The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-19
A. wonderful Program

To Eliminate crime ana EoVerty.
To Establish Independence and Pros
perity.
This is the slogan Of the drive for
the service fund in Kenosha and if you
20 through the whole category Of ways
ia which money can be spent it would
be impossible to find any better way
TO spend it. We mean your money as
well as ours. The money of all the
people of Kenosha. 1T may be that
these people are not poor that they
are not sick, (" not the victims OF
either "crime'' or "poverty" and
that they are not independent" and
'prosperous. Just the same II is a
wonderful way to spend the money Of
the people who are in the class which
suffers from none of the ailment that
the submerged tenth is heir to.
Conditions change some time and
change rapidly. You may not always
be rich, you may be sick some time,
you may even come to the place where
crime and poverty are a handicap to
your ambitions and where your indie.
pendence and prosperity may be in
danger. That is the one personal
side to the great question: Why |
should help the Service Fund" There
is another personal side to it and that
is the effect that the proper working
out of the plans Of the Service Fund
is going to have upon your neighbor
and upon your city
It may be that there are some old
fashioned people who still believe that
they are not their brothers keeper. !"
They belong to a civilization--or lack
of civilization--which is rapidly fad
ing out under the new reign Of human
helpfulness and better understand
ing of human responsibilities.
The Service Fund is not being col
lected with view Of helping condi-
tions in some distant country lit is not
suggested as a panacea for the suffer-
ings left by world war or pestilence or
famine but it is call to the people Of
Kenosha to solve intimate home town
problems and solve them in big way.
1t is pointing the way TO better city
and more healthful city-more health
full for the body as we'll as more health
full for the moral development Of the
people.
Il l,o he nj.
ways taken good care of them. Some
times one may have thought that it has
taen such good care of them that it
was popular to be "poorv but under
the new rule of things poverty is not
encouraged in Kenosha. The way to
eliminate poverty is to teach people
that poverty is not necessary. Poverty
unnecessary poverty--breeds crime.
Tt is the mother and father of disre-
gard for laws, it brings about discon-
tent and disturbs the normal condi-
tions of life with new and hard ele-
ment to deal with.
1t is not possible that all poverty
can be eliminated, that halt can be
called to all crime and that independ-
ence and prosperity can be handed out
in prize packages but the money col
lected through the service fund can do
much to show people the fact that pow
erty is unnecessary and to instill ideas
of thrift where Encouragement had
firmly lodged ideas Of poverty and de-
pendence.
Its worth more to teach people the
way to get away from poverty than
TO give aims and that is the big prob
lem of the Service League No
greater service is possible for any peo-
pie.
The work Of this league, the work Of
the Kenosba hospital aud the work Of
st. GATHERINGS Hospital are worthy
of every possible consideration Of the
people of Kenosha. These institutions
have proven their worth in the COM
munity They have been the protectors
of the city. Hospitals are just as much
a necessity as paved streets and sewers
and if we must choose between perma-
nently improved streets and enlarged
and properly operated hospitals the
hospitals are the most necessary.
These institutions are not private
institutions. Both Of them swing open
wide their doors in answer to the knock
of the unfortunate and they give free
ly of their ministrations without quib-
BILE and without inquiry as to color or
creed.
The promoters of the Service Fund
are asking only a little from great and
prosperous Kenosha Fifty thousand
dollars will mean much to the success
Of these institutions This is just a
little over dollar apiece for the peo-
pic Of Kenosha and the share that has
been assigned to you is fair share
These institutions viii accept your
money but they want with it your in
terest. They want to know that YOU
have contributed little from your own
life to make their life more secure and
to make the work that they have done