The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
NEW CLASSES OPEN SOON
Saloon Men in Prohibition District IN
able to Decide as to What Action TO
Take in Regard to Applications for
Licenses for the New Year.

Kenosha is going to continue to have
a military camp and for at least six
weeks, Camp Herring and the Instruc
tion School for enlisted men and Of
fcers will be continued. This fact is
shown clearly in official orders which
have been received by Captain Rose,
the commanding officer, which declared
that other officers and enlisted men will
arrive in few days to take the place
Of the men who have been in training
at the camp. It is admitted that the
new orders contain no suggestion Of the
elimination of Camp Herring as an in
struction school for the army and it
may be continued for an indefinite
time. It is certain now that the school
will be continued until the middle Of
July as the term for training Of these
men has been six weeks.
Captain Rose had no comments to
make, more than to confirm the fact
that his orders from his superior officers
were that new classes were coming for
instruction within the next few days.
The assurance that the camp and
school will be continued has brought
new complications for the saloon men
in the wide territory in which the sale
of intoxicants has been prohibited by
formal order Of the War Department.
This week these men are expected to
file their applications for new licenses
from the city. They are in doubt as
to what steps they shall take. Under
the law the license fee must be paid
before the license can be issued and
the men are doubtful as to whether or
not they should take chances on what
is to happen in the future. The Ii
censes are dated from the first of July
and it is certain that with the school
and camp located in the district there
will be little chance for the men to
use the licenses.
It is admitted that efforts are being
made to have the order of the War De-
partment rescinded so as to permit the
re-opening of these places under the
understanding that no liquor will be
sold except for consumption ON the
premises and on the further under
standing that no liquor will be sold
to civilians when they may be ac-
companied by any one in the uniform
Of the army or the navy.
Army men connected with the camp
have refused to discuss the possibility
of these places being re-opened. One
of them said in discussing the matter:
II do not think that the saloons in the
district named have been guilty of
bringing liquor to soldiers any more
than a lot of the others in the city and
it does seem unfair to these men to
close them up and permit other places
to continue in business. We have
nothing to say in regard to this order.
1t comes from the department and not
from local commanding officers and any
change that is made in it must be made
by the department. We know that the
camp is to be continued now.''
The city may officially ask the War
Department to make some ruling on
the issuance of these licenses. Such a
ruling would have no effect in law, but
it is possible that with statement as
to plans of the government for the
future, so far as they effect Kenosha,
would aid materially in making some
agreement with saloon men which
would permit them to get some reduc-
ton in the amount they pay for their
licenses. The state says that the full
five hundred dollars shall be paid, but
there are lot of provisions of state
laws not carried out in connection
with excise questions and it is possible
that some way out of the difficulty
could be found.