The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-18

Company Is as Yet Without Official
Title But Will Welcome Suggestions
The Misses Robinson are Leaders
Drill and Red Cross Work.

What Private Hazel did in Arizona
or Vera Butchkareff did at Wilma.
Kenosha girls may yet do at Cologne,
Potsdam, or Berlin if their dreams
come true and they are allowed to be
as military as possible. - They are
organizing company, not to fight ex-
actly, but to do other things in the
same spirit and for the same end and
they hope thereby to do their bit as
usefully as if they had shouldered a
gun or womanned' a battleship. No,
they will never smell powder other than
Mennen s or Melba, but they will or
ganize and drill and by SO doing ac-
quire that soldierly bearing and will
ingness to work so typical Of men who
fight and men who win.
The plans for " the big idea, were
all formulated in meeting held at the
home of the Misses Elizabeth and
Jeanette Robinson on Monday evening.
Some ten or fifteen strong, the
'soldierettes = gathered for council
OF war and evolved a scheme for a
military unit. The company-or maybe
companies-Will consist of seventy-five
members all physically ft'' and
morally willing to do War-work for the
Stars and Stripes. Each battalion will
choose its own officers on basis of
loyalty, efficiency, and personality, and
thereafter be ready for service in any
patriotic movement that may need
their aid. Discipline will be instilled
by drill at the Lincoln school on two
nights each week and constant partici-
patton in Red Cross work and other
national enterprises.
!" re going to be as military as
we can, y said Miss Elizabeth Robin
son this morning in comment on the
movement. "We're going to have a
recruiting station and printed enlist
ment blanks. We're going to accept
anyone who is qualified and who IS
willing to go into it for all there is in
it and we don't propose to have
'slackera. IF there are any infrac-,
tions Of discipline ven discharge the
girls Immediately and with as much
humiliation as possible. We want to
be as much like soldiers rs we can, even
to uniforms, and we mean to work
as hard here as they will fight
out there. =
The leaders in the new movement
are the Misses Elizabeth and Jeanette
Robinson Of 476 Prairie avenue. Grad
yates of Kemper Hall, they are fami-
liar with the elementary drill forma-
tions and callisthenics in general.
They will have general charge of the
companies until officers are elected and
will carry them through the critical
stages of enlistment and early organi-
cation. In their work they have the
sanction of Alfred Terrell, chairman of
the Red Gross chapter, and David Fog
well, scout commissioner for the city
of Kenosha. The latter has volunteer
ed his services in disposing of various
clerical details as well as in handling
the important problem of recruiting.
The name Of the new organization
well, it hash t been chosen as vet
1T must be something attractive, =
said one of the soldierettes this morn
ing something that will make the
girls feel all militant and patriotic. =
"Battalion of Death = and "Legion of
Life'' were both suggested and re-
jected. The former was too unutter-
abIx, wild - ond 4bo lo++ar % o,,4;noIrr
too tame so there you are. Appar-
emily the lucky caption will be mean
between these two extremes, ro-
mantle and patriotic title under which
Kenosha girls may drill and work their
way to military fame.