the words of the immortal Brete Harte--and PREPARE. * ok kx kx Xk Are They Traitors? What construction can be placed upon the actions of men and women who deliberately attempt to tie the hands of the National Government at a time of grave crisis? What classification can such citizens (if they are citizens) be listed under? By what proper appellation may they be'designated? In the days of the Revolution they were called tories. During the stir- ring time of the Rebellion copper- head was the title applied. Today the tories of the Revolution and the cop- perheads of the Rebellion are just as much in evidence, but under a new name--pacifists. The tories were considered traitors to the cause of the Colonies. The copperheads were looked upon as iraitors to the cause of emancipation. Why should not the pacifists be con- sidered traitors to the cause of right and justice? The world is at war. Two nations, three nations, would embroil the United States in that war. To such extent have the attempts been car- ried that but one thing remains--to uphold the honor of the Nation. It is no time for equivocation, it is no time for hesitation. Action is de- manded. And such action that once and for all time it will be firmly im- pressed upon those who turn toward this country with envious eyes and clutching fingers that the people of the United States of America are a people of spirit and determination. A people not to be lightly considered > FAL A] and not to be treated otherwise than with respect. Pacifists have right to but one name, the true name, the correct name--TRAITOR. Let them be so called and so treated. * kk kk Small Items and Large. A woman picked up a copy of this newspaper the other day, turned to the social columns and, after reading them, said she was through with the paper. At the same time there was real news in that issue other than on the social page; but argument then would have been of no avail Here, however, are a few points for the consideration of the reader: Social and personal items are an important--a very important--{feature of this newspaper, as they are of every village newspaper. But they are not everything. All local news does not consist of social and per- sonal items. Not by a long sight. Much of it goes under headlines. And then there is the local com- ment and semi-local comment and many other news items, all printed with a view to making an interest- ing newspaper that will prove of value to readers and subscribers. And there are the advertisements, all local in the sense that they apply and appeal to local people. Social and personal items are very, very important. But they make up only a part of the newspaper. * kx kk * Spring Advertising. There is good argument for adver- tising at every time of the year, but at no period is it stronger than in the spring. Everyone then wants something new. People are tired of eating the same old thing, and new delicacies and novelties appeal to them. It is a great time for promo- tion for the sale of new lines, or to introduce any kind of a product to people who don't know about it. In dry goods and clothing lines, everyone is buying. In household furniture and supplies it is a time of renewals. But people do not spend all this money aimlessly. They feel keenly the high prices, and are look- ing around sharply to see where they can get the most for their money. Bargains advertised in the news- papers get the bulk of the trade. And the merchant that advertises gets his name before the public, and they feel interested to try him out. A Grammatical Errors. Frequent amusement is caused by | folk who pretend they can find gram- matical errors in the newspapers. Recently a local man pranced around in glee because he thought he had detected a grammatical slip in a publication he held in his hand. Inquiry, however, elicited the fact that the alleged grammatical error was not af a kind to excite anyone looking for fact or logic in an article. Tripping up in bits of grammar is nothing to worry over. Our language is so filled with inconsistencies, "broken rules," and idioms that our greatest writers, editors and states- men stumble frequently. Usually the grammatically perfect have minds revolving in a groove that leads to small details and are not of the type of mind that initiates and executes large plans. 3 k kk kk High School Movement Grows. Announcement has been made by the American Defense Society that the Junior American Defense society, members of which are students in senior and junior high school classes, is growing daily. Aid of mayors, school superintendents and principals is being enlisted in the movement started by the defense body to pre- pare high school youths physically for Universal Military Service. Plans for the direction of the junior society are in the hands of Dr. C. Ward Crampton, director of physical edu- cation in the New York public schools and chairman of the military training committee of the American Defense society. EERERE Germany doesn't seem a bit afraid of the toy pistol that our military power is pointing at her. CNEL TE A Some people claim that women are not fit to be lawyers, but that would not be because of any inability to talk to the jury. x kx ok kk The list of unclaimed baggage for the week includes the Czar of Rus- sia. Several more European kings should be also included. The most beautiful sight the land- scape gardener can produce in our back yards this summer will be a little plot full of flourishing potatoes. dR. ak Ce aR There is nothing new about those food riots in New York city. .The chorus girls have long suffered un- utterably on account of failure to find anyone to give them lobsters. Now that it is all over, RULER LLL LRLRLRL GELLER EEY| The Russian people overturned in && gy |a day the dynasty that has existed | without fear of contradictiol ¢¢ SUBMARINE SLAMS {| for centuries, but in this country they | that we never did think the: & €¥ | can't rally a few hundred votes at |be a railroad strike, ¢} Torpedoes Topical and Typ- | the polls to tip over a local boss. ¢} ical Suggested by Periscope Wk ¢¥ Observations Taken from ¢¥| [It is self-evident from watching ¢¥ Within the Editorial Con- ¢¥|the careers of many men, that they ¥Y ning Tower. ¢¥ | frequently need advice more than h] €} | money. x x Xx kx Xx The spring poets are hereby re- Any man in this village can get rich in a hurry by inventing a hair-cut that will stay cut. * kkk Xk minded that our office cat is unusual- ly hungry this year. * kx kkk It may be an accident but, never- To brag about one's patriotism | theless, "ink" rhymes with "think." taining t e best bl raises the question as to why brag- 3 ging is necessary. a Extra fine like on the western front. kk Kx \ The kind that laysand ockrels for pep setting of 15 e ll his op! ine job" ack Se ter: sj ength Mexico is Uncle Sam's back yard; at reasonable) ices. Nici unfortunately, there is nothing in it but thorns and Carranza. . Eggs | for Hatchingtb and x kk kk p I Spring operations are being speed- ~* OPTOMETRISTS ; $5. 00, $3. 00 and $ 3 ii ed up in New Trier township, just 118 So. Dearborn St. Chicago teh : y is fa Another of those pleasures that we give up in Lent is entertaining our Sunday school class of active boys. kd in If the European war could be settled with argument, it could have been brought to a close in any vil- emstitching Pleating Phone 5651 823 Dayis St. E. B. Conabhl Hubbard Woods Stat 1163 North Av. Winne -- rkable lage barber shop long ago. --Tar in tl wok No wonder American soldiers are such good fighters. Consider the number of printers in the Army, all Reason. No. z for the QUALITY CAKE SHOP of whom are used to handling lead. x x kK XX HOME MADE GINGER CAKE Made from purest ingredients Some local chaps congratulate you roundly whenever something favor- Phone Winnetka 1348 able happens. But these "roundly" Winnetka, Ill. = uth fro Order early, assuring rd spatch. gy oung Nov of t ~<hibitio vi divi Carlton e ten-f congratulations sometimes are not rds in Immed on the square. A BT un If a man is seen on the street in a ~UREDALE ~ wimmin Established 1894 A gentleman in the village has been improving on Benjamin Franklin, who said, "A word to the wise is suf- ficient." This local oracle says that sometimes even a word is unneces- sary. BANK Telephone 97-98 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS GE a hr 3 battered condition, these days, it is 7 Reems doubtful whether he has been steend "«. ESTABLISHED 1871 Ee ing a peace society meeting or a loca ! 3 Searle harmony dinner. FIREPROOF WARE RS AiTor 2 kx kx x mis "NT To talk well one must occasionally 1723 BENSON # E ower, a : s : hat det think, intones a newspaper philos- TEL. EVANSTON 955 i SeEYANSTONL Her opher. Perhaps that is why some of Ea Tack Q us in this village don't talk when oO = A G E a y others are thinking. old Goods Moved, Packed and Shipped wag Tako» xi : LONG NCE REMOVALS AUTO VAN SER: |jinc | Among the people who think the Special Piano and Rug Room Private Locked Ro I g Lenten observance is all foolishness : me are the many who are unfitting them- if or so selves for business success by their Rp ofans late hours and high living. ersuads hk Lk kk f \1ore ye ~Jtis-metring so-nmowadays-that afrery hoot © a man eats something that tastes 1 like potatoes, he sends out and asks | 0 the cook how in blazes other stuff foe at (8) on | New can be made to taste like that. Hosed A Ed ok kg ry spri Don't argue--when the other fellow Wilmette, 'Winnetka, Glencoe: 0€ orning is more headstrong than you are. It Lill res is as difficult to argue sense into and Hubby ard Woods Wins Bf some people as it is to sell a book R | E Bia, fared, b of travels to the Wandering Jew. ea state. ae, "ork fc *k kk kX : i. ext Ju EM K ME YE-- After listening to sundry coversa- tions around and about the village, the conclusion has been reached that some folk wag their tongues too much and do not use their brains enough. 3 k kx Kk Xx 3k = LY Isn't it about time for the sale of N 4 the guaranteed lawn seed which will % raise hay, oats, barley, rye, iron weed, Y burdock and every other known va- riety of growing thing except grass A in your front yard. 3 eh de RR Heard in a local restaurant--"If that guy that runs the submarine trys any more chow-chow stuff on muh I'm goin' to shoot im a tub o' rat- tail chop suey the nex' time 'e yelps for clam chowder." Lead on, Mac- Duff. The truth will out. doh % Spring has arrived. This is a state- ment of fact. Not because of the rob- ins and bluebirds, but because one of our infallible news gatherers reports the boys of his neighborhood are fly- ing kites, shooting marbles and play- ing baseball. What better proof does one want? * * x Xx Xk What has become of the old-fash- ioned man who used to take a dozen kinds of medicine every spring to get ur firm." Do not " his system tuned up for the summer's fuse the word Hello." wear? About all the overhauling his son does is to send the family flivver f to have its valves ground and the J connecting rods tightened, / ® HTK J "I'm dreadfully worried," confided { the lovely Sheridan road maiden, her violet eyes large with concern. "I overheard mother tell the paper- hanger that she wanted the living room fixed up with a drop ceiling. It Chicago Telephone Company H. B. Gates, District Manager Telephone 9903 may be safe enough, if he fixed it right, but I'm so afraid the thing will slip, drop too far, and hurt someone.'