The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-04-05
YOUR LOYALTY TO
COUNTRY'S CAUSE
ARE YOU MAKING sAcRlFlCeS
EQUIVALENT TO THOSE OF
OUR soLOiERs7
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.

Ing to Aid the Great War.
10y VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN De
WATER Of the visiIantss-)
A good woman was discussing the
rules OF the food administration.
Il am doing a lot for my country"
she said. but there are certain trtfies
that do not intend to give up. Such
! as white bread and bacon"
NO." she said In response to my
astonished look. Il mean to have white
bread when l want 1t. 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 II
use a little white -four and a few
slices OF bacon every day7 l am only
one person."
Only one Of millions! Suppose tlley
all took that attitudel
Il am no slacker." she added. Il
work at the Red Cross four afternoons
Of each week, and have made dozens
Of knitted things for the soldiers. But
I draw the line at bacon and white
bread and rolls"
Is this patriotism1 / remembered
the text: These things ought 70 to
have done. and not to have left the
other undoue"
Another good woman was talking Of
the next Liberty Loan drive.
"Well." she declared. ''they need not
come to me for helpi am a business
woman. and 1 have lost money on
heatless Mondays, and since the gov
ernment has made me do that do not
propose to help with their Liberty loan.
love my country. and 1 am a Red
Cross worker. and all that-but there
Is limit"
Should es No Limit.
A limit! Is there any limit to what
she would do II her nearest and dear
est were fighting for his lifef Would
she stop to argue that she had given
the suffered expensive woolen under
wear, but that she drew the line at the
renunciation of certain comforts 90
that he might have them? Would she
be considered a good wife or mother
| or daughter II she held this attitude
towards husband. child or parent
Let US stop all these ridiculous res
ervations, these talks Of what we will
do 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 hesi-
tate at white bread and bacon. and
refuse to buy Liberty bonds.
| The last named hesitation is not only
unpatnotic. but it is absurd. Later
We will know the meaning of the ex-
pressiop. "What l give I have The
money we Invest in Liberty bonds will
be ours when other money that we
now have is gone.
| All such talk as l have quoted is
wickedly unpatriotic. Let US give as
our sons give-ungrudgingly, proudly,
because we are counted worthy to
make sacrifices for the greatest cru
| sade against evil that the world has
| ever known.
| Make II An Honorable Service.
| What would the Son of Righteous
ness say to our hesitation about trifling
|
women are not called upon to do that.
| (Some Of us may wish that we were.)
But we are called to sacrifice our
selfishness for It.
lam not making light Of the wonder
full work done by those women who
toll at Red Cross stations; am not
forgetting the noble and vast army of
| wives, mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts who stop at nothing In their de-
sire to help end the war honorably.
| But hope that such sentences as I
have quoted go no further than the tip
of the tongue. II they do, shame to
the speakers. And shame to US who
let such speech pass unreproved.
His very living-Such was Christ's
giving"
| We women have not yet resisted
unto blood" But some Of our men
have. and-God help us!-many more
may have to. Can we then endure the
ignominy of remembering that even In
our inner hearts we have paused to
consider what delicacies we may use !
Shall we not-fn the language Of our
dear fighting boys-'cut out" all
doubtful articles? And let US make of
| the trifiing duty an honorable service.
| The cause ennobles all that II touches,
| True ReaoAe1nhlIlHv