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Show AN EDITORIAL FOR WOMEN BY ID AH W CLONE GIBSON Are you a patriot t If you are, you have already put your household house-hold on a war basis. You are eating white bread only aeldom, if at all. You are particularly careful not to waate one scrap of fat. - You are not eating butter when yon have meat fats and gravies! . ' -A You are eating all fresh perishable vegetables possible, so potatoea, beans, onions, cabbage and other vegetables that will keep long time can be sent abroad for the soldiers. You are eating. one-third leas meat than formerly. for-merly. You are curtailing the amount of food you serve at each meal. You are in every way using the greatest thought to make the food served a tasty and nutritious as ever while religiously conforming to your idea of war rations. You have, bombarded your congressman with letters asking him to stop orating, get down to work on the food bills and curb the traitorous food speculator. . You are not wearing silk lingerie while the boys in the training camps are waiting for their flannel shirts. - You are not wearing new fancy French heeled shoes while those same boys are moaning over blistered blis-tered feet because the shoe manufacturers. have not had time to fill government orders. : You are not wearing new silk stockings white the boys are waiting for their socks. If you are a patriot you will think every time you buy anything whether it is needless purchase. Whether you want to be or not, YOU ARE EITHER A SOLDIER OR A SLACKER. Ton an conscripted in the great cause of making the world safe for democracy and yon mutt do your bit or ait tamely baik and let a atauncher and braver soul do it for yon. There are no half way measures.. Tfte war it on and you are in the thick of the fight. Are you a patriot T . |