Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-07-25
THE SALVATION ARMY DRIVE
July 25 and 26.

Every donation to the Salvation
Army, which is asking this community
to aid in its campaign for war fund,
makes it possible to provide few more
necessities and comforts for the Amer
ican boys in France; for the Salvation
Army works at the battle line and is
ready with its hot cocoa and coffee and
food when the men most need it.
Sheued by day and night, living in
water filled dugouts in the American
first lines, eight American women, Sal
vationists, went with the soldiers
through the German attack near Mont
didier. They were the same women
who rode $50 miles on army trucks and
caissons from the Toul front to the
Montdidier front which the Americans
took over at the height Of the German
attack, Of the work of these women
in behalf of the comfort of the soldiers,
both officers aud men tell, with tears in
their eyes.
When our boys came back through
the German barrage, which played
night and day upon the roads near
Grivesnes," said an American officer,
"'they were met by these fearless
women who served them hot cocoa and
coffee and handed out American made
doughnuts and pies.
cat o'clock each morning when the
rain poured down and soaked both
troops and women, these Salvation
Army workers stuck to their posts near
the front line trenches. They met every
ammunition train going up to the trenches
and every company of men coming out.
They met the wounded who were able
to walk along the roads swept by shell
fire and ninistered to their needs"
One of the most widely read Of the
American correspondents is Irwin S.
Cobb. In recent edition of the Sat
urday Evening Post he says: Right
here seems a good enough place for me
to slip in few words of appreciation
for the work which another organiza-
tion has accomplished in France since
we put our men into the field. Nobody
asked me to Speak in it's favor because
so far as I can find out it has no pub
icity department. L am referring to
the Salvation Army-may it live forever
for the service which, without price
and without boasting of the part of it's
personnel, it is rendering to our boys
in France.
Il have yet to meet any soldier,
whether brigadier or private, who, if
he spoke at all Of the Salvation Army,
did not speak in terms of fervent graft
tude for the aid that the Salvationists
are rendering so unostertatiously and
yet so very effectively. Let sizable
body of troops move from one station
to another and hard on it's heels there
comes a squad of men and women from
the Salvation Army. An army truck
may bring them, or it may be they
have battered jitney to move them
and their scanty outfits. Usually they
do not ask for help from anyone in
reaching their destinations. They find
lodgment in a wrecked shell of a house
or in the corner of barn. By main
force and awkardness they set up their
equipment and very soon the word has
spread among the troopers that at such
and such place the Salvation Army is
serving free hot drinks, free doughnuts,
and free pies. It specializes in dough-
nuts, the Salvation Army in the field
does, the real old fashioned home made
ones that taste of home to homesick
soldier boy
Thursday and Friday of this week
Iowa county will be given an oppor-
tunity to help the Salvation Army in
this heroic and noble work.
Envelopes in the rural communities
can be returned with donations to the
letter carrier Or to the solicitors.
Give your share. Give until it hurts.
Iowa COUNTY COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
BY GWILYM E. JONES,
Comfy Chairman of Salvation
Army Drive.