The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-17
Women Urged to Bring in
Yarn That Has Been Out
for Many Months, Many
Urgent Appeals Made.
KEEPING New Quota BACK
Much Unraveling and Reknitting of
Socks That are too Small and Can
not be Accepted at Red Gross
Headquarters.

In spite Of the urgent call to bring
in the yarn, that has been out for
months, the people have not responded
to the call, and this necessitates cal
ling people two and three times on the
telephone, and here is where we lose
much valuable time.
The Red Cross made an urgent APP
peal to the women through this news
paper just four weeks ago, to please
bring in this yarn, people either do
not read this newspaper, or they just
will not take time to bring it in to
headquarters.
So much has been said about the
new quota coming in, and we cannot
get this new quota until the old yarn
s all in. 1t surely does seem like
few women would not want to keep
the whole town waiting on account Of
them, but this evidently is not the
case, as has been proved by their negli-
gence. There are great many people in
this town who have been called two and
even three times on the telephone, and
still they insist upon keeping this yarn
out. OF course when called on the tele-
phone, they consent readily to bring it
in, and suppose they do say to them
selves, "well must take that yarn
down to the Red Cross today" but
time goes on and still the yarn is not
brought in, and as you can plainly see,
that necessitates another call.
Tic the women who are keeping the
other people waiting could just rea-
lie how much the Red Cross wants
this yarn, they surely would respond.
So much space has been given to this
subject, in this newspaper time and
time again in the past four weeks
that it seems like the women would
hesitate no longer but still they do not
get the proper response at headquarters.
If the people who have this yarn can.
not bring it in themselves, surely some
one Of their acquaintance, coming
down town would be so kind as to bring
1T up for them.
The women of Kenosha have always
been SO capable, and generous with
their help and time, that it is indeed
hard for the Red Cross to send out
this very long appeal, but it has be-
come very necessary, for this yarn
must be brought to headquarters at
once If you have any yarn out, will
you kindly bring it in on Wednesday.
On Monday morning, one of the good
women at headquarters, spent the
whole morning, calling people on the
telephone, asking them t. bring in
their yarn, this is no unnecessary, just
think of the work this person could be
doing, and again you see 1t is valu-
able time lost This time Is needed
to put on more important things, such
as unraveling and knitting socks over,
that are one and two and even two and
one-half inches to short in the foot.
Many women insist upon sending socks
in that are absolutely too small, and
the Central Division Headquarters at
Chicago will not accept them, so they
must be done over, before they leave
Kenosha, and here again very valuable
time is lost. A great deal of good
work is being done at Headquarters,
but even more could be done, if we
could dispense with all these small un-
necessary things. We should not ask
our soldiers to wait for anything, but
still they must want for these things,
until some women find plenty Of time
to do as they are asked.
The Red Cross has been very lenient,
and it is far from anyone's thoughts
to hurt the feelings Of the many, many
good women in Kenosha, who have re-
sponded to our call SO promptly but
those who have not, so far over sha-
dow these others, that it is very nee
essary that another urgent appeal be
made to these women