Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-30
Practical Service To Country Is
Dedication


No man is SO obscure, no woman so weak, no
youth so immature, that each cannot render real
service to the country in this crisis.
There is, Of course, the obvious method of enlist
ing in army navy for those of the proper military
ages. But the proportion of such men is relatively
small just as the proportion of men needed in the
active military and naval service is relatively small
Ways innumerabe in individual service remain.
subscriptions to the Liberty Loan, large and
small, are needed. Every dollar put into war
bond is dollar put into patriotic channel of use
fitness
Every pound Of bread saved from wastage is a
pound of bread potentially put into the service of
america and her Allies in war. 1t may seem that
this pound after all is destined to waste, that, saved
from the dnnertable scraps it will not actually 60
back where it is more needed, but such is not the
case. The habit of saving, the habit of community
economy, the habit of national thrift, are developed
by the countless small individual efforts to emin-
ate small, everyday wastes
After few days of saving, the householder, the
cook, the marketer, learn to buy iudieiously.
A city whose individuals have learned home
economy consumes probably not more than two
thirds much as city whose individuals buy, eat
and throw away with reckless prodigaIity. Trans
late the individual saving into the terms of hun
dred million of people and the net result is enor-
nous saving.
The "plant a garden" movement likewise has a
deeper benefit than the raising Of vegetable crops 1t
is return to simpler habits of living than Amer.
leans have engaged in for generation Your veget-
able garden will yield not only radshes onions.
potatoes beans and the ike-it will yield dividends
in health. If Honolulu's home gardening did moth
ing but get multitude of fabby people from their
seats in automobiles out into Gods fresh air and
Wholesome sunshine and in tune with the fragrance
and intimate, sweet secrets of Mother Earth the
movement would be worth while.
Many Honolulan today is rising an hour earlier
than usual, donning old clothes, and stepping out
into vegetable garden in the COOL fresh morning,
for an hour or SO Of enjoyable work.
And, as in the table economies, such habits
thus engendered net the nation q rich harvest of
American thrift and simplicity Of living = 90"
As to the participation in first.aid and Red Cross
work, the patriotism of this is instantly obvious.
For the women these classes offer information which
Is as useful in peace as in war. And the sweetness
Of service mends dispositions even as the JOY of be-
ing busy drives away ennui and hypochondria
No mother has a home so humble that there is no
room there for the teaching of patriotism by exam
pie For patriotism is as much honesty and kind.
ness of heart and devotion to family tiesas it il the
leading of charge or the commanding of battle.
ship.
No child at the age of reasoning is below he
age of patriotic endeayor. In school, such things
little courtesies such things studious atten-
ton to books such things as keeping the schooroom
clean and bright and attractive such things help
ing the teacher through her long day-al these are
little patriotisms which, added up make the larger
patriotism that ought to be cherished by every
scho0lboy and every schoolgirl. - &
Memorial Day is day of national dedication. 1t
is also day which brings to us realizing sense Of
the many ways in which we candedicate small serv-
ices to our country In fact there is no legitimate
act of our lives which cannot be turned to account
for the advancement of our great nation along the
right lines of usefulness to the world. J ~ o.