The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-14
SEND OUT FLYING SQUADRON
Men and Women to Aid In Closing
Hours Of Big Battle to Finance War
Council Gets Report Local Red
Cross Unit Will Be Organized Soon.

A whirlwind campaign during the
next two days for the sale of the LIB
erty Loan in Kenosha was instituted
on Tuesday evening by tho Kenosha
County Council of Defense and during
the next two days strenuous efforts
will be made to enlist several thousand
partners for Uncle Sam among the
men and women of Kenosha and Ke-
nosha county.
Today committees of the council APP
pealed to manufacturers of the city
asking that a final appeal be made to
workmen to buy at least one of the
Liberty Loan Bonds and an army made
up of the insurance men of the city
is to be drafted during the day to have
charge of the urging Of the sale Of the
bonds among clerks and office workers
in the downtown part of the city.
The mission of the Liberty Bond and
its value as an investment is to be pre-
sented to every man in Kenosha during
the closing days Of the campaign. The
report that one thousand applications
for the bonds had been sigred at the
plant of the Simmons Company on
Tuesday brought great enthusiasm to
the workers for the cause and plans
similar to those used in the Simmons
plant will be aaed in other factories in
the city.
There will be oratory in bufing
rooms and foundries and personal work
will be done among leaders of the men
who work with their hands. Follow
ing the lead of the N. r. Allen S Sons
Company, many Of the factories Of the
city are planning to arrange for par
tial payments for the Liberty Bonds.
Some of them will make provisions for
employees to. pay at a rate of a dollar
week while others will arrange to
carry out the regular installment pay
ments suggested by the government.
Nearly all of the factories have made
plans whereby money may be returned
to the employees if on account of i'll
ness they find it impossible to complete
the payment for the bonds.
The women of the city are going to
have their part in the final drive to
sell the bonds and a flying squadron
is being organized today under the di-
rection of Miss Harriet Balm, express
dent of the Kenosha County Equal
Suffrage League These women viii
have charge of automobiles which will
be sent to every corner Of Kenosha
county to formally introduce the Lib
erty Loan Bonds to the farming com
munities. The women will 90 armed
with applications for the bonds and
they expect to present these applica-
tions at every farm house in the coun-
ty and at many homes in the smaller
villages of the county. Many of the
people in the rural districts have not
been solicited to buy the bonds and the
big movement among the women is. ex-
pected to reach all of these people
Much of the time of the meeting Of
the council was given over to the dis
cussion of the bonds The committee
named to present the cause to the fac
tory leaders is made up Of Chester d.
Barnes, Mayor Charles I'll. Pfennig and
f. 3. Barden and this committee is to
complete its work this afternoon.
The council had an interesting re-
port relative to the organization of a
Kenosha unit of the American Red
Cross and on a unanimous vote of the
council the committee was instructed
to complete the organization at once.
Already much of the work of select
ing officials and naming committees
has been completed and it is expected
that thorough organization viii be
completed before next Monday, the dav
set for the opening of the national Red
Cross week. Mayor Pfennig has with
held the appointment of his general
committee to raise funds for the Red
Cross work until after the new Keno
sha unit has been formally launched.
As the committee has power to act, it
VIII not be necessary to call second
meeting to complete the Red Cross or
ganlzation. The new unit viii be in
complete harmony with the Kenosha
branch Of the Red Gross which was or
gained some time ago.
The urging Of more intense farming
IN the county is being strongly brought
before the rural population by the
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