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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, JAKUARY 8, ttlf. THE LAKE SHORE NEWS 1ri i i . II m â€"- PUBLISHED fVtRY FRIDAY AT WILMETTE, ILL. Ohms* Hooin «» wwi 11SS Wllmetto Avenue. â-¼* I *•*»%*.*•* 1ft4A t. a .Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR Entered •« MCMMMtaM m»U»r March }S, KM. •* the postofflce at Wilmett*. Illinois. unUfr the act of Much J. 1879. Addrm all cotnmunlcatlona to TIM Lake Shore New*, Wllmette. Anonymous communications wIU not bo noticed. Ue- jectod manuscripts will not bo returned onles* aeeorapantea by poataso. All mat- tar far publication In the current Week's issue should reach our oBJca not later than Wednesday noon.- ~, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, M15. O.VB SOLUTION. The temperance forces of this coon- try, together with individual experts on prohibition, have been endeavoring. lo these many years, to devise some plan whereby the sale of intoxicating liquor In theso United States may be abolished. One plan after another has been tested only to be discarded as Impracticable. The latest concerted effort (the attempted passage of the Sboppard-Hobson resolution), While It gave the temperance workers ample ground for rejoicing, failed to secure the two-thirds majority necessary for Us passage. It is more or less con- ceded that "constitutional amend- ment" Is not the solution to this an- noying question and that each state must settle It for herself. Now comes forward our versatile secretary of state, Mr. Bryan, a man equally at home on a suffrage, prohi- bition, Chautauqua or free-silver plat- form, and, with just two simple words, solves this vexatious problem which has Jelled solution for years. It is al- most inconceivable to the mind of the average layman that a man whose time is so largely engrossed in plan- ning his next summer's itinerary and tho almost dally denials of his resig- nation, could find the time to give this minor question a thought. But find it he did, and, after glancing casually over the voluminous data, ho has elec- trified the world by voicing as his shrewd deductions that "total absti- nence" is the solution of this irritating crux. According to Mr. Bryan, all that is necessary to stamp out this ter- rible evil is for every individual living In this country to abstain totally from its use. He has simply applied the old law of supply and demand. How very simple it is when we come to think of it and bow very foolish and ridiculous the temperance leaders must feel when they think of the time they have needlessly wasted In an ef- fort to work out a problem which Mr. Bryan has been able to solve in the twinkling of an eye. Now that Mr. Bryan has so skillful- ly disposed of this aueation, for which the American people, collectively and Individually, should be extremely grateful, no one should be heartless enough to thwart him If he wishes, to resign for the purpose of repairing his political fences before the next presi- dential election, as has been so un- kindly Insinuated. It is with absolute confidence that we predict that every Individual living in this country will henceforth consider himself a com- mittee of one to assist Mr. Bryan in demonstrating the practicability of his sagaciously Intelligent solution. * $ « -"" SAVIXQ AT THE HPWOT. Isn't it a strange sort of business to .spend $20,000,000 in the year to fight tuberculosis and then to make as little effort as we do to make it count for as much as it might? We pay public health officials to look after tubercu- losis conditions. We subscribe, much or little, as the case may be, to anti-tuber- culosis crusades and we help to create -public funds for the vanousTeOef or- * ' gjatlitlsns snrt rnll inmiitiii TTm ntiriU wtillft fhnnTilrnrpri Ttt itrmn" science free to go our happy way, rid- ing in dirty public conveyances, climb- ing on and alighting from street cars whose steps are freely used by those who must expectorate thereon if they the British war news censor's office. are to ride in comfort We make lit- TjsV#-*^WP|*.~W»jW^W* aFww* *^W' ^^^ ^^"ggjajeja^owss^^"* in public buildings. We may even be contributing to some of these condi- tions ourselves, thoughtlessly, perhaps, but continuously. The spendthrift who wastes his sub- stance in riotous living, everybody condemns. But fee, at least has what he thinks Is a good time while he does it and has tho memory of tho gaiety to console him In the time when the reckoning comes, flow much more blameworthy and stupid Is the man who calmly works to defeat the very object for which he pays. . -£#* â-  . .* ' ' ;-jPV JK. Mt, ft- â-  • ramâ€"follow up.- There are few people who have not received In the last fortnight one or more calendars for the present year. It is quite a popular form of advertis- ing in the eyes of business men. It Is sn opportunity to send holiday greet- ing to a large number of people at a minimum expense, and everybody needs some other means of reckoning the date than the dally paper. Many of these little advertising re- membrances bear inscriptions of good cheer, good hope. They come carry- ing wishes for a long and prosper- ous life, for a glad and happy New Year, all those Joys which we desire for our friends at least once a year. - Wo have wondered how different a -place the world would be if .every one who has sent out these well-wishing calendars would do bis utmost to make those wishes true. Happiness, of courae, comes from the inside. It is impossible to create it In a personality inimical to Its character. But. given tho possibility of happiness, it is .dis- couraged or fostered largely by outside Influences. . •________ . That being true, each one who has thought enough of his friends or his patrons to address to them cards or calendars of well-wishing may, if he tries, help In many ways to bring those wishes to a realisation. * * $ FATE FIGHTS FOR THEM. Respect for-tho three R's has mate- rially Increased, at least in outward appearance. Whereas, a generation ago it was no unusual thing to run across men and women of consider- able ability, who were unable to read the printed page or to affix their names to a legal document, now, it seems, the majority of men who rep- resent the people of America in the national law making body, believe firm- ly in the spiritual value of a mastery of the reading art. One arrives at thl* conclusion from the final vote of the senate on tho im- migration bill with the literacy tost clause to distinguish It There are few who doubt the wis- dom of restricting somewhat the tide of immigration into the United States. They are fewer still who believe that an ability to read has anything what- ever to do with the character or any place In a test .of fitness for future citizenship in the country. As it happens the events of the fu- ture are likely to bear out the wisdom of the senate in their action, for one of the results of the European war is almost certain to be wide immigration from the war-cursed regions of. Eu- rope to America, and those who come to us will be not the dregs of the pop- ulation, but the substantial peasantry and email business men, whose all be- ing lost commands a fresh start These will be able to stand the literacy test. They will also make good cit- izens, and the fates will have again played into the hands of our Demo- cratic administration, as in the .case of making possible s wsr tax to cover a deficit which would surely have had to be met by some extraordinary means. •K * * Queer, isn't it, that French and Eng- lish bombs always wound or kill Dor- soldiers, or damage Zeppelin The Largest Body of Unused and Neglected Land in the Untied States r Is in Alaska, IS IN GREAT DESERT aviators strike only civilians, women and children, and damage only cathe- drals, art galleries and libraries! What a lot of detail work there must be in With the great nations of Europe vasting their Wealth and their re- sources with free-handed disregard, and this country being forced to de- pend more and more upon Its own cap- ital, agricultural and mineral re- saurces, the question of our undevel- oped stores takes on an interest such as it never before has had. In this connection the National Geographic Society has prepared a statement which says: "In addition to the wonderful agri- cultural and mineral development which already has taken place In the United States, and which makes this country outrank any other in the world in the value or her crops and the product of her mines, we have vast undeveloped resources. We have more coal, more petroleum, more phosphate, and more copper than any other coun- try. Our coal reserves reach such an overwhelming total as to make the combined coal reserves of the next six greatest producing nationsâ€"all of whom are at wurâ€"dwindle into insig- nificance. Zinc, lead, silver, timber, salt, iron ore and other staples of com- merce are hero in undeveloped abund- ance. , Alaska Is the greatest of our unexpioited treasure troves. Alaska. Not Developed.----------- "The largest body of unused and neglected land In the United States Is Alaska. It is» now nearly a century «ince we purchased this territory, and it contains today less than 40,000 white inhabitants, less than 1,000 tor each year it has been In our posses- sion. The purchase was made as a means of protection against possible aggression of a foreign nation and without hope that it would be even self-supporting. In the intervening forty-six years we have given It little more than the most casual concern; yet its mines, fisheries, and furs alone have added to our wealth the grand sum of $500,000,000. Individual for- tunes have been made In that country logger than the price paid to Russia fePthe whole territory. "Its waters are teeming rich with skins and fish, how rich we know, because they have been proved. But, how rich its lands arc in gold and copper, coal and oil, Iron and zinc, no one knows. Tho prospector has gone far enough, however, to tell us that no other section of our land today makes so rich a mineral promise. And in agriculture the government Itself ha? demonstrated that Alaska will produce hi abundance all that can. he railed In tho Scandinavian countries (Sitka has cooler summers and warmer win- ters than Washington, D. C), the hardy cereals and vegetables, the meats and the berries off which 9.000,000 people live in Norway, Sweden and Finland. It has been estimated that there *re 50,000,000 acres of this land that »vill make homes for a pooplo as sturdy as those of New England. Alaska can he made self-sustaining agriculturally. "It Is a territory one-fifth the size of tho United States containing less than 1.000 miles of anything that can be called a wagon road. It has a few Inconsiderable stretches of railroad, which terminate cither initio wilder- ness or at a private industry. Others Besides Alaska. '•Alaska does not by any meaua i otn- prise all of our undeveloped resources. Vast stretches of the Great American Desert still remain to be reclaimed for fruit, grain, vegetable and grazing land. Millions of acres of coal lands are In store ready to be opened as the need for thulr richness arisen. South- western oil Molds are storing vast quantities or petroleum for future use. Innumerable water powers throughout the Middle West and West are waiting to be harnessed. Our vast deposits of phosphate rock, embracing millions of acres and containing billions of tons of phosphate, undoubtedly form the vorid's greatest supply. These de- posits run for hundreds of miles through Wyoming, Utah, Montana and Idaho. In 1910 the United States pro- duced 50 per cent of the world's phos- phate output. "A discovery of a depoblt uf potash within the United States was made some time ago, though little bus been done in the way of its development. The Department of the Interior has ex- pressed the hope that this supply would for some time, at least, rmke the farmers of this country inde- pendent of foreign sources. It lies. However, still undeveloped. Germany, up to now, has had a world monopoly of potash." William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, Sends Out Information for Travelers. BE CAREFUL, IS ADVICE If any NOfth Shore pooplo are plan- ning on trips to Europe la tho near fu- ture, they should be careful regarding their passports. Since tho war began several foreigners have been found in possession of passports belonging to American citizens. One person, who aft- er his arrest was found to be a German spy, paid the penalty when ho was hanged la tho old and historic Tower bf London. To prevent mishaps to American citizens Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan has sent no- tices to all the county clerks of the country, giving information which all who are planning on visiting belliger- ent countries should know. The Notice. The following !â-  the notice received by the county clerk of Cook county: "All American citizens who go abroad should carry American pass- ports, and should Inquire of diplomatic or consular officers of the countries which they expect to visit concerning the necessity of having the passports visaed therefor. visits. lapartkularltlaadvJaabliftr iHtrsons who go to belligerent o» tries as representatives of commercial concerns to carry lotto* of httaua, cation or Introduction from such con- corns. "American citlsens sojourning la countries which are at war are warned to refrain from any conduct or utter- ances which might be considered of- tensive or contrary to tho principles cf strict neutrality. W. J, BUYAN. : "Department of State, "Washington, Nov. 17. 1914. "Note.â€"An application for a pai port must bo accompanied by duplIcate unmounted photographs of the ap " cant, not larger than 3x3 Inches slie, one affixed to tho back of the ap- plication by the clerk of court before whom it is executed, with an Impres- sion or tho seal or the court; the other to bo affixed to the passport or the de- partment.'* -^ntiM trTAW, E BANK «? â- * ) F5? MMIMMMIMMIMIMM Real Estate News j iMMtMtlMII»MI<MM» Wlnnetka, lot 16, block 4, Dec. SO (revenue stamp, |4) -C. T. Crane to F. H. Tristrom..... .9 Winnetka, Grave's sub., part lot 5, Doe. 11 (revenuo stamp, $6) â€"8. M. Coble to Q Lindahl.. Wllmette, McBaniers' add., lot 1, block 1, Jan. 2 (revenue stamp, S3; Incumbrance, $1,- 800)â€"W. J. Relter to J. B. An- derson, ot al................. County Clerk's div„ Clark's sub., lot 14, Nov. 25â€"G. F. Qonsalves to L. O. Snow..... Evanston, McDanlels' add., lots 1 to 5, block 1, and other prop- erty, Dec. 5 (revenue stamp, S?)â€"a B. Allen to H. Geschke 2.500 10 4,500 10 ni. to 5 p. its. JF > »*^6 a. in. to 1 p. m. on Saturday. Says Men Are Alt Alike. In the Woman's Home Companion appeared the story of a coquette In which the coquette gives the following advice Jo her cousin: "Don't make the "American Tcitfeens are advisedflotl*W mistake thousands of women avoid visiting unnecessarily countries which are at war, and particularly to avoid, if possible, passing through or from a belligerent country to a coun- try which Is at war therewith. "It is especially important that nat- uralized American citizens refrain from visiting their countries of origin and countries which are at war there- with. Object of Visit Must Bo Known. "As belligerent countries are accus- tomed, for self-protection, to scrutinise carefully aliens who enter their terri- tories, American citizens who And it necessary to visit such countries should, as a matter of precaution and In order to avoid detention, provide themselves with letters or other docu- ments, â-  addition to their passports, shnwln#deflnitoly the objects of their make. Don't! Every womsn thinks her husband is different But, trust a worldly woman, my dear, of much ex- perience, men are all atlke. They tire of what they know is entirely their own. The thing a man should never lose sight Is that his wife Is attractive to other men as well as to himself." At the end of Forty-Eight Hours. "Papa certainly didn't manage this European trip very well. He-said we'd be in Rome two days, but he made a mistake and it's threeâ€"end now we've seen everything and there's absolutely nothing to do for a whole day."â€"Lipplncott's. Equally Unprofitable. Nursing a grouch is pretty much like- lugging a sprinkling can to water a Canada thistle. SBSSSMBSSMBSSSSSSSSSBSBMBSa 3% Interest Paid on Savings AIN 1 tU Fv-JK. t\CiN I WILM1 KENILWORT WINNETKA We daily are recti locate oft UBI GLEl RAVIN! ND PARK . •â-  - uiries from parties deslrir hore, so list your homes ow at any of our BRANCH OFFICES a; Wllmette: 0f&&&M« Winnetki: u*8V$tStifr GLENCOE: Opp. C. ft N. W. Depot, Tel. Glencoe Id McGUIRE & ORR CHICAGO 74 W. WASHINGTON STREET TELS. RANDOLPH 2981-2-3 mi 4 J5mnMMHKmnT4nMHBRRSBBffiSSHSMK_ .....â- â-  t - ^ttatf to was Thsm-Qo?- Patlenceâ€""I see a London railroad station has been equipped with penny- lh-tho-Blot machines for the sale ot tickets to persons who wish to accom pany friends to the train platforms." Patrice-t-*Thafs too cheap i know Td g1yo_moro_Asn^_os*nyLla-naa some of my friends leave tho town." iixiam S. Lord â- â- â€¢â- â€¢>;;; Remnants of All Yard Goods At One-Half Former Pric Fruit of the Loom or Lonsdale Muslin 9c Lonsdale Cambric, Nainsook Finish, 1 idle Soiled and Seconds of Towels and Table Linens at a Saving of 50 per cent. All Muslins and Kitchen Helps Reduced 10 per cent