The Prime Minister issued a New Year message to the
nation, asking all civilians to do their utmost for the cause, just as our men are doing their utmost on the sea or on the battlefield. " No sacrifice that we who stay at home are called upon to make can equal or faintly approach what is daily and hourly demanded of them." We can all help by working hard, by spending little, and by lending all we can spare to the State. The civilian's firing-line " is the works or the office in which you do your bit ; the shop or the kitchen in which you spend or save ; the bank or the post-office in which you buy your bonds." We trust that the grumblers will take Lloyd George's reminder to heart. The inconveniences that any civilians have to endure at home are trivial compared to the hardships which our soldiers and sailors face cheerily every day.
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