The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-12
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1918.
Lacking in Hospitality.

If we should publish in this column
the statement "Kenosha is the most
inbospitable city in the country" the
statement would arouse storm of
protest, but just the same there are
hundreds of people walking the streets
Of Kenosha who are making this state
ment every day. They are young men
and young women who have worn out
their shoes trying to find room to
live in. The men working in Keno
sha factories and separated from their
wives and children because it is inn
possible for them to find place for
the wives and children to live. These
people are camping on your front steps
and mine, not asking for charity but
rafting the best money in the world
in their pockets and demanding a
place to eat and sleep. They are not
quibbling over how much you should
have for the use of that "spare room y
of yours. They are simply asking that
You put it to work in the great fight
to win the war.
A. lot of people in Kenosha do not
think that it is just the thing to take
i'm "roomers" they seem to feel that
there is something sacred about their
homes and that to open them to some
zone not a member of their own fami-
lies would place stain on them. The
stain that is being placed is the mark
of unpatriotic action placed on the
door posts of every one of these homes.
It speaks volumes of the lack of pa
btriotic action on the part of lot of
tpeople Of Kenosha. 1t means that
they are not willing to do their small
part to help out in the crisis of the
Fnation. The "sbame of Kenosha" is
that these perfectly good people who
have come to Kenosha to do real work
for Kenosha and the nation should be
forced from pillar to post without a
place to lay their heads. The call up
on people for rooms to house the nces-
sary workers is not necessarily call
for people to enter the profteering
class
The man or woman who demands
from these homeless people an unfair
and exhorbitant price for living quar-
ters is just as much a profteer as the
packer who is in his office in Chi
cago and unfairly raises the price of
meat or any other food product.
| This is a personal matter for every
house holder in Kenosha to consider.
Help lift the stain off Kenosha by
putting those empty rooms to work.
Help open homes for the workers Of
the city by investing a few of your
! boarded dollars in building material.
Build homes for them and show lit
tie human interest in your fellow
men.
If Kenosha is to do its full part in
keeping the army supplied with the
products of Kenosha factories you
must do your part in offering some
place for these people to live. Young
women who have come from carefully
kept homes in other cities are being
forced to walk the streets to beg for a
nights lodging just because some peo-
pie fear that they will be "nui-
esance' in their homes. In these days
of war the nuisance" is unknown
and little change in your own plans
in order to help some one else is just
p little patriotic sacrifice.
The man or woman who leaves Ke.
nosha this year and goes to some win
ter resort and fails to leave that home
as living place for the necessary
workers Of Kenosha must necessarily
be classed as being entirely forgetful
OF the demands of the city and the
demands of humanity. The person
who has vacant room and refuses to
open it for the same purpose must be
classed as a Stacker There are NO
exceptions to the rule. This means
you.
May be you have been forgetful in
the past but there is no reason for you
to be forgetful in the future. Do it
now. Cali up some factory and tell
the man there that you have an I'm.
occupied room. In few hours he will
see to it that the stain of unpatriotic
action is removed from the door posts
of your home.