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Em Em Em Mm = 8 'WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1917. Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK PASSENGER SERVICE. by SCHOOL GARDENS. The Lake Shore Publishing Company 20 Prouty Annex, Winnetka, Ill + Telephone Winnetka 388 SUBSCRIPTION......... $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Winnetka, Ill Anonymous communications will be 4 passed to the waste basket. The same Salesmen and others whose busi- | some respect now. The National applies to rejected manuscript unless | ness requires a constant succession Educational Association plans to return postage is enclosed. Articles | of railroad journeys will feel the|push school gardens harder this for publication should reach this office change a good deal. They will wind | summer, as a resource in food pro- by/Twesday afternoon to insure appear- up their business in one town and | duction. 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. (UR #My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty." FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1917 TOWN IMPROVEMENT One Improvement society a few vears ago asked every member to bring in what suggestions occured to him for local betterments. Nearly 100 were offered. These ranged from window boxes with plants in the bus- iness districts, to regulations pre- venting congestion in tenements. Most of the ideas were good, though many were impossible under pres- ent conditions of laws and public sentiment. Several meetings were spend dis- cussing these propositions. The members were so exhausted by the wide field of work that needed do- ing that their ambition all evaporat- ed in talk, and practically nothing was done. The society soon after expired. : Probably the most practical end in view in the average American town is the removal of disorder from home places. Some wonderful successes have been achieved through the competitive garden movement. Many bare and ugly little cottages have been transformed into bowers of beauty by a little spirit of competi- tion. One of the worst features of most towns is disorderly back yards along railroads and trolley lines. Many places clean up their main streets un- til they fairly shine, and are lovely boulevards of trees and shrubbery. Ther where the railroad comes in, there is.an ugly succession of chick- en coops, outhouses, ash heaps, and general litter. All that could be changed by an active Improvement society. By offering prices for the best looking back yards along the railroad line, visitors to the place would get an entirely different con- ception of the town. Some of the most beautiful places have a reputation for ugliness just because the yards along the railroad are so disorderly. It takes compar- atively little work to make the trans- formation. House owners can be in- duced to go into the scheme by the improvement in value of their real estate. En EE BURNING UP FOOD. Every few days one reads in some newspaper that a car of potatoes on some remote side track has been burned, or that a grain warehouse has been destroyed by fire. All ac- cidental, of course. It will strike lots of people that car loads of potatoes are too val- uable property to be left lying alone on remote sidings. There are people among us who have an interest in having these potatoes destroyed. Also a grain elevator is a part of our military preparation. There should be guards around all these reserves of foods under present con- ditions. In some places officers are guard- ing buildings, the destruction of which would not be of the least mil- itary advantage to our enemies. Meanwhile the food stocks on which our national safety depend are left unwatched. The railroads that are transporting these commodities should be held responsible for the protection of this vital property in ger trains for the purpose of saving It is announced at Washington that railroad passenger train serv- ice will be generally curtailed during the war, so as to ship a surplus of locomotives and cars to our allies in Europe. Also it is desired to re- freight trains as far as possible. find they have several hours of fruit- less waiting before the next train comes along. But inconveniences of this kind must and will be cheerfully | 1 borne for the sake of promoting national efficiency. If we are to make a good showing in this war, |1 we must adjust ourselves to changes | 1 in our plans in a thousand ways. Pleasure travelers are fussy about their trains. Many such are run at a loss, and the cost is paid by the great mass of the public in freight rates. The public would hardly be satis- fied with a cutting down of passen- money for the stockholders. But if some of the locomotives and train crews could be shifted over to the freight business so as to stop the congestion that has added to cost of living, the public would often be the gainer. In thickly settled sections where there are many trains many persons never bother to look at a time table. They just go to the station thinking that a train will come along, and then are angry if they have to wait. Here is where the railroads make a mistake when they cut out their ad- vertising of train schedules in the newspapers. If they constantly in- form the public through the news- papers when their trains run people can look up the schedule without running to the station for a time- table. Thickly settled districts where train service is abundant could often get along with less trains if these were thoroughly advertised, and a well advertised train service in any locality may make a scanty service tolerable. Es EE Es RE TAXATION. The government rightly plans to raise a large share of the war cost by taxation. Everyone naturally will want some one else hit. But there are certain general principles that everyone should assent to. These are that wealth should pay in pro- portion to its ability and that spec- ial taxes should be laid upon play rather than on work and business, upon luxuries rather than necessities, Ong proposal is to tax advertising. That places a direct tax on the sel- ling of goods. The busitess men no doubt expect to take their share of the burden, but it would be equally fair to tax every employer for the number of salesmen employed. Either proposition would hamper business, tend to restrict trade, and would impair the economic sound- ness of the country. Another proposed tax placed con- trary to the principles enumerated above, would be to raise letter post- age to three cents. This would hit business concerns heavily, and would be an impost on work rather than luxury. So far as heard from, how- ever, no one has objected to a tax on picture post cards. The more legitimate subjects for tuxation are luxuries like liquor, to- bacco, soft drinks, candy, chewing gum, and a wide range of notions and frivolities which people can easily do without. The amusements of the people are a legitimate field for assessment, including theaters, baseball games, movies, all entertain- ments for private profit, country clubs, billiard rooms and bowling alleys, and all kinds of sporting events. : It is not a hardship to the peo- ple to have to cut down their ex- penses a little in these respects. It: of course means higher prices on all such diversions and luxuries. But if the people will but restrict them- selves a little, their expenses will be none the greater. War is serious business, and we must all expect our daily habits to be affected. Large in- comes must of course pay a heavy tax, and the people of wealth expect it. LSB 0-0. --§ It is bad enough to have to pay all these price advances, and still worse to have our inteligence insult- ed by all these reasons that they give not promoted so much for what few potatoes and beans the youngsters could raise on their little plots. was more to train the children in in- dustrious lease locomotives for use in drawing | them in processes of nature. vegetables are regarded with whole- to use vacant lots and back yards. If the schools everywhere would pro- could be made in the food supply. Speculators who are contriving to stocks stored away in a million cel- lars. with ways gives a youngster a thrill to do The school garden movement was It interest But, habits, and to Teachers are to secure permission note this movement, an increase yeat the last dollar out of the poor man, would reflect on all these little The school gardens will be planted boisterous enthusiasm. It al- something like his father. He will while he Another of those fellows who should be taken out in the back yard and introduced to the spade, is the college student who is planning to spend his summer at a resort hotel playing ball to amuse the guests. fra petngte-- Farm implements reported short. They can't be repaired in summer because everyone is too busy, nor in winter because they aren't needed then. The need of more freight trains which the Council of National De- fense has at last arranged to pro- vide for, has long been pointed out by Wandering Willie and Dusty Rhodes. It might be a good idea for some of these anti-submarine device in- ventors to sink one or two subma- rines first and talk to the reporters afterward. After thoroughly reading the base- ball news, many citizens will then turn to the front pages to read min- or items like revolutions in Russia and killing of men by the hundreds of thousands in France. feel like a grown man 18 It is still posible if you pay a digging his furrows and dropping in| pjoher price than girls can earn his seed. There will come a day| nywhere else, to get domestic when the weeds have grown very | gervants that don't know enough to % " Sie ve ay . J o « LC L. & tall. The teacher is rusticating at | he stenographers and aren't strong rural retreats. A boy's will is the enough to walk to their daily work. wind's will, and vacation days are ¢ HERE ' full of pressing engagements. The If some people's ideas of censor- swimming hole has to be visited | ship prevail, it will be every one's several times a day, and there are no end of birds nests to be inspected and back yard ball games to be played. Then there is the inap- propriate fact that the garden was not laid out in the shade. If this vital consideration had not been overlooked, it would have been much more practical for Tommy to weed his plot. Still the children's gardens have really raised a substantial amount of produce. Children are happier if they have some regular task. But their gardens will amount to a great deal more if some competent per- son is given the job of regularly supervising them. Father can well afford to pay something for real vegetables. | 8-0-0 A shortage is reported on all ma- terials and elements contributing to agricultural production, except talk. The astute youths who dodge registration for conscription are no doubt attracted by the idea of free board and conscription for the pail farms. Clean up day was carefully ob- served by many people by moving the ash barrel toa location where only the near neighbors can see it. It is surprising what an authority on gardening a person can become after reading a couple of columns of farm hints in the newspapers. So far Congress has not voted to grant pensions to those who are drafted but fail to pass on account of physical defects. Although a man may be aple to stand the glare of the sun all day on an automobile trip, it does not prove that his eyes wil not suffer if he goes to church and gets the light from those stained glass win- dows. A public desire is manifested' to hang the food speculators, but more suffering could probably be inflicted on them by forcing them into bank- ruptcy. Some of the dealers are skinning the eyes out of the potatoes also the eye teeth out of the customers. The people who thing it is going to be a short war and not much pre- paration is necessary, are the same ones who never mend a leaky roof until it rains. The fact that people can get all exhausted on a fishing trip and yet have a good time, does not prove that they can stand a little prespira- tion in the garden. p These long flowing whiskers that the farmer is pictured with don't look nearly so funny when he looks out at you from the seat of his new six-cylinder automobile. The food speculators feel that the establishment of minimum prices is necessary for the protection of the community, while maximum prices are a gross abuse of governmental power. Another lot of those people that have been biting granite, according to the cheerful German phrase, are the German spies that have been try- ing to bite it into the negro's head transit. for it. duty to keep mum and not commit the dastardly crime of showing how our military power can be strength- ened. If baseball has to be stopped on account of the war, our National in- dictment against Germany will be terrible indeed. The only chance of a revolution in Germany is in case the government should grant popular rights, in which case the people would certainly re- volt against any such proposition. Those young fellows who are leav- ing the farm to go to the cities won't be able to earn so much money, but they are cheered by the expectation that they can keep their cuffs clean. The German spies worming t way through all Russia are trying to prove that it is discourteous for our government, to send a commission to Petrograd. The men who are unable to enlis are always awfully disappointed tha they can't go. It will be much safer for some of the boys to enlist and go into the trenches than to take their chances with sporting life at home. 2 Want Ads Are Busy Worke OPTOMETRISTS 118 So. Dearborn St. -- Chicage| ( WINNETKA TRUST SAVINGS and CAPITAL $35,000.00 ; : FORMERLY BANK OF M. K. MEYER ESTABLISHED 1894 MONEY TO LOAN at 670 on Improved Real Estate. ACCOUNTS respectfully solicited 5 SAVINGS BANK COMMERCIAL e2l]| tli AAA telephone this rule H. B. Gates, AKE it a rule to answer the The observance of fit all subscribers. Chicago Telephone Company Telephone 9903 promptly. will bene- District Manager ni that he would better revolt. . ---