The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-21
GOOD JUDGMENT. NEEDED.


This is the year that the people of the wards
of the city and the towns of the county elect
"Town Chairman" for the three-year period.
These men are going. to be the members OF the
Kenosha County Board during that period and
there is the very best reasons for the people
to give considerable consideration as to whom
they elect to Office.
Good Judgment, and little real interest on
the part of the voters at the coming spring
election will be a real service to the whole
county The time has passed when the county,
board is a secondary organization With the
growth Of the county in population and in II
nancial resources this board has become board
which handles millions of dollars annually
where some time ago it handled only few
thousand.
A good county board will be of great value
to the county in the three-year period The
board should be made up of mature men OF ex-
perience along the right lines. There should
be on it men of affairs who will have some per-
sonal interest in what the board does and how
the money of the county is spent.
The county board place on the ticket should
be given serious consideration and the place
should not be left open for any one who hap
pens to take out petitions. In every ward and
in every town men who pay the taxes and
want to have the part of the taxes turned over
to the county intelligently spent should get to-
gether and see to it that the right kind OF
man is named
The board is engaged in the construction of
court house and we are of the opinion that
it would be unwise to throw lot of the mem
bers out of Office just to give places to some one
else. The men should be left where they are
unless it is clearly shown that the board and
it's work can be improved by electing some one
else. These men have been closely connected
with the building of the court house. They
have thetmatter well in hand and they should
have a chance to finish the work. The defeat
of some of the members of the board would
mean the reorganization of this work by new
committee These men have done pretty well
as far as they have gone and if possible they
should be permitted to finish up the work.
Undoubtedly some of the men who have been
most active on the board will have opposition
for reelection but this opposition should notget
anywhere unless it can show good reason for
the defeat of members of the board and I'm
less it can guarantee to the people better serv-
ice
1t is not the best possible judgment to change
horses while crossing stream and it is not the
best possible Judgment to change a county
board while building court house unless there
is pretty good assurance that the present
board member is incompetent
AS we~~have said before, Kenosha county
wants the best possible men on the board for
the next three years, and if 1t is to get them,
the people must give more than passing con-
sideration to who is nominated for these offices.
IF the supervisor in your district is a good
one help him hold his office until this big work
is finished up. If he is not worthy of public
confidence and capable of good service go out
and get man that is and elect him.