The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-05
REAL
AN AWAKENED CONSCIENCE - REAL :
ACCOMPLISHMENT OF 1921 =


'oThe year has passed and gone, and with it
many happy throng of golden dreams.
It's mark is on each brow, it's shadow in
each heart"
Kenosha people who reflect on the past are
going to regard the year 1921, which passes IN
to history tonight with varying emotions.
Many will believe that it is good radiance of
bad rubbish and will heave sigh of relief that
it is over. They look back on long periods OF
unemployment, periods of business reOrganlza-
ton and price adjustments which have not
brought the fullest possible returns to the men
who works or the man who invests his capital
that others may work.
With cities, conditions are largely a matter
of comparison and it can be said that by this
measure Kenosha did not fare badly in 1921.
We had our troubles like all the rest of them but
we did not have the bread lines, we did not
have business failure and while there were
times when work was slack and things looked
dark for the most part people came through
the year without serious suffering.
The city has made notable advances during
the year. The public has been brought to con-
slider new form of city government and while
it may be that the people in the majority have
not been convinced that the time has come to
give more serious thought to the government
of the municipality the public conscience has
been awakened along this line The coming
of the ballot to women, and the entrance of
women into the real work of political and gov
ernmental life has been one of the notable
accomplishments of the year.
The completion of the Main street bridge has
been contribution to the city beautiful and
the city better than has been made by the city
in years.
By far the outstanding accomplishment of
the year in Kenosha was the Grand Jury in
vestigation Former years had shown the need
of it but an awakened conscience in 1921
brought it into being. That investigation may
have not cleaned up all of the crime and law
violation in the county but it did much to re-
store the fair name of Kenosha city and county
1t has brought new conditions in many lines. 1t
has put fear into the hearts of men who at one
time believed the law was joke and that the
cleverest man was the man who could violate
the law and get away twith it. This investiga-
ton and the things which followed it have
brought sorrow in some circles but the sorrow
was frightened by the fact that Individual
sacrifice was for the advance of the public well
fare and the betterment in Kenosha.
What ever else the new year may hold for
Kenosha it is to be hoped that it will hold a
resolution that there will be no backward step
in this work of making the law mean some
thing 1t is to be hoped that the conscience of
the public awakened in 1921 will demand in 1922
the continuance of the work so we'll begun with
the understanding that from year to year this
work will go on until Kenosha county will be-
come county which will be kno 81 for it's re-
spect for law rather than one foN it's disregard
of law
People will go into new year with the con-
viction that regardless of the crepe hangers
that the world is brewing better and that the
people are coming to feel in their hearts the
The outlook is pleasing one and it is GER
tain that with a revival of business and with an
awakened conscience among the people that
1922 is going to be year which will prove of
greatest interest to Kenosha and one that will
bring great advancement of Kenosha as a city
and great advancement of the interests of it's
individual inhabitants.
1t is with this feeling that we say to all
readers of the Evening News, Most Cordially
We Wish you Bright and Happy New Year"
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