The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-10-26
BEING A PART OF A COMMUNITY

BEING A BAEE1 OF "A i.
Being part Of community entails some
thing on you beyond accepting the privileges
that the community gives you. If you expect
to be real part of Kenosha you must expect
part of the responsibilities People who expect
to take all the benefits Of communicable
schools for the children, the churches, the
paved streets, the protection to health and
home and the other things which come with
community life-and yet refuse to bear any Of
the burdens are properly classed as parasites
Every man or woman who expects to have the
privileges of community life is properly re-
sponsible for certain moral and financial bur-
dens.
This week Kenosha seeks to fill the chest of
the Service League and this is moral and fl
nancial responsibility which should appeal to
every man and woman in the city This is not
something which affects only few people in
the city but a great philanthropic, educational
movement in which every one living in the city
should have part. The Service League asks
support not, in order that some fad or some
amusement may be provided but in order that
the city make take care of it's unfortunates In
vestment in the Service League and it's work
has proved an excellent investment in the past
and it is going to be just as valuable in the flu
ture. It is properly community movement
and one which should be supported by the en-
tire community and not by a few people.
It is to be regretted that the state law does
not make it possible for the expenses of this
league to be paid directly out of the city treas
ury thus making the division of the expense in.
keeping with the other expenses of the city.
The state law does not permit that and the
Service League is forced to appeal for individu-
al gifts in order to make certain the proper
functioning of the organization.
The Service League is an organization which
does lot of things and which makes it pos
sible for other people to do a lot of things. 1t
Is not only an organization for the relief of
people in distress but it is an educational body
which is driving the shame of poverty out of
Kenosha by teaching people who may be tenn
porarily in need to learn the way to self-sup-
port. 1t takes money to relieve the distress
but it also gives good advice to point out the
certain way of removing the cause of this dis
tress. 1t drives out despair and in it's place it
puts hope. The Service League does not make
a business of making paupers but it does make
a business of converting people on the edge of
pauperism into self-respecting self-supporting
people. It's work is not charity in the old idea
of that word but it is the charity which builds
better people and better community. It's
work is not for any section of the city or any
class of people. It's great builder Of better
citizenship and it's work should appeal to ALL
The per capita cost of supporting it's work is
small but the per capita contribution to this
work has been correspondingly small. The
work should appeal strongly as a community
work and as such for the support of every one
in the community. The small sum asked as a
budget for the organization should be raised
without solicitation. It's your work and mine
and you and should dig down into our pockets
and provide for its support. Just consider the
matter from this angle and decide that you
want to do your part of the obligation of the
community, Don't wait for someone to come
and beg a little monty from you but send in
your check with the understanding that you are
not a parasite but one of the people who wants
to pay for community benefits by bearing his
share of the community responsibilities
If you-make it an Individual matter-will
just play fair with yourself and fair with the
community which is offering you lot of pri-
vileges>a great fund of money will come in for
the support of this wonderful work in Keno
sha
Investment in the Service League work is an
investment in better Kenosha of the future
Hurry UP and send in your contribution.
ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT.
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