The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-03-22
Teaching the Business Man.

The movement is on to educate the
them better able to contribute more to
the advancement Of the city. 1t is
going to center in the work of the
Chamber of Commerce and the secre-
tary Of that organization has been
busy studying plans Of community
development and he is ready to
outline a plan for the carrying out
of this program
To bring the high EST efficiency to
this movement he must have trained
workers. The average business man is
willing and ready to serve the com
munity if he can be shown the nature
Of service demanded and results from
that service. He does not like to
take the time from his own business
unless he is able to see results. For
years business men in Kenoha have
talked cooperation; they have ex-
pressed their desire to place their eff
fort and means to advance movements
for community betterment, but they
the realization of these desires. There
must be the open road to enlist the
services of the average man. He is slow
to take the initiative, but with some
one to point the way he follows along
and gains power with every step he
takes. Community problems are such
that the solution of them demands
community effort What the men of
Kenosha want is for some leader of men
to take them up on the mount and show
them the promised land and then they
will not be slow to possess it.
In the carrying out of the work of
the Chamber of Commerce the regular
army has been organized Recruits
have come forward and volunteered in
great numbers. More than thousand
men are waiting to take up the work
of making Kenosha bigger and a.
better town, but they want a general
and lieutenants and captains and cor
porals. These men must make up the
list of committees of the Chamber of,
Commerce. No rear rank recruits are
wanted for these positions. They must
be men Of leadership. A lot of US
know that Kenosha has an excellent
harbor out of which it is getting little
use, that there is great undeveloped
territory in Kenosha county which is
anxious to cooperate in building a
bigger Kenosha if the way is but point
cd out. The new secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce has proven him
e self entirely able to arrange for the
program of the work to be done in
Kenosha and the call now is for men
who will lead in the various lines of
work. The secretary can do lot of
it and he has shown that he is not go
ing to try to shift any burden which
may be placed upon him, but he wants
TO know that the other men are going
to do their part. Volunteers for active
service in the army of the Chamber
of Commerce are needed now.
All that is needed in Kenosha is the
proper marshaling of the spirit of the
capable men of Kenosha With the
fund of money that will be at the dis
posaI Of the new body and with the
management along the lines laid down
by an expert in this line of work,
%bere is every reason to believe that
Kenosha * on the verge of a great
awakening along all lines leading for
community advancement and com
munitv uplift The mistakes which
, have been made in the past are only
the sign posts of an abandoned road.
The new road is free before us and we
can make the new sign posts the re-
suits of successful endeavor. The ele-
ment of selfish interests must be
eliminated now and forever eliminated
and the men who are to do this work
must go into it, not with the idea Of
what am ] going to get out of it, but
what am I going to put into it. If
men can just be brought to put into
-this movement all that they are capa-
bic of giving, there will be no doubt
but that the results win be sufficiently
great to abundantly reward all for
the part that they may have in the
accomplishment.
The people Of the city have right
to expect that the organization win
have a program of legitimate activity
and that with the spirit of concentra
tion and specialization, which all eff
cheney experts declare to be indispensa-
BILE, operations will be conducted upon
the lines which good Judgment lays
down. 1t is your problem and mine
and it is a problem which calls for
your thoughtful consideration and your
most enthusiastic support that it may
be worked out to the greatest good for
each and for all.