The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-03
WANT FORTY IN kEN0sHA
wonderful Training for Military Service
Is Offered With Adequate Provision
for Support and Maintenance
Must Enlist This Week.

Frederick Dellschaft, who has been
commissioned to aid in recruiting an
army Of men in this section of the
state for the Officers Reserve training
camp which is to open at TT. Sheridan
next Tuesday and continue for three
months, was in Kenosha today.
Do you know that not a single man
in Kenosha has volunteered for this
training to be an officer in the army9"
was his greeting "Can it be that
there are no men in Kenosha who be-
lieve that it is worth their while to
give up their business for ninety days
in order to help the country out? Ke-
nosha is one of the few cities in Wis
consin which has not heard this call for
training officers. In other cities men
are giving up excellent positions in
factories and in other institutions to
go to TT. Sheridan and do their bit and
get into shape to do lot more if they
are necessary. The army right now
needs intelligent men to officer it. The
nation needs thirty thousand men who
are able and willing to become leaders
Of men. We should have forty men
from Kenosha--college men-men who
have been educated either in schools or
in business life so that they may be
considt 19d lesloal leaders. These iacsA
may never be called for. service and
then they may be needed at the close
of this three months of training. This
is primarily citizens training camp
and il is open to all men between the
ages Of 20 years and 8 months and Al
years. Most of the men who have been
enlisted for this camp are men with
college Quotations. This is not neces-
sary, but the appeal has been made
especially to university graduates We
believe that these men should do their
part IN aiding the government in the
protection of the nation. Of course the
men going to the camp will have their
business interrupted, but all expenses
will be paid by the government and
aQuate subsistence and shelter will
Lo provided
Mr., Dellschaft held conferences in
several of the factories of the city to-
day and found many employed men
who were able to meet the qualifca-
lions for the Officers Reserve camps.
These men showed willingness to take
the matter under consideration. It is
known that Kenosha industrial con-
Germs stand ready to cooperate in the
formation of the training camps and
that leaves of absence will be granted
for men who desire to take the train
ing which will fit them for official po-
sitions in the army. Fred Baum has
been acting as local secretary for the
Officers Reserve camps
Kenosha has about one hundred and
seventy-fve men who have been edu-
Gated in the universitis and colleges in
this and other states. Many of these
men are Single men and the appeal is
being made especially to them to Join
the Reserve camp at TT. Sheridan. The
decision must be made at once as the
camp is to open on next Tuesday morn
ing and when the course of instruction
has been started, no more recruits will
be accepted.
Mr.. Baum is actively engaged in re-
cruiting for the camp now, Roy X.
Dorr has been named as local secretary
and he is olso aiding the local commit
tee in securing men and the Chamber
of Commerce is giving the movement
every possible support.
The headquarters for the Officers Re
serve will be at the Office of Secretary
Dorr in the First National Bank build
ing.