The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04
ARE YOU MAKING SACRIFICES EQUIVALENT TO THOSE OF
 OUR SoLDlERS2
ALL CAN FIND WAY TO HELP
Make No Ridiculous Reservations i; 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 ViaiIantes.)

WA EH or the Vi9 anteS.)
 A good woman was discussing the rules of the food administration.
 am doing Il lot for my country, she said, but there are certain trifles that do not intend to give up. Such as white bread and bacon."
 No,' she said in response to my astonished look. II mean to have white bread when l want it. Why should eat corn bread and other substitutes l like white bread just as much as the soldiers and sailors do. And, any way. what difference can 1t make if l use little white flour and few slices of bacon every day2 l am only one person."
 Only one of millions Suppose they all took that attitude!
 "l am no slacker,' she added "I work at the Red Cross four afternoons of each week, and have made dozens of knitted things for the soldiers. But l draw the line at bacon and white bread and rolls."
 Is this patriotism2 I remembered
 
 have 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 help. l am business woman. and 1 have lost money on heatless Mondays, and since the gov ernment has made me do that I do not propose to help with their Liberty loan. l love my country, and l am Il Red Cross worker, and all that-but there k q limit.
 Should Be No Limit
 \ 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 renunciation of certain comforts so that he might have them? Would she be considered good wife or mother or daughter if she held this attitude towards husband, child rtparent?
 Let LIS stop all these ridiculous res crVationS, these talks of what we will dc and won't do Let Us hold back nothing. 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 hcsi- tate at white bread and bacon, and l I
 The last-named hesitation k not only unputrfotic. hut it iS absurd, Later We will know the meaning of The eX- precision, What I give l have" The | money We invest iu Liberty bonds will be ours when other money that we now have k gone.
 All such talk as l have quoted is Utckealy unpatrotic. Let uS give as our sons give Uugrudstusly proudly, becauSe we are counted worthy to ! make sacrifices for the greatest eru- sade against evil that the world has eyer known.
 Make 1t An Honorable Service.
 What would the Son of Rghteous- mss say to our hesitation about trilIiue uNurie~f He died for his cause We women are not called upon to do that. tSome of Us may wish that eawerc) Bun we are called to sacrifice our srlfShHcSs fer it.
 am not making light of the wonder ful work done by those women who tuil ut Red Cross stations; | am not forgetting The noble and vast army Of wives mothers. sisters and swrct- hearts vho stop at nothing in their de- sire ta help end the#war honorably.
 But hope that such sentences aS l have quoted go no further than the lip af the tongue. If they do, shame to The speakers. And shame to Us who let such speech pass unreproycd
 His very living such was ChriSts dving."
 We women "haye not vet resisted unto blood But some of our mon have. and God help us!--many more may have to- Can we then endure the l tcuamiuy of remembering that even in our inner hearts we have paused to consider what delicacies We may use? | Shall We not-in the language ef our lear fighting hoyS-"cut out all doubtful articles? And let Us make of the tritiing duty an honorable service. 1 The cause ennobleS all that lt touches.
 True Responsibility