The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-24
Society and Club Life
SAY SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

kDdys GOln1CIS dI0 SttA1OIS, AGAUSud lc
bursting herself wide open to enter
tain you boys and everybody is tickled
to pieces to do everything to show
You good time. But there is some
thing somebody ought to say to you
and the News would as well say it to
you as any one else for if some other
fellow says it he may say it in more
strenuous manner than the News says
| it and the saying it might be accom-
panied by some diddings.
Now there are some of you to whom
this does not apply. In fact it does
not apply to most of you and you fell
lows whom it does not fit can just skip
this little story and not read it but
you to whom it does apply would do
well to read it two or three times
and then turn the paper around and
read it backward.
But what the News started to say
to few Of you is this: We are
mighty glad to have you come to visit
us and we are doing all in our power
to show you a good time. We are
giving a half hour every week of our
wages and q good many Of us are
giving thousands of dollars month
for war relief work. Big slices of this
fund we are raising is going to the
Red Cross and the War Camp Commun-
ity Service that you may have a good
time. One of our churches is sacri-
fcing most of her services and auxi-
lary meetings in order that you can
have some place to meet, eat, at price
within your limit, can have a bed
within your reach, that you may have
place to read and write. Having
strained the good nature Of this church
to the limit the Patriots Fund com
mittee appropriated $4,000 to furnish
q place for you to have a good time.
The News is not enumerating these
things as a complaint.
In addition to furnishing the finances
the city of Kenosha is having enter
tainments for you and is introducing
you to nice, respectable women and
girls whom you may meet and dance
with and enjoy yourselves in converse
ton with them. And what is Kenosha
asking from you in return? Only one
thing. Be gentlemen while you are
here. Treat our women and girls who
pass you on the street as you should
treat ladies.
A squad Of you on the street the
other night hailed every woman and
girl who passed you and kept it up
until eleven O'Clock at night Not a
single woman got by you without your
speaking to her or calling after her
or addressing her in some manner when
you had no right to speak to her at
all.
Do you think you have any right to
display your real deposition of tough
just because you have on the uniform
of the greatest country on earthg Must
| you disgrace that uniform because you
are a tough2 The uniform of Uni
| ted States sailor or soldier should be
a guarantee Of protection to every per-
sen in the country especially helpless
women. Does your conduct of hood
lums show any protection to any one /?
Is that not one of the things that the
soldiers and sailors on the other side
are fighting over-the brutality Of the
| German soldiers toward the women of
the conquered territory. How much
| better are you than the Huns when
| you will stand on the streets of city
who has done and is doing as much
for you as Kenosha and insult every
woman that passes you for several
hours at a time. Don u you know that
| if it were not for the uniform you
are disgracing you would be placed in
the lookup as quick as you could bat
your eye.
Don't you know you are insulting
some of the very women and the sis
ters and daughters of women who have
been doing so much for you and the
wives, sisters and daughters of men
who are giving part Of every week Is
wages for you? Sometime you will in
suit one of these women while her bro
Their or husband is near and it will be
the hospital for yours. Better be
warned while you have whole hide.