Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — AUNT VIRGINIA’S SAYINGS [ARTICLE]

AUNT VIRGINIA’S SAYINGS

It’s a wise food conservationist that knows whose advice not to take. The professional pacifist is a person who is willing to grin and bear everyone’s wrongs but his own. Just because nations are at war today is no reason why you should carry the war spirit into your home or business. The trouble with the peace-at-any-price people is that they don’t realize that sometimes the price of real peace is war. Maybe I have a mean disposition, but some of those sweaters our fair, patriotic knitters are so busily engaged on look suspiciously gay for soldiers’ W'ear. Maybe women are wasteful housewives, but I feel pretty sure that if the average home were run as extravagantly as men run governments, we’d be a nation of bankrupts. If we could only pass a law compelling everyone, uttering a fine, moral sentiment to go out and immediately put it into practice, there would be little sound heard in the land except the sawing of wood. —Farm Life.