The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-04-20
YOUR LOYALTY TO
COUNTRY's CAUSE
ARE YOU MAKING SACRIFICES
EQUIVALENT TO THOSE OF
OUR SoLpIERs7
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.
(By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE
WATER of the viuilantes.)

WATER of the vigilantes.)
A good woman was discussing the
rules of the food administration.
Il am doing lot for my country
she said, but there are certain trifies
that do not intend to give up. Such
as white bread and bacon"
NO" she said In response to my
astonished look. II mean TO have white
bread when l want 1t. Why should
eat corn bread and other substitutes
l like white bread just as much al
the soldiers and sailors do. And, any
way. what difference can 1t make IL
use little white -four and few
slices Of bacon every day? am only
one person."
Only one of millions! Suppose they
all took that attitude
II am no Stacker" she added. 81
work ut the Red Cross four afternoons
of each week. and have made dozens
of knitted things for the soldiers. But
draw the line at bacon and white
bread and rolls"
Is this patriotism? remembered
| the text: These things ought We tt
have done, and not to have left the
other undone."
Another good woman was talking o.
the next Liberty Loan drive.
| We'll" she declared, they need no
come to me for help am "a business
woman, and have lost money OF
heatless Mondays. and since the gov
eminent has made me do that | do no
propose TO help with their Liberty loar
| love my country, and / am Re
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 deal
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 good wife or mothe
or daughter il she held this attitud
towards husband. child or parent?
Let us stop all these ridiculous res
ervations, these talks of what we wi
do and won't do. Let us hold bac
nothing. Do the women who are sent
ing their sons abroad hold back any
thing? Do these sons grudge riskin
their beautiful youth, their lives, 70
their country? Yet some people hes
tate Mt white bread and bacon. an
refuse to buy Liberty bonds
The last-named hesitation is not onl
unpatriotic, but II is absurd. Late
we will know the meaning of the e,
preston. "What / give have" TIL
money we invest in Liberty bonds wi
be ours when other money that W
now have Is gone.
All such talk as l have quoted
wickedly unpatriotic. Let us give q
our sons Observation-Disclosures, proud.
make sacrifices for the greatest or,
SADIE against evil that the world ha
ever known.
Make II An Honorable Service!
What would the Son of Righteous
ness say to our hesitation about trlflin
luxuries? He died fo- his cause. w
women are not called upon to do tina
(Some of us may wish that we were
But we are called to sacrifice OF
sefishness for It.
am not making light Of the wonde
full work done by those women WI
toll at Red Cross stations; am n,
forgetting the noble and vast army ,
wives. mothers, sisters and swee
hearts who stop at nothing in their d
sire to help end the war honorably.
But l hope that such sentences as
have quoted go no further than the Il
of the tongue. If they do. shame
the speakers. And shame to us WI
let such speech pass unreproved.
Ellis very liying-such was Christ
. giving"
We women shave not yet resists
unto blood" But some Of our me
have. and-God help us!-many MOI
NAV have to. Can we then endure Il
ig,,ominy Of remembering that even
our inner hearts we have paused
consider what delicacles we may us,
Shall we not--in the language of O,
dear fighting boys-"cut out" n
doubtful articles? And let us make
the rrifing duty an honorable servic
The cause ennobles oil that II touche