The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-15
Patriots Fund Committee
Wants Volunteers to AS
siSt in Listing Names of
WIS. S. Buyers.
COLLECTIONS ARE GOOD
Less Than 100000 Remain to Be Col.
lected of the sS25, 600 War Relief
Fund Promised by the Peo-
pie Of Kenosha.

weary $z5u,VOV OF the $S25sUUO that
Keposha has promised to raise for war
relief has already been collected by
Acting Secretary NJ. L. Dowse, of the
Kenosha Patriots Fund COMMITTEES.
The exact amounts collected to dste
is $227, O56.99, leaving a balance OF
$97, 943.71 yet to be collected.
Seven and half months have ELAPSED
since thu collection of this $825OOo
was begun and the collections hare
amounted to s., 010 day. Their $40
Jet four and half months In which
10 collect the remainder OF Kenosba's
quota and this win require the eollee-
ton Of an average of only SITS 3 day
TO complete the quota
But the Patriots Fund Committee
has had 9 largo amount Of work thrust
upon it within the Inst few days which
oyeF-taxes the regular force of clerks
of that office and Secretary Do5Qse Is
ee ling for volunteers to assist in tits
t,seesasry aa8A.
In addition to the collection of the
Patriots Fund this committee now has
charge of the Liberty Loan and the
War Savings Stamps collection. This
does not mean that the Patriots Fund
committee will actually have to collect
the money for the War Savings Stamps,
but it viii have to keep track of it
and ascertain who are and who are
not purchasing these stamps according
TO their pledges on the 2Sth of last
June, the day the campaign for pledges
closed.
While the campaign was on those
persons who agreed to purchase stamps,
either paid cash for their stamps at
the time or they signed card pledging
themselves to purchase q certain NUM-
Der Of stamps at different times be-
tween that time and the end Of the
year 1918. There was no way pro-
vided at that time by which to deteru-
inc whether these pledges were being
kept and whether the money pledged
to the national government was being
paid for stamps as pledged
Some who signed these cards them
selves TO purchase stamps at one Of the
banks, or the post office, or some par
ticular Boy Scout or Girl Scout just as
it suited his fancy, but there is no
means for those In charge Of the cam
paign to ascertain from day to day and
from month to month whether these
stamps were being purchased according
to agreement.
The business of ascertaining this
fact has now been turned over to the
Patriots Fund Committee and it is this
large amount Of extra work for which
Secretary Dowse is calling for volun-
teers among the Girl Scouts. There
were ten volunteers today but more
are needed.
Secretary Dowse is taking the town
street by street and house by house.
The street numbers where stamps have
been pledged for will be taken and elias
sified Those whose occupants have
not pledged themselves to purchase
stamps will likewise be classified and
the persons who have not pledged them
selves will be seen and asked to pur.
chase stamps.
Then each person or firm through
which purchasers have pledged them
selves to buy stamps will be furnished
these cards showing just who are sup
posed to buy stamps from them. They
win be required to give the secretary
requisition stating just how many
stamps have been pledged to be pur-
chased from them each month and the
number actually purchased and those
who have not fulfilled their pledges
by buying them. It viii then be an
easy matter for the collector to see
those persons who are not keeping their
pledges and the funds can thus be
kept track Of and the committee IN
charge will know at any minute just
how things are going.
But as said at the beginning of this
article the Patriots Fund is greatly in
need of volunteers to help get these
cards and records in shape and here is
a fine opportunity for the Girl Scouts
to do their bit by helping to list these
names