Williams news., 1918-05-24
(sy VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE
 WATER of the ViuiIantes.)

WA Eh or the VIgIlanteS.) A good woman was discussing the rules of the food administration.
 T am doing a lot for my country" she said, but there are certain trif1es that do not intend to give up. Such as white bread and bacon.'' Mo-" she said in response to my astonished look, 'I mean to have white bread when I want it. Why should I 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 I use a little white flour and a few slices of bacon every day? I am only one person.
 Only one of millionsl Suppose they all took that attitudel '1 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 l draw the line at bacon and white 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.''
 AAOIACA SOOu WOIudu was ldlh1uS O1 the next Liberty Loan drive. "Well," she declared, "they need not | come to me for helpI am business woman, and I have lost money on heatless Mondays, and since the gov ernment has made me do that I do not propose to help with their Liberty loan. I love my country, and I am a Red Cross worker, and all that-but there is a 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 I give I have" The money we invest in Liberty bonds will be ours when other money that we 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 1t An Honorable Service.
 What would the Son of Righteous ness say to our hesitation about trif1ing 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.
 lam not making light of the wonder full work done by those women who toll at Red Cross stations; I 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 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.
 His very Hving-such was Christ's giving"
 We women ''have not yet resisted unto blood" But some of our men have, and-God help us !-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 make of the trif1ing duty an honorable service. The cause ennobles all that it touches.