The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-20
SALOONS READY TO help
Sunday Closing May Be Followed With
Other Restrictions Regarding Bust
ness Hours in Order to Have Ke-
nosha Workers 1000 Efficient.

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must not be interfered with by the sale
Of intoxicants in Kenosha saloons. This
is the edict that has been sent to Keno
sha by the United States Government
in a letter to one of the leading manu-
facturers of the city and it is declared
that further saloon restrictions and re-
gulations will be imposed by the gov
eminent if complaints against inter
ference with the work of the manufac-
turning concerns of the city continue to
reach the officials at Washington.
This letter has not been made public
but the men who are engaged in the
saloon business have been given to I'M
derstand that the federal officials are
investigating conditions in Kenosha
and that the government is ready to act
promptly in case there is a demand for
such action. It is expected that the
action of the saloon men to close up
the saloons on Sunday will go long
way toward remedying conditions which
have been complained against but if
this does not prove panacea it is pos
sible shat further restrictions will be
placed about the seloons with a view
of limiting further the hours of bust
ness.
With seventy two arrests reported
to the police on last Saturday night
and Sunday and with reports from
manufacturers showing an unusually
large number of men away from work
on Monday morning the federal agents
are carefully Investigating conditions.
1t is declared that the saloon men of
the city are now cooperating fully with
the federal officials in an effort to save
the business from g complete shut down
during the period of the war.
The license committee of the coun
Gil has been appealed to for aid in
this battle for efficiency among the
workmen of the city and it is not i'm
probable that the demand for limita-
ton of saloon activities win be met in
the final reports for the license com
mittee. The committee has been espe-
cially investigating places where liquor
has been sold in quantities. The or
der against bottle goods has been eff
fective in Kenosha but it is to be made
even more effective in future months
and the bottle is to be a forgotten ad
ornment to the shelves of places where
| liquor is sold
| Leaders of the saloon men appreciate
entirely the conditions existing in Ke-
nosha and they are urging very strong
| ly that every demand made by the gov
eminent and by men interested in in
creased production in order to meet the
demands of war, be met promptly and
fully by the business.
| The usual cry has been raised that
men from Kenosha will seek liquor on
other places for the regular Saturday
night and Sunday consumption but this
phase of the question will also be
closely watched and it is possible that
war time conditions in Kenosha will be
reflected by the regulations Of saloons in
other places if necessary.
Tt is expected that within a few
days orders will be sent direct to the
Sheriff of the county notifying him
that saloons within the county outside
the city must be closed and kept closed
on Sunday.
Resort owners in the western part
Of the county may be forced to feel
the weight of the demand for closing.
Up to the present no formal order has
been issued to these places to close up
but it is possible that such an official
order will go to them before the first
closed Sunday in Kenosha.
| The Government is not seeking in
any way to place restrictions on Keno
sha county saloors which are .ses-
sary but the Federal officials have
shown q willingness to insist that there
be 40 interference with war time pro
| Guction in Kenosha. Similar regula-
tions are being made in all other cities
of the country where there is any con
siderable amount Of work for the gov
eminent being done.