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AT (he corner, under the arc
** some music started. A crowd
onssersby collected. It was not
loe-tantiiliy.ing ja/.a; It was a soul-stir
ring hymn.
"Pretty soft," drawled the
limn whose should, rs propped up the
brick store front of a pool hall. “Some
people seem to get by with it. eh? Do
« little singsong on a soap-box every
night—and call it a day’s work. Prob’
lily the life of Reilly when you're a
buck private In the Salvation Army.
No K. I’, potato peeling. Pret-ty soft !”
And so Colonel Alexander M. Damon,
field secretary of the Salvation Army,
was asked about It. He is in charge
of recruiting Salvationists at the Na
lional Headquarters. No. 122 West
Fourteenth street, New York city.
"Say, that’s good!" boomed »he
onel. "A soft job in the Salvation
Army? I never heard of It. Listen,
my friend:
"In the United States right now the
Salvation Army needs 500 men and
women. It is the hardest work I know ;
the pay Is the lowest; the hours, why,
there aren’t any! A Salvation Army
officer is on call night and day. Sick
ness In the tenements, starving kids,
fires, hungry poor in winter, bereaved
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I families, convicts and their families,
■ unmarried young women with babies—
jail | we aid them all. Strangers ami friends.
religions, all races are just human
beings to us, you see.
"Do you know the prospective Salva
j tion Army Officer works a year without
pay? It takes two years of 24 hour-a
I day service lo God and to man before
lie, or she, is commissioned a lieuten
: iant. And what do think
you the pay
! I s ’ Exactly $14 a week! Our remu¬
neration comes from serving ethers.
So w r e are well paid.
"Salvationists must visit the jails
and prisons. Penniless families of
convicts are helped out. Thousands of
j missing relations are found and re
! turned to their families every year by
the Salvation Army officers.
Then the visitor remembered those
two Salvation Army lassies, hustling
jin the greasy, yellow mud of that
1 Flanders dugout, baking pies and serr
ing doughnuts and hot chocolate to
; some weary, half starved Infantrymen,
| Day after day. and nights, too. And
| during the whole of that maddening
j August drive those lassies just kepi on
smiling and handing out food,
“Pretty soft,” mused the visitor;
"pret ty soft!”
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