The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-11
Newton D. Baker and Ray
mond Fosdick Have High
Praise For Local War
Camp-C Community Service.
LETTERS ARE LENGTHY
Communications From Washington
Prove Conclusively That Kenosha
Did It's Part In Caring For
Soldiers and Sailors.

The local branch of the War Camp
Community Service of which w. d..
Martin is chairman, H. B. Robinson,
treasurer and Walter G. Hampton, ex-
ecutive secretary, has just received,
through national headquarters, letter
from Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker, expressing appreciation of the
1 splendid service rendered by that or
ganization and requesting the continu-
ance of peace time program in cities
adjacent to permanent camps or train
/ ing stations.
Owing to the fact that Kenosha is
comparatively a few miles from the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
Secretary Bakers request applies par
ticularly to this city. His letter is as
follows:
War Department,
Washington, D. G.
! Director, War Camp Community Serv-
ice. Through Director Commission
on Training Camp Activities.)
Ny dear sir:
In behalf of the men Of the American
Army, and on my own behalf, wish to
put on record our appreciation of the
splendid service rendered by your or
ganization during the war.
The measures inaugurated by the
Commission on Training Camp Aetivi-
ties through the War Camp Community
/ Service branch for soldier welfare, and
in the zones beyond military control,
accomplished good in ways that no
other agency could have used and in a
measure that added greatly to the
spirit and contentment of the wearers
{ of the uniform and SO to the efficiency
of our fighting forces that went over
seas and the other forces which, to
their own regret, were not so privileged.
/ The activities Of your membership
served as constant living reminders to
the soldiers and their efforts and pa
/ triotism were in the hearts of the civil
ian population, that appreciation and
gratitude existed for what they were
doing and were willing to do.
| trust that out of your work during
the war, will come some plan whereby
your facilities and desirable social as
sociatioEs may still be enjoyed by sol
diers visiting communities near which
the units of the regular establishment
take up their peace time routine.
4 Never again should we permit the
feeling to develop among the wearers
of the uniform as / think it did exist
in measure before the war, that their
fellow countrymen have forgotten them
or that they are men apart.
Cordially yours,
(Signed) Newton D. Baker,
Secretary of War.
| In conjunction with the letter from
Secretary Baker, the local office of the
War Camp Community Service also re-
ceived copy of letter from Raymond
B. Fosdick, chairman of War Depart
ment Commission on Training Camp
Activities, asking that this peace time
program be continued through Commu-
nifty Service (Inc.) at the expiration of
the activities of the parent organiza-
tion. Mr.. Fosdick writes as follows:
War Department,
Commission on Training
Camp Activities
/ Washington, D. G.
Fl. S. Braucher, secretary, Community
Service, Inc, l Madison Ave-, New
| York, N. Y.
My dear Mr.. Braucher:
! At the suggestion of Secretary Baker
| am writing officially to ask you to
continue in peace time, through Com
munity Service (Inc.), the work that
War Camp Community Service has been
doing in the neighborhood of the large
camps and environments which will
doubtless be more or less permanent
for the Regular Army of the future.
The work which your organization has
been carrying on has proved an i'm
portant factor in war time in main
/ tanning the morale and spirit of our
troops here in the United States, and
the War Department is convinced that
excellent results would follow the con-
tinuance of this work in times of peace.
sincerely hope that the plans of
your organization will make this ar
ranoement nossibIe.
| Sincerely yours,
| (Signed) Raymond B. Fosdick,
Chairman.
| It is planned to have representative
! from National Headquarters of Commu-
nifty Service, Inc, come to Kenosha at
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