The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-02-12
Hurry Up Kenoshs,.

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Kenosha as municipality Is going
to have to hurry to keep in the front
rank with the rapidly expaning indus
tries which make up the heart of the
city. Nearly every one of the large
industries are going to demand more
men to man the trenches, more women
to tend the machines and Kenosha must
do her part in keeping up with them.
In the next year Kenosha is going to
increase her industrial output by a
large per cent. How large is largely
dependent on what Kenosha is going
to do to help in this great growth. The
city must not hang back but it must
give its support to every movement
which will aid in properly taking care
of vast number of new people. This
means the building of homes. Homes
are the first demand of men and women
who want to come to a city to work.
You can not pack them into hotels or
tenements. You must offer them a
chance to live while they work.
Kenosha is interested-desperately
interested-in the growth of these big
plants. 1t means that "Greater
Kenosha" that leaders of civic life
have been talking about for years and
years 1t is coming and coming fast
but the one drawback is that the city
is not developing fast enough to
take care of it.
The United States census just COM
pleted will probably show that Kenosha
is now a city of forty-fve thousand
people. In another year it will be1wel
over the fifty thousand mark provided
the city does its part.
That part means the proper extension
Of sewers and water mains, the build
ing of paved streets where they are
most needed, the solving of plan for
extension of street railway service so
that the people who must build homes
on the broad acres adjoining the city
may build them with the assurance
that it will be possible for them to get
to work in the morning and get home in
the evening without being forced to
walk the whole or most of the distance.
Kenosha can not afford to longer
overlook its opportunity. The city
slept last year while one big factory
was grabbed by another city. Other
cities are now taking big branches of
local industries, 1t may not mean that
these are lost to Kenosha. 1t is possible
that the demands of the business of
the companies made it necessary to To-
cate them in other cities, but nothing
must be allowed to slip out of Kenosha
which can be kept here.
Right now is the time to take an in
ventory Of what Kenosha needs Anti
cipate the making of the formal plan
of the city by making a plan of imme
date needs and seeing to it that these
needs are carried out.
1t may be necessary to borrow money
and issue bonds to carry out the i'm
provements necessary and if it is there
should be no hesitancy to go right
ahead. The city that is being mort
gagged is greater city Of Kenosha and
its possibilities warrant the men on the
cSanta skSwins the idea of real
vision of the future and Ejlding to
meet that vision,
The people have every reason to con-
slider this future of Kenosha right now.
In month we will be naming officials
for new year. They must be men who
have the brains and the vision to carry
out big projects ana who can recognize
the need Of these big projects being
carried out, Just any man picked up
off the street is not fit for city official
this year. The people must get the
best in the city. Men who are able to
handle these offices should be willing
to volunteer to accept these response
bilities. If there ever was a time in
the history of Kenosha when it de-
manded the best of its manhood it is
right now. In considering the coming
elections we must consider the needs
Of the city--the demand for the city to
meet the growth of the industries which
have made it great and to meet those
demands fully. No man with short
civic vision should be elected to office
this year. This is most important
thing for every voter in Kenosha
to consider.
If you want Kenosha to grow in a
man IS way you must have men direct
the destinies of the city. There is no
other way for Kenosha to keep up with
the procession of progress. Not to keep
up means to fall back. We can't afford
to fall back now. We are taking a
commanding place and we must not
only hold it but for the future make
it more commanding.