The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-13
THEY'RE ARRIVALS"
SAID S. A. GIRLS
UNDlSTURBED BY NEARBY LAND
ING OF NUMEROUS HEAVY
HUN SHELLS.
PRAISE IN VIOLENT TERMS
Golfers Weekly Writer Says Officers
and Privates Are Emphatic in Tell
ing About Salvation Army Work.

(By James Hopper. in ColliersJ
The reason that we wanted to sea
The Salvation Army nut was that, all
the way up here. everyone we talked
to, from general to private, had gone
out Of his way to enlist US in a vio-
lent ana Git seemed to me- unrea-
sonable craftsmanship. That is why |
went into the Salvation Army hut,
TO see
1t was night, by this time. and the
place we entered. lighted only by a
few sputtering candles, was made
vast and mysterious by the great
shadows which massed in the corners
and pulsed in the depths of the high
ceiling. 1t was, as matter Of fact,
l think, some big deserted barn, but
it had the aspect of an old and ruin
ed cathedral. At first this is all one
saw-the old, thick stone walls the
floor of beaten earth, smelling damp;
the high ceiling, patched, where there
were holes of suspicious shape, with
white squares OF tent canvas; the
candlelights. each with its humid lit
tie halo. Then we saw that beneath
the candles we're tables. and about
the tables chairs, and that at some
of the tables men. American soldiers
coated still with the mud of the
trenches, their steel helmets upon
their heads, their Gas masks beneath
their chins-sat reading or writing;
Here, by the counter, was another
group of soldiers. One of them,
back from his turn from the trenches
was holding forth to others who had
not yet been there. He was a young
lad, very young Chow very young
most Of these soldiers lookD; a
STRIPPING of a lad, tall and 1.-THE.
His attitude toward what he had just
been through was one Of intense
an0 eager satisfaction. He was ike
a freshman just out Of his first foot
ball game still athrill with it, and
tremendously anxious for the next
One of the boys further away RAJ
ped On the counter for attendance. A
moment after the canvas screen be-
hind parted, young woman appear
ed Sne was a young woman and
most becoming1y gotten up in a kha-
ki-colored costume which had some
thing about it Of military chic. And
when she spoke it was with a low, |
we'll modulated voice, and ner eyes
were bright and frank. Many of the
soldiers came forward now to be
waited on, and she did this gracious
ly as any queen (fairy-tale queen, J
mean who loves her people very
dearly and is bound to share their
worries and their troubles and is
filled with tenderness for their hard
ships and their perils-we could see
she was adored.
After she had attended to many
wants we introduced ourselves, and
she invited us behind the canvas
screen to see her kitchen The
kitchen was merely the farther end
of the building; like it, it had grimy
stone walls, damp earthen floor
and an absurdly high ceiling patched
with canvas. But on the ground
was a field range, and there were,
besides, deal table, several rough |
chairs, barrels, boxes, and cans of
provisions, and in a corner little
tent which was her home We sat
at the table and, while observing Sc |
cretly meanwhile the fact that she |
possessed humor and tolerance and
understanding, mind as beautiful |
as her external charm. we pursued
our severe invest CATION Though now
we knew. We asked why The Sal |
walton Army, around these "dfggine,~
was more popular than other organ
fzatiCns. She deprecated such taIk.
sof course. She said the other organ
kation was an admirable one. aaid
that it and hers worked together in |
mutual helpfulness and amity. But |
when we pressed our questioning she |
at last admitted that perhaps the un- |
reasonable partisanSfrip Of the SOL !
oilers of the sector was due to tho
fact that her hut made hot cnoco- |
Hate and doughRuts and pies (once |
more the chocolate, doughnuts and !
pies.D. She called her helpmates, !
two blond Salvation lassies, and ask
ed them statistics en- the subject, |
and they said the record was this:
one day they had made fifty pies (
and two thousand Il say two thou
sand doushnuts
As we talked there had been a
numbcr Of hoav- detona.ions near
by, and l, wishing to show had I
been in this sort Of thing before
(man viii always show of before .
woman said; You have a battery
stationed near by, haven't your But /
she, in rapid parenthesis, answered .
negligently: ooh. these are no. dc
partures; they're arrivals, and vent I
on with the subject thus disturbed +
Now departure is when you shoot I
at tie other fellow, and an arrival is I
when the other fellow is shooting I
at you fand coming ciosel. For the
first time ] noticed, hanging on one
side steel helmet, on the other a /
gas mask. A dinner engagement is /
a dinner engagement. our watches I