Cheyenne record., 1918-04-04
YOUR LOYALTY TO
C0uNTRYs CAUSE
ARE YOU MAKING SACRIFICES
EQUIVALENT TO THOSE OF
OUR SoLDlERs7
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.
(sy VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN pE
WATER Of the viuilantes.)

(ey VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE
WATER Of the vipiiantes.)
A good woman was discussing the
rules Of the food administration.
Il am doing q lot for my country"
she said. but there are certain trifles
that do not intend to give, ups Speh;
as white bread and bacon.' =. 20. {,
NO.. she said in response to my
astonished look. Il mean to hayet white,
bread when want it. Why should I
eat corn bread and other substitutes d
like white bread just as much as
the soldiers and sailors do And, hbS-.
way. what difference can 1t make il 1
use a,:44ttle white flour and "a few
slices Of bacon every day? I am only
one person."
Only one of millions! Suppose they
all took that attitudel
Il am no slackers. 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."
Another good woman was talking Of
the next Liberty Loan drive.
SWELL" she declared, "they need not
come to me for help! l am business
woman, and 1 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.
I love my country, and I am Red
Cross worker, and all that-but there
is 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 win
do and won't do. Let us bold 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 hesf-
tate Mt white bread and bacon, and
refuse to buy Liberty bonds! -
The last-named hesitation istnot only
unpatnotic, but it is absurd. Later
we will know the meaning of the ex-
preston, what 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 IL
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 trifling
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
selfshness for it. 80.
lam not making light OF the wonder,
full work done by those women who
toll at Red Cross stations; q am not
forgetting the noble and xas4 army of
wives, mothers; sisters aid sweet
hearts who stop at nothing II: their de-
sire to help end the war ho1orably.
But hope that such sent tshces as I.
have quoted go no further than the: tip
Of the 'tongie. II they do, Shame to,
the speakers. And shame p us who
let such speech pass Gnfeprsved.
His very nving-such was Christ's
giving" .." a... a, y
We, women shave not vi resisted
unto blood" But some ofssoqr mep
have, and-God help lis st-.many more
may have to. Gan 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 trifiing duty an honorable service.
The cause ennObles all that It touches.
True RespectabiIity.
Having the courage to live within