The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-27
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918.
Your Celebration.

The celebration Of the Fourth OF
July in Kenosha this year is going to-
be the biggest event in the history
of Kenosha. 1t is not going to be lit
tie "whizzn of a broken off fire
cracker managed by some club, not
picnic put on by few people, not just
little excursion Of the old spirit OF
Independence Day, but great our
pouring Of loyal people to show
just how firmly Kenosha is standing
behind the nation when the nation
needs it's aid.
1t is municipal celebration. 1t
means a celebration of all the people
with the Mayor and the members of
the Common Council just as cogs In a
mighty wheel of expressed loyalty and
patriotism 1t IS your celebration and
my celebration and the man and
woman, the firm and corporation which
fails to come into it and help to make
it the biggest day in the history of
Kenosha is out Of touch with Kenosha.
For years Kenosha has been doing
her celebrating on Independence Day
somewhere else She has carried her
flags to Racine and Waukegan and has
spent her Fourth of July loyalty ex-
preston in Milwaukee and Chicago.
This year the people are expected to
be repentant of the past and enthusi-
astic over the present.
There are lot of things to celebrate
this year. Kenosha has shown her
self to be real part of real nation.
She has answered every call made up
on her. Her bravest and best young
men have marched off with guns upon
their shoulder. Her dollars have gone
in steady stream to the great Golfers
of the nation. 1t has aided Loyalty
in the work Of the Red Cross, the Y.
M. G. A. and hundred other things.
1t has done all of these things in a
big way and without grunting and
complaining. 1t has done them in q
way that has made it all worth cele-
bration and a real celebration.
Just as we have united in the Patri
OTIS Fund to do our share we want to all
unite DO be part of the celebration.
We want to decorate up our automo-
biles featuring Old Glory. We want
TO get floats showing what we are do
ing as part of the nation; we want
to have the children all logged out
in ned and White and Blue to march
in the procession.
Yes and we want to get out the
service flags and put them on the auto
mobiles and the trucks. We want Ke-
nosha to know all that is being done in
KenOsha. We want service star in
that parade for every one of the
fifteen hundred men who have gone
away to show their fealty to the ma
tion somewhere else.
We want to hear the bands of music
playing "Fhe Star Spangled Banner :"
and "'My Country IT'S of Thee" We
want to hear the refrain of cover
There" coming back from way down
the line, and we want our patriotism
20 be aroused until tears flow and until
tears of enthusiasm make us realize
more fully the duty we owe to the
nation whose birthday we are cele
brating.
IT'S worth while to get all worked
up over it this year. We can be proud
err of Old Glory and all it represents
than ever before and we want the dis
play Of our pride to be one that will
forever answer the question as to
whether or not Kenosha is loyal or
patriotic. True, we have answered it
in material ways before, but we want
to proclaim it again.
Thirty-fve thousand people are Civ
ing this celebration and it should
be the loyal expression of every one
Of them.
There may be flag raising, an
aeroplane fight and show or two on
the square, but the real thing is to
make this loyalty pageant the biggest
thing that Wisconsin has ever known
It's going to go down in history as
the real showing of Kenosha.
In that parade you are going to have
chance to keep step with the men in
the uniform of the army and the navy:
with the men who fought way back
in "61" and with the boys who are
training to fight in 1925 if necessary.
Yon can't afford to miss the thrills
that it is going to bring to you.
Don't wait for some committee to
come around and ask you to rig up a
float or to decorate your automobile
Make it volunteer service. Just no.
tify the committee that they can count
on you and remember that it is your
own personal celebration under the
auspices Of the Home Town.
For the Honor of Kenosha get busy
and do the real thing.
And of course between base ball