The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
THURSDAY, MAY 80, 1918.
overalls the Uniform of Honor.

Kenosha sent three hundred men off
to war on Monday. Just a little later
Kenosha is going to send three hundred
more, and probably before the end of
the present year Kenosha will be ask
ed to send a thousand red blooded
fighting Americans over to the French
front in order that the nation may do
its part in making the world fit
place to live in.
Kenosha is sending the boys away
with cheer. She is not with holding
her support from this great world
movement, but at that Kenosha must
appreciate that her gift to the fight
ing forces of the nation are letting the
life blood of the great industrial bust
ness of Kenosha. These men who are
going off to war are deserving benches
in busy factories and if Kenosha is 60
ing to do her whole part in the big
plan of making the world better to live
in she must have volunteers at home to
take the place Of every man that she
has sent to the front.
A volunteer is not necessarily a man.
The call today is to people and not
men. 1T is to every able bodied per
son who can work and help the
nation keep up at home as well as
keep up over on the front Where the
shells are flying.
1t is just as patriotic for a woman
to don overalls and take the place of a
man back home as it is for a man to
don the uniform Of soldier and fight
for woman in the trenches. The
war is teaching us that we must
reciprocate. That one good turn de-
serves another
What we want now is to take an in
ventory of Kenosha and find out where
the waste energy is going. Kenosha is
not anywhere near hundred per cent
efficient when it comes to supporting
the big back of the lines movement.
The great battle to keep the men at
the front supplied with food and cloth
ing and with the things necessary for
them to make war with.
Can woman be slacker9 Sure
she can and there are lot of women
in kenosha who are not meeting the
demand that war have made upon the
nation. Uncle Sam is calling to the
big knitting mills in Kenosha to furn-
ish stockings and underwear to the boys
who are lighting. These great organi-
cations are extending every possible
facility to meet this demand, but they
can not meet it on account of the
empty benches. This is particularly a
call to women. There need be no claim
for exemptions. If the patriotic mar
ried woman who has a child to care for
wants to work there is going to be
some one to take care of that child.
The women who are past working age
must make their patriotism work by
offering to take care of the children
that the women younger may work.
These big industries are not calling to
women to sacrifice their home life for
nothing. They are calling them to
sacrifice because the men have already
sacrificed; because their going to war
have left places open that must be
filed. The woman war worker is not
being asked to give service with
out proper recompense. Never was
patriotism so coupled with profit as
it is today.
The real call today is not for men
but for women. The women who fail
to hear this call and meet it fairly and
periodically, are not Loyalty support
ing the nation at war.
The call to these women to ell the
places made vacant by men going to
war, may mean that you must 90 into
your kitchen and do the work that
some girl is doing that she may go to
the factory and help keep the soldiers
supplied with stockings and underwear.
1t may appear to you that this is an
Inconvenience, but can It you see that
you must inconvenience yourself that
the nation must do its part.
The government has announced that
it is going to call men from domestic
service into more important lines of
work, What is your convenience as
compared with the success of the great
ideals for which we are fghtingg 1t
is little enough to ask, of you.
Winning the War" is something
for women as well as men. Patriotic
service can be rendered right here
at home and it is service as import
ant as any woman can render on the
field of battle.
The call is pertinent one. Search
your own life tonight and see if you
are doing your part in this great bust
ness of the nation. See if you are do
ing your share of the work, Don It
think that this refers to some one else
1t refers to you-and it doesn It mat
ter bit who you are
You may feel that you have the
money to pay, but just remember that
you can't wash out blood spots with
money; money alone will never make
the world safe for democracy 1t takes
service and diversified service 1t
means sacrifices for every one WIN