The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-03
Boys ard Girls In Olive
Drab Will Canvas City On
Thursday To Help the
Service Fund.
|REFUsALs WILL Be FEW
Scouts Believe That Not Many Keno
shans Will Say mo" To the Appeal
From Door-Knobs Wearin
the Green.

| Although it WASH t St. Patrick 8
Day hundreds of door-knobs in Ke-
nosha were wearin the green today in
the form of a dangling irresistible
something that said something else as
| appealingly as it might have been
said by colleen from County Kerry or
| a bit of q boy from the fields WI sre
the River Shannon flows.
Rut the dangling something was
not a shamrock nor was the "some
thing else' an appeal for the indie
pendence of the Ould Sod. The green J"
was a green card hung on the door
knob by energetic Boy Scouts and the
message that it carried was plea
| for Kenosha in the form Of a request
for subscriptions to the Service Fund.
| Liberal donations have already been
made by factories, merchants and pro-
lfessional men but many indiv duals in
| Kenosha have been unsolicited for con
| tributions to the cause. Hence the
Goor-knob campaign conducted WITH the
assistance of tEe local Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts, whe have seen othar peo-
pie "help'' and don't want to feel
that they have been slackers in sup
porting the service-agencies.
On Thursday the service-folk in
khaki will call at each house in the city
and ask for the green card hang on
the door-knob some time between
morning and midnight on Tuesday.
They haven't memorized their
speeches or anything but they expect
to get results. They have at least
learned how to smile and be courteous
and Kenoshans are going to find it hard
to refuse a service-cause and service
soldier by saying mo I don't think
can sign especially when the leqc9 EST
| is made SO good-naturedly. To be sure
they will carry pencils to be offered at
| the psychological moment and these too
twill help to arouse the cajolcd CON
sciences Of a few citizens who have dis
missed the Service Drive by saying
Let George Do IT. or something else
expressing the same indifference.
Fortunately for the little solicitors in
olive drab, contributors may make their
donations on the installment plan. The
first payment is now due and payable
but the others will not fall due until
September 25th, 1919, December 25th,
19l9-that's real way Of showing
the Christmas spirit and on March
l25th, 1920.
| Also, as the pledge-card explains, the
payments may be made directly to the
Service Fund or through e's bank if
the latter method is preferred by any
of the many subscribers who are ex-
pected to use this method Of putting
themselves on record among those who
helped to make Kenosha safe for it's
citizens by supporting the Kenosha
Service League, st. GATHERINGS and the
Kenosha Hospital. Scatter ALT is
the cause behind the green card and
the smile Of the messenger in khaki
that will give the request its peculiar
appeal and made "no'' impossible
for altruistic citizens.
II won t say I'll be hundred per
cent successful, said one of the Boy
Scouts today, but I will say that I
know something about the Service
Fund and I'm going to make it little
bit-well, embarrassing for anyone to
say they can't subscribe two bits a
month or a dollar or something for
a cause like that. -
Others, equally optimistic, were just
waiting for the gong to start on their
rounds and cash in on door-knobs
wearin the green for Kenosha instead
of Old Erin.