The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27
|FLYIN6 SQUADRON TO WOrK
Twenty Women Of City to Ask Fund
Of $3.50 to Aid in Placing Libraries
at the Disposal of All Men in the
Service of the Nation.

Kenosha is going to do its part to
raise the fund of million dollars to
place libraries in every camp and can
torment Of the United States army,
for at the meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Gilbert M. Simmons
Libary held on Monday evening the
directors voted unanimously to take
charge of the campaign of raising the
fund desired from Kenosha. Every
city is expected to give in dollars a
sum equal to five per cent of the pop
ulation of the city and Kenosha with
an estimated population of thirty-three
thousand people will be asked to raise
ST., $50. Miss Cora Frantz, librarian of
the Gilbert M. Simmons Library. will
be chairman of the committee to raise
the fund in Kenosha and she has been
authorized by the Board Of Directors
to name committee of twenty women
who will make UP a "Flying Squad
ron" which will visit every home in
Kenosha. The library fund is not to
be made up of few large gifts, but
hundreds and thousands Of people in
the city are expected to contribute
something to the fund.
There will be no bar to hundred dol
lar gifts, but the members of the COM
mittee are anxious to have the library
fund of Kenosha be representative Of
the whole people of the city This
will mean dollar and half dollar gifts
from workmen and penny gifts from
the school children. The fund is to be
raised within the next month and early
announcement will be made of the
plans. The raising Of this fund will in
no way interfere with the sending of
the books which have been contribut-
ed by people of Kenosha. Many books
have already been sent to the canton
ment camps and to the concentration
camps from Kenosha and the shipment
of these books will be continued
"We know that the people of Ke-
nosha will take kindly to this fund, -
said A. f. French, secretary of the
Board of Directors of the library this
morning. cit is work of especial
interest to every man and woman in
terested in the welfare of the soldiers
1t plans to place the best reading mat
ter possible within reach, not of few
of the men who go into the army, but
in a systematic manner in reach Of all
the men serving under the flag. The
camD library is ooino To he mart of
the camp baggage. 1t is going with
the boys to the environments and when
camp is struck and moved the library
goes right along with the army. It is
one of the real educational movements
in connection with the work Of the
army and as such it is entitled to the
consideration of the people. The
amount to be raised in Kenosha is not
great amount. We know that Keno
sha people have given pretty literally
to all funds suggested in connection
with the war and we want to raise this
small fund without making it burden
some and at the same time with the
idea of allowing lot Of people to be
helpful. The fund will be handled
by patriotic men and women of ma
tional reputation and it will be dis
persed under the direct supervision of
the war board. -
Many women in the city have
already volunteered to aid in the col
lection Of the fund.