Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-03
AXE YOU MAKING SACRIFICES
EQUIVALENT TO THOSE OF
OUR SOLDIERS?
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.
(6y VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE
WATER of the Vioilantes0


"A good woman was discussing the
rules of the food administration.
L am doing lot for my country"
she said, but there are certain trif1es
that do not intend to give up. Such
as white bread and bacon"
No." she said in response to my
astOnlshed look, II mean to have white
bread when l want it. Why should I
eat corn bread and other substitutes?
ike white bread just as much as
the soldiers and sailors do. And, any
way, what difference can it make if
use little white flour and a few
slices of bacon every day? L am only
one person"
Only one Of millions! Suppose they
all took that attitude!
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
bread and rolls
Is this patriotism? I remembered
the text: These things ought We to
have done, and not to have left the
other undOne."
Another good woman was talking OF
the next Liberty Loan drive.
WELL" she declared, "they need not
come to me for help! am a business
woman, and I have lost money or
heatless Mondays, and since the gov
eminent has made me do that I do no
propose to help with their Liberty loan
l love my country, and I am a Rel
Cross worker, and all that-but Their
is limit
Should Be No Limit.
A limit! Is there any limit to wha
she would do if her nearest and dear
est were fighting for his life? Woul
. she stop to argue that she had give
: the suffered expensive wooden under
, wear, but that she drew the line at tn
!" remuneration of certain comforts S
| that he might have them? Would sh
be considered a good wife or mothe
or daughter If she held this attitud
towards husband, child or parent?
Let us stop all these ridiculous re
| do and won't do. Let us hold ba(
nothing. Do the women who are sen
ing their sons abroad hold back an
- thing? Do these sons grudge riskil
their beautiful youth, their lives f
their country? Yet some people he:
tate at white bread and bacon, al
refuse to buy Liberty bonds!
MI 80,
unpatriOtic, but it is absurd. Lat
- we will know the meaning Of the {
preston, "What 1 give I have" T
money we invest in Liberty bonds "
be ours when other money that y
now have is gone.
All such talk as l have quoted
8 wickedly unpatriOtic. Let us give
our sons give-ungrudgingly proud
4 because we are counted worthy
Il make sacrifices for the greatest c
Il SADIE against evil that the world
ever known.
II Make 1t An Honorable Service.
, What would the Son of Righteo
ness say to our hesitation about trif1
luxuries? He died for his cause.
women are not called upon to do tt
(Some of us may wish that we wei
- But we are called to sacrifice
~ selfshness for it.
am not making light of the wont
lsed full work done by those women '
ton On toll at Red Cross stations l am
Forgetting the noble and vast army
ter wives, mothers, sisters and sw
pre- hearts who stop at nothing in their
Fke1 sire to help end the war HONORABLE
But 1 hope that such sentences
have quoted go no further than the
of the tongue. If they do, shame
the sneakers And shame to us
= let such speech pass unreproved.
"H:s very living-such was Chr
Ippr giving"
izer VIZ "oli"n
Jack, unto DlOOu. bul eolAe VI Jul
inc. have, and-God help us many I
0'' nav have to. Can we then endure
- irn6miny of remembering that eve
orr inner hearts we have pause
t. consider what delicacies we may
Shall we not-in the language Of
N" dear fighting boys-"cut out"
= doubtful articles? And let us NAL
. the trifling duty an honorable ser
vi The cause ennObles all that it tOu
True Responsibility.
uick Having the courage to live W
'nA' ones means is responsibility.