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\ é WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1921 ! TOOTH BRUSH DRILLS URGED FOR SCHOOLS Statistics Show One in Sixteen Has a Toothbrush; Show Health Re- quisite Probably the average individual be- lieves that the habit of cleaning the teeth is a universal performance among civilized people. However, a recent statement read in a journal gave the information that according to estimates given out by dealers in tooth brushes. only one person in six- teen, or about 6 per cent of the popu- lation of the United States possessed a brush. Many persons use several tooth brushes and doubtless many brushes have been sold that are not used with much regularity, so that the percentage of our population using tooth brushes daily with effectiveness is surprisingly low. As decay of the enamel of the teeth is much more prevalent during the growth of the child than later, it is important that children be taught early in life the value of clean teeth. Tooth brush drills in the schools are an important feature and splendid results have been attained in many communities in this way. Inquiry shows that many persons brush their teeth before breakfast only. This seems very absurd, for the teeth are clean for probably a period of five minutes out of twenty-four hours. Then breakfast is eaten and particles of food remain around the teeth during the entire day and night. The logical times to brush teeth are after breakfast and just before retir- ing. 4 he teeth are then clean all morning and afl night. The best times to brush teeth, hiwever, are after each meal and just before retir- -ing. It is a good habit to have two or more brushes so that a stiff brush will be available whenever needed. Some people give as an excuse for not brushing teeth that tooth brushes themselves are not clean. There may be some truth in that statement but as vet we have not seen anything that will accomplish the purpose as well as a brush. Many people have great faith in the efficacy of some particular den- trifice or special style or shape of brush, but after all the most import- ant feature of cleaning the teeth is a frequent, regular and diligent appli- cation of a stiff brush. A sum of $221,000, raised during the war for the Michigan Patriotic Fund, will soon be turned over to the wel- fare committee of the Michigan De- partment of the American Legion, ac- cording to Guy M. Wilson, Depart- ment Commander. The money will be used for welfare work among ex- service men. Cupid spends a reasonable amount of his time loafing about the club- rooms of the American Legion post at West Warren, Mass., for marriage is subsidized in that organization. The post has voted to present $25 to every member who gets married. The offer is retroactive to the date of organ- jzation of the post; consequently seven of the members will receive the gift. Bulletins containing the names of i Virginia's draft dodgers will be sent to all posts of the American Legion as soon as they are made public by the | War Department. Posts of that state will receive instructions from Depart- ment Headquarters to co-operate with the constituted authorities in the slacker round-up. A Phone Call and 30c Places a three-line ad Cleaning /ashian jJros. 1145 Greenleaf Avenue, Wilmette | Telephone Wilmette 1200 SAVINGS BANK FACTS More Than Eleven Million Ameri- cans Keep Their Savings at Work. By EDGAR TAYLOR WHEELOCK. (Copyright, 1921, American Press League.) There are in the United States--or were on June 30, 1919--1,719 savings banks, stock and mutual. This does not take into account the 5,715 post offices which receive savings deposits. On the date mentioned there were on deposit in the savings banks $5,902,- 577,000, belonging to 11,434,881 indi- vidual depositors. The amount of money on deposit in the postal savings department at the same time was $167,323,260, making a grand total of $6,009,900,260 as the savings of the people of the United States, not counting the Liberty and Victory bonds, and these savings were all in- creasing because they were earning in- terest. Again: THESE SAVINGS WERE EARNING INTEREST. The Money of the American People. This money was the property of men, women and children who had put it at work. They did not believe in permitting money to be idle, to loaf and earn nothing. Savings bank deposits are not de- signed to be permanent investments; they are merely temporary deposits intended to grow through their own earnings and by new, periodical de- posits, until they attain sufficient vol- ume to make a more profitable invest- ment possible, or until an emergency arises which makes it necessary to withdraw them. Meanwhile-- THEY ARE AT WORK AND ARE EARNING MONEY. The Class That Saves Nothing. Here is an interesting point: More than eleven, million Americans are making their savings work for them. In addition there are other millions who have savings invested in sound industrial securities, in real estate, farm lands, homes, or business enter prises that are productive. Then there are other Americans who save nothing, who spend their earnings as fast as they receive them ana who openly revile those who save. These are the radicals who curse "Capital- ism" and "Capitalists," because they have wasted their capital foolishly. If they did not waste their earnings they wasted the time they should have de- voted to earning money. To which class do you wish to be- : PD) 2 (Cm SCENE WITH OTIS SKINNER in KISMET 806 DAVIS STREET, EVANSTON - Monday -- Tuesday --Wednesday -- Thursday APRIL 11, 12, 13 and 14 CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE long? 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