The Monticellonian., 1918-04-05
YOUR LOYALTY ID
 COUNTRYS CAUSE
ARE 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.
(By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE
 WATER of the Vioilantes.)


 good woman was discussing the rules of the food administration.
 T am doing a lot for my country 1 she said. but there are certain trifes that l do not intend to give up. Such as white bread and bacon."
 No" she said in response to my astonished look, "I mean to have white bread when l want it. Why should l eat corn bread and other substitutes l like white bread just as much as the soldiers and sailors do. And, any, way, what difference can it make if l use little white flour and few slices of bacon every day? I am only one person."
 Only one of millions! Suppose they all took that attitudel
 T am no slacker," she added. "I 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 ye 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 helpl I am a business woman, and I have lost money on heatless Mondays, and since the gov ernment has made me do that do not propose to help with their Liberty loan. love my country, and 1 am a Red Cross worker, and all that-but there is Il limit"
 Should Be No Limit A limit Is there any limit to what she would do if her nearest and dear est were fighting for his life? Would she stop to argue that she had given the suffered expensive woolen under wear, but that she drew the line at the renunciation of certain comforts so that he might have them? Would she be considered a good wife or mother or daughter if she held this attitude towards husband. child or parent?
 Let us stop all these ridiculous res ervations, these talks of what we will do and won't do. Let us hold back nothing. Do the women who are send. ing their sons abroad hold back any thing? Do these sons grudge risking their beautiful youth, their lives, for their country? Yet some people hesi- tate at white bread and bacon. and refuse to buy Liberty bonds
 The last-named hesitation Is not only unpatriotic, but it is absurd. Later we will know the meaning of the eX- pression, What l give 1 have" The money we invest In Liberty bonds will now have is gone.
 All such talk as I have quoted is wickedly unpatriotic. Let us give as our sons give-ungrudgingly, proudly, because we are counted worthy to make sacrifices for the greatest cru sade against evil that the world has ever known.
 Make It An Honorable Service.
 What would the Son of Righteous ness say to our hesitation about trifiing luxuries? He died for his cause. We women are not called upon to do that. (Some of us may wish that We were.) But we are called to sacrifice our selfishness for it.
 am not making light of the wonder ful work done by those women who toll at Red Cross stations; 1 am not forgetting the noble and vast army of wives, mothers, sisters and sweet hearts who stop at nothing in their de- sire to help end the war honorably.
 But I hope that such sentences as have quoted go no further than the tip of the tongue. If they do. shame to the speakers. And shame to us who let such speech pass unreproved.
 "His very living-sueh was Christ's giving"
 We women "have not yet resisted unto blood" But some of our men have. and-God help us l-many more may have to. Can we then endure the ignominy of remembering that even in our inner hearts We have paused to consider what delicacies we may use? Shall we not-in the language of our dear fighting boys-"cut out" all doubtful articles? And let us malse of the trifling duty an honorable service. Tho aor,sa apuahlpS all that if tpucbaS