The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-14
THURSDAY, MARCH IA, 1918.
Getting Ready for Patriotic Festival.

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April II is getting ready to show
Uncle Sam that Kenosha is backing
its boys at the front and that Keno
cha dollars are going to be put into a
great pile to help build ships to carry
food, to help make clothes, to furnish
ammunition and to do everything else
that is necessary to win the war.
Of course within year Kenosha
has come across with more than three
millions of dollars to show her faith
in the aims of the nation at war but
she is going to come across again.
Just like Chicago prepared for the
coming Of Billy Sunday and a great
moral revival, Kenosha is preparing
for a great patriotic love feast where
the feature will be the passing Of the
collection basket.
Kenosha is going to -be made better
and more patriotic by it all. She is
going to have her eyes opened to the
81 Will" spirit more than ever before
and it is going to be easier to raise
four million dollars for liberty loan
bonds next months than it was to raise
little over three million last Novem-
her.
Kenosha is beginning to recognize
just what sacrifice means. She knows
that somewhere over on the Irish coast
they have erected wooden cross to
mark the resting place of one of her
boys who made the supreme sacrifice.
She knows that Kenosha blood calls
to Kenosha blood now that blood and
dollars mix in the great sacrifice for
Democracy.
The only question with Kenosha is
methods. The money is here and the
patriotism to give it to the government
is here but the people must be shown
the way.
The Liberty Loan bond must come
to be the circulating medium of Ex-
change in Kenosha. 1t must be a part
of the mortgage on the old home, of
the birthday present to mother and
father and to sister and brother, it
must be the investment for trust funds,
for the rich man s hoardings and the
widow Is mite.
Kenosha HASN'T got four millions of
dollars to invest in Liberty Loan bonds
but Kenosha has forty millions of ere
dit that she can put behind her boys
over there and if it is necessary every
dollar of it must be pledged for their
support.
The day of the wild cat security is
gone and it is to be hoped that it will
never return. Men who in the past
have been willing to take chance
must now be willing to take GER
tainity- OF course there are lot of
calls for money. This organization
wants to build new club house, that
one wants to build new church.
There is no objection to either of them
but let the contributions be in Liberty
Loan Bonds.
Help your organization by helping
the government. Kill two birds with
one stone. Build club house and help
soak the Kaiser right along together.
Give the wife the usual birthday pres
emit, lay away the usual amount of
money and more for the rainy day but
all the time take it in bonds and re-
member that every bond you buy is a
part of the greatest movement that
the world has ever known.
Get ready now. Take an inventory
of all you have and be ready to pledge
every cent of your resources. Don It
be satisfied with buying a few thrift
stamps-they are wonderful as an in
vestment-but get into the big game
and get into it in the big way
You have no investments today bet
ter than the next issue Of the Liberty
Loan Bonds. They are the gilt edge
security of the nation. There are no
strings to them and when you salt
them away in the safety deposit box it
makes no difference when you want to
take them out they are going to be
worth dollar for dollar plus the inter
est.
Kenosha has reputation that she
must maintain and if she is to main
tain it she must loan, loan, loan. Keep
it in mind that you are not giving
but loaning. You are not sacrificing
present comfort without hope of re-
ward but economizing just little to
help your country and mine and at the
same time piling up a great dividend
earning savings account.
Start talking it over with the wife
now Figure out what that boy of
yours and that boy of your neighbors,
facing liquid fire over ON the other side
means to you and then just think that
You can do your part by loaning your
dollars.
Take the problem with you to your
desk at the factory, to the dinner
table at home and with you when you
kneel in the chancel of the church. Be
ready to do your part and do it. in
way that you will be able to look