The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-08

In1S newspaper is member OF Tue
Wisconsin Patriotic Press Association
and pledges its uncompronising loyalty
to our government ii this war.
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It's Our offensive Now.
With the announcement that the
Thirty second Division is now battling
side by side with the victorious French
and the British at scissors and Fismes,
that men from Wisconsin-yes from
Kenosha-are battling for world free
dom in the greatest battle that the
world has ever known, Kenosha people
are going to take greater interest in
the great fight to drive the Hun out
Of France.
We have been interested in the adj
vance of our cause when it was being
fought by. strangers, but now we have
an even greater and more vital interest
because "opr boys'- sons and
brothers-are barring themselves to the
cold steel of the German to win lihcr-
ty for world
Kenosha is furnishing real fighting
men now. The One Hundred and
Seventh Supply Train in command Of
Captain Asbury Vale, and the One
Hundred and Seventh Ammunition
Train under the command of Captain
Ed. Dayton, the One Hundred and
Seventh Engineers with many Kenosha
boys in the line and possibly the One
Hundred and Twentieth Field Artil
lery-the remnants Of old Troop E, are
all in the thick of the fighting
More than ever before we must APP
preciate that it has become tour
war" More than ever it is our list
Of heroes and more than ever it is our
list of casualties.
Muenrere wood is going to have a
place in the history of Kenosha, for it
was at Mueriere wood that the Keno
sha boys were first called to match
bravery with bravery and fighting quail
tiles with fighting qualities, That lit
tie wood just out Of scissors is to be
historic in the story of the war as it
is told in Kenosha.
The first touch of real fighting has
been felt and from the battle front
comes back the word ''The men from
Wisconsin-+he men from Kenosha-
never faltered under fire.
In few days it is probable that
there will be turning of stars from
blue to gold. 1t is hardly to be ex-
pected that the Kenosha boys fighting
bravely in the world s greatest battle
will escape unscathed. The sacrifice
may have already been made and we
back here in Kenosha must steel our
selves to meet the reports as they come
These men who have fought the good
fight in France marched out willingly
and boldly ready to sacrifice their lives
for world freedom If they have made
that supreme sacrifice their heroic
deaths must only hallow more the cause
for which we are fighting.
Their sacrifice must be matched So
far as possible by our sacrifice. It is
going to be the call of the blood to the
blood. The sacrifice of the men OF
these units must not be made in vain
1t must call for new and deeper
conservation Of our hyes to the
cause for which they have been
wounded and killed.
Their bravery on the field must be
a call for a new registration at home.
It must mean bearing cheerfully and
even gladly the cross of war.
Kenosha must fill up the place of
every man who falls in the ranks. 1t
must fill that place with halfa dozen
other men, all of them ready to make
the same sacrifice. It must have men
to fight and men and women to support
the fighters. The fact that these boys
are facing the German hosts on the
field of battle should come like clari-
ON call to the young women of Kenosha
to join the nurses reserve. 1t should
come as a clarion call to men and
women Of Kenosha to give their dol
lars for the support of the great cause
for which these boys have given
-@their lives.
1t is Kenosha Is war now. We have
placed on the fields of France the blood
of brave men and we must place along
ride of it the tears of brave women and
we must put behind both of these every
patriotic sacrifice that we can make.
We must see it through to the last
man and the last dollar and we want to
add to this, to the last woman.
Our hearts are to be made sorrow
full by the reports of the, casualties