The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-26
THURSDAY, JULY 2e, 1917
Keep Business Going.

In few days the federal govern
ucnt is coming to Kenosha to get '1en
20 advance the cause o'e democracy.
They are going to be taken away ever
into France and Belgium to take thcir
place alongside with brave men who
have been fighting for years in the
same cause Maybe a little tardy in
getting into the battle line but they are
going with an American spirit to do
and to die if necessary. Some may con-
slider it an impersonal battle but their
individual ideas do not weigh against
the demand Of the federal government.
These men are going into training
camps that they may become soldiers
in righteous cause. They are going
to fight and tc fight to win.
The newest and the biggest problem
that is to be solved in the home towns,
and it is problem particularly perth
nent to Kenosha, is how the thinned
ranks here at home are to be filed up
and business kept going. War can not
be carried on without fighting men and
(! fighting men can not be kept at the
front without business going on. A ma
ton witt a disorganized business sys-
tenn is IL no position to keep an army
in the field.
For every training camp fer the sol
diers there should be training camp
for civilians. The ranks left in the ar
my Of men who work must be recruited.
1t may be necessary to draft men for
these ranks the same as for the khaki
ranks of the army.
The man who is too old, and the boy
who is too young to fight may be able
to work. He may be able to contribute
more as worker than as fighter.
Kenosha has no time for idle BOYS
or idle men, The men who are going
to fight are men between the ages of
q and 30. They are, in many eases, the
prime men in the army of the indus.
tries. Their place must be taken and as
they step out to doff the overalls and
don the khaki there should be some man
sending in line waiting to take their
T'@ro in the line The problem of the
bo7 and the young man becomes a
more serious one than ever before. These
boys must come in and do their part
toward keeping business going. The
call is not one to serfdom but one to
an army which is better paid than any
army that ever fought on battle field
IIt offers chance for shoulder straps of
honor in doing things which are going
to make the great problem of the ma.
1 ton easier of solution It offers ia
them a chance to make their hves-be
they young or old-count in a time
when the nation insists that every blood
drop means something in the battle for
democracy. 1t means the changing over
OF established customs. 1t means the
elimination of the idea that some boys
must play until they attain their ma.
( Jority It means a return to the ideas
of the forefathers when boys were ex,
pected to 60 to work when they reached
that age where the work of their hands
and brains was worth while.
The industrial life holds out much ia
the boy and the young man. 1t offers
employment for hand and brain. II
offers this employment at profitable
wage. There may have been a time
when the young man feared loss OF
dignity by working with his hands but
the wonderful advancement of indus
trial life has dignified every man and
boy connected with it. The road which
leads to the factory gates is the broad
est opening for a career 1t does not
demand the college education to gain an
entrance. What it demands is willing
sness to serve and there is no field OF
flabor in which willingness to serve and
capacity to do is winning richer re
ward. The demand for fighting men is
acute but the demand for working mer
is just as acute, Industries Of Kenoshs
and other great factory centers must
not be crippled on account of the fact
that men are called to fight the ma
stion s battles on European battle fields
The yeoman service calls strongly tt
young men to leave the path of idle
ness and take the path Of productive
industry. DON t tell your boy that hi
doesn't have to work, but get it into
his head that the patriotic thing fol
him to do is to work The taking Of
half a million men may not wrecl
the industries of the nation but it vii
cripple them. To prevent them being
crippled other men and boys must bC
ready to work.
III an army can be trained to fighl
in three months, boy can be trained
to work in the same length of time
Dc it now. Put yourself in line to joir
the army Of men who work It is your
patriotic duty now and it is opening
to you an avenue for continued ant
for profitable usefulness in the future