The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-08-09
Company Fund. ;

HDS NdIhSo away Sud Cf CQ anu WV
eyed, determined to do everything it
could for those boys, but at that Ke-
nosha has no Company Fund.
Maybe you never heard of COM
pany fund. II is a pretty valuable as
set to any military organization. It
means comforts for the soldiers and it
represents in a substantial financial
manner the patriotic feeling of the
town under whose banner those men go
out to war. Kenosha has two COM
panies of men going out to do the fight
ing for a lot of men who are going to
stay behind and it should have COM
pany funds, for both of them. All
over the western states people are
showing their patriotic love of the
soldiers by doing real things for them.
They are making up these company
funds. In most cases the amounts con
tributed are small, but the contributions
are steady. The man who feels the
lump in his throat when the cavalry
and the Infantry marches away, walks
right over to the Chamber Of Commerce
or the Commercial Club or to one of the
churches or some other place where the
list is, and puts his name down as be
ing willing to give SO many dollars or
many cents month to help these boys
have comforts while they are doing the
fighting. OF course, we know that you
have contributed to the Red Cross and
to the war fund Of the Y NJ. G. A.,
and to patriotic day and lot Of other
things. We know that if the sum total
of these contributions in Kenosha were
added up that they would show a
mighty big lot of money. However,
some other people have contributed. It
is one thing to sacrifice few dollars
on the altar of patriotism, but it is
another thing to offer a life. The men
who are going out to fight are not 60
ing to a picnic nor into positions where
they are going to be paid wages in
keeping with the work they are ex-
pected to do. There is no limit on
what may be demanded Of the soldier.
Soldering is one place where hours are
not considered. The man is expected
to fight at daybreak or at sunset and
he is expected tolkeep fighting right
through the night if necessary.
Double sacrifice is the rule. It will
be noticed that men and women who
have offered their own sons to go to
the front to fight battles are the first
to step right up and help with move
ments for the aid of the soldiers.
Some people suggest that they have a
selfish view. OF course, the man or
woman who would make such a sugges-
ton is unworthy Of consideration He
is probably some Stacker who is not
willing to give anything in cold blood
or cold cash to help the nation.
Kenosha must have company fund.
Tt must enlist five hundred men and
women who will be willing to pay
dollar every month that the war lasts
in order to furnish comfort for the
soldiers in the field. Of course there
IS nothing to prevent men taking ten
shares Of this stock in patriotic serv-
ice, but the stock should be scattered.
No man who works in Kenosha should
hesitate to give his share to this fund.
With Ken0sha loosening her purse
strings every month and sending money
to the company fund.- it is certain
that lot Of the hardships which fall
to soldiers can be lessened for the
Kenosha boys Tt means that they are
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are not provided for in the army reg
ulations; it means that they are going
to have money to send home some Of
the boys who may fall by the way-side
and may oe send q comrade home with
him to make the trip easy. Tt means
a lot Of things that can not be enum-
Grated. Some time ago Kenosha had a.
patriotic day when we passed the hat
and took UP collection for the vari-
GUS military organizations. It Melted
pretty close to three thousand dol
lars and this money has tided over
lot Of bad places.
A thousand dollars isn't much in
these days. Tt is only ten dollars
apiece for a company Of hundred and
how long would it take you to get rid
Of a ten dollar bill? These boys are
entitled to supplemental pay from
home. Every mothers son Of them
who volunteered removed the necessity
of some other man being drafted
Maybe you were the man who was let
out because these men were more pa
triotic and insisted on going rather
than being sent. IF you are going to
let them do the soldering for you, you
should be willing to help a little.
1t is to be hoped that the Chamber
Of Commerce will at once take up the
question Of the company funds. Start
two Of them right off and ask that five
hundred men who have some one else
to do their fighting step up and pay
the bill they owe. A dollar month to
the end of the war is small price to
pay men to fight for you. What we
want to know is, who is going to be
the first man to sign. Then we want
| the other five hundred to get their
names down so fast that the soldiers