Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — AMERICAN WOMEN CALLED INTO COUNTRY’S SERVICE [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN WOMEN CALLED INTO COUNTRY’S SERVICE

Conserve Every Resource, Save Labor and Money to Make Fourth Liberty Loan Success. By MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK, Vice Chairman Woman's National Liberty Loan Committee. This Is a war that belongs to women. It is not being waged for conquest, nor for glory, nor for any empty rite, nor for material gain. It is a war for humanity, and wherever men, women and children are concerned it is woman’s business. In tills great world crisis that Is now upon us the president of the United States has called American women into the service of the world. Our allies remain unconquered because of the devotion, heroism and sacrifice of their women. We, too, shall prove Invincible with the complete consecration of our womanhood. When Secretary McAdoo called the women of America to do their part in financing the world, he reminded them that while battles were won by men, wars were won by money, and that money could only be raised with the aid of the nation’s women. Women do not often handle large sums of money, but a giant army of them hold a large per cent of the fifties and the 'hundreds of the last Liberty loan. Those with small savings, too small to Invest In high class securities are purchasing the finest securities under the sun In the market of the world. Money alone will not win the war. For, if all the gold in the world were placed in a shining heap, It would be useless unless converted Into terms of labor. Labor means everything that we must use in th * war —food, clothing, munitions, ships, houses, railroads, all the vital elements that make up the everyday life of individuals and of the nation. Woman must conserve labor as she conserves food. No woman has a right to anything to' wear or to eat, to look at or to listen to, that she can possibly do without. All of these take labor to produce and detract from the necessities of war. When the government has reached out its hand ami laid it on the live* of its men nothing else matters. When our men have been asked to give all —■ life itself If need be —nothing that we can do or suffer really matters. What do the graces of life matter when our plowshares are beaten into swords? What does the quality of food or the kind of clothing matter when men and women must ask themselves, “Is my boy hungry?” “Is he frozen?” We can give nothing that has not already been given by the youth that has marched out of our homes. Liberty bonds are as good as coin of the realm, but if they were not and America needed the money, the women of the nation would frame those bonds and hand them down to their chijdren’s children as certificates of loyalty.