The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-14
HEAR CALL TO DEFINITE WORK
Members Of Club Urged to Take Up
Definite Lines of Work for Improve
ment of Conditions in Kenosha and
to Care for Nations Business.
(By Otis L. Trenary.)

(By OtIS II. 1PendFy.)
| An unusual meeting even for the XII
wants Club was held at the Hotel May
wood yesterday. Special President
Ralph S. Kingsley had been hustling
for several days to complete arrange
nerts fos this meeting with the result
that half hundred smiling, contented
business men, even in these times of
stress, sat down to splendid dinner
and carried out their program of un-
usual interest.
The attendance prize, a beautiful
electric lamp, was donated by Charles
Rockwell, the Elizabeth street fixture
man, and was won by Thomas Temple,
the Main street shoe dealer.
President Ernst appointed for the
next special president, Frank L. Sulli-
van, the Rowland avenue shoe mer-
chant.
| The orator Of the day was Walter T..
Marlatt, editor of the Evening News.
Mr.. Marlatt told the club that when
he asked President Kingsley on what
he was to speak he was told, con any
thing you please, nothing definite. =
This gave him cue, and he named his
talk Nothing Definite
Definite aim is the only thing that
accomplishes anything said the
speaker, fand I am hopeful that with
the United States taking part in the
world war there is going to be a
definite aim It is admitted by the
experts that up to the present time our
allies, and say our allies advisedly,
have been scattering their shot. The
drive that is being made now along the
western front would indicate that some
body has had a definite aim
Definite aim doesn It relate only
to war. just at the present time every
man in this country has definite duty
/ to perform. The future is going to
produce that definite duty. We can It
all shoulder guns and go to war. Some
Of us have wives, children, and parents
that have got to be taken care of. The
man needn't be allied a Stacker be-
cause he says he isn't fitted to fight.
We are not all fitted to fight.
"There is going to be something
definite to do. Just at the present
time most men ere busy doing other
peoples business-other people IS bust
ness coupled with their own business.
Other peoples business, as it stands
now is everybody's business, and YOU
and | are as interested as everyone
else.
We have to raise in the city Of
Kenosha $4,000 for the support Of the
American Red Cross. 1t seems that
the amount is very large when YOU
take the number of calls that have
| been made. The city of Kenosha has
subscribed for 100000 worth of the
Liberty Loan Bonds; that is, $4,000
more than was originally apportioned
to the city Of Kenosha. But the fed
eral reserve bank has now said to the
city of Kenosha, Gentlemen. we be-
live that your quota should be $780,
000.
'sThe city of Kenosha will have the
horor OF st.nding at the very head of
the United States by having subscribed
for a greater proportion of the Liberty
Loan Bond than any other citv of its
size IN the nation. It is matter of
which we may well be proud. True.
money IS not always the best form Of
patriotism, but it is a mighty useful
form Of patriotism.
"There is need of definite aim in the
city of Kenosha. It seems to me that
/ you have some definite aim or idea
| Of helpfulness In this club, and If YOU
can get that definite idea of helpful
ness installed into the city of Kenosha,
! you will have accomplished something.
The trouble is, we are scattering our
shot. The Kiwanis Club is laboring
for an extension of trade. The CITY
council wants a new system of trans
portation, and if we can get to one
definite aim,' we are going to do
something worth while.
tsToday we are struggling along here,
a city of $4,000 people, with what lot
of US think is the worst supply Of gas
that is to be found in the state. It
may be that there are excellent reasons.
| The trouble with Kenosha is that it is
being tackled on as the tail end of a
half dozen public utilities. Most peo-
| pie know what the tail end Of any main
system IS.
"Our telephone service is inadequate
Our gas supply is inadequate, and it is
making our wives and children SICK
Why don t we make definite aim TO
improve that one thing irsts Quit
scattering and take a shot at ONE tar.
! get. Then go at the other. One &C.