The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-26
COOPER PLEDGES
AID TO KENOSHA
Congressman Says He Will
Support New POstOffice
Project Here.
HOLDS OUT HOPES
In a Public Answer to Petitions
From Kenosha Congressman
Explains the Situation.

Aid to Kenosha in securing a new
post Office building in keeping with
the civic center plan was again prom
Used today by Congressman Henry
Allen Cooper in letter sent to this
paper in answer to the many requests
which the congressman has received
from constituents here regarding the
projects. Several weeks ago Congress
man Cooper in conference with City
Manager G. M. Osborn promised his
support to the new post Office build
ing plan for Kenosha; his letter today
sets forth more in detail his desire
to aid Kenosha along this line.
The letter reads as follows:
Racine, Wisconsin.
Editor Evening News,
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Dear Sir:--
In view of the large number of let
ters, and clippings from your paper,
which are coming to r1e from con-
stituents urging the need for new
post Office building at Kenosha, and
because of the impossibility of my
answering all of these communications,
/ address to you this letter contain
ing in substance what l have written,
in reply, to some of these cores
pondents in the hope that you will
print it for the information of all
of your readers.
Knew Needs of Kenoshs.
I was glad to receive these COM
munications although they were not
needed in order to enable me to un
derstand that Kenosha should have a
new post Office building. have long
been familiar with this fact. Several
years ago, at the request of prominent
business men of Kenosha, I twice Sc
cured in Omnibus Public Building
bills, which at different sessions
passed the house, a provision appro-
priating $90,000.00 to erect an addi-
ton to the present post Office buid-
ing in your city. These bills, how
ever failed in the senate.
1 was the author of the bill which
was incorporated in an Omnibus Pub
lie Building fund and appropriated
$75,00000 to construct the present
building. 1t may interest you to know
that the late Mr.. 2. G. Simmons recon-
mended to me that the Kenosha fed
eral building be modelled on the plan
Of the enc at Evanston Il have never
yet seen that Structure) and that, ac-
cordingly, went to the Office of the
supervising architect of the treasury,
asked to see the picture and the plans
of the EvanstoA building, and, after
examining these, requested that SINH
lar plans be used for the post Office
building at Kenosha.
Postal Business Increased Here.
At that time the post Office at Ke-
nosha did only postal business; but
now it does, and for many years has
been doing, not only an increasing
postal business, but also (since the
advent of the parcel post) an express
ana froight business. In other WORDS,
the business and requirements of the
Office have been utterly changed.
You know, of course, that ever since
the World War, congress has refused
to make any appropriation for a new
post Office building anywhere in the
I'm ted States. Kenosha is, therefore,
no greater sufferer than are count
less other cities all over the country
which are just as badly handicapped
by grossly inadequate postal facilities.
Expects Omnibus Bill.
You will remember that I drew and
had passed through the house, during
the last congress, a resolution calling
upon Secretary Mellon to report to
the house the best terms and condi-
tions on which the government could
dispose of its present post Office
property in Kenosha and erect new
post Office building on the site re-
served for that purpose in the new
plan for civic center; and that, in
accordance with my resolution, Secre-
tary Mellon made such a report The
new building should, in my judgment,
stand on this reserved site.
l look for an Omnibus Public Build
ing bill to become a law during the
coming session of congress and am
confident that, if enacted, it will con-
tain provision for the greatly
needed new building at Kenosha.
Yours truly,