Evening star., 1942-07-14
Loyalty to Man
In the Service
Woman's Job
Giving Up Good Times
Is Small Sacrifice
COMPARED to His
By Dorothy Dix

Dear Miss Dix: 7 have been In
the Army Air Force for two years,
and I want to ask you to impress
upon The girls we left behind us
the Importance of keeping up the
morale of the boys at the front by
being loyal to them.
We have a life and death Job
that the whole Nation is depending
on our doing We have left our
wives ard sweethearts behind us to
do our hit in protecting our coun-
try and defending the freedom that
we believe is more precious than life
itself. Why can't these wives and
sweethearts whom the boys of the
Army and Navy are risking their
lives for, realize that it is just as
important for them to be loyal to
their mel as it is for the men on
the fighting line to be loyal to Uncle
Sam?
Why can't the women understand
that they have as big job at home,
in keeping their men cheered up and
free from worries and jealousies,
as the linen have in keeping them
selves fit to fight?
Time and again I have seen fell
lows 90 to pieces when they got
letters telling that their wives were
stepping out with other men, or the
girls they we're engaged to were
going 70 marry some chap at home.
It not only broke down their morale,
but that Of lot of other boys who
wondered If the same thing was hap
pening to them.
Please try to make our loved ones
understand that it is their duty to
stick to that soldier or sailor who
Is doing his all for his country, at
least until the war is over. as much
as it is his duty to protect them
with his life AN EAGLE.
Answer commend this letter
to the attention of all the women
who are bubbling over with patriot
ism in these days. If they have
husband or sweetheart at the
front, the best war work they can
do is 70 keep him bucked up by
the knowledge that they are true to
him; tnat they are proud of him,
and that they are waiting for him
to come back. And that they are
waiting alone.
Certainly when a man is risking
his life to protect his country, it
doesn't seem much of a sacrifice
for woman to give up few dates
for him. He has given up his job,
his profession, the success that was
almost within his reach to try to
keep FOR the woman he loves the
kind of Life he wants his wife and
his children to enjoy. 1t is an act
of self -abnegation whose cost you
cannot estimate in money, or weigh
in words, and all that the women
at home can do, to repay this great
debt to the men at the front, is in
doing everything possible to make
them happy and keep from them
everything that would worry them.
So while it may be dull to sit at
home Of an evening instead of
going dancing with some lad; while
you may miss the parties and the
good times you have been accus-
toned 20. make your small sacrifice
by giving up your gayeties for the
duration and putting in the time in
writing your Tom. Dick or Harry a
cheerful letter. Even If you have
found out you didn't love Billy as
much as you thought you did. or If
the new boy you have met looks
better to you than Sam did, don't
tell him now.
And don't do anything that will
give other people chance to tell
him when he is perhaps starting
out on the flight from which he
will never return, or going into a
| battle where your letter. with its
bad news. made him welcome the
bullet that pierced his heart. And
II you are wife, watch your step.
Be as discreet as Caesars wife.
Don't add to your husbands sor-
rows by letting him even wonder if
you are being faithful to him.