The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-17
ELEVENTH HOUR
FOR GREAT FUND
KenOsha Patriots Fund
Plans TO Meet Every Obi.
CATION Before Closing
It's Books.
END AS BEGINNING
Last Appropriations Like the First
Keep Up Splendid Patriotic Record
Made BY Kenosha-Find Money For
Girl Scouts and French Hospital.

Efficient to the very last, the direc-
tors of the Kenosha Patriots Fund at
the eleventh hour" meeting of the
organization on Saturday provided for
every possible war claim which might
be made on the city of Kenosha before
closing the books of the Fund which
has made Kenosha famous. The last
chapter in the interesting history of
the fund was formally written on
Saturday afternoon at the meeting at
the Elks Club.
Appropriations were passed that will
dispose of all the funds on hand and
also the balance of the estimated re-
ceipts for the four months period end
ing April 30th. rThe end'' viii be
affixed to this wonderful record Of pat
riotic endeavor at another meeting
to be held when all funds due to April
30th are collected.
Prominent among the appropriations
made for the final opening of the war
chest was the endowment of memorial
bed in the French hospital at Rheims
for the care of the children of France
left destitute by the war. The work is
being carried on under the direction of
the American Fund for the French
Wounded, the first war relief organiza-
ton to be established in Kenosha. I5
is fitting that among the last appro-
priatiens of the Kenosha Fund should
be one which recognized the activities
Of the first agency of mercy formed in
Kenosha attire the beginning of the war.
An application for funds made by the
Associated Charities of Kenosha was re-
fused on the grounds that there was
no way in which the work could be
construed as war relief. The directors,
while they were in favor Of helping the
Charities, felt that an appropriation for
this purpose would violate the pledge
made to the subscribers that the money
collected would be used entirely for the
war purposes. It is believed that with
the discontinuance Of the PatriOts'
Fund for several weeks, the Charities
viii be able 10 find other means to
finance their work.
The closing meeting of the fund was
made more memorable by the fact that
Clark s. Judd, the originator of the
Fund and the man who more than any
other took the abstract ideas Of Keno
shans on relief work and welded them
into concrete, practical and success
full plan, was able to be present and
take part In the last deliberations Of
the board. Mr.. Judd has been called
away from Kenesha on business for
several weeks past and the committee
made the most of the opportunity to
have him present at the meeting on
Saturday, when he was in the city for
a short visit.
The meeting foreshadowed the final
report of the fund when it will be
shown that during the less than two
years that it has been organized the
fund has collected and disbursed half
a million dollars and all of this has
been done without the campaigns
and Juror attendant In many other
cities Of the nation.
The balance on hand and what NAV be
collected, viii be disposed of as fol-
lows: Red Cross for local work,
$15,o00O0; Army and Navy Club, W.
%. G. s., $2,5oO.o0; Girl Scouts,
100000; kindergarten unit for desti-
tute war children $4,000; A. F.. W.
for memorial hospital in France,
100000
Any other balance which may accrue
will be spent under the supervision of
Ed. Sullivan, president of the County
Council of Defense; Alfred Terrell,
chairman of the local Red Cross; W. D.
Martin, chairman of the Army and
Navy Club, and A. Fl. Lance, chairman
of the Patriots Fund committee.
The following members were present:
Adam Berger, DR. J. Il. Cleary, Adolph
Epstein, Jos. Funck, Chas. j. Huber,
Clark s. Judd, A. Fl. Lance, Adolph
Meier, E. T. O,Brien, Chas. Pfennig,
and Clifford n Randall