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a rrr __I TT WT mrp ree per ry ------ yr WINN YIN A "WEREKTY PAT IK ETKA WEEKLY TALK, Vine i A A 1010 ---- FRIDA ATLA Y, MA RCH 14, 1919 BJ Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by The Lake Shore Publishing Company 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, lll Business Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1921 Editorial Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1920 sannetka Oflice Telephone. . Winn. 3588 SUBSCRIPTION. ........ $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance Address all communications to Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilmette, 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, cards of thanks, obituary poetry, notices of entertainments 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 elass. under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919 The League A Political Issue It is prophesied, it is to be hoped without too great foundation in truth, that the question of the League of Nations will become a political issue between the two parties, a sit- uation which would be most deplor- abe. Whatever else it may or may aof be, the proposition of the forma- tion of the League of Nations is not suitable for a political issue. It is a question that must influence our whole future, whether it does or does not materialize into anything more than a theory. But it is a question that demands for its proper treatment the utmost information and intelli- gent judgment of the people who are to be concerned by it. A political issue has just one pur- pose and just one fate. It is used to confuse the voter, it is misrepresent- ed by both parties, the virtues filling the vision of those who are in favor, the deficiencies the only point of in- terest to the others. From neither side may one obtain a fair and im- partial explanaation of the principles involved, and the issue of acceptance . and rejection lies not in the inherent value of the question but the capacity - for organization and the oratorical ; powers of speakers of the two par- . ties. In the long run the right principle i is bound to triumph in a democracy, ; and in time the real meaning of a| : league of nations will be understood : by the people of the United States. : How soon that time comes will de- : pend upon how successful those who oppose it are in having it made a ! party issue. There is no time to think the | | t i { | | heart of the head of the War Depart- | ment to know just what are the con- ditions in the military posts of the country it would be entirely possible for him to find out by making un-| announced and unexpected visits to] the several camps. But a four-hour call, advertised days in advance, can scarcely be relied upon to reveal any- thing that it is desirable to cover up. Hyphenated Americanism It's a poor kind of patriotism that! seeks to inject into the American po- litical situation the element of en- dorsement of the principle of self- determination for Ireland. There was no exception in the condemna-| tion of the portion of American citizens who called themselves "Ger-| man-American" and sought by means, fair or foul, to give aid and | comfort to Germany, even before we | had surrendered our difficult position! upon the top of the fence. Before we were at war with Ger-| many there was no recognized differ- | ence between a German-American! and an Irish-American, or an Amer-| ican of any other foreign extraction, Americanism has little to do with the hyphen or the divided allegiance] which the hyphen signifies. The | Irish-American who seeks to involve the United States in the purely domestic troubles of England and Ireland is of a type which has no! real right to expect the protection of the Stars and Stripes or the respect of his fellow citizens who have forgotten the hyphen that once] they, too, possessed. | Freedom We are hearing a great deal about | freedom. The many instances of vio- | lence which are being recorded from | Europe are resultant from the desire for freedom that lives in those op-| pressed people of the troubled na- tions who have had no acquaintance with liberty and know not how to! use it now that they are able by force | of numbers to impose their will upon | 2 p PON | film, "The Master Mystery." their fellow countrymen who have in| the past occupied a position more fa- | vorable than theirs under the old| regime. It is scarcely to be expected that | these ignorant and downtrodden | members of society should be able to | distinguish between liberty and! license, between freedom and anarchy. They know nothing of self- restraint, having had their lives gov- erned for them by a force quite out-| side themselves. Time will be neces- sary for them to learn that there is no happiness or prosperity under a! lawless regime and for the more in- _ in the heat of a political campaign] telligent to discover that in order to » and the introduction of an important | he free they must submit themselves : priaciple of international relation- * ship to that uncertain test is a danger 'to the American nation that ought wot to be tolerated. Mr. Baker's Tour Secretary of War Baker began his . round of inspection of the military ; cantonments this week, Camp Custer . in Battle Creek being the first stop- + ping place. * This announced tour of inspection . has little significance so far as it may he expected to reveal anything wrong . with the stations in which the men . for the national army have been ! trained and are in large numbers yet 'in service, because there will be only s "the best foot foremost" conditions { to be found when the secretary ar- : rives as per schedule. © But the trip of inspection is signifi- : cant because it is so in accordance i with the policy that has directed all 1 aur military affairs during the period taf the war, exemplifying Mr. Baker's « determination not to see anything "that does not reflect credit upon his administration of the 'office of Sec- retary of 'War, and 'the persistent * optimism that makes him believe and § repeat whatever he is told by those iwho are-ititerested in covering up defects of 'any sort. We may look ifor a stdtement from Secretary I Baker relative to conditions in the icamps where the men are most im- t y bd . pi pulically awaiting their release from . ¥military control that will seek to screate the impression that the sol- ; diers are delighting in the leisure af- «forded by the cessation of the war *and prefer the discipline of camp life ito the freedom of civilian conditions. % If there were any desire in the * ' to restricting laws designed to pre-| serve the general good. That Hour Saved It is an ill wind that blows no good | and even the last few days of the life | of the sixty-fifth Congress resulted | in the continuation of the daylight! saving law, at least until a special session of the new Congress is called and taken to repeal the] act which got us out of bed an hour | earlier than our usual schedule and] saved for us an hour of daylight at | the end of the day. | Last summer we tried the experi- | ment of going a little back towards | the working hours of our grand-| fathers and found it good. Most peo-| measures ple, everybody in fact except the farming population, fully appreciat- ed legislation that gave them the ex- | tra recreation hour of daylight at | the end of the day. However, in| rural communities, where the early to bed and early to rise slogan has never gone out of vogue, the idea to the the clock ahead did not meet with popu-| of a law turn hands of larity, and it was this class of objec- tion that tween the established the bond be- agricultural appropriation bill and the repeal of the daylight saving act that attached to it as al rider. In ie. .gily, under the ce dustrial mplex in- system which governs our | fives, it is impossible daylight to adopt a chedule of unless | The| failure of the agricultural appropria- | tion bill by ensuring the continuance of the daylight saving plan will make the forward flight of time at least temporarily general and thus secure 1.1 saving every body else does so, too. beings like the men, they are moved | matinee and evening performance. | vehicle "Puppy Love," it is promised | will give some pointers on the latest EI I EE | KIDDIES TC PARTICIPATE Wallace Reid 'in "Alias Mike Moran" appears at the Hoyburn { theater, Evanston, on Friday. There {1s also a Burton Holmes Travelogue | gram. Saturday's leading feature will | Events and a Harold Lloyd Comedy one of the few benefits that attend- ed the war program, Just Citizens Analysts of the primary election returns in Chicago have arrived at the conclusion that the woman's vote | had no effect upon the results ex- cept to swell the number of votes | cast. If no women had voted the] proportion of ballots for the several | candidates would have remained' practically the same. ! Women have been citizens in Illi- nois since July, 1913, five years and more, and each election is looked to to prove that women are actuated by some different motive from men in their choice of candidates. Each elec- tion has shown just one thing by its woman's vote, has proved the one point that women ask to have recog- nized in their effort to secure the rights of citizenship--they are human by the same impulses, convinced by the . same arguments, they present about the same average of intelli- gence and principle. Women have no wish to be looked to as the saviors of mankind through the instrumentali- ty of the ballot. They simply ask for equal recognition as creatures pos- sessing the same qualifications as the men. And each time an election proves just this thing, men are a- mazed, raise their hands in surprise and horror that the woman's voice has not secured reform. It is as citizens that women ask to be recog- nized, not as super-citizens. EVERY DAY IS BIG DAY AT WILMETTE VILLAGE THEATER Dorothy Gish in "Boots", a picture about "Bolshevists," winds up the program at the Village theater this week. The film appears at Saturday Wallace Reid in "Alias Mike Mecran" will open the show house next week. He is on the Monday and Tuesday hill. An added attraction on Monday is the regular Pathe news while Tuesday's extra feature is another episode in Houdini's famous 7 2 7 ZZ TZ FT 7 F777 zzz dariirziriiriiddddadddd William Faversham, generally con- ceded the greatest emotional actor of the age, will be the star in "The Silver King" on Wednesday and Thursday. There will also be a Harold Lloyd Comedy entitled "Why Pick on Me?" ' 1 The feature presentation on Friday and Saturday is advertised as of especial interest to girls suffering the love malady. Lila Lee, with the approved methods of wooing. It is said to be a most unusual film. Io 2: IN HOYBURN FILM CONTEST and a Christie Comedy on the pro- be "Puppy Love" starring Lila Lee. There will be International Screen as added attractions. The program for next week prom- ises to be of unusual interest. On Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22, Burton Holmes will appear in| person to introduce a Prize Contest | among the school children of the] north shore, the first prize in which will be a motion picture record of the winner taken at his home. Ilsie Ferguson appears in "The Marriage Price" on Monday and Tuesday. June Elvidge Cummings; and Frank Mayo will star in "The Bluffer" at the Wednesday perform- ance. Houdini, in "The Master Mys- tery", will also be on the program. Dorothy Dalton will be the headliner on Thursday in "Extravagance. 8% Some Velocities grees, sound travels 1,090 feet in a| second and one additional foot a sec- additional degree of] Electricity over a wire | | When the temperature is 32 de-| ond for each temperature. where there is no resistance travels 192924 miles a second. DECORATING It is now time to have your House Cleaning done. If you are going to have PAINTING CALCIMINING OR PAPERING | done now or later, we will be pleased to give you an estimate. | W. A. 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