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FANS ABOUT THE SALVATION ARMY
TV By ELIZABETH TYLER f
Tiie people of the South are once
snore called upon to give. This time
It la for one of the most worthy of all
causes,—the Salvation Army Home
Service Fund.
When war was declared the Salva¬
tion Army workers went over seaB
with our boys and down into the
trenches Into the very' jaws of death.
They crossed the sea with our boys
with never a thought of personal in
jury—-never dreaming of the wave of
popularity or publicity they would get
for this humble Christian service;
they had only one desire and that
wtj to serve our boys when they most
needed friends. They spent much of
the money that it had taken them
nmJiy years to collect In small change
—ipent it ungrudgingly—because they
saw that our boys needed It.
All they asked In return was that
thsy be allowed by their every day
examples to teach the Christianity our
Savior taught while on earth.
Many soldiers tell of the wonder¬
ful work the Salvation Army has done
overseas. To me there is nothing
unusual about that work, but it Is
th* same kind of work and service
the Salvation Army has always given
here at home—at our very own doors.
It haa taken the stories told by the
returning soldiers who have come to
know the Salvation Army to bring
about this wave of popularity for the
Salvation Army, but the Army has al¬
ways worked and served as they are
new serving.
It reaches a class of people that
no other religious organization can or
attempts to reach. The men and
women that are too ragged and mis¬
erable to attend the services at our
churches—they reach the poverty
that hides and shrinks in the by-ways
of life. A man or woman can never
fall so low, but that this army of
earnest workers stretch out a helping
hand to them. Every man, woman and
child in America should contribute to
this Home Service fund because there
1 b not a corner in our beloved land,
however remote, that does not receive
dlroet benefit from the Salvation
Army, for fifty per cent of the popu¬
lation of the cities is made up of
people that come from small towns
and from those remote sections and
ninety per cent of the boys and girls
that appeal to the Salvation Army
for assistance are those who have
come to the large cities and find them¬
selves unequal to the struggle for ex¬
istence.
The Sr Ivation Army conducts Res
cue Homes, Day Nurseries, Homes for
the Help ess and Aged and Blind,
Lodging Houses for the men and wom¬
en that are unable to pay and free
olinic*—it extends its services every¬
where that misery and poverty exists.
Soldiers Tell Of Overeeae Work.
The roldiers that are returning
from France after their hard strug¬
gle have nothing but words of praise
tor the Salvation Army, and from the
lips of a soldier now at Camp Gordon
comes a story of a frail Salvation
Army lassie that defied the shot and
Bhall of the Hun and carried him
three miles to a first aid station and
eaved his life—that man Is Sergeant
James McCoy of Co. E 17th Infan¬
try. Sergeant McCoy is the proud
possessor of the Croix de Guerre, aud
the famous Belgium medal for brav¬
ery was among the- first Americans to
join the Allies in the great world
war.
“It was on my twentieth birthday,
August 5, 1918, in the famous Argonne
Forest that I received five machine
gun bullets In my legs as a sort of
a birthday present from the Hun,”
•aye Sergeant McCoy, of Camp Gor¬
ge n, Atlanta, 6a., as he extolled the
work of the Salvation Army abroad.
"Tbe rain of bullets from the ma
cLlne gu&B brought me to the ground
with hundreds of my comrades. In
spite of the pain, I crawled along, and
after making two miles towards a
that aid station I fell In a faint and
lay there with shot and shell burst
lag around me. I will never know
wno found me, hut when l awakened
I was looking into the eyes of a frail
Salvation Army lassie, who had
bound my wounds to check the flow
of blood and who was bathing my face
bringing me back to consciousness.
"It was after midnight, and the
only light around ue came front the
bursting bombs and the hand gre¬
et dea which were being hurled by one
of the strongest battalions of the Ger¬
man Crown Prince. She bade me
have courage and said that she would
carry me to the nearest first aid sta¬
tion, which was three miles away.
She unloosened my equipment and
carried me in a military fashion
Btr&ight out over that perilous Jour¬
ney three miles away. Time and
again she stopped to regain her
strength and each time after she was
ready to go on she would bathe my
face and make me aB comfortable as
possible. How long it took her to
bring me through that shot ridden
land I will never know, for 1 after¬
wards learned that I fainted several
times during the Journey. It was
daylight when the lassie carried me
to the first aid station and after she
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sturdy comrades she sank to the
ground unconscious."
This is only one of the many things
that I know of concerning the Sal¬
vation Army and their work with the
American troops abroad. They are
the greatest friends we have, and, if
the American public can only be told
of ten per cent of their heroic deeds
In No Man’s Land the appropriation
0 f $13,000,000, asked for by the Sal
ration Army, will be but a drop in the
bucket of the funds actually received.
Brothers, sisters, wives or sweet¬
hearts of the American Boldiers should
always lore and support tbe Salvation
Army, for they owe that wonderful or¬
ganization a debt of gratitude, for by
its example of humble Christian eer- ;
vice It has Implanted in the hearts of
the world through her fighting men, 1
a renewed faith In Christ and the
seeds It has sown in No Man’s Land
and at the training camps, which will
spring up and bear fruit that will give
the world the first real taste of de¬
mocracy.
Heroes Explain Why (
In the following words Private
Frank Ivy, of Goldsboro, N. C., sums
up what he has seen of the work of
the Salvation Army abroad. Private
Ivy, who was a member of Company
K, 167th Infantry, was severely wound- j
ed In the early battles of Soissons.
While he lay on his cot at Fort Me- j
Pherson Hospital, waiting time to
heal the wounds Inflicted by the
Huns, he was at his happiest period,
as he discussed the work of the Sal¬
vation Army, both here and abroad.
When he learned of the coming
drive In May for additional funds for
this great cause, the wounded hero
said: “I hope I am out by that time,
and, if I am not, there are thousands
who would go far and wide to tell the
people of this country just what the
Salvation Amy stands for, what it did
for its boys under shell fire, in the
hospitals, and, in fact, everywhere we
went, the Salvation Amy worker was
bound to be there. This is no adver¬
tising campaign, for all the hoys will
have to do is to tell the truth of this
great work and the great American
public will do the rest.”
Sergeant George Henderson, of
Jacksonville, Fla., who was wounded j
at Chateau Thierry, is following the
example of Private Cook and organ¬
izing the discharged soldiers of Flor¬
ida to put over the Salvation Army
Drive in his home State, as the Sal¬
vation Army so ably assisted to put
over drive after drive in the crudest
days of the great world war.
"We doughboys know how to help,
and we are going to do it," says Ser- <
geant Henderson. “The Salvation
Army cared not for shot or shell, for
their only thought was to aid others
in spite of the personal risk to them¬
selves. They started in the war with
us at our training camps in America
and remained with us until we put
the Hun back on his own ground and
started him on the greatest retreat
that a losing army was ever forced to
make.
Debt of Gratitude
America will never know the grati¬
tude she owes to the Salvation Army
and the number of liveB that this little
sturdy band of workers saved by their
fearless actions in the greatest of all
fights.”
Hundreds of statements have come
to our office from those who know
of the Salvation Army’s work in the
trenches.
There will be no vital change in the
administration of the work. The Tam¬
bourine Girl will no longer circulate
among us, however, except at devo¬
tional services. Th# big drive is for
funds to replace this smiling lassie
and release her from collecting small
change to devote her entire time to
a work of mercy. The people of
America will be asked to contribute
once each year Instead of all the year
round to the Salvation Army and per¬
petuate its work.
Some of the most prominent men in
the South will tour this section of
the country in the interest of the
drive. Judge J. S. Reynolds, formerly
Solicitor General of the Augusta Cir¬
cuit and one of the best known law¬
yers in the South, is chairman of the
speaker committee. He has gathered
about him men who have made good
In their respective lines and who will
speak in the behalf of the Salvation
Army Drive.
Among the prominent speakers who
will tour the South are: Judge Mar¬
cus Beck, of Georgia: Dr. S. R. Belk,
Walter F. Andrews of Atlanta, Clif¬
ford Walker, Attorney General for
Georgia, Rev. James Horton, C. Mur¬
phy Candler, Georgia Railroad Com
missloner, Hooper Alexander, District
Attorney, and many others.
The Salvation Army is not basing
its plea for funds on its war record
It has behind it in America forty
years of work as thoroughly and con¬
scientiously rendered as was the work
of the Army lads and lassies in the
t~encheB and on the battlefields of
Fiance. I know the people of America
will help.
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The public haa never realized
more fully the beneficial influ¬
ence of MUSIC than it is doing
at the present time; and that the
only way to create a music lov¬
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education is to have music in
the home.
There are many people who
want music in their homes, but
don’t know just what to buy or
where to buy it. If you were
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who knew medicine to diagnose
your needjs and prescribe the
proper remedy. You are sick for
music in the home: then go to
J. W. HENDERSON, “THE MU¬
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who will take a special interest
in supplying you with the best
and correct kind of musical in¬
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organ or phonograph—or the
the best Song Book.
The spiritual condition of our
our HOMES, CHURCHES ana
SUNDAY SCHOOLS largely de¬
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the songs that we sing. The
songs that we sing are in the
books that we buy. So, if we
would have the best character
of music, we must buy the best
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as a Gospel Singer and song wri¬
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by Homer A. Rodeheaver, for
sale by
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* ‘THE MUSIC MAN”
MANSFIELD, GA.
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