The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-20
WILL COOPERATE WITHsTATE
James j. Hoyt, w. L. Grosvenor, Clifford
j. Hackett, A. II. Lance, j. Fl. Lich-
tenberger, A. II. Quigley and III. M.
Vale Named on Committee.

A strong section of the membership
committee has been appointed to take
charge Of the campaign OF the Navy
League, in Kenosha. Those who have
been appointed to the committee are:
w. L. Grosvenor, Clifford j. Hackett
James J. Hoyt, A. H. Lance, j. Il.
Lictenberger, A. Fl. Quigley and FL.
M. Vale. They will help to represent
that organization Of their district in
the active, aggressive campaign which
il is carrying on in all parts of the
country in behalf Of adequate prepar-
edness against invasion and disaster.
They will cooperate with the mem
bers of the Navy League s state com
mittee for Wisconsin and will lend
their energetic and enthusiastic support
tic the work undertaken to consolidate
and organize the overwhelming senti-
ment of thinking people of that state
in behalf of measures of adequate pre-
paredness. A special letter has been
forwarded to the gentlemen appoint
ed by the Navy League, notifying
them Of their appointments.
The letters are signed by Colonel
Robert M. Thompson, president of the
League, and read as. follows:
Dear Sir
In accordance with the instruc- 50
tions of the Board of Directors,
of the Navy League, am hereby
appointing you member of the
membership committee of that
organization.
In the present days of interna-
tional strife and hysteria, we be-
lieve that it is one of the first
duties of every good citizen to
work with all his might to- insure d
the provision of such naval de-
fenses for this country as shall
render our country strong enough
to avoid being drawn into the
maelstrom of war, or shall render
it certain that no hostile army
shall ever set foot on our soil
should the worst come and our
nation be unavoidably drawn in
to the strife.
We believe that the best organic
ed and most potent of the forces
working for adequate national
defenses is the Navy League, and
therefore do not hesitate to urge
you as citizen and a patriot, to
lend us your fullest and most en-
thusiastic aid and cooperation in
our work to insure our country
absolutely against the possibility
of invasion by a foreign foe.
The secretary of the committee
to which you have been assigned,
will communicate with you shortly
in regard to the particular manner
in which your assistance will be
of most value May we not
count, upon you to the fullest ex-
tent in this great patriotic work?
(Signed) Robert M. Thompson.
Great interest is felt all over the
country in the Navy Leagues sensa-
tional campaign in behalf of adequate
national defense which has done so
much toward the awakening of the
American people to the danger of their
undefended condition.
The Navy League is not in any
sense a militarist organization. Since
its foundation more than fourteen
years ago it has been foremost in the
work for international peace. It's
president, General Horace Porter, was
twice delegate to the World IS Peace
Conference at the Hague, and in all
its actions and utterances the league
has worked for and advocated peace,
but until such time as the posi-
bility of war is reduced to much below
its present ratio it believes that it
would be just as unwise for the Unit
ed States to allow its navy to deteri-
crate as it would be for a householder
to allow his fire insurance policy to
lapse because he disapproved of fires
and hoped there would be no more