The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28
Unofficial Reports sh ow
Wisconsin Has Only Filled
2S% of Quota for Nat.
Guard and Reg. Army.
new CALL OFFERS CHANCE
President Wilson'S Appeal for 10000
Volunteers This Week Gives State
Last Chance to Show Courage -
Volunteering May Close June 80.

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Enlistment Week" the last oppor-
tunity for volunteering to fill up the
regular quota of the National Guard
! and the regular army to war strength
is now in full swing and unofficial sta
tisties show that Wisconsin is one of
the states, which is designated as a
''slacker" state because Of the small
percentage of recruiting. The Presi-
dents call for seventy thousand vol
unteers and the naming of this week
as the limit for securing those enlist
ments, which will help in lessening the
quota assigned by the authorities for
CONSUMPTION, is thought by local
official to offer an opportunity that
Wisconsin S red blooded young men will
not fail to grasp.
Captain Coney of the cavalry troop
is in receipt of telegram from Adju-
tant General Holway explaining the
necessity of hurrying recruiting this
week: In this he says:
Madison. Wis.
Capt. J. G. Coney,
Kenosha, Wis. @
Accounting of credits for enlistments
regular army and National Guard
closes with June 3Oth by order of the
War Department. Promptly inform all
members of your command, both Of
fcers and men, that they are solicited
by canvass and procure recruits to fill
the war quota both of the regular army
and of all National Guard units. Re
cfuits for regular army will be d.
rected to nearest army recruiting sta
ton or postmaster other than first class.
If no National Guard or appointed ex-
aiming surgeon is available, guard Of
ficers, before administering guard oath,
will procure the thorough physical
examination of recruits by com
petent civilian physician.
Holway, Adj. Genl.
Pursuant to this command the local
recruiting stations, both for the caval-
ry and infantry have redoubled their
efforts to place WISCONSIN on the right
side of the ledger of honor by the
end of this week.
The exact status Of patriotism in
Wisconsin, if recruiting was used as
an index, was shown by the fact that
although all our neighboring states, in
Guiding Indiana, Illinois and Michigan,
have already made themselves secure
against the first DRAFT by having the
National Guard and regular quotas
more than filled, Wisconsin had only
raised twenty-eight per cent of her
quota by June first. Slumping in re-
cruiting makes it certain that the Bad
ger state is still far behind her neigh
bors and if the young men do not wake
up this week the state may fail to- live
up to The splendid record made by it
in the Civil war and the Spanish
American war. Official announcement
has already been made that those
states who do not furnish full quotas in
these branches will be drawn on
more heavily when CONSUMPTION is
put into action.
In Kenosha county, many have re-
sponded and filed up to certain ex-
tent the companies being formed, but
the county is still ranked as one of the
"slackers" in spite of the stupendous
efforts of local officers to urge men to
enlist. Those who do not desire to join
the National Guard units are now asked
to help complete the regular ARMY
quota and there are many reasons urg-
ing recruits to choose this branch.
From the ranks of the regular army,
officers are constantly being selected
and the increase of twenty per cent
in the salary of those actually on bat
tlefelds will probably fall mostly to
those members of the regular army.
There are places left in both com
panies of the local units of w. N. G.
and if these are filed this week, as
they should be, recruits will be sent
to Postmaster German to be considered
as applicants for the regular army.
The offices of the cavalry troop in Guild
Hall VII be open from eight in the
morning till five in the evening and
the infantry company in the Chamber
off Commence building will keep the
same hours. Regular announcement
asNto the response made by Kenosha
to this, probably the last, call viii be
made throughout the week, with sum
mary showing whether or not Wiscon-
consin, and Kenosha county, as well,
rose to the occasion and proved that
the patriotism of '61 and '9S still con-
trolled the state s manhood in III.