Show OUR PART since the united states entered tile the great world war the constant admon to the people has been to save and serve we have been urged to eat less expensive foods buy less expensive clothing indulge in less pleas uras ures that cost money cut out all extravagance trava gance and SAIVE that advice his has been coming taus to us with greater force and more frequency Ire quency during the past six months and just the other other day i tile the press dispatches contained the statement of oc an eminent official of 0 the government that tila nation and the entire world is face to face with mith a famine despite all these warnings land the constant urging to save and substitute in every p particular what nave have I 1 we 0 do done we are eating cating our cur three squares square a day we are arc having meat on our tables as often as we crave it without respect to th regulations prescribed for its use wo we iro roo eating ahio read made filin white flour walthou respect to iff tie cie ale plea a or the food administrator that the hour be mixed with other cereal substitutes so as to save wheat wo vic are dressing as well and expensively as we vie did last year and a little more so tor for prices have gone up we are going to just as many picture shows we are dancing more ore than we used to were eating as much if not more candy and ana other aeration could have were confections confect ions as we did formerly we have the auto bug as bad as any generation could have it we ave entertain in our homes in as lavish a manner as our pocketbooks will admit and even more so we are spending our money for this and tor for that irrespective of our needs and the wisdom of it in short have we made one single effort to cut out the non essentials and give or lend to the government what we ne should thus save and do our bit to ta win the war we have positively made no attempt in this direction as yet and the question now comes just how much longer can this thing go on before we will be brought up face to face with the stern realities of our position in olden times the people were guilty ot of feasting and debauching debau ching and refused to be learned of impending dangers which such a course would inevitably whirl them into and we despite the example of belgium fr france ance serbia rumania and italy go our way spending and carousing refusing to take this war seriously and get right down to lo the plain bare facts in tho the case it t required the bombing of london and other cities to make the english appreciate the fact that they were in a a war that meant life or death to them let us sincerely hope that it will not bequir emich terrible argument to impress us with the same fact and make us realize that we must cut out all non essentials and serve and save ave |