The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-12
SERVICE
Bi Virginia Frazer Boyle


son for humanity TO learn Perhaps
that was why the Son of Man silently
girded himself with a towel and
washed the disciples feet. He did it
just at the time when those erstwhils
fishermen and tax gatherers were rails
ing the question as to VINO among
them would be the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven To the unthinking
masses the word conveys only the sug-
gestion of humility; to the humanita-
rian, the truest test of Christianity;
to the lover of his country, the noblest
significance of patriotism.
The military camps of the United
States are swarming today with our
khaki-clad boys, eager to prove that
patriotism. Some of them are now
"over there" behind the French and
British lines ready to shed their blood
to give their lives, if need be, that
liberty and freedom may still mean
what they spell. But muffied in your
fur-lined oyercOat, bowling along in
your high-power limousine, what are
you doing-how are you serving? It
isn't the other fellows war; it's your
war-our war. OF course, your son
is in camp, or will be in the next draft,
or is already ''oyer there" Maybe he
volunteered; but that isn't you! You
haven't had any meatless or wheatless
days, and your business as usual, -
doubled since the boy has gone, isn't
your helping to win the war. The boys
glory will be his own. You can't wear
it at secondhand. Who ever heard of
a secondhand glory crown? TOO old
to server" Not a BIT We have mil
lions OF khaki men for the front, but
there are billions of soldiers, without
the khaki, at home whose service is
needed to help win in this war None
is too old or too young to aid in bring
ing the victory. That old mother, up
in Ohio, SO years old, who has knitted
ten pairs of trench socks, is wearing
the Uniform of the United States on
the inside and answering roll call
right Those girls of the sixties"
knitting and making Red Cross pa
jamas down in the South are making
the cause of liberty stronger every
day. That 11-year-old boy in Memphis.
Tenn, who spread his own flag over
little table in a bank lobby and sold
over million dollars worth of Lib
erty bonds, did as much in his way
to win as the man in the trenches
There's a patriot in a rolling chair in
a home for incurables that you can
| take off your hat to. He can only
use thumb of one hand and two fin.
gers of the other, yet he learned to
knit hospital scrub, and, with tears
in his eyes, he thanked God that he
was able to do something for his coun
try. Tmpertinent kind of talk, is it
No; merely strong. You needn't un
lock your big safe and take out those
Liberty bonds; even a German knows
they are good investment. And
those cancelled checks for the Y. NJ
c. A. and the war library and the Red
Cross and the ambulances in France
and Italy you're able to show They've
called upon 20 upretty lively, haven't
they? But you've been calling on your
country every day that you have lived.
You called upon her to mother you
when you were a boy. You called
upon her boastfully when you first felt
that you were man. You called upon
her to protect you in your enterprises
when you went into business. You
called upon you pretty lively, haven /
make your fortune, and you made it
right here in this blessed land of free
=! dom. oh! it isn't enough that you
can show a handful of Cancelled
checks; that you have given one, two
or even three boys to keep your
mother country without blemish
You've got to give yourself-you've got
to feel 1t on the inside. You've got to
let 1t enter into your soul until the
place is holy with the bigness of It.
You've got to set 1t up next to your
God and live it and be it until we
have won this war for the liberty and