The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-25
THURSDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1917.
Safety First.

Safety First.
IF your neighbours house is burning,
and the sparks are falling on your
shingled roof, are you interested in the
fire?
IF the boy next door has sore
throat, and there's lot of scarlet
fever about, and you have four chill
dren of your own, does it mean any
thing to youg
If the man who owns the farm just
across the road from your orchard
won't spray his apple trees, what do
you care?
If folks in the house back of yours
persist in leaving the lid off their gar
bage pail, the nasty pestilent flies bred
there never come over to your house,
do they9
N0W-fire and fever, famine, pesti-
lence, and that which is worse than
murder are YOUR NEIGHBORS. Oh,
yes they arel You can Il say that they
are across the water, in Europe, where
they are too far away to harm you or
yours. They are here, right in your
country. Your neighhor' S fire smoked
before it blazed the boy next door
had scarlet fever for days before it
''broke out' on him; the unsprayed
apple-trees and the uncovered garbage
pail were getting in their deadly work
for days before you knew anything
about them. The danger that this war
is spreading throughout every corner of
the world is not over there, but here.
HERE and NOW. Much of the danger
you know; much you do not know.
There are enemies, germ carriers, where
you think it is impossible for them
to be. You may rub your elbows
with them on your way to work. You
may sit next them in street cars. They
may be your customers, your trades
people, your very neighbors; but they
are spreading by ways that are open
and that kill quickly and by ways that
are secret and that stab in the dark the
most dreadful disease that has ever
been on this earth-WAR. You know
what war does; there is not a man,
nor woman, nor child in all this
broad land who will not be hurt by this
war if it is permitted to repeat itself.
War has cot to be ended, ended soon,
ard ended forever; and there is only
one way to do it. One way, that is,
for you and for me, who cannot place
our bodies where they will stand be-
tween our loved ones and the shot and
steel of war. You and have got to
do our part by providing the means
with which they can be stopped and
shall be stopped. You and |, who can
not fight, have got to provide money,
lust money, so that others can do our
fighting for u.s. And the fighting of
this war is the one big final houseclean-
ing of the world even the germ-car-
riers have got to be routed out and
cleaned up. M
Housecleaning costs money. So does
sickness. But cleanliness and health
arc worth paying for. They are good
investments. You do not hesitate to
pax for your fire insurance, to call in
the doctor, to keep your home premises
clean and to do What you can to see that
the people around you do the same.
IT. worth it.
Right now, you AVE got to insure
your country and yourself and your
children's children against disaster
worse than any fire. Buy a Liberty
Bond and let our soldiers be your prop
erly equipped firemen.
Right now you have got to force your
neighbor and remember that he
doesn It live only in the Germany which
produced his poison--to clean his prem
Uses of something that is more danger
Gus than scale or dry rot or borers or
moths or anything else that the world
has ever had to deal with. Buy Lib
erty Bond and help rid the world for
ever of this CHASTITY pestilence of war.
Right now is the time to make safe
your home and all that you wish Home
to stand for; the life and health of you
and your children; the security of your
incomes; the upholding of the ideals
without which you wouldn't care to
live. There is only one way in which
you and I can do it, but that way is
going to bring us in mighty good inter
est. Its the best investment you IL
ever make, or anybody else.
And there are some people who are