The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-12-07

or die. but II the government had TAX
en- over the task itself, that would have
meant another tax, to be followed i'm
mediately by 4 popular cutlery. TO tbs
average French mind delIcacy rhyme2
With luxury, and it would have been
impossible to convince the miIli"HA
drudging ut home that wounded men
needed what thrE never had had be
fore, Ill or well.
When | lived in Manich l had q
Swiss maid in whom | had implicit
(and juStitiable) faith. She would
come to me periodically and say,
"Madanc, j" mai plus d'argent," and l
would hand out several hundred marks.
That was all l had to do with the
housekeeping during my seven years
residence in Germany. And yet my in.
comparable Elsie would never give me
anything to eat between meals but
zWiebach, which in Germany is as hard
as the thrice accursed national heart.
l have found it comparatively easy
to follow most Of the Hoover rules, for
/ have always eaten meat merely as a
matter of duty, and took kindly to
Graham biscuit with my morning tea.
Moreover, the bread and butter habit
at lunch and dinner | have always
thought vulgar. But to eliminate waste
has been q different matter. Still l
have in a measure succeeded. There
is nothing In the bread box or any
where else Except the inevitable boxes
of Graham biscuiD but the daily ra-
ton; so that now when | come home
in the afternoon hungry / either for
get it or eat a few more Graham bis
cuit-Which | shall never look at again
after the war is over.
Will Be Greatest Nation.
| mention this personal experience
because it is no doubt that Of many
others. In a short time it will be the
experience of everyone in the United
States; for the way this nation has
walked up, denied itself its customary
luXuries in order to put the money in
to the Liberty loan and War Savings
stamps is the most significant thing in
It's history. And rs there is something
very fascinating about thrift and econ
omy after it has been practiced for a
time no doubt the habit will be last
ing one, and this nation will reach
heights of wealth and strength Of char
ncter that its most ardent native adj
mirer never would have ventured to
predict. More than any other single
cause does q national habit, If 1t Is
good one, knit a nation together
prevent the disntegratiOn which comes
from the softness of over-indulgence.
And for the formation of this habit
of thrift, and the lucid exposition of
what thrift means in the winning of
TIE war, we must thank the War Saw
ings stamp campaign. l doubt if any
individual in this country, barring tha
traitors who call themselves pacifists
self at least one War Savings stamp.
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will keep our bed and food and home
clean. The line that will maintain the
purity that we have attained through
the refining by fire. We must say to
the Hun in Europe, in America, in Asia,
anywhere he may be found:
Get to work within the confines of
your own country! Build up and puri,
fy your land. Purge 1t of the filth
that clogs its spirit. Wash 1t clean of
the evil it has chung to so long. Re.
fine 1t with years of sacrifice and earn
est work for the right. Then, after
the leaven has worked and passing
decades have carried away the last
grain of the old devilish doctrines and
beliefs, then it Is possible that the
nations may grant you amnesty and
let you go out through the world at
large once more. 1t is up to you. Get
to work on yourself"
Letting the Hun wander at will after
this war is over Will be like leaving the
line of fuse burning and merely cutting
off the dead end after the spark had
crawled inward toward the magazine
Allowing him to have the same old
freedom to come to our shores would
be as foolish, and as disastrous in the
end, as it would be to smother a fire
with cotton loosely piled.
No Room for Traitors.
President Wilson and his advisers
have a great many matters to handle
and many questions to decide. Let us
not leave them to do all the thinking
or all the talking on this question. The
people are concerned to such
a degree in this matter that they
should not delegate to any man or BODY
of men the task of thinking for them
They should do their own thinking and
when they have had time to formulate
a plan that looks feasible and
thoroughgoing, they should say to their
servants at Washington, from the tres.
ident down:
Here! You put this through along
the line we have laid down. 1t is no
time for fooling or for doing party
politics. Put up the bars and spike
them fast so no one one can slip them.
We have stomachful and we must
have time to digest it before we swnl.
low any more"
Then get busy with the American OF
foreign birth and Amerlcanize him or
throw him over the bars to the soil
that bore him. We have no room In