South Bend news-times., 1915-02-14

BY Genevievc Champ Clark.
Master OF human destinies am I.
Fame love and fortune on my foot
steps wait,
Cities and fields I walk; ] penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and, pass
ing by
HoveI. and mart, and palace, soon or
late
1 knock unbidden once at every gate.
1 sleeping. wake. If feasting, rise be-
fore
I turn away.
1t is the hour Of fate
And they who follow me reach every
state
Mortals desire. and conquer every
Save death; but those who doubt or
Condemned to failure, penury and
woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly i'm
plore
] answer not. and I return no more"
ingalls,.
Now is the American womans
golden opportunity for practical
patriotism. Perhaps some people may
think that it is grossly material to
say that the European war has given
us a glorious opportunity for prac-
tical patriotism. These same people
think that we should be paying our
attention rather TO the stricken
countries of Europe. Let us help
them when we can and as much as
we can but let us not forget that un-
like charity patriotism is a strictly
home industry" Surely none of
these people would accuse Mrs
Wigs of the cabbage patch of being
a gross materialist. Indeed, when L
remember the qualities OF hot water
that she added to the soup which
furnished nOurishment to the little
Wiggses L think she was both an
idealist and an optimist. Mrs. Wigs
evolved the theory of the hair lip.
The followers Of this philosophy pc
heve that there is no situation so bad
that II wouldn't be worse if we had
hair lips.
So. out of this nerve racking, heart
breaking war the American woman
has the opportunity TO free herself
frS:sl the European mania.
Back i'm Hands of Women.
To recur to the days of the Pill
grim fathers, without which no story
is complete, not since the days Of
early settlement of our country have
the women had such wonderful Op-
pOrtunity for helping home industries.
In those days they established them.
The women were-in shOrt-the
home industries. Long since have the
manufacturers passed out of their
n nd They have passed on with
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daughters hands but their sons and
their sons sons And i'm the place of
the loom in every modest home with
the women of the household as the
manufacturers we find stupendOus
machinery lodged in great factories
and worked by thousands OF men and
women The world is a circular af-
fair. so. in a circle. it has come back
until il is the women of the country
in whose hands the present economic
situation really rests. Their grand
mothers bore their economic respOn-
sibilites well. But in the generation
in which we have been devOting our
attention TO bridge whist we may
have forgotten our RESPONSIBILITIES
We may not recognize them but they
are the same. Now there is a great
movement on foot. II is called the
made in L. : A movement Ii is
backed by men and women whose in
terests are patriotic. These men and
women are organizing in order that
this symbol may represent excellence
and may not be the means OF putting
ShOddy goods on the market. The
women viii be entirely willing TO buy
things made in L. 5. A" and the
people who have this movement in
charge are determined that the
patriotism Of American women shall
be justified by getting high class,
standard goods. II is poor patriotism
90 buy shoddy goods made in L. :.
A" because il is made in L. :. A The
true patriotism is 10 help your manu-
facturer To make his goods superior
to any other. And the duty of the
manufacturer and producer is 10 en-
courage us 90 be patriotic by each
one. not allowing any man OF any
country 20 excel him in his own line.
Father Calls IL Reciprocity.
think that this is what my father
would call reciprocity" / asked
him the definition OF that word once
and his answer was you pat my