French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-07-18
ALL HAVE SUccUMBED TO STAR.
WALTON, WHICH WE COULD
HAVE ALLEVIATED.
CRYNG FOR BREAD We WASTE
Editor Clarence Poe Sets Forth Need
ct Informing Our Rural Popula-
ton Of. True Conditions.
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WAN SAA~N
She was q good woman and she
had been to her and to her children.
But at the same time she said: mo
meatless and wheatless days for me!
I've got wheat enough and I've got
meat enough laid up in my pantry,
and my children like it, and they are
going to have 1t as often as they want
it, and as much of it as they want"
Aftc- hearing this well-meaning
woman talk, the writer picked up that
night a European paper that comes to
the home and read this paragraph:
It is said that there 10 not a living
child IN Poland under eight years Of
age.
Not a living child in Poland under
eight years of age!" With little bod
les unable to endure the hardships
and starvation Of a war-ruined land,
they have died by thousands and tens
Of thousands. Thousands and tens Of
thousands of mothers as good as the
woman who made this thoughtless re.
mark, mothers who loved their chill
dren as much as this mother loved
hers-they with heart-breaking help.
lessness have seen their children
slowly starve before their eyes, while
American mothers say, "No, I will
not even vary my diet in a harmless
way, 1 will not ever make substitu-
tfons to ave meat and wheat, in order
that part Of it may save the lives of
starving babies and little ones in Eu-
rope!"
. No, we don't e that any Ameri-
can mother is saying this in words.
Certainly the good woman of whom
we write would not have said it or
thought it-and yet by her acts, that
was what she was saying. If someone
could have shown her a photograph
of one starving Polish child, with wan,
pfnched face and hollow eyes, crying
to its mother for bread she did not
have-oh, how quickly this American
mother would have said: Eyes, I
have plenty of wheat and I have
plenty Of meat, and I'll gladly
divide my last crust to save the lives
of little ones like that" With such
a picture before her eyes, how quick.
fy would this American mother have
called to mind the Last Judgments
awful curse on all the ~uncaring and
hard Of heart, II was an-hungered and
ye gave me no meat"
But she didn't know. And thus
again the Lord she tries to worship
might lament as OF old over His peo-
pie, Israel doth not know! my peo-
pie doth not consider!" To this good
woman the Hoover rules for meatless
days and wheatTess days were simply
Government reguIatiors-sim0ly off.
ciaI red tape. She didn't know they
were meant to a v the lives of little
ones once as fair, as merry, as bright.
eyed, as love-fnspiring as her own
dear boys and girls!
And today there are thousands Of
others like this mother who do not
know! WeILfntentioned people, good.
hearted people, God-fearing people!
they simply do not know"
Friends and readers, it is our duty
to help these people know! Let uS
give Of d money, but let as also give
Of our time and effort for a campaign
Of education in these matters-to
show the need Of food regulation, Wa
Savings Stamps, Liberty Bonds, Red
Cross work, Y. M. C.. A. and Y. W. C..
A. campaigns! We must save food
for the starving; we must give money
to protect the wounded and to provide
wholesome moral recreation for our
soldiers instead Of unwhoIesome and
immoral dissipation. And IL our
farmeTB-as is 50 often charged-have
not supported these movements as
they should, it tS not because they are
moro selfish, more h~ard-hearted, less
patriotic, than city people. It is only
because they have not been informed.
And all OF us who do really under
stand must here and now resolve to
help inform them. In every school, in
every Sunday school, in every farm.
ers' club, in every farm woman's club,
and even as a part of almost every
church service, our men and women
OF light and leading must do their
part to arouse rural America. In the
Revolutionary war it was the "embat.
tied farmers" at Lexington who fired
the shot heard around the world!" In
the Civil Wal It was the stubborn
courage Of our farm men and the
s~teadfastneSs OF our country women
that won the worlds applause for
Confederate heroism!
Because this war is a little farther
from u doors is no reason why we
should play a less noble part. And
there Is little time to lose. Many peo-
pie think that twelve months hence
pecae will be in sight. Let us resolve
therefore that during the coming year
our rural people in every county will
make a record Of patriotism that our
cons and grandsons will mention with
pride even as we take pride in the ex-
plofts q u ancestors of the COS.
what we do in the next twelve