The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-21
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1915.
Please Mr.. Santa Claus.

Wouldn It it be great if the tax pay
rrs of Kenosha could have childish
faith in Santa Claus and sit down and
write him long letter and say,
''Please Mr.. Santa Claus, / am good
little boy and I want so many things
for next year. / know that your pack
is not big enough to bring them all,
but I want you to go just as far as
you can to fill up the stocking Of Ke-
nosha. / am going to hang it out at
the City Hall and it is going to be a
good stocking with no holes in the toe
or the heel for things to leak out of. -
Then we could go ahead and tell Old
Santa lot Of things that Kenosha
wants for next year. We want the con
ductors put back on the street cars;
we want Main street repaved; we want
iitney buses regulated; we want the
City Hall redecorated; we want streets
paved; we want sewers and lights in
the rapidly growing subdivisions OF
the city so that people investing money
in homes may have the assurance that
their investments are in real homes and
homes with comforts and conveniences;
we want the assurance that the right
kind of men are going to be elected to
office; that some time during the com
ing year Santa Claus is going to give
Kenosha a real Getty plan" which is
going TO regulate the things that are
asked for in the next Christmas letter;
we want play grounds for happy chill
dren; we want proper protection of
their health by better housing and bet
ter chances to fight contagious diseas.
es; yes we want so many things that
Santa Claus would be tired reading the
letter.
Then in a post script we want to say
Sand please Mr.. Santa Claus, don It
forget all the good things that we have
been doing in other years. While we
want lot for ourselves, we want you
also to remember lot of people who
are poor and hungry We want you
to think of the heart-hungry in Keno
sha, We want every little girl to have
neglected children to be able to pull
little red wagon after you make your
trip from the North Pole and turn the
RENDERS back to the north again And
If you can not do all these things, we
want to be helpful. We want to make
Santa Clauses out of ourselves and
supplement your work so that misery
and want will be forgotten in the
bright glow of Christmas cheer in Ke-
nosha. -
Wouldn It that be a great letter, and
do you reckon that any real Santa
Claus would refuse to send at least
something Of an answer?
Of course no municipal stocking is
big enough to hold all the gifts that
Kcnosha as a city wants, but it is big
enough to hold a start on them and
other Christmasses are coming and if
the work is started this year maybe in
some no distant future the municipal
Christmas tree will blossom with all
the good things asked for.
Every one of us is going to play
Santa Claus to the city when we go
over to the City Hall and gather about
CHE Christmas tree in the city treasur-
9r's Office. Of course some of the gifts
Sare going to be delayed in transmission
and it is going to be along in March
before they are delivered, but if the
Santa Clauses making these gifts just
knew what they were going to bring
this sort of a full stocking for Kenosha
every one of them would have Christ
mas card on them wishing the city all
the joy that the little or big contribu-
tion could bring.