The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-08-29
SALVATION ARMY
AFTER WAR FUND
DEFENSE COUNCIL TOHANDLEDRIVE
Mrs. ChaS. Fuller in charge Billy Sun
day Opens State Campaign For
Great Fund at Salem

os the respective school districts Hood
River will raise S;Is5 or mOie for the
war fund. The campaign opens Sep
tember 10 and lasts until September
p.
Great enthusiasm prevails at head
quarters in Portland over the fact that
already q counties, through county
Councils Of Defense and kindred organ
izations. have decided to put over this
drive beginning September Is. The
remaining counties in Oregon. Just as
soon as the field representatives get to
see the chairmen of the count Councils
Of Defense. will also. no doubt, decide
to do this work through their Organlza
tions.
1t has been decided that Sunday,
September 10. should be Salvation Ar
my Sunday in the churches. and the
request goes forth that the ministers
throughout the state in their services
on this day say something about the
wonderful work the Salvation Army is
doing and mention the drive to the peo-
pie, which really opens on this day.
Last Sunday at Salem, by invitation
of Governor NithVcombe, the Marion
County Council of Defense and the
Commercial club Of Salem, Billy Sun
day spoke at the Armory N behalf Of
this fund, and the citizens of Salem
nearly 5000 strong. who had the priv
lege Of hearing and seeing Billy in ac-
ton, never before in their lives heard
such a speech, brimming with patriot
ism and urging folks to give the Saliva.
tion Army chance to help the dough
boys in the trenches of France MIR.
Sunday fired the opening gun of the
Oregon Salvation Army War Fund
drive and its boom was heard around
the state.
when the boys from the trenches
are staggering back starved and shak-
en- they are welcomed by the lassies In
blue carrying pie and doughnuts like
mother used to make, said Mr.. Sun
day. They We're true to the Flag be
fore war was declared, and on every
corner Old Glory was spread out to
catch the nickels and dimes for the
cause Of Christ and their country, and
they are true to their nation when
their Flag was drenched with blood
but there are a few mealy mouthed
NUTS and mollycoddles that are shov-
ing their hands down into the pockets
of Uncle Sam and grabbing off fat Jobs
and calling 1t patriotism. They are
helping the kaiser as much as Won Hin
| denburg. And | never mention the
kaiser name without feeling the need
of a disinfectant to wash my mouth
out. But f some people right here in
/ Oregon were to meet the kaiser or Won
Hindenbure walking the street they
would shake their hands quicker than
/ they would shake the hand of President
i Wilson. And at that Won Hindenburg
IS dirty, hooked, hog jawed,
wease-eyed Weinie eater, and there 5
nothing he wouldn't do.
"Oh, that ghastly. hideous, Internal
Prussian mlitarism. ! wish it could
look into the faces Of the men, women
and children that it has outraged and
raped and murdered. What grave is
deep enough to bury that thousand
armed, thousand footed, thousand
fanged infamous pirate of the air and
lands and seas and ambassador Of hell'
"After this war you won't be asked
your rating in Bradstreet S, or whether
you live in a castle or a hut, or Wheth-
er you ride in Pierce Arrow or tin
Lizzie, but YOU will be asked what you
did to lick that dirty gang Of Heiules.
Why, even the ministers over there
take an oath to preach the gospel the
way it is taught by the kaiser. That
dirty, God-forsaken pup The kaiser
said he could dictate to 1900, 600 Amer
leans through the German-Americar
Alliance and | say to hell with the
German American Alliance.
Germany says the cause Of the wal
was the murder Of the heir apparent Of
the House Of Hapsburg, and as far as
can learn he ought to have been muir
dered long before. The real cause OF
the war was the Prussianizing Of Ger
many If a man can outrage and rape
you it is all right if he has the power
to do it. That is the principle thai
bunch Of Heinies works on.
But our army and navy are going
to dig their grave, and it is up to US tC
furnish the spade to do it with. They
have made a surging, seethlng cauldror
Of hell and corruption out of thi!
world, and there is nothing in the Vo
cabuIary Of calumny and nastlness anC
rot that that dirty, God-fofsaken gans
hasn't stopped to do. Their religion il
| the hail of The machine gun. We did
| n t seek this war, and we are not quar-
| relsome, but there's no nation on tn,
top Of God Almighty's dirt that cal
| lick Uncle Sam,
| "Our boys licked them the other da,
| until they had their tongues out VI
| don't want their dirty money, and al
| the land we ask in Europe is enougl
to bury our boys in. All we want i
| that the Stars and Stripes shall Aoa
| over the land Of the free and the hom
| Of the brave. Our boys over ther
/ stand ready to become bullet meat 70
/ 80 bucks month. and we are un
/ worthy to hide behind their mutiIate
/ bodies if we don't do all we can T.
| help them, and we are dirty, black
| hearted traitors if we do anything {
| make it harder for them. Any ma
/ who will start a strike for an increas
/ of dollar a day is as much Of
| protiteer as he who gratis for $40. 000
4 Civilization is like ship and W
J are the captains obliged to 20 dow
with it if we can't save it. Any ma
in the United States who at any tim
expressed sympathy for Germany dur
ing this war ought to be arrested an
shot for his ofFense We are at death
grips with the most unscrupulous mon
ster that ever deluged the world wit
blood, a monster that devours wome
and children It's whale Of a jo
we We tackled, but we are whale of
people. And you will never catch Gov
mapping. God is with US. And, be
lieve me, when our boys turn loose O
Hindenburg and the rest Of that hot
dog gang they will know that Sherma
was right.