The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24
GET The BOYS INSURED
w. P. Hypes Declares That Money Will
Be Insurance for Those at the Front
Citizen Teams Organized and Riv-
airy Is Being Aroused.

Business men of Kenosha ststarted
the ball rolling that will result in
raising Kenosha's quota of the fund
for Y. M. G. A. army work at the
Citizens Conference dinner at the Guild
Hall Monday night, when after stirring
addresses by w. J. Farquharsen and
W. P. Hypes, they arranged for a
whirlwind week campaign through citi-
zen teams to canvass the city for sub
scriptions to this important work. The
dinner was preside over by Mayor
Pfennig, who as he introduced the
speakers Of the evening, emphasized the
need Of Kenosha to 60 her part in keep
ing American soldiers from the vices in
cident to soldier life.
w. J. Farquharsen, who spent last
summer with the militia on the Mexican
border in Charge of a Y. M. @. A.
branch by vivid word pictures took the
one hundred business men of Kenosha
who attended the banquet last evening
on trip to the border with him to in
vestigate the Worl, done by the HY''
last summer. They saw the standard
lied 40 by 60-foot building erected by
the organization at every concentration
camp of American soldiers and similar
to those thct will be erected for the
new army. They saw within the build
ing the long rows of writing benches,
the platform at one end of the build
ing, the screen and movie at the other;
they heard the music of the evening at
the camp as the soldiers who gathered
after the hard day S training was over,
improvised program OF perhaps lis
tened to the speaker furnished by the
organization. They heard how the
soldiers were led from first signing the
g clean living pledge until tney be-
came interested in the religious and
moral work SO characteristic of the
"Y'' The Importance of furnishing
the soldiers place tt write home was
emphasized by Mr.. Farquharsen. g
bunk with six roommates isn't a very
convenient place to scribble a letter
home but if YOU furnieh the recruit
with suitable place the tired soldier,
who has been ga worm in the dust
all day will cheer himself up by writing
the CHEEKY things of the day back to
the folks at home Such letter will
Influence him to, stay straight that
night anyway.
You believe in insurance. said
E. p. Hypes, a member Of the National
War Council of the Y NJ. G. A., who
followed w. T. Farquharsen, "you buy
all kinds Of insurance to protect youV-
selves against possible disaster. Get
an insurance policy to look after your
boy when he is at the front by giving
your money to send the Y. M. G. A. to
look after him. = Thus did he urge
Kenosha men to wake up to the import
ance of the movement which the even
ING started. The mistake that England
,ade of not allowi-e 10 HtY, at their
camps is not to be repeated by
America. How Illinois and especially
Chicago raised their three hundred thou
sand dollars in a week was also told
and their plan was accepted by the
leaders here.
Captains Of citizens teams are to
meet at luncheon every day of the
week and report the progress of the
campaign. Rivalry similar to that
aroused in Chicago is expected to urge
every Kenosha man to do his best in
this movement and judging from the
enthusiasm of the meeting last night
there will be no disappointment Men
of prominence here after hearing of
the necessity of the work agreed last
night to double what they had laid
aside to give to the fund and promise
to bend every effort to help the or
ganization in the great task of keep
ing American soldiers clean from the
communicating vices attendant on and
made doubly strong as temptations by
military life.
At the ssYn workers luncheon at
the haywood this noon the enthusiasm
of last night was renewed by promises,
to be made public very shortly, of 50
substantial amounts that there is
every reason to believe that the
quota for Kenosha will be raised this
week.