Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-26
WAR BREAD.
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Gall too long we have been idle while
they toll in other lands,
While the burden of the struggle has
been borne by stronger hands,
All democracy is calling to it's broth
ers Ger the sea.
We are needed in the conflict, in the
fight for liberty"
Now it is the privilege of the few
to fight at the front where the glory
and sacrifice are greatest. We are
aroused to see it is our duty to fur
nish our army with food, money, guns
and men that will bring the war to
an end. 1t is this fact which has
taken hold upon the people and made
them willing to forego their ease.
| We have learned that sugar is
non-essential to bread. The house
wife used sugar freely while she had
it, but in war time she has discovered
that she can do very we'll without 1t.
Sugar stands for the unnecessary
pleasures in life which we are now
trying to do without. This seems
very hard at first, but we are learn
ing that new substitutes bring us
more enjoyment than the original.
! Instead of devoting their time to
card-playing and moving pictures,
the women are knitting or making
surgical dressings: A great many
have become nurses and others have
filled the places of men in nearly
every trade, and they do the work
well, too!
The new attitude of this country is
told very we'll by Bishop Edwin II.
Hughes, who says, cit seemed to me
that I had never known our country
when it was so pleasure-mad as IN
the last few years. We were raising
up a group of young people VINO nad
so little in the way of inner furnish
ING that when they were alone for
ten minutes they were miserably
restless! If they could not go to
moving picture show they would say
bv their demeanor that the day had
been a failure If you go into any OF
the public libraries of our country
and ask about the demand for light,
frothy fiction you will be told that
the demand has been immensely de-
creased. That is not bad sign.
81 stayed week RECENTLY, he
I continues. "at an aristocratic hotel
as guest When we were leaving,
my wife said, In the week we have
been here I have not seen one game
of cards!' Why? The women were
knitting! On the sofas and on the
stairs and in the halls and lobbles,
you would see those women busy with
their needles, their vision extending
over beyond to the Flanders front
and into the various war camps.
That is the key to the whole situa-
ton. Everyone is knitting, society
women, moving-picture actresses,
firemen, school-children and messen-
ger BOYS. Not long ago one of our
newspapers told the following: A
woman walking along the street and
busily engaged in knitting did not
notice that her yarn dropped from her
bag and rolled in front of large
truck. The driver, seeing the yarn,
and thinking it was a live wire, stop
ped. Other vehicles coming behind
him were obliged to stop until the
mistake was discovered. The ball of
back to the woman. Five years ago
she would have been more likely to
delay traffic by the loss of her pet
poodle rather than of ball Of knit
ting yarn. This substitution is to
her credit and that of the nation.
We all know that war bread would
be very fiat without salt. What would
our life be without humor? In these
''times which try mems souls" many
a bad situation may be made better
if one sees the funny side of it. Lin
coin we know was never too busy to
hear a funny story, or to tell one.
Even our president finds the relaxa-
ton he needs in vaudeville and appre-
ciates a humorous saying as well as
anyone. The drudgery of homework
and the long strain of waiting may
be lightened for anxious mothers
when they remember that daughter is
the solace of the sad"
And now that we have all other in
gradients, what would they amount to
without yeast? It is the money Of
the American people that will make
us go "over the top" We must give
for the Red Cross and the Y. M. G.. A.
bonds, if not, invest our pennies in
war savings and thrift stamps. We
must give cheerfully and often. This
country is no place for slackers; even
those must help.
What is the price we are paying for
war bread? It means that you must
substitute or go without our GUS
tomary Injuries. even necessities.
There is the higher cost of living.
which brings WORRY, uncertainty Of
temper and often disbursement. 1t
=" means anxious waiting for the women
Iand children at home. 1t costs the
lives of our boys who are FIGHTING
that we may have a world safe to live
in. IT is an awful price to paw, but
war bread is better than bread war.
In war times we expect war prices,
but we need not pay more than is de-
manded Are we rea]1v helping +he
soldier bow by sending him away with
neat bundles of cigarettes slirped in
his comfort bag? A man who has
been to Errone said that ninetv-nino
Der cent Of the bows in the armv will
come back with the cigarette habit
! Shall be Obliged to eat war broad
when victory IS once Ours? We shall
not relish it then But nov, It is for