Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-06-27
WHAT FEATURES OF SIMPLER
LIVING. MADE NECESSARY BY
THE WAR, ARE WORTH RE-
NAMING?


NAMING?
The reading of such topic sug-
gests an easy solution, but when try
ing to formulate that solution.
found it wasn't quite so easy.
The first point that attracted my
attention was, Made Necessary by
the War" How guilty ecah of us
should feel that the war was made
necessary to. discipline us. How
many here have thought of this war
as a means in the all-wise plans of
our Heavenly Father to bring us
nearer to Him. How often His his
tory has told us He sent war upon
His chosen ones to direct their atten-
ton from the ways of the world to
Him.
| The Americans were the most ex
travagant nation in existence before
the war. Extravaganza is parent to
waste, and waste in turn is parent to
sin; If sin will consume the individ-
ual, so will waste consume the ma
ton.
Our Heavenly Father allowed no
waste in His creation, neither should
We allow waste in the material
things that so graciously are put at
our disposal. If no waste is allowed
and prudence and wisdom chosen as
our guardians. then we have taken
the strongest step toward simplifed
living.
The question asks, What features
of simpler living, made necessary by
the war. are worth retaining?" Now,
II we wished to make it more impera-
tive, might we not ask it in these
words, What features of simpler liv-
ing, taught us by the war, dare we
now eliminate?" and wouldn't the
answer be the same? VERY few
unless we would be like the colored
waiter who approached a patron in
a restaurant to take his order The
gentleman. after looking over the
menu, said to the waiter, "You may
serve me dinner as mentioned here, -
pointing to the card, "only eliminate
the eggs" The waiter bowed, say
ing, "Yes.sir, yes-sir," and departed.
Presently he returned and approach
ing the gentleman said: And how
did you say you wanted your eggs,
sir?" The gentleman now saw he
had used word not in the walters
vocabulary, SO he repeated, u said
eliminate the eggs" The waiter said,
"Oh. yes, l see, yes-sir, yes-sir." Not
lhninO hA tn nhn
the gentleman and asked the second
time, How were those eggs to be
done?" The answer was: Just
eliminate them" When the waiter
brought in the dinner as ordered he
said, Here is your dinner, sir, but
we couldn't serve the eggs, as we
done broke our eliminator."
The most prominent attributes pre-
sented by the war were conservation,
generosity, economy, self-sacrifce
and Observation-Disclosures. ~
The word conservation defines
itself, for who here will ever forget
to associate conservation with the
past war? . Conservation is surely
worth retaining, 80 without further
Explanation we will label 1t sfeature
No. /. vx
Generosity was cited as an attri-
butte in the light of charity. We
gave freely of our dollars for democ-
racy in the war loans. for Red Cross
work. for the Y. M. G. A., for the
Salvation Army, for reconstruction
and many other uses and not always
with a remunerative value. That
feature is worth retaining, for If it
needed dollars to make the world
safe for democracy for the coming
generations, then it will again take
dollars to spread Christianity in the
missionary movement both here and
abroad to make this world a safe
place for the coming generations. The
call for civil giving should not be
stronger than the call for Christian
giving. Therefore, the attribute OF
right-giving will be labeled feature
| No. 2.
Economy was next cited. That in
cludes economy in food, clothing and
resources. To economic doesn't
/ mean to stint. We women who had
mothers who lived during the recon.
struction following the Civil Wal
didn't have a. hard lessop to learn
as those less fortunate, as economy
was virtue then and should be now
To ec0nomize doesn't mean to substi