The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-04-12
YOUR LOYALTY TO
C0UNTRYS CAUSE
ARE YOU MAKING SACRIFICES
EQUIVALENT TO THOSE OF
OUR SOLDIERS?
ALL CAN FIND WAY TO HELP
Make No Ridiculous Reservations;
Hold Back Nothing; Share Your
Money, Your Food and Your Cloth,
ing to Aid the Great War.
(By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN, DE
WATER of the ViQilantes.)

a good woman was discussing tn
rules of the food administration.
i am doing lot for my country,
she said, but there are certain trifie
that l do not intend to give up. Sucl
as white bread and bacon"
NO." she said in response to m.
astonished look, Il mean to have white
bread when / want it. Why should
eat corn bread and other substitutes
ike white bread just as much AZ
the soldiers and sailors do. And, any.
way, what difference can it make If
use little white flour and few
slices or bacon every day? 1 am only
one person."
Only one of millions! Suppose they
all took that attitudel
Il am no Stacker" she added. II
work at the Red Cross four afternoons
OF each week, and 1 have made dozens
| OF knitted things for the soldiers. But
draw the line at bacon and white
bread and rolls
Is this patriotism? I remembered
the text: These things ought We to
nave done, and not to have left the
other undone"
Another good woman was talking of
The next Liberty Loan drive.
WELL" she declared, 'they need not
come to me for helpl am a business
woman, and L have lost money on
heatless Mondays, and since the gov
eminent has made me do that l do not
propose to help with their Liberty loan.
l love my country, and l am a Red
Cross worker, and all that-but there
is a limit
Should Be No Limit.
A limit! Is there any limit to what
she would do If her nearest and dear
est were fighting for his life? Would
she stop to argue that she had given \
the suffered expensive wooden under.
wear, but that she drew the line at the,
remuneration Of certain comforts so
that he might have them? Would she
be considered a good wife or mother
or daughter if she held this attitude
towards husband, child or parent?
Let us stop all these ridiculous res
u fdtiOIo, llicSt tdlhS VI HudL we VIII
do and won't do. Let us hold back !
Do the women who are send
Ing their sons abroad hold back any
thing? Do these sons grudge risking
their beautiful youth, their lives, for
their country? Yet some people hest
tate at white bread and bacon, and
refuse to buy Liberty bonds!
The last-named hesitation is not only
but it is absurd. Later
we will know the meaning of the ex-
preston, "What I give / have" The
money we invest In Liberty bonds will
De ours when other money that we
low have is gone.
All such talk as 1 have quoted is
unpatriotic. Let us give as
'ur sons give-ungrgdgingly, proudly,
because we are counted worthy to
make sacrifices for the greatest cru
ade against evil that the world has
yer known.
Make 1t An Honorable Service.
What would the Son of Righteous
ess say to our hesitation about trifiing
Ixuries? He died for his cause. We
7omeI are not called upon to do that.
Some of us may wish that we were.)
tut we are called to sacrifice our
slfishness for 1t.
l am not making light of the wonder
IL work done by those women who
Ill at Red Cross stations; am not
the noble and vast army of
ives, mothers, sisters and sweet
carts who stop at-hothing in their de-
re to help end the war honorably.
But / hope that such sentences as 1
i've quoted go no further than the tipI
the tongue. If they do, shame to
e speakers. And shame to us who
such speech pass unreprsVed.
"His very livlng-such was Christ's
wing"
We women "have not yet resisted
ito blood" But some of our men
We, and-God help us many more
ny have to. Can we then endure the
1ominy of remembering that even in
r inner hearts we have paused TO
nsidet what delicacies we may user
oil we not-in the language Of our
ar fighting boys-"cut out" all
ubtful articles? And let us make OF
: trifling duty an honorable service.
e cause ennobles all that it touches.
True RespectabiIity.