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Show waOnd your duty Our Boys "Over There" Neer Every Assistance. Subscriptions to Liberty Loan, Invest-ment Invest-ment in Thrift Stamps, Contributions Contribu-tions of Clothing, Conservation of Food Necessary to Win. (By GELETT BURGESS of the Vigil-antes Vigil-antes and the Prophet Isaiah.) Yes, I, too, saw them, many I saw, Indoors and out, at the theater and at the rink, knitting, oh no, not khaki gray, but the gay colors of frivolity, knitting pink and yellow and white; knitting sweaters, sweaters, God help them, for their own soft shoulders. Yet in the trenches of France our soldiers are shivering, shivering, freez. Ing for gray, gray, GRAY ! And thou snidst, I shall be n lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember re-member the latter end of It. Waste makes want and want makes woe! Does not England already know? It has gone from Spend to Save, from Scrimp to Starve. Do you know, oh careless daughters, that there even the garbage cans are Inspected for waste? that one Is fined for throwing throw-ing away a slice of bread? Yet here often more food Is wasted nt one dinner than would feed n family. fam-ily. Yes, wasted today but what of tomorrow? Upon the land of my people shall, come up thorns and briers; bri-ers; yen, upon all the houses of Joy In the joyous city. Ice cream sodas and cakes and confectionery, con-fectionery, hats, bags and hosiery-do hosiery-do you, too, wutch and wonder how the young girls fling away the future? fu-ture? Yet, still nncared-for, the orphans of France and Belgium, Serbia, thousands thou-sands wait suffering to be fed. And OUR orphans when the great shock falls shall they, to, not need all that we can save? Therefore hear now this, thou that are given to pleasure, that dwellest carelessly, care-lessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none lse beside be-side me; I shall not jit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children. It Is so easy te do to save. It Is so hard to do to supply what prodigality prodi-gality has squandered. It Is so simple sim-ple to do to lend what we save to the government that our neighbor's fate may be averted or diminished. Now, now, NOW ! Must our sluggards, slug-gards, male and female have to go to the ant to take heed to comprehend how, If each lays up grain of provision provi-sion against want, the whole hill shall be saved? Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women : for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. Every cent selfishly, thoughtlesslj spent, robs sufferers abroad, robs our soldiers, robs our own future. Every cent patriotically lent to Thrift campaign cam-paign or Liberty Loan, brings peacb nearer nearer 1 Rise up, ye women that are at ease : hear my voice, ye careless daughters ; give ear unto my speech. |