The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-29
FUND COMMITTEE IS NAMED
County Council Of Defense Selects A. H.
Lance to Head Commute for Investi-
CATION and Disbursement of Fund
Dentists and Merchants 10000.

Watch the clock on Market Squarei
It has been repaired to declare to the
minute the. progress which the Patriots
Fund is making in Kenosha. Today
the pointers, for there are two now,
showed that the first day Of the cam
paign had resulted in 1000 pledges to
the fund for total of more than
$4,000. Subscriptions are pouring in
to the general Office Of the campaign
by the hundreds each hour and every
evening the status of the campaign will
be posted as early as possible upon the
clock thermometer in Market Square,
Everywhere the committee is meet
ing with almost unanimous and instan-
taneous response to the appeal to sign
for the Half Hour Week. to help
the boys in khaki. Factory employees
are showing their patriotism by the
hundreds. In one department of the
Nash Motors Company, employing
more than two hundred men, every
member of the department was ready
and eager to get his name on the right
side of the ledger. One hundred per
cent patriotism is the rule and even
momentary hesitation is receiving the
severest condemnation from fellow
workmen. Among the notable sub
scriptions to the fund on the opening
day was that of the members of the
Kenosha Retail Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation who in their meeting Monday
signed pledge for eighty members for
total of $1,000 for the fund. An
other organization which have shown
themselves one hundred per cent
patriotic is the Kenosha County
Dental Association, who to man,
subscribed to the fund.
Announcement was made this morn
ing by the chairman of the general
committee, Richard f. Kaiser, of the
men who had been appointed by the
County Council of Defense as the in
vestigation and disbursement commit
tee of the Patriots Fund. A. H..
Lance is named as chairman of the
committee with the following as mem
bers: Adam Berger, DR.. ]. FL. Cieary,
Rev. F. R. Czerwinski, Richard Dowse,
Adolph Epstein, Joseph Funck, Charles
Huber, Clark S. Judd, Adolph Meier,
Emil Mueller, Chas. III. Pfennig, Judge
G. E. Randall, John P. Spartz and
Arthur Wallace. The pers incl of the
committee assures that the money will
be expended with utmost care and that
absolute justice will be used in appor-
tioning it among the various funds
Interest in the campaign centerod
this afternoon in the meeting Of the
entire county committee at the court
room in the county building at one
O'Clock. The members responded in
almost every instant by attending the
meeting and by their enthusiasm
prophesied. the success of the campaign
in every part of Kenosha county. 1t
is not probable that the campaign will
be completed this week as originally
planned, but the response with which
it has been inaugurated shows that its
success is no longer in doubt.
Late in the afternoon the commit
tee members stated that the applica-
tions were coming in even faster than
they had been expected. Indications
were that by six o'clock there would
be at least five thousand subscriptions
for total of more than 100000.
Wednesday at eleven-thirty the whistles
of every factory in the city will blow
to advise the employees that they
are beginning to fulfill their con-
tract to send help and comfort to the
boys in khaki.