The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

IF anybody asks you how you feel
 about the attitude of Congress to- = ward the woman suffrage bill, or whether you are on the side of Ireland as to nome rule,' and if you prefer musical comedy to the Shakespearean drama, and isn't 1t just too lovely about the governments ruling on the subject of shoe prices, and all that, there is a lot of fun to be gotten out of it, because they are one and all "open questions, because there are two sides-two an- gles, to each of them; but with the Fourth Liberty Loan drive there is only one side, absolutely; you buy bonds to help the government, and they are the best possible investment for your own dear selfish self; because you can't pos- sibly lose: that is, if you live twenty years,. and if you don't your relatives will inherit them, because the bonds are backed by the government, and If you don't think the government solid, then you'd better go off and shoot yourselr at sunrise, and-and-
 We'll. the bonds are much better off under the tender care of the perIecty good treasury department than any where else-ozzing out buying new togs and nowhere to wear 'em; and candy, thus depriving our soldier men of sugar and things; or investing in ''jools' which are terribly bad taste during warkt1mes; and so many other things that it is an insult to the intelligence to even hint at them.
 No man, woman or child, with father, husband, brother, son, sweetheart or friend in France, needs to be urged to "buy a bond," or Thrift Stamp, for Every Bond is & hand grenade Every War Stamps a shot
 To spread the Kaiser and his crew All over the Potsdam lot"
 Of course, there's nothing new in ali this that I'm saying-it's all been said before, and what Pm going to say ism t particularly new, only it's just another l to the activities of women; 1t has it's 1 delicate angles, too-this bond issue and | women, and being a woman, I am well aware of that fact; of course, women are doing everything under the shining sun they can and why shouldn't they? But whatever it is they do it can't be l as much as the men are doing over 1 there." You may talk all you want to l about sacrifice, but no amount of sacrf- l flee, buying Bonds, Thrift Stamps, do- l ing without breakfast, luncheon or din-
 ner, is anything compared to what our | soldiers are facing on the battle lines | of European soils!
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 realizes this-and every patriotic woman | in America agrees with me, l know, i for after all, we still have our homes. | comfy" beds, three square meals day,
 warm clothing and kind friends about us. Not that any one wants to deny or minimize the great part women are talk | ing in this world war-far be it from me. for. after all it is their part to play
 and they are playing it well; but what l l started out to say is, that there is 8 | class of women whose work is almost practically unknown--that of the wage- ] earners--by that class I mean those whc 1 work because they have to-and I have ! had occasion recently to hear of some very splendid noble, patriotic sacrifices | that women-girlS--in this particular line have made
 Have you the slightest conception II your mind of what the professional ano Sdlarleu WOHlSIl Ol lnlS Clty dlC ooiis in the Fourth Liberty Loan in order tt back up the munitions and bullets or the other side?
 I'm sure you haven't, because it is 3 thing that can't be described; 1t is just
 as the Christian Scientists say. "A stat' of mind" rents have gone up and tha'
 effects the salaried women terribly; fooe
 has gone up so high that you can't reacf
 1t with ladder; clothing has scared in price to the very top notch of superla- tive figures; and in view of all this, il
 may be said that the stenographer, the
 hookkeeper, the typist, the newspaper
 woman, the little Jenny Wren dressmak- CT, the little telephone operator. the 1 school teacher, and all the. others, whe
 have invested in a Liberty Bond have given up their new winter suit; pail of extra good walking boots, the warm topcoat which she needed so much, while the War Savings Stamps she has bought