The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-26
Miss Edna Miclaai's Essagy,
9Th A, "NNar Savings

Our Country IS the hest country II TIE
world. How 80 we know his We know
that or country Is the lest in the
world. because il this country, we have
lie, !therry, AMI the pursuit Of happiness.
In the other countries they have life
as we'll as in this country, because God
cives is our life. But III tile other
countries. they have not liberty. The
people living IN most Of the other conn-
tries are under kings, queens or other
rulers whom they must obey: therefore,
they cannot be as happy as we can be
in this country, because they have laws
to obey, and the poor people have no
chance to prosper, because when one man
has trade he has no right to change it
without permission. In this country
il man is carpenter, and he wishes
to become farmer, he is free to do so,
because we have our liberties. AS this
country is so much better than the
others, many people have left their ma
tive land to make their home here. We
all love this grand Country called the
United States Of America, and as it is
now at war, me must serve it and to
serve it we must make sacrifices. We
know that the soldiers and nurses serve
and make sacrifices for our common
country, but that is not enough. Every
one can and must make some sacrifice
to help win this war, because our Gov
eminent needs: LIST, men, soldiers, sail
ors, carpenters, engineers, laborers;
End. guns, cannons, cartridges, horses,
auto-trucks; 3rd. clothes, shoes, socks,
hats, helmets, blankets, tents; 4th. doe
tors, nurses, medicine, ambulances,
bandages; 9Th. food to feed the doe
tors, soldiers and nurses; 9th. Ships to
bring people and food across the
ocean; 7th. Money to buy ships, food,
clothes, guns and medicine. Every man
and woman can help this noble country
in some way, some by working for the
Government, some by saving clothes and
food, and some by lending money to
their government. The children also
can make sacrifices to help their coun-
try. Every child likes candy, and ev-
cry candy is made with sugar, and as
sugar is scarce now, and we must send
it to our boys in France, it would help
very much, if every child would stop
eating candy, and with the money which
he would spend on candy, buy Thrift
Stamps. There are about 100000 school
children in Louisiana, and each child
eats about IA of an ounce of candy ev-
cry day, on an average; now if every
child would give up candy, this would
save about $40 pounds Of sugar day.
Children can help their country also by
making their shoes, hats and clothes last
longer. Also by doing work for their
parents, and by economizing at school,
and with the money they save in this
way, buy Thrift Stamps.
After we have won this Great Victory,
which we will win with the help of God,
everybody will want to say that they
helped to win the war. Now there is a
good way for every one Of us to do our
bit-buy Thrift Stamps. Every quar-
ter that you now put in Thrift Stamps
will help to win the war. Do not spend
your money on sweets and Injuries, be-
cause if you spend your money on them
You hc',' our enemies, and there is no
holy n this country who wants to help
the enemies Of his own country. On the
contrary, everybody wants to help I'm
Gle Sam to win the war, because if he
wins, everybody viii be happy.