The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-11-21
We Are Proud Of Kenosha.

a resident of the city Of Kenosha
these days. 1t sounded mighty good
when they read the roll Of cities in the
stat n Saturday night and announced
Kenosha leading all the rest in the
over-subscription of the fund for the
United War Funds There WASH u any
place in all Badgerdom as high on the
roll as Kenosha Milwaukee was
little higher in the number of dol
lars given, but her subscription was
not Dearly as Large in comparison
as that of Kenosha.
Of course there were no big head
lines reading "Kenosha first in the
state" The officials Of the big drive
for funds knew that this was not
necessary. They knew that the people
have come to learn that Kenosha al
ways was first in big movements and
they felt that to throw some little sop
to Kenosha in the way of big head
lines would be just like putting in
a "Card Of thanks after loving
friends had shown sympathy to some
one in trouble.
Kenosha has an established reputa-
ton. She is expected to come to the
front first and best. 1t is the one best
bet in Wisconsin that when patriotic
call is made Kenosha is going to be
the first and the heaviest proportionate
subscriber and when Kenosha ans
wered the call for the United War
Fund with "'168, 75O-15OGb of the
quota" the men up in the central Of
fees in Milwaukee just said "Of
Course" They referred to the records
and found that it was unnecessary to
put down the figures. When the books
because these men knew "Kenosha al
ways does her part and little more. y
It's worth while to be part of that
kind of town. No man from Keno
sha need blush to tell any fellow he
meets where he comes from because the
other man is well aware that Kenosha
is the city of "big things" where
dreams come true and where men and
women answer every call made up
on them.
1t is interesting to have Kenosha
first on all of these lists, but the real
glory of the page Of war history con-
tributed by Kenosha is going to be the
fact that it was really "Kenosha"
that did it. 1t was really the men and
women Of Kenosha. You and me and
the other fellow and not couple of
men who dug down in their pockets
and put up the cash just to keep the
home town from being a Stacker. 1t
has been Kenosha that has answered
every call that has been made. Every
man and woman in the city with even
spark of patriotic spirit or drop Of
red blood have been part of it.
It's some record to be proud of. It's
a matter Of pride that Kenosha is go
ing to keep right on doing it. Other
cities in the state subscribed to the
United War Fund. Kenosha not only
subscribed but with her subscription
sent q check for half the money
and told the men who were handling
it to draw on her for the rest of it
whenever they wanted it.
When men who write history of big
movements take their pens to tell Of
the great work of nation to make
the world decent place to live in,
they are all going to put in para
graph about fFKenoSha, Wisconsin -
They are going TO say something about
it not being the biggest town in the
nation, but that even then it was the
leader of the nation when it came to
meeting patriotic responsibilities. In
distant years children in the Kenosha
schools are going to read In their his
tory books of how Kenosha pointed the
way for nation to furnish comfort to
an army. It's going to be worth while
then just as it is worth while now.
Most OF the people of Kenosha have
already proudly subscribed to the great
movement which has made it possible
for Kenosba to be the real leader of
Wisconsin an dthe near leader of ma
tion. If you haven't subscribed now
IS the time to do 1t. Get your name on
the lists of the Patriots Fund and be
a real part of a real town. Have the
honor of saying, sFI was first to meet
the full call of the nation and L met it
5000 efficient every time.''
The end of the war has come because
there were towns like AFKenosha'' in
the nation and because there were peo-
pie like Kenosha people. It might
have come some time without this aid,
but just such spirit as was shown in
Kenosha was the thing that dismissed
from the brains Of the Germans the
dream of "Little Europa and brought
the Kaiser and his Potsdam crew to
exile and the military organization of
Germany to its knees.
Again we say eve are proud
of Kenosha and proud to have had a
part in the work