The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-11
APPEAL TO CIVIC LOYALTY
President z. G. Simmons, George w.
Bruce and Prof. P. H. Boynton Make
Appeal for Support of Nation at
War - New Directors Elected.

The second annual meeting of the
Kenosha Chamber of Commerce held
at the Elks Club on Tuesday evening
was one of the most notable express
sions of the patriotism of the business
men Of Kenosha ever held. Tt is just
possible that in the zeal of the speak
ers to show their patriotism and to
appeal for the common call of the ma
| tion for support that some of the real
| technical points of the charter provi-
sions for the annual meeting may have
been overlooked, but men who attended
| it went home better Americans and
better citizens with determine
ton to realize the needs of the nation
at war and meet them.
President e. G.. Simmons presided
| and he inserted into the meeting some
of the pep which seems to follow along
behind him. He made a plea to the
business men to support the nation. He
presented the cause of the Liberty
Loan in speech bristling with patrio-
tism. "Kenosha county should double
her quota in her subscription for the
Liberty Loan" he declared. "We
must get it 1nder our skins that there
is reap demand for us to make this
war personal proposition. We must
buy Liberty Loan bonds, not only with
our lash, but with our credit. The
| laboring man and the man who en-
poys him must stand together in our
common cause and both must realize
his privilege and his responsibility.
| The hundred and seventy thousand
acres Of Kenosha county farm lands
must give their full share toward the
| financing of the war. At rneagre ten
dollars an acre three-quarters of what
has been asked from Kenosha would
| be forthcoming and we must keep it
| in mind all the time that the United
States is going to get the money
it needs for war, whether the people
| want to loan it or not -
Mr. Simmons called attention to the
| fact that ten per cent of the pay roll
| of the city for the year 1917 would pay
| the entire allotment of Kenosha and
| he declard that it was reasonable to
expect that men Of Kenosha who had
| enjoyed such rich gifts from the ma
ton would not balk in giving one
| tenth of their earnings to make the
"worli safe for democracy"
| Mr. Simmons let it be understood
that the greatest business of any or
gan:zation in the United States today,
no matter whether it be a Chamber of
Commerce or woman s club, was to
support the nation. He emphasized
the Iact that town building was valu-
able, but that town building was Sec
ondary to world building. Mr.. Sim
mons gave some wonderfully interest
ing statistics of the great work that
was being done in the nation to equip
the army and the navy and to make
America real participant in the great
war. He paid high tribute to President
Wilson and to the officials at Washing
ton who had shouldered the great bur-
den of preparation. He declared that
these men had done work which had
been the marvel of the rest of the world.
The address of Mr.. Simmons drove
home the patriotic lesson of the hour
| in the words of a man Of business and
his address was supplemented by an
address by Prof. Percy H. Boynton of
the University Of Chicago. This adj
dress attacked the question paramount
in the nation today in new and
charming manner. Prof. ! Boynton
spoke of the great cooperation that
has been given to the nation by uni
versity men and emphasized the fact
that this cooperation has been given
by 6 great number of men of German
blood. He had new criticism of
Americans. He declared that Ameri-
cans had come to look upon this
country simply as place of residence
where if it was not too ouch trouble
they would go to the polls and vote
and where with as little trouble as
possible one would avoid paying taxes
or reduce the amount to be paid to a
minimum. He spoke of how the
Americans had lived in the idea of
security of the isolation of the seas
until the Atlantic had been narrowed
down to less than six days voyage
and that in this narrowing down of the
seas the fancied security had begun
to disappear until now the people of a
great nation were just awaking to the
idea that they might be part of a
great world and its greatest war.
| Prof. Boynton spoke of the manner
in which the men who had gone into
| the army had pledged their pay in
order to buy the Liberty Loan bonds.
This is a thing of which we should
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