Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-05-17
A SERMONETTE
ON PATRIOTISM
How Will You Feel When the Boys
Return From "Over There" if You
Have Done Less Than Your Best?

quite merrily. You see, it's like this
My innerself don't always approve
of what | do, and doesn't hesitate to
tell me so either. This scrap began
recently something like this: l was
sitting alone, tolerably contented with
the world at large and feeling pretty
complacent over the fact that had
been able to carry our 3rd Liberty
Loan cover the Top" Suddenly my
innerself awoke and said: "By the
way, BILL Now when it begins
conversation like that | know from
sad experience that my complacency
is going to get a hard bump. SO |
answered, none too pleasantly: "Well,
WHAT" "Bill, your Uncle Samuels
calling you. Can't you hear the bu-
gle calling, getting palmer every
day." Nope" answered, "besides,
| am doing my bit selling bonds" as .
that so? Why, you poor fish, any
body can sen bonds" "Why didn't
anybody do it, them" "Well, one
reason is, because you were given the
opportunity; and if it hadn't been for
a prod from me, you would have side
stepped it, too" "Well, subscribed
to the Red Cross, didn't II" "Sure,
you did! One Dollars worth Now
| suppose you expect to sit down and
bark in the sunshine Whole Dol
lars worth, through the magnificent
generosity you accidentally displayed
in moment of observation-disclosures.
"Well, / served through the Spanish
American War and the PHILIPPINES
Instruction, didn't l." "Sure! An
cient History. That was yesterday.
This is today, and tomorrow is COM
ing right along, while you sit and
twiddle your thumbs. Shake a leg.
Do something" "But | am doing
something. I'm taking care of my
homestead for one thing, isn't that
something" "Yeah, you are taking
care of your property But, listen,
Bill, what if every man and woman
in the United States just stayed at
home and took care of their own sell
fish interests? How long would it be
before the Hun would be knocking at
the gates of New York;" "Well, Pm
too old" "For the army, yes, but not
for other work just as necessary
as the army. We've got to feed and
clothe and stand behind our army.
What are you doing towards helping
along this line? What right have you
to sit down to three square meals a
day." Hold on right there" said l.,
Heaven help you for liar if you
, call this square meals. Even old man
Hoover himself wouldn't ask me to
Hooverize." Square or scant would
mt make any difference" said my in
herself "You have absolutely no
right to consume if you don't pro-
duce. Your Uncle Samuel needs every
. available ounce of man-power in one
producer and are able bodied, you are
a Stacker" "I'm Did if I'm a
, Stacker" shouted. you've shouted
and talked and waved the flag, sold
bonds; bought one. All Of which is
a good beginning. But, are you con-
S tent to let it rest at that? What il
. all our boys had stopped there, and
U returned to their daily lives? Europe
|; is crying Come Before it is too Late.
v They are fighting for what we, as
n Americans, hold dear 1t is right and
}, just that we should help bear the
7 brunt of the battle as well as help pay
i the cost. Are you a loyal American
!" or only parasite? Are you willing
. to give your energies towards help
# ing sustain your Uncle Samuel now
;. when he needs it, or are you going tc
e sit idly by and sap some of that en-
d ergy from your Uncle Samuel? YOU
are only one, it is true, but in the
= United States there are thousands
| more like you, all sapping away al
the vital energy of our country by
looking to that country for food anC
| clothing and the things of life anC
giving nothing but value received il
return, You have to give more thar
you take, else there will be no sur
plus II ho,d and sustain our brothers
in France. This is time when if yol
really are an American in deed and il
truth, it isn't sufficient that you pay
for what you eat. You have to do
something to replace what you e.
so mat those who represent you II
| the trenches need not go hungry W,
may be millionaire, but even if yoI
! give all your millions to Uncle Sar
that won't let you out, for your mil
lions will be spent in the tick of the
clock, but still you are consuming anC
not producing. When your million il
gone will the war stop? If it is spen
for ammunition, what then? win oui
boys have to finish the war with clubs
and pocket knives, because you have