Middletown transcript., 1918-03-30
YOUR LOYALTY TO
C0UNTRYS 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.
inQ toAid the Great War.
icy VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE
WATER of the ViqiIantes.)

y good wQn IN was discussing tho
rules Of the Nod administration.
Il am doing Il lot for my country,
she said, but there are certain tribes
that do not intend to give up. Such
as white bread and Bacon"
NO" she said in response to my
nStOnished look, Il mean to have white
Dread when l want it. Why should
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 it l
use Il little white flour and Il 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. Il
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 LacOn and white
bread and rolls"
Is this patriotism? remembered
the text: These things ought We to
have done. and not t. have left the
other undone."
Another good woman was talking or
the next Liberty Loan drive.
WELL" she declared. "lhey need not
come to me for help! am Il business
woman. and l have lost money on
hcatIesS Mondays. and since the gov
ernment has made me do that l do not
propose to help with their Liberty loan.
/ love my country. and l am Red
Cross worker, and all thut-but they"
is Il limit.
Should Be No Limit.
\ 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 WOODEN under
wear, hut that she drew the line ut the
remuneration of certain comforts SO
that he might have them? Would she
be considered IL 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 grudgc risking
their beautiful youth. their lives, for
their country? Yet some people hesl-
tate at white bread and bacon, and
refuse to buy Liberty bonds!
The laSt-named hesitation is not only
nnpatriotic, but it is absurd. Later
we will know the meaning of the ex-
preston. "What l give l have" The
money we invest in Liberty bonds will
DC ours when other money that we
now have is gone.
All such talk rs 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
SADIE against evil that the world has
ever known.
Make 1t An Honorable Service.
What would the Son of Righteous
Hess say ~ OuI HcSltdtIoI UDOut lIIl1uS
Injuries? 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
seltishness for it.
l am not making light of the wonder
full work done by those women who
toll mt Red Cross stations; am not
forgetting the noble and vast army Of
wives, mothers. sisters and sweet
hearts who stop Mt nothing in their de-
sire to help end the war honorably.
But I hope that such sentences as I
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.
Ellis very living-such was Christ's
giving"
We women "have not yet resisted
unto blood" But some of our men
have. and-Gcd help us many more
NAV have to. Can we then endure the
icnominy 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 make of
the tlifling duty an honorable service.
The cause ennobles all that it touches.