Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — WAR COMMANDMENTS [ARTICLE]

WAR COMMANDMENTS

Ten war commandments for the women of America were proposed recently by the women’s committee of the council of national defense, of which Dr. Anna Howard Shaw is chairman, with the suggestion that they be made the basis for a New Year’s resolution. Here is the,new decalogue: Do not listen to alarmists or slackers. Do not chatter. Keep to yourself the news you hear. Multiply your activities in your home as well as outside. Encourage national industries, avoiding imported ones. Do not complain of the difficulties, annoyances and privations caused by the war. No matter how long the. struggle may last, await victory with strength and patience. Be moderate in your spending; neither lavish in gifts nor sordid in your economies. Exhibit day by day and hour by hour the same courage a man shows upon the field of battle. If you are stricken in your dearest affections bear you sorrow nobly that your tears may be worthy of the hero whose death you inourn. Do not look upon the departures for the front of those dear to you as an abandonment. Be with them constantly in thought, as they are with you, particularly in the hour of danger.