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4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK H : by The Lake Shore Publishing Company 223 Central Ave., Wilmette, IIL ... Wilmette 1921 .. Wilmette 1920 Winn. 388 Busifess Telephone . Editorial Telephone .. Winnetka Office Telephone . SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 A YEAR Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilmette, 111. 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. BE red in the postoffice at Winnetka, iinet, as mail matter of the second class, under the act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919 Trades Robbery and murder are likely soon to be counted among the safest of professions if there is not a halt called to the practice of those pur- suits in some more certain way than that which brought death to the man who attempted to acquire the funds of the Wilmette State Bank. That that affair turned out in the fortunate : way that it did, rather than in the death of the bank cashier or police- man Hoth who secured the man, is merely due to a fortunate chance. When bullets fly as they flew that day in Wilmette it is only accident who is struck, the odds being equal in marksmanship. Inadequate punishment of crimin- als who do fall into the hands of the authorities, the ease with which transgressors are able to elude their pursuers, the long process of our legal systems, the many chances for escaping the payment of the wages of sin, all these contribute to the at- | tractiveness of the life of easy] money and excitement and fill the newspapers with stories of crime and death. Safe While Business Stands Still It seems to be entirely too much to expect the business of thz ratification of the treaty and the disposition of the League of Nations to be con- ducted upon a basis of reasonableness and mutual confidence between the two branches of the federal govern- ment. It appears that the executive must needs treat the men of the | congress as little children whose function it is to be seen .and not heard, and that the members of the legislative branch should proceed to justify that course by behaving not unlike children, and very naughty ones at that, The United States is the only coun- try involved in the war that has had nothing to hide as to motive and previous agrzements. We have avow- ed our purpose to be simply to help to secure a condition that does not hold the seeds of war and to develop a new democracy in the old world as well as in the new. Our part in the conference at Paris, insofar as our own affairs are concerned, is entirely in accord with the high principles that we put forth when we went into the fight. Never has there been a time when frankness, coolness, and co-operation were more necessary than now. Busi- ness stands still and reconstruction is delayed while the two branches of the government indulge in a game of tug-o'-war for the purpose of show- ing just how obstinate each can be when it tries. It is the public that pays for the delay that is entailed, that same public that has become the scapegoat in every difficult situation that has arisen. | | The Fight Against Prohibition The foundation of the American form of government is the principle that the majority should rule in any contested question. Hence it is the very root and core of our system of government that is being attacked with vigor and persistence by those who are seeking to find a way out of the enforcement of the prohibition * amendment, Few laws are made with the una- nimity with which the prohibition | conditions should be righted. | gravated, still talking of the time amendment became a law. It was) carried with many votes to spare in both houses of Congress. The votes were cast by men who were elected by the whole people of the United States, including the soldier vote, for the election which determined the personnel of the Sixty-fifth con- gress was held before any American soldiers were transported abroad. . There is considerably more than half the territory of the United States which was "dry" territory be- fore the application of the war-time prohibition measure, dry by the will of the majority of the people who live in it, either by local option in small units or by state law. Obviously the condition that has been introduced by the prohibition measure that be- came effective July first is in ac- cordance with the will of the ma- pority of the people of the nation. The amendment has followed a normal course. It has come to suc- cess after a long and arduous period of work. It has resulted from a con- sistent program of public education. Its ratification by the several state legislatures was startling by the spontaneity with which the action was taken and the record time in which it was put through, as well as by reason of the overwhelming ma- jority which accepted it. No law has ever been written into the basic code of the United States with a clearer indication of its being the will of the people who should be governed by it. The fight for prohibition has been a fair one. The fight against it has nothing to offer by way of recommendation, or even of excuse. Reconstruction An Individual Affair Six months ago when the idea of the war's end was new to the Am- erican people there was a general disposition to look beyond the days of the session of the peace conference | to the time of reconstruction and re- adjustment that was to follow when the evils that had grown out of war Today we are still looking far ahead to the period of re-adjustment and reconstruction, still enduring those same evils, unchanged except in such cases as they have been ag- when we shall arrive at a normal basis of life ,even if a different normal | from that upon which we were wont to live hefore the world went to pieces with the assassination of an | archduke in whom very few people had the remotest interest. Now it is beginning to dawn upon our consciousness that the changes that are to be wrought by the war are to be individual rather than na- tional. We are beginning to see that reconstruction must begin in our own lives, that it is our own standards that must be revised to suit the con- dition, not the conditions changed to make the resumption of life upon the old standards possible. A Desirable Change The pourboire is going out of vogue in Paris where the waiters are demanding a certain share of the re- ceipts in lieu of the uncertain in- come from the fees of patrons. The tipping system is entirely con- trary to the new system of democra- cy that has been developed by the war. It presupposes an acknowledg- ed difference of social status between the patron and the one who serves. It requires a measure of servility in the employe that is beginning to rub against the grain since men of every walk of life have rubbed elbows and lived under the conditions of war that bring out the real person under the veneer of manners, or under the rough and uncouth exterior, as the case may be. i America has inherited the tipping system from the countries of Europe. America has developed it as it never would have developed across the sea, for it is only the American who takes the means of the too generous tips to impress his superior social status upon the general public, only in Am- erica that the giver of the larger fee receives that fulness of attention that the obsequious waiter returns. Everything has been, or is in pro- cess of being, reorganized since the war. It is as good a time as any to do away with the tipping system, and to distribute the payment of the derful musical comedy success, will wage of those who serve over all who Brady's masterpiece, "Stolen Orders." Saturday's feature attraction is William S. Hart in his latest film, "Wagon Tracks." "The Woman Thou Gavest Me," film version of Hall Caine's famous novel of that title, will soon be shown at the Hoyburn. SUBSCRIBE NOW are served, to put the employe upon the wage basis to the immense benefit of his self respect, and thus secure equality of service for all. Willar SERVICE STATION STARTING, LIGHTING, BATTERY FOR EVERY MODEL OF MOTOR CAR More or Less Some folks think the more care a car owner gives his battery, the more service it will render. The recent war with Germany brought into prominence many indus- tries that heretofore, though of vast proportions, were more or less fam- iliar only to those directly interested in them or their products. One of these industries was that of storage battery manufacture. Storage bat- teries were used by the United States army and navy in a vast number of important situations and many of the most telling instruments of modern warfare on both land and sea could not have been operated so depend- ably and efficient had not the storage battery been developed to its present WASHING MACHINES iis SIMPLEX IRONERS VACUUM CLEANERS OHIO, HOOVER, SWEEPER VACUUM Demonstrations in s'ore every da ) y a9 Others say, "The less you bother with it, the better." Both are partly right and partly wrong. high state of perfection. ; Boils Mr. Otto of the Evanston "Exide" We can show you some Service station, in dilating upon the 3 : , At 1 r progress made in storage battery and things that will make you manufacture during the last quarter i Eattery serve better and last century, remarked "that the import- i 'onger. At least drive around ance of the battery in warfare, large Sterilizes 3 : i : as it is, is small compared to its and let's get acquainted. necessity to industrial life. As an instance of the detailed attention given to this product," said he, "The Electric Storage Battery company, the largest manufacturer of storage batteries in the world, is today mak- ing a starting and lighting battery that is designed and manufactured in enough varying models to parfectly suit the demands of every type of automobile. In other words, the en- gineers back of this battery have =F Y . . \ < studied the automobile not as an ab- LECTRIC SHOP stract proposition but in the minutest { . 2 J detail and have evolved certain bat-|1104-1106 Davis St' Evauston, Illinoi teries to successfully meet the spe- Phone Evanston-2230 cific conditions of each automobile manufactured in this country today. Thirty years ago the manufacture of any really practical storage battery was scoffed at by electrical engin- cers. Less than a decade ago the ap- plication of self-starting and lighting to the automobile was nothing more than a dream of a few optimists. Taking those facts into consideration and then glancing at this chart here on my wall, which shows the lengthy list of battery types demanded by the automobile industry of today, we have pretty convincing evidence of the rapid strides made in storage battery practice." J Evanston Battery Station 1648-1650 Maple Ave., Cor Church St. Phone Evanston 4445 BATTERIES ECHARGED EPAIRED ENTED ENEWED SUBSCRIBE NOW Easy Vacuum Washer with Gas Burner Easy Payments Phone for demonstration SE TE TR TTT D° MESTIC TTR TT ERVICE UREAU IN HOME SERVICE House Cleaners EVERYTHING General DIENER REEL EER EE fn Decorating, Rug Cleaning, Disinfecting, Exterminating We remove coloring from Tubs, Bowls and Toilets Expert Cleaners, Dyers and Repairers of Fancy and Plain Footwear. The only home shoe cleaning service on the North Shore. We call and deliver anywhere. Valet service. Try our service and know the best 1015 CENTRAL ST. TT EEE RE RT ETH TT OH! BOY," MUSICAL COMEDY, AT HOYBURN PHONE EVANSTON 6998 nin mn Hn. "Upstairs and Down," with Olive nin Thomas appearing in the role of the "Baby Vamp," is billed for the Hoy- burn theater, Evanston, for Friday of this week. There will also be a Bur- ton Holmes Travelogue and a Chris- | tie Comedy. Saturday's attractien | will be Vivian Martin in, "Louisiana." | There will be other features. | "Oh! Boy," Joseph Santley's won- | 72 7 777 2 Lad ddd Fad dl zdririziiidiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid LLL S NORTH SHORE RUBBER CO. NOT INCORPORATED be offered in film version at the Hoy- | burn theater on Monday and Tues- | day of next week. The film has June Caprice and Creighton Hale in the stellar roles. Stuart Holmes and Ellen Cassidy Auto Tires and Tubes Repaired PHONE EVANSTON 2037 1620 MAPLE AVE. EVANSTON, ILL. ILS ITTLLL SEAL IIIS LS SISSIES SSA SALSA ASS AI HY 4 appear in "Choosing a Wife," on | ; Wednesday, August 6. There will al- | J. O. HAYES, Proprietor so be an episode of "The Carter! oo WA Ba FP Ze 2 ZT 2 La did Zr zeazzzdizziziziiiiiiidiii Case," a serial. 3 On Thursday and Friday, August 7 and 8, will be seen William A. 0YBUR "EXIDE" Ii&inae BATTERY LIGHTING bon webs ts JAR 315 Devs 1. Evensing --the battery that by hard ,sturdy, powerful and Matiness 2 and 6 Evenings 7 & 11 persistant service in motor cars all over the Friday August 1 , country has earned itself the title of "the Giant OLIVE THOMAS that Lives in a Box." The "EXIDE" Battery is a giant of the most de- in "Upstairs and Down" pendable sort. Every ounce of it represents strength and endurance--every detail of its con- i struction has been proved right in many years of practical performance. It was designed and is manufactured by the largest maker of Storage batteries in the world. Saturday August 2 ViyiaN MARTIN NEXT WEEK Mon. and Tues., August 4 and 5 June Caprice and Put an "Exide" Giant's power behind your start- ing and lighting system and have done with Creighton Hale ir iw sm ||| EVANSTON "EXIDE" BATTERY SERVICE INCORPORATED Stuart Holmes and | Ellen Cassidy in| "Choosing A Wife" and - "The Carter Case" | Evanston 118 | 1007 LOOK FOR [= Davis St. THIS SIGN | "EX, Thurs. and Fri., August 7 and 8 Wm. A. Brady's Masterpiece . ( "STOLEN ORDERS" vr