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iS#P!tlIl ;^mff$: W?0^'?,i**:'..P" •:'!^\':^^$f':'\l '.&•-â- "A*."5! ;:".<K '&k Nearly Everybody In Wilmette Reads The Lake Shore Newt VOL. VII, NO. K- WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1920 % fFAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS KIN OF SOLDIERS W% TO GET MEMORIALS French Government Awards Memor- ial Diplomas to Relatives of Dead American Soldiers LEGION PLANS PROGRAM To Have Big Ceremony en Waahing- - ton's Birthday When Memorials ' • Will be Presented â-  ~" >; French memorial diplomas will be presented to the nearest of kin of dead soldiers at a ceremony to be held on Washington's birthday at the Byron G. Stolp auditorium. The memorials have been sent to America by the French goverment and will be presented under the auspices of the American legion. The program is now being arranged and every member of the local post of the Wilmette Post of the American legion is urged to be present on the occa- sion says announcement from the local post. The legion members are asked to be present to pay tribute to their dead comrades and are urgied to wear the uniform of the United States. This use of the uniform by discharged soldiers has been auth- orized by Congress. To Hear General Wood Sunday eveninc-. February 15, when Maior-Oeneml Leonard J. Wood sneaks in Wilmette at a meeting of the Sunday evening club, the legion members will turn out as a bodv in honor of the distinguished visitor. The Sun da v evening club has set aside a block of seats for the use of mem- bers of the post, and the men have been tirjred to assemble at the church .not latpr than 7:15 o'clock. $1 Leirion Trices Action ]:c At the last meeting of the Wilmctt'- American lecrion which was held Fridayv eveninar, February 6^*Some • routine matters were discussed and action was taken noon several mat- ters presented at the previous meet- ing. A committee was appointed to investigate a cnmnlnint presented bv a resident of Wilmette to the headquarters of Mie legion. Not A N-Vklc Chih The Not a. Nickle club is in full swine- and the committee was auth- orized to pur^has^ a thousand but- tons and to enlist that many members in the campaign against extrava- gance. ..rt'C. N. U. ALUMNI TO HOLD BIG MEETING North Shore Alumni Invited To At- tend D'nn'r and Meeting at Ev- ans ton Country Club on Tues- ":#â- :â- â- : â-  â- -.?.- <^«y Evening .,,.,,... ORGANIZE FOR CAMPAIGN North Shore is First District to Or- ganize for Campaign for Protect- ive Endowment Fund Members of a'l branches of the Northwestern Universitv Alumni from Rvanston to Lake Forest will be the guests of the Alumni of the Associated Collection of Libera! Arts at the Evanston Country club next Tnesdav. Februarv 17, at a din- ner followed by a meeting. The pur- nose of the Catherine is to organize the north shore district for the r-am- oaiVn for the $4,000,000 of the Pro- tective EndoAvment fund which is the first of a lfl-year oroerram for a $25.000000 fund, the income of the $4.000000 to be devoted to the salaries of the teaching staff. Reverend Georcre Craig Stewart, nastor of the St. Luke's Eoisconal chureh of Evanston. will nreside. W. A. Dvche. chairman of the North- western University camoaiVn com- mittee will sneak. There will also be several brief talks. Music will be given bv the University Glee club. About 400 guests are expected to be present amon<r them represent- atives of various Evanston orcnniTR- tions. renresentatives of the faculty and student bod}' and prominent Ev>nstonians. The north shore district wi'1 be the first to organize in a nation-wide camnaign. Other districts will begin to organize in the near future,;; - Thieve* also Enter Greiner Home But Are Freiirfctener! Aw«v Without Taking Valuable* f ----------- GEN. LEONARD WOOD TO SPEAK AT SUNDAY CLUB Possible Presidential Candidate Will Use "Americanization" as Subject Sunday Evening Major General Lenoard Wood will be the speaker at the Wilmette Sun- day Evening club Sunday. He will speak on "Americanization". There is a wide interest in General Wood's eominfr to Wilmette. as he has never sooken here before. But those who have heard him in other vicinities will no doubt agree that he is a powerful speaker, with a message which is appropriate at the present time in America. The fact that he is at this time one of the leading presidential candidates makes his coming of even greater interest. The Wilmette post of the American Legion has been invited to be present at the meeting, and that the men may sit in a body a block of seats will be reserved for them until 7:30 o'clock. The audience which heard Dr. W. A. Evans of *he Chicago Tribune, speak last Sunday evening on "Influ- enza" heard one of the most splendid "addresses of the season, according to those who were present. INDOOR GAME MONDAY; WILMETTE VS. GLENCOE Wilmette A. C. will meet Glencoe Monday evening at the Central school gym in an indoor game. The two teams are old rivals and as Glencoe will present a strone line- up a good battle is assured all who care to come. Smith will perform on the mound for the locals and Art Braun behind the plate while the visitors have not announced their battery as yet. RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. John Ketter. Ridge avenue and Central street, Gross Point, re- turned Wednesday from the St. Francis hospital where she had been taken about two weeks ago suffering: from pneumonia. She is improving rapidly. $150 ANO PRIVATE STOCK ^-$, "'* TAKEN ^^M^m^W^i, One hundred and fifty dollars and â- * conn'p of cases r>* h»»pr -»"*>"e t^ken frnm f^p home of M'|V T,iVino-s + r>n. ?15 Wnodli'ii" nvenup 1->st ^turdav "â- â€¢orninsr at 3:30 o'clock when two robbers entered the house. One of fie robbers pointed his revolver at Mrs. T.ivintrs*on. acking her where fhe thi'T's coidd be found He followed dirertvons and took the money from Mr. Livingston's pocket- book and tli'Mi made his way to the basement where he found the Living- ton private stock. Upon leaving the house the robbers entered a machine which w^s wait- ing for thefri With two other men who were in the automobile they rode awav. N"o trace of them has been found. Fobbers also entered the home of T. B. Greiner. 631 Lake avenue Satur- day mornine about five o'clock. Mrs. Greiner. hearing a noise supnosed her husband haH ar'sen e»rlv. She went ;n+o the hall where she s*w a licrht. Relieving someone had left the light burning all nierht she turned it off. The robbers heard somebody moviner around unstairs and nuicklv left the house taking with them Mr. Greiner's overcoat. In their haste thev went without taking a large ouantitv of silverware and a s"k coat, the latter belonging to Mrs. Greiner. WILMETTE WILL HAVE , JUNIOR BASEBALL NINE S»W1 Johfnrt, of Ohir. SeT**:-nrO Fame. WW Pil~» Str*~* Wil- , mette Boy«* T»»»m During Coming: Year Wilmette will have a *>ovV base- ball team this season of which it can justly be oroud as it will con- sist of the best junior talent in the village and piloted by a pood author- ity on the national fame. Sam Johnson, of Washincton ave- nue, who played semi^pm ball for several years in Ohio w'H manage the amateur nine. A1' of rh* olayers on the team have held positions with school teams in the past several years. An effort will be made to enter the team in the Bovs' League of Chicago. The club will give a dance soon after Easter to buy eauipment. Ar- rangements for the place and time to be announced next week. WOMAN'S CLUB APPROVES r UNIVERSAL TRAINING BILL Resolution Made at Meeting Wed- nesday Will Be Sent to Rep- resentative in Washington Following an address made by Dr. George Francis James, educational secretary of the Military Training Camp association, <on the Bills now pending before Congress regarding Universal Military training, on Wed- nesday afternoon the Wilmette Woman's club voted to send a reso- lution to their representative at Washington favoring the passage of a bill for Universal Military training. Dr. James was the director of the educational work of our boys during their training in the camps, and fol- lowing the signing of the Armistice he continued the same sort of work in France. An interesting report of the Con- stitutional Convention now being held in Sprinfield, presented by Mrs. Shelby M. Singleton, resulted in ac- tion taken by the club to send a resolution ta Amos Miller of Kenil- worth asking that accumulative and minority voting be done away with. Madame Milady Cerny Janovsky, now a resident of the Village, who has played before the Prince of Wales, and other royalty, augmented the program with two delightful piano selections. COMMERCIAL ASS'N OPPOSES PLAN TO ABOLISH MACES Resolution Denouncing Plan Introduced at Consti- tutional Convention by Amos Miller of Kenil- worth, Delegate From This District, Will Be Sent to All Commercial and Busi-.;v^^"}.^;^ Clubs in the State SABBATH GOLF PLAYERS TARGET OF REV. LLOYD 'Sunday Morning At the First Tee' Enthusiasts Are Urged To Hear Congregational Minister Views on Topic "We think it is clever to be devil- ish, and stupid to be good," says Wil- lard Price in the World Outlook. "As a matter of fact, it is just the other way around. It was not stupidity that has made goodness of a Glad- stone, a Queen Victoria, a Florence The New Trier Commercial asso- ciation has gone on record as being opposed to the proposed action of the Constitutional Convention to abolish Justice courts. At a meeting in the Library hall at Wilmette Wednes- day night a resolution was passed expressing the disapproval of the association and a copy of the resolu- tion will be sent to all of the com- mercial clubs in the state and to Amos Miller of Kenilworth, who is the delegate from this district to the Constitutional Convention. The resolution follows : The Resolution Whereas, Amos Miller, one of the delegates to the Constitutional Con- vention of the Seventh district in which we live, has introduced a pro- posal in said convention providing Cook county. We reaffirm our ad-S::f$ herance to the principle of local self-^" government for all municipal com- " munities desiring it. ?*;; Resolved further, that we favor'â- ';'£â- ., building up and improving the just-i£&. ice court system, the poor man's 'y court, because of their efficiency, availability and substantial justice, % without the necessity of hiring law- â- '*â-  yers (except in important cases) and without any expense to the taxpay- £ ers. We believe that justice courts, hear and dispose of seventy percent of all the cases of the people with- out any expense to the tax payen'C : While the higher "courts of Cook - county alone cost $3,200,000 a year taking in $1,200,000. leaving a deficit i; of direct cost to the taxpayers of $2,000,000 a year to hear and dispose for the unification of all the courts of the other thirty per cent of the of this state under the head, "Control I cases ";.','. " ? ---- ;, v. ' t----- rr; lie it resolved tnat ine i\ew irier Nightingale, an Abraham Lin coin* It ^omincrciab^^at^n ..representing ness in weaving the strands of life into something strong and beauti- ful. And two-thirds of the evil springs from self-neglect, relaxation, ignoranceâ€"stupidity in weaving the strands. It was Josh Billings who said; 'Most of the wickedness in this world is the result of weakness, not of a genius for deviltry.'------Goody- goodness and hypocrisy we do not consider here. They are both weak. But genuine goodness is as strong as steel, quick as electricity, warm as sunshine, and is shot through with the wisdom of the Infinite." There is nothing particularly devilish about playing golf on Sun- day but Rev. Stephen A. Lloyd says that itâ€" well, you had better hear for yourself what he says at the First Congregational church. Sunday morn- ing at 11 o'clock. His subject is "Sunday Morning at the First Tee." "FLU" SITUATION SHOWS SATISFACTORY IMPROVEMENT Dr. Moore Reports Only Twelve Cases in Several Days and No Deaths Have Resulted VISIT IN DETROIT Mr. George Roemer and his sister, Miss Gertrude Roemer. left vester- day for Detroit where they will spend a couple of weeks visiting with Influenza in Wilmette has taken a turn for the better, according to a report from Dr. F. E. Moore, com- missioner of health. "There have not been over tv.elyc cases in the last several days," said Dr. Moore, "and no deaths have re- sulted." Most of the patients who are vic- tims of the disease are being cared for in the Evanston hospital. OUR "MIKE" IS HOVERING BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH Frwin Weber, better known as "Mike", editor of The Lake Shore News is in an exceedingly dangerous condition at the Evanston hospital. Last week he was off his desk with what was thought to be a bad cold. He tried to fight it orf it developed Friday that he had a severe case of influenza. Saturday he was taken to the .Evanston hospital and Sunday it was reported that pneumonia had set in "No improvement" was the con- tinued report from Dr. Roome until yesterday morning when a slight improvement was reported. Mr. Weber's brother arid sister are here from Milwaukee. SMALL FIRE SUNDAY The Wilmette Fire department was called to Gross Point Sunday after- noon to extinguish a small blaze in the roof of the home of Joseph Bleser, Glenview road. Small dam- age resulted from the fire which was caused by a burning chimney. and management of Supreme Courts the judges, sheriffs and clerks of the Circuit Court should be appointed by •or on the recommendation of the Supreme Court and the District judges, constables and clerks, to be appointed by the circuit court and doing away with all justices and police courts; and Whereas, this proposal is support- ed and indorsed by Hiram T. Gilbert, the American Judicature Society, the Chicago Daily* Tribune, The Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Motor club and other propogandists ; therefore Be it resolved that The New Trier -«_*« â€"»&n • representing i£™ctreS^}W£#R^^ ness and professional men of Wil- mette, Kenilworth, Gross Point, Win- netka and Glencoe, is unalterably op- posed to doing away with the just- ice courts and to any plan of appoint- ing judges. We indignantly refuse to give up the rights to elect our own judges, justices and other officers and to govern ourselves. We resolve further that we unalter- ably oppose the proposition to con- solidate all of the local government of Cook county and refuse to con- sider coming into Chicago or to come into the jurisdiction of the proposed Metropolitan courts of Chicago and N. T. C. A. DOES NOT FAVOR NEW FEDERAL COMMISSION Report of Dr. L. C. Ayres Shows Work of Illinois Highway Com- mission Preferable ate with it in its work. Dr. Ayres cited the action of the Chicago association of commerce in refusing to back the Federal commis- sion. "There is nothing to be gain- ed," he said, "as a Federal commis- sion would only complicate matters and interefere with the work of our own Illinois association. The Feder- al association would only make a lot of political jobs. Last year the Illi- nois commission let contracts dor eighteen million dollars worth of hard roads but only four million dol- lars worth was completed because of the lack of labor." A resolution was passed that the request of the Federal commission be refused. Dr. Ayres was extended a vote of thanks for his report. Herbert Sherer, township highway commissioner, told of the work ac- complished during the past year. By following the plan of personal super- vision a great deal more work has been accomplished than ever before. With the,help of an advisory board Mr. Sherer has made a definite plan to be followed. All roads will be the uniform width of sixty-six feet and ditches have been dug accordingly. A complete report of Mr. Sherer's work will be published next week. Resolved finally, that ' we request the secretary to send a copy of this resolution to all commercial and ... â- ;'.â- )â-  â- >;-.> business men's associations of the . i" state and request them to take siini- liar action, Also to send a copy to v - each of the delegates of the Consti-. V tutional Convention. '-",'^:--^^ Boyer Takes Stand Judge John R Boyer of Evanston, ^ ' :t;f';^ president of the Cook county Just- 'f!tiM0$. ice of Peace and Police Magistrate, ;"S:||j^*f association, made a strong appeal to \r$i^st the members to voice their disap- % SiSIS ,pEoy.||^fe^h«s«|»^^^g£«rf..t-he Just- â- â- ';::' :4i,-: i^AiGtm^ip^hi^mc^^tjusiit^ of ^.r:;'v^i,; W^^im??*;h :s*af ri â-  Jtttfger-Rttyli"r; '*'*h^,'A*r**S^ap'~ At the meeting of the New Trier Commercial association Wednesday night at the Library hall, Wilmette, Dr. L. C. Ayres of Glenview made a report on request of the Federal Highway commission to have a com- d f - h Th â„¢tt!SlrTSihl"'0"tat,0nC0-°Per" nuinicUl cow?, are not a been in existence since 1682. It was brought over here from the English people. Tt seems rather funny that after all ihese years it should sud- denly be discovered that Justices of the Peace, Police Magistrates and Constables are dammed raskels." " I can't see why Amos Miller wants to abolish the system unless there is some motive back of his ac- tion. Franklin Childs, another ard- ent opposer, recently represented the Chicago Motor club. I have tried lots of speeders whom Childs de- fended, but I have never fined one but what I could look him in the eye and tell him that I thought that I was right. When we stop to think that there were over 400 deaths in Cook county last year caused by speeders we must realize that it is a very serious matter and must be dealt with in a1 serious way. Would Avoid Politics "If we were to abolish the justice system and have instead district judges, these judges would owe their soul and body to the power which had appointed them. Would that be putting justice into politics or not? The justice of the peace is the only mm' BASKETBALL TILT Wilmette A. C Basketball team will play Winnetka Sunday after- noon at the Winnetka Community House. A fast game is expected as both teams are strong. poor man's court. He is not even allow- ed to plead his case but must be rep- resented by an attorney. Where would the business man be who had to hire an attorney to collect a $10 bill? ",;. J. P. Not a Grafter WfgZ "Last year the justices were al- lowed to advance their fees one dol- lar and the constables were allowed a fifty cent increase for their serv- ices. This is the first increase in years. During the last five years the cost of living: has increased by leaps and bounds yet because we are granted one dollar for handling a case we are grafters. Is it fair? i Not Talking For Himself W "I am not talking for myself, for my time is limited, but I am talking for those who are to follow me. I believe that the justice courts are the only place where a poor man can right the wrongs which he suffers. I am interested in the welifare of the people of the future as well as today. "I know there are many men who are justiceswho are not fit to hold the job. But is it right to condemn the whole for the faults of the few, A bad justice of the peace can easily be eliminated by the proper use of the ballot. A justice cannot have friends everywhere. Jesus Christ had ene- mies who hung him to the cross." Judge Falk and Leo Dean also spoke favoring the justices and the resolution was passed without a dis- senting vote.