LITTLE PIECES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE BE TRUE At all times be true; Be true to your country, GOOD BY, LITTLE BIRDS By Myra A. Buck Dear little birds, As to the south You start to fly. O come again THE POINT OF VIEW By Anna Bird Stewart It's how you look at things that makes Them different as can be. What Mother thinks is naughty Is only fun to me. It was my Fluffy's manners First made me think of that. To me he is my kitten, To the birds a horrid cat. To Mother I am little, and But to my dolly family I'm big and wise and old. When I grow up I wonder If things will still seem strange Will all the world be different, Or will I have to change? THE OLD-FASHIONED CHILD My Grandma says when she was small She never skipped a rope like me, But sat at home, quite properly. She got up every day at four, She baked the bread, and scrubbed the floor; Old-fashioned children were so good It seems they did just what they should, To make them angels in the sky? When I am grown, Oh my, I hope But when the hems in all my clothes Are we fighting this war merely to crush a coterie of madmen whose hearts are beating in unison with the cruelty and treachery of medievalism and whose standards of life are those of Frederick the Great? Is it alone the object of this war to demonstrate that the feudal spirit of the eighteenth century was wrong? No, we are fighting this war for a Democracy that shall reach down and take root in the heart of every citizen in every country. There is no such a thing as a Democracy that is not universal any more than there is an Autocracy that is tolerant. These things are to be among the fruits of this war. And into this order of life the universal practice of thrift must come, for thrift is the very essence of Democracy itself. Thrift is upbuilding and constructive-essentials without which no true republicanism can permanently endure. These are some of the lessons we must learn from the great text book of passing history. There never will come a time in our national life when thrift will not to be a necessity. It is as vital to our success in winning the war as powder and steel. And in the period of readjustment following the war, thrift will be just as essential. Millions of men will come home from the war to take up again the occupations of peace. The present acute scarcity of labor will be ended. The pressing demand for war supplies will be over. The inflation that now exists will subside rapidly. In this readjustment there will be need for thrift and economy to preserve the equilibrium. And as the years go on, the prodigious losses of the war must be made up through thrift. Humanity must save then what it is destroying today. The time when thrift shall not be neededneeded as vitally as food itself will never come. And so out of the spirit of our patriotism in war savings let us also coin a new phrase the patriotism of peace-savings. Thrift will win the war, and after the days of bloodshed are over the nations will bind up their wounds through thrift. Through thrift alone can the rebuilding come-the rebuilding of America— the rebuilding of the world. In peace or war, thrift is the strong right arm of civilization. Through it we have made splendid progress in the year of our belligerency. Through thrift victory will come to us-victory and peace-which let us hope will mark the end of all war for all time. Hur_rah! Hur-rah!come buc tie on your skates, Hur-rah Hur-rah! We do not like to wait, sxating ska-ting der the ice we Glide Ska-ting, Skating with play mate by my side. SKATING By Anna Mae Brady (Book Rights Reserved) As children sing "Hurrah! Hurrah! Come buckle on your skates, Hurrah! Hurrah! we do not like to wait," they choose a partner to skate with them. They stand with hands clasped across and go thru the skating movements, keeping time to the music. Hurrah! Hurrah! come buckle on your skates, Hurrah! Hurrah! we do not like to wait. Skating, skating, o'er the ice we glide, Skating, skating, with playmate by your side. DRINKING CUP F. G. Sanders, Toronto, Ont. Take any size square of stiff paper, fold it on itself to form a triangle. Good size 8x8. Then with the base toward you, fold over the right and left corners until they touch the opposite edges (3). Then fold again as in fig. (4). Now fold the projecting flaps in opposite directions, square the insides a bit and dint the bottom up with your finger. America today stands in the position in which all her economic problems must be solved through thrift. Whether we consider plans for the defeat of the sinister forces that are pounding at the very foundations of civilization or whether we have in mind the smallest details of home and business routine, the answer remains the same. America because of her boundless resources has been the last of the nations to turn to thrift. Today, happily, she is learning the value of this virtue and the folly of improvidence. The thrift of patriotism, the thrift of sacrifice, this is the spirit of war-savings. It is the same spirit that makes glorious the heroism of the boys in the trenches of France. For patriotism is the same whether it be over there or back here. We have come into a new order of things. The days of right by might are ending. Military autocracy belongs to an age that is gone. This war marks the darkness that precedes the dawn of universal Democracy-a Democracy lifted to the lofty level of brotherhood. Into the statesmanship, the politics, the business of the day that is breaking just ahead, there will come a new spirit-a spirit of honesty, generosity and gentleness. The statesmanship of the world will be successful only insofar as it is honorable and just. The politician who achieves success will attain his ends by worthy acts alone. The business man must stand on the broad ground of real brotherhood. The attitude between employer and employee will be that of man to man, not master and slave. Every man must practice thrift and every man must have the chance to practice it. It will be the duty of every employer to see that his employees do practice thrift, that the conditions of employment are such that they can practice it. The autocracy of politics, the autocracy of business have reached the day of reckoning. The dollar sign is passing as the insignia of a ruthless power, the day is dawning when it shall stand as the symbol of protection to the weak and help for the worthy. FOR ALL 3 FOOD SCORE AUTOCRACY O ADMINISTRATION It was tightening of the American belt that made this hit possible. 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