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& THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 18,1921 Children at the Bread Kitchens TELEPHONE COMPANY ASKS ANOTHER RATE INCREASE The Illinois Hell Telephone Com- pany has challenged the action of the city" of. Kankakee in asking for a re- duction of telephone rates before.the Illinois Public Utilities Commission. As a counter move, the telephone company has filed a petition with the Public Utilities Commission 'asking for. still another increase over the Tales now in effect. The company seeks to increase the individual busi- ness phone rate from.$5.25 per month to $7 and the individual residence phone rate from $2.75 to $3.25. On two-party business lines the com- pany wants the pi'cacnt rate of $4:50 increased to $6. On two-party resi- dence phones, it asks that the pres- ent rate of $2.25 be boosted to $2.75. On four-party residence phones, the company seeks a monthly increase of 25 cents. On extension telephones the company asks an increase of 25 cents for .both business and residence uses. ' RED CROSS HELPS MOTHERS CARE FOR CONVALESCENTS Thursday, at 2 o'clock, the Bureau â-  Three and u half million children In eastern and ci'iitrul Hurope wait, gaunt and pinched like these, at the American kitchens tor the hot soup and bread that mean life to them. In the winters since the Armistice. America has heen the mie friend that had food to give them. It is a common sight In I/iirope lodn.vMo we u child five or sis years old whose head has not healed. With u healthy well fed buhy the skull should close before two years. America must see tl»*»s«» children through the rigors of another winter, and to that end eight great relief organizations have combined into the European Relief Council. They seek to ruise $33,000,000 to'-save this generation of Europe from death by starvation und the diseases that come with under-feeding. PLIGHT OF EUROPE'S CHILDREN STAGGERS It Is utterly Impossible for one wk« has not actually seen the misery ol the early Autumn m Europe to v'.sual- lze what the children of the Eastern and Central portions of the continent face this winter. To say tha' 3.500,000 children have no alternative to starva- tion or death from disease except American aid, is startling, but independ- ent observers by the score and care- ful scientific surveys of the economic amd crop cond'tions overseas brand the figure as conservative. In Poland, tor Instance, v 1 ere l,.'?0Sf- 000 youngsters last year subsisted al- most entirely on the one free Ameri- can meal a day that they received, con- ditions as winter closes down, are worse than ever before. Tbe Bolshe- vik Invasion stripped large p trtlons of the country of all grain. Professor E. D. Durand. Food Advisor to th "Polish government, after an exhaustive survey, has reported that only forty per cent is available of the food neces- sary to carry the populatloi through the winter. In the city of Vienna tests conducted In the American Relief Administration food kitchens showed that 52 per cent of the children between the ages of 6 and 14 were "seriously under-nourish- ed." Thirty-three per cent were mark- edly under-nourished, 11 per cent were slightly subnormal and only 4 per cent approached the state of a normal American child. The Ameri »au Relief Administration la feeding 800,000 Austrian children every day now, and there Is no, chance of dlmunltion of neadbefore" nex ha rve tu The spectacle of the medical he*ds of Europeisâ€"childron~la equally ap- palling. Estimates reaching the Amer- ican Red Cross -r to needs *or medical aervice In the destitute areas this win- ter include : Old Arotrta-Hu' gary, 750, 000; new Po]a nd. 1,500,1 vO; Csecho- Slovakia, 200,000: Serbia. 150.000. and Roumania, 100.000. In the Iscal year of 1919-20 the Red Cross has reached with the veritable gift of life 1,500,000 children In the affected areas. Tuber- culosis is prevalent to a terrlfflc degree. P! vechlldren out ^f__geven \r the city ofTWarsawI' forinstanee. have been found to be tebercular. Typhus Is widespread prickets, the right hand of under-nourlshn ent Is almo> ♦ universal and cholera lifts Its grim head con stantly in one place and another The European Relief Council, com prising the American Relief Adminis- tration, the. American Red Cross, the American -Trlei ds' Service .Committee (Quakers), the .Tewlsh Joint Distribu- tion C mmlttee. the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In .A neri theKjoTgl LINCOLN HIGHWAYS __ SPEND $31,000,000 ON ROAD BUILDING â€"The- Lincoln Highway association has made the statement that a sum in excels of $31,000,000 has been ex- pended in the improvement of the Lincoln Highway since the inception of the route in 1913. This statement of fact is one well calculated to in- spire serious thought on the'part of every individual. It is directly indi- cative of the tremendous advance in the promotion of the great idea of the Lincoln Highway, as "a continuous, connecting from the Atlantic to the Pacific." That the building of highways along the lines of greatest efficiency is pub- licly approved is well indicated, not only by the tremendous expenditures made upon the Lincoln Highway in the past seven years but by the vol-. untary action of the voting public at the polls in approving bond issues for the building of permanent roads. To those who have followed the devel- opment of the good roads cause for the past ten years, it is a never-end- ing source ijljwo-tidetuii&rLtUhat-a sum aggregating the huge total of $1250.- 000,000 is available for highway build- ing in the United States in the im- mediate future. Significant, indeed, in this connection is the amount made available in the territory covered by the Lincoln Highway State bond issu- es of 1918, 1919 and 1920, covering seven of the eleven Lincoln Highway states added a total of $186.800,(X)6. The individual counties in eight of the eleven Lincoln"Highway^ states, voted an additional ^87,683,398 in 1920. of Nutrition service of the Red Cross is holding a class in* their rooms at 58 East Washington street, Chicago, for the benefit of the women who have convalescing soldiers in their homes While the men are in the hospitals, they are under the care of trained nurses and dietitians, but after they return to their homes the work is often undone because without assist- ance it is difficult to carry out the physicians orders a* to the proper diet and method of preparation/With this service in mind the class is being held. M =X!cIumhusv -the-*; the Y. W. C. A., seeks $33,- 22C C, A i,000 with which to meet the Situa- tion. It has estimated that at least 128,000.000 must he had for food and $10,000,000 fo. medical service to avert absolute dlsastei pmotT the threa ened children, Chocks may-he sent "to your aocal-c^Hwi^t4ee-of^o-Ft^inmD,fLJLane7 Kmi/nani I iropcm Relief Council, 42 Broadway, New York, or te the Child Feeding Fund, Uteury Digest, New York City. . This total, discounting payments for actual improvements of the past two years, which, as' far as the total is concerned, are relatively small, made available for the Lincoln Highway territory the sum of $174.%U98. This development, in the appropriat- ing of funds for the construction of highways, has.been exceedingly rap- id. It may be that funds are not available at this time at points where they are most jjeeded. An equaliz- ation of this condition must be assur- ed. We arc optimistic enough to be- lieve that a proper equalization will be Worked out.. Highway building is a business tak- ing front rank in the_ United States today. Arr efficient expenditure of the huge funds available is impera- tive. Serious consideration of this subject falls upon every citizen The opportunity" ts given to the territory through which the Lincoln Hmlnvay-TiinTTo make a colossal in- vestment for the public good. To this ffTtTt, the Lineoln Highw.1 v, more than ever before, today^should serve as an example of progressive road-build- ing, Tt has been called "An Object Lesson Road.", Let it be used such. -----:â€" A letter of congratulation has beerr receivecL-by-F. W^Gatbraithr, "JrTTNa- tional Commander .of the American Legion, from the French War Veter- ans Society of America, in reference to the Legion head's determined stand against the efforts of German propagandists to drive a wedge be- tween this country and France. "To a campaign of systematic calumny you made the only kind of reply which it was fitting to make the •poilus* approve it and thank you." the letter states. The Indiana state senate passed a resolution commend- ing the Legion's fight against the Boehe-campaign. Essay contests on the subjects of Lincoln's Gettysburg address and the application of Washington's Fare- well Address to present-day condi- tions in America were held in Spo- kane, Wash., high schools by Spo- kane Post of the American Legion, which rewarded the- winners with prizes. Painting and Paperhanging Call WILMETTE 796-J H. J. MIL L E R 818 Prairie Avenue Special Sale of Spring Suits and Dresses BUYS CHESTNUT AVE. HOME Henry A. Berger, 1012 Linden ave- nue, has purchased the residence at 819'Chestnut avenue, built by James Crabb for Herman- Schuman. Miss A. King, realty operator, closed the deal on Monday of thtsweekrâ€"- POPULAR EMPORIUM 0 William Parks, confectioner at Ridge and Lake avenues* is attract- ing attention, particularly amung his schoolhouse patronage, with an un- usually effective window display of tempting -Easterâ€" season-da ratios. In 1919 it was estimated that the total expenditure on tobacco in Kng- laninwas^tSl, 169,000 pounds. Three million every minute. matches are used GEORGE STUMP TENOR Teacher of Singing Assistant to Frantz Proschowtky 718 Fin* Arts Bldg. CHICAGO ____ Taloohonoi Harrison 4031 CULTIVATING! MADE EASY Bevington Carlton â€" Machinery Co. â€" 549 Washington Chicago, 111. '///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////A I Dr. Charles E. Geisse Osteopathi Physician â-  \ 1150 Wilmette Ave. Phone Wil. 2052 amaaBBBansa ^^ ^ ^>^ ^n SCHAEFER Wants You to Call Him foi^ 1 merican boy American magazine /lTLANTIC MONTHLY WIL. 969-W FRANKLIN Sale's and Service The car everyone would like to own Gage Motor Sales Co. Phone 5700 1639 Orrington Ave., Evanston \1 N. STATE- WHOLESALE DRESS MATERIAL SHOP 1420 Stevens Bldg. . Extend to every woman in this com* munity an invitation to participate in buying material for Suits, Wraps, Dresses ar Skirts at exactly whole- sale price. 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Polish Serbian, Siberian, Chihe.se: Bohemian' Magyar, Finnish, Danish TTJrran;aru an, Bulgarian and r.^rrn a4^: Most Chinese pagodas are buitFof bnck while those of Japan, because ot earthquakes, are made of wood Envelopes f We are offering an excellent grade of white-wove enve= lopes, standard business size, with your return ad- dress printed iiv- the corner. 5000 *fc5fr 10.75 Lake Shore Publishing Co. "Firinters U22 Central Avenue, Wilmette Phone Wihnette 1921 Automobile WM. T.WEHRSTEDT, Proprietor ESTABLISHED 1909 Phone Win. 165 562 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka