The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-20
OOROTMY DIX TALKS
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
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Buy q Bond, Ladies.
An officer who has been fighting
on the front was asked what the SOL
diers thought of as they went lover
the top"
Il do not know what dark thoughts
are in the minds of the French" he
replied, but I am sure. that what
every Englishman and every American
is thinking is: We VIII not let the
fate befa11 our women that has come
to the women of Belgium and Elan
ders,'
When the immortal Legion of Death
'of Russia was fighting to try to shame
their craven men into resisting the
enemy, they took a hundred German
prisoners in one raid Of these pris-
onerS six were women soldiers who
had been fighting, side by side, with
their men.
The gentlest born women of France
and England are working in NUM-
ton factories, doing field work, rails
ing crops, acting hostlers, doing
any service however hard and mental,
, that will help their country win this
war.
Will American women show them
, selves less patriotic, less willing TO
make sacrifices for their country, less
worthy of the men who are fighting
and dying to keep them safe. than the
: women of other countries?
The government is putting the
7 question squarely up to them.
So far, the women of America have
done but little towards the winning
of this war. They have knitted a few
sweaters, and rolled a few bandages,
and given a few bazaars, but that is
about all. They have not made any
real sacrifices of their personal ease
and comfort as the women of the 9TH
er countries at war have done
| This has been due largely to the
fact that they saw no concrete thing
/ for which TO sacrifice. No visible altar
was erected before their eyes on which
they could lay the offering of their
patriotism.
( Women of America, you can make
that excuse no more. The government
/ raises before you the place of sacri-
flee and asks of you to offer up your
! dollars for the sake of your country.
1t asks you to prove that the service
that you are willing to give to your
country is something more than lip
service. 1t asks you to put your
patriotism above your love of luxury.
| The third liberty loan is about to be
! launched and by the way that women
respond to that. the world will know
| the measure of their patriotism.
] On this bond issue depends not only
I the fate of our own land and that of
| our brave allies. but the preservation
of freedom turnout the world and
the safeguarding of the civilization of
humanity. 1t will be an eternal
not make this third liberty loan an in
| Simultaneous success. No American wo-
man ever again look an English, or
French, or Italian. or Belgian woman
I in the face if, at this critical juncture
| in the prosecution of the war, she has
! held back the money that is the price
I of assured victory.
For no other women have been call
| ed to do as little, and make as few
! sacrifices as the America women
Il { he n
| women have given their mer to the
war. So have the women of the al
lies, and in addition the women of the
| allies have given the labor of their
hands, they have gone cold and hum
have food and clothes. They have
cheerfully given half, or more than
half of their incomes in their taxes.
We are only asked to LEND, not
GIVE our money and for lending it
to get an interest that makes it a gilt
! edged investment even for peace
| times.
| Perhaps women have not realized
how completely the success of this
third liberty loan depends upon them.
Women do not think of themselves as
a financial power because they handle
money in small sums. They <ail to
recognize the truth of the old adage
that many amickle makes muckle.
and that il all the money that all the
women in America have tucked away
in their stockings. hidden under the
parlor carpet or in the old cracked
blue tea pot on the pantry shelf. were