The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
REAL PATRIOTIC TEACHING.

REAL PATRIOTIC TEACHING.
1t is to be hoped that Kenosha women who
wear the badge of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution will get the real significance OF
the continental congress. which closed in Wash
ington on Saturday.
At this meeting emphasis was laid on the
fact that there is a great work to be done by
the women of the nation. They were called
upon by the First Lady Of the Lane" and by
a half a score of other speakers to accept the
responsibility of making the nation better; OF
bringing out the enforcement OF law; OF drlv-
ing crooks from high places and putting hon
est men in their place; of defending the con-
stitution against assault and protecting the ma
ton from the onslaught of the radical and the
breaker of national life.
The Daughters of the American Revolution
may not need any exact accomplishment to JUS
tifv the existence of the organization, but II
the plans promulgated at the Washington con-
ference are carried out, the organization will
have rendered to the nation the most distin-
guished patriotic service that could be rendered
by any organization
The best possible way for women to aid in
making the government better and in defend
ing the traditions of the nation is to make their
influence felt at the ballot box. Election day IS
one day that every woman, no matter whether
she is daughter Ol TIE hGVOluC1OIl, q 11IC4AA-
Der of the "Womans Relief Corps" "War
Mother or member of any of these other
splendid organizations, can make her influence
count
The way to get better government and more
intelligent government is to vote for it. The
coming of the franchise to American woman
hood has opened to it great privilege and
with it great responsibility.
At the last election in Kenosha-an election
in which great questions of city, state and ma
tional life were to be decided-less than one
sixth of the women voters went to the polls.
There has never been an election in Kenosha
f in which fifty per cent of the women voters
came to the polls to go on record as being IN
favor of better government.
The woman vote is just as powerful as that
of the male members of the community. 1t
counts just as much on the tally sheet. Tt is
/ true that many men in Kenosha do not care to
claim the right of franchise.
This fact just opens wider the gateway of
opportunity to the women Of the city to show
that they can end will control the government
and make it a better government.
During the coming months the destiny of a
great nation is going to be at stake. The wo-
men of the nation can say whether or not that
government is going to be in line with the ira
ditions of the fathers or a government dictated
by gossip and SANDER.
We know that in the hearts of the woman
hood of the nation in the hearts of the women
of Kenosha, there is the desire and determine
ton to have good government. The only way
to make that heart interest count is to see to
it that it is expressed at the polling places.
The well-wisher Of the government may be
! of some doubtful value but the good worker is
the one who really counts.
Intelligent leadership for Kenosha women is
greatly to be desired The Daughters of the
American Revolution are additionally fitted for
such leadership. They can make no surer proof
| of their right to have in them the blue blood
of heroes and patriots of years gone by than
in their active work to protect the nation which
those forefathers and grandmothers founded.
| 1t is no uncertain call to service, and it is a
call which cannot be denied if these women
want to live up to the traditions of their organ
ization. They belong to a great patriotic or
ganization and they should every one of them,
be leaders in this new patriotic demand for
service to the nation.
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