The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-05
Police Get Names of This
Number of People Who
Failed to Heed Request
of Their Government.
WARNED TO GET OFF STREETS
Lists Of Names of Kenosha People Who
Drove Automobiles Sent to Madison
and washington and Yellow Labels
Urged for Use of violatorg.

Fiftytwo automobiles were in oper-
alton in and through Kenosha on, Sun
day in defiance to the call for patria-
otto conservation of gasoline. This
fact is shown by the reports Of the
police officers who made checks in all
|parts of the city. Of the number
|tWentyiseven were automobiles owned
and operated by Kenosha people. The
remainder were automobiles owned and
operated by people from other cities
who passed through the town. The
name Of every man and woman operat
ing an automobile in defiance Of the
government S call for conservation was
on the police blotter Monday morning
and copies of the list Of names have
been furnished to the County Council
of Defense and have been forwarded
to state and national organizations of a
similar nature.
For the most part the men who in
SISTED on operating the automobiles,
interest III the United States in former
times. There were the usual number
of "pikers' who insisted that they
would not be prevented from operating
an automobile belonging to them. One
or two Of the men who became real OBJ
.iectionable to the courteous police Of
fcers who asked for their names and
addresses, were forced to make trip
to the police Office. They were told
that patriotic response to the nation S
requests were of considerable more i'm
portance than carrying the allied flags
on the top of their radiators and al
lowed to go. These men were also
told that it would be appreciated by
patriotic people of Kenosha if they
would keep out Of Kenosha when they
wanted to make display of their lack
of patriotism again. The police de-
clined to give out the names and the
men picked up for publication this
week but on next Sunday the names
will be made public and the police are
also considering plan to have nice
yellow label to paste on the back of
every car that fails to observe the rules
laid down by the government.
Gasoline filing stations in Kenosha
closed down tight all day Sunday and
no sfgasn was sold in the city. The
taxicab owners never once took the
machines fror. the garages and the
people were forced to walk or use the
street cars. The observation of the
REQUEST of the Fuel Administration by
garage owners. was full and COM
plete. There was not a Stacker in the
whole list and The garages even re-
fused to open the places to allow motor
car slackers to take out cars which
were stored there.
Only few Of the doctors in the city
availed themselves Of the. exemption
offered to them and most of the physi-
clans either walked on their visits to
their patients or used bicycles. There
were a few motor driven delivery
wagons and milk wagons, but even the
people who used these vehicles made
an effort to find other ways for max
ing deliveries.
A shortage of gasoline in Kenosha
on Monday also aided materially in
reducing the amount Of travel and eff
fected further saving.
For the most part Kenosha people
interested were pretty well satisfied
with the manner in which the first
gasless Sunday went over in Kenosha,
but next Sunday there will be no mercy
shown automobile owners and If there
is found any way to make the people
driving them pay for their lack Of pat
riotism. the dribers will be arrested.