Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-17
WARNS AMERICA
OF PEACE TALKS
Salvation Army Secretary
From Front Sees Ger
man Trick
STOPS HERE ON TOUR
Says Teutons Will Quit Bel
gium and Make Effort To
Save the Kaiser

Germany will evacuate B,lg um and
make efforts at r,paration to save the
Kaiser but that will he done without
an armisticc and more as n diplomatic
move than IN the spirit of world hu-
mani;y
America must no. be fooled by the
peace talk Keep up the drive al home.
and don't take the peace talk seriously
until the Kaiser actually abdicates and
the new German Government sues for
peace"
This statement was made this after
noon by David Lamb. an international
secretary Of the Salvation Army. who is
In Philadelphia on his American tour
OF inspection Mr.. Lamb is a native of
England and left the firing lines the
latter part Of August
July 2S his eldest son, Lieutenant Pat
rick Lamb, British artillery, was killed
in action, and two days later his son,
Alec, Il private I'm the Gordon High
lInders. was wounded
They paid the price" said Mr..
Lamb. but did no more than thousands
Of others in the American, French and
British armies
Praise for Americans
Your Americans are certainly fight
ing and proving to the world they have
gone to France to make the world safe
for decent men and women. | have
seen them go into action and have seen
them as they retired from the firing
lines to the rest camps. but never have
| noted anything but determination
to fight on until a satisfactory peace
Is won.
Germany wants to quit, but is not
wiling TO accept the terms of the United
states. The Kaiser hopes to lessen the
hatred of the civilized world by evacu-
ating Belgium. BY making an effort
to restore that country he thinks that
he would be In position to negotiate
a peace, As usual he is combining
the arts of diplomacy and world poll
tics with the arts of war. but Eng
land, France and America cannot be
.ooled
The military leaders feel Germany
can continue the fight, but maintain. and
rightly, that to insure a genuine peace
and one that is lasting it will be neces-
sary to give the German army a
thorough beating. The army must be
crushed"
Mr.. Lamb asserted that the Allied
armies are not moved by hatred or bit
t,rness but by sense of world justice
The men in the ranks" he added, feel
field of battle and not at a peace con-
ference. That is why they are fighting
9TH such supreme courage"
The salvation Army leader comment
ing on his visit 10 America, said that its
chief purpose concerned the speeding up
Gf the organizations war work we
are doing a wonderful work ON the fir
ing lines and must do more" he asserted.
salvation Army Popular
That the salvation Army is very pop
ular with the men in olive drab he
made plain and attributed its popuari-
ty TO what he termed the sanctified
common sense" of the Salvation Army
workers. our workers in France
said the army leader, are practical
men and women. They know how to
meet the men and how to care for their
wants. II is their naturalness, sincerity
and genuine common sense that has
placed them on such high plane In
the minds Of the lighting men.
When soldier enters "A Salvation
Army hut he senses and immediately,
that the institution Is his temporary
home and that the hut workers are just
like himself, plain men and women who
are trying 20 do their bit in the war.
II a soldiers coat is torn there is a
motherly type of woman in the hut
TO mend IT, She does the work like an
ordinary mother and the soldier is made
happy II he wants pie and coffee, a
young woman, one like his sister back
home, serves him and again he is happy
"Our huts follow the boys. Some
times they are located in old shell
smashed houses and sometimes in wine
cellars. but the atmosphere Of home {,
there"
After General Pershing knocked of
/ the German point in the st. Mihiel sec,
tor, a coterie of Salvation Army lassie,
headed by Captain Raspon. of Chicago
and Mary Billings, of Chicago. entered
a pie-making contest with force o,
army bakers. Catholic chaplain acted
as referee and after an all-day contes
the women won, They had made 81
pies.
Mr.. Lamb, telling how the Allies ar,
/ winning, hit upon new war trinity
ITS the vivacity of the French, tn,
tenacity Of the British and that wonder
ful intensity Of the Yankees that Is do
ing the trick It's an unbeatable
| trinity