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Record of the Salvation Army
BY EvANCELINE BOOTH,
Commander of the Salvation Army.

THE SALVATION ARMY founded by William Booth fifty.
and established to-day countries
this earth.
purpose was the beginning. to-day.
the
shadows of life with sunshine teachings
practical and Straightforward Christianity
of the earth
has nc creed draws color
racial line
and mseries for those involved them Salvation Army has fol-
lowed plain and compelling duty in entering relief
needed
Its purposes and aims, the call Of humanity.
The reader should not lose sight of the fact that normal
functions in of abated whit
anything because of reaching
influences of the itself.
Far behind tie battle lines the inevitable
Entertainments of hunger sickness
with increasing responsibilities the Salvation
We ask bear these facts mind when it weighing
work
do but need women-friends
services be thrown the balance help
and home
The Salvation Army always aligned right
battle forward heartfelt thanks the splendid
support has received from patriots in all stations of life
work. to the end that suffering and
lessened at home and abroad by it's activities.
The Salvation Army had in service
and distributed with
Ohicers operating huments dugouts hostes
connected with
Chapans serving under Government appointment
members and adherents who have various
branches of the active service for Allies bearing
Ambuances supplied for service of Allies. ~
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munity sings. rallies and patriotic
meetings. They sew for the camps
and take flowers to the hospitals.
In one town the girls took their
allegiance to the wars cause so seri-
ously that they adopted the MILDLY
blouse as an official uniform. Some OF
them conferred and agreed that
georgette crepe waists, fancy dresses.
silk hosiery and the many extras that
I'll the wardrobe Of the average peace
time girl were not n war time nces-
sity. Tho result was q MILDLY blous .
meeting, at which a resolution for
the adoption OF this simple garment
carried by an astounding margin.
In Columbus, Ohio, they are fifteen
thousand strong. Groups have been
organized there in the high and grade
schools and among the sororities,
clubs. and literary societies OF Ohio
State University. Practically every
organized agency in Columbus has
an active unit among the membership
OF the Patriotic League, under which
the girls are organized in that city.
Out Of the shops, factories. offices,
homes, schools and churches has been
built up what is perhaps the strongest
democratic organization OF girls In
the Buckeye state. At their first
mass meeting over eight hundred
were present. They launched a cam
paign which enveloped five thousand
members within ten days. Their en-
thusiasm for constructive war work
became SO tense that they swanped
the Red Cross with demands for work
ing materials.
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HOME INFLUENCES
BROUGHT TO CAMPS

Through participation in such a.
INVITES girls are becoming conscious
cltlzens or the war camp community.
me hlsh school girl is being taught
now 10 use her leisure. Her less for.
'unate sister. the factory girl, IS belrg
provided with new social and cultural
opportunities. Both are becoming less
retrospective. less cliquish, more ~.
spohslNe ana more socially conscious.
But they don't know it. They IRA
helping win the war and having 4 lot
OF fun in the process.
mat War Camp Community Ser,igs
means war camp community better
ment Is reiteration. A town cannot
attempt To become a good home town
to large crowd OF transients from all
manner OF places without bringing
into Its own environment the best Zee.
lures existent in these visitors. homs
communities.
And that IL Just what War Cams
Community Service ia trying TO do
duplicate conditions existing in the beSt
I nome towns. And II Ia succeeding,
For In an outburst of appreciation NJ
| enlisted man frequently makes tNs
confession. There's nothing like tlai
where I came from"
no patriot desires to allow any phase
OF Americas near camp onvironmcIt
TO be less stimulating and worthy than
the home environments he, through
his Government, has asked the soldier
ne sailor and the marine 10 leave
These men have right to expect tai
wherever they go upon this side OF III.
ocean their country will be one yau
| hospitabis neishbcrhood.
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These Wonep Brave Shell Fire and
Hardships to Carry Comforts to
the Men at the Front

Allister chimed in. "They walk
through a barrage with their heads
held high and take their objective al
ways.
We were with the First Division,
Americas famous shock troops, nearly
all the time We were abroad" she ex-
planned to me. And the Germans
were deadly afraid of them. Prisoners
told US that II they had known they
were put against these troops they
wouldn't have put up any fight at all.
These boys can put down the most
perfect barrage YOU ever saw with
their 75s. Whenever prisoners are
brought in they always ask to see
those T5s, those machine guns A
German General who was captured
said. You have produced a fighting or
ganization in a few moaths that would
have taken Germany five years. They
are wonderful lighters
81 was washing the hands Of a
wounded soldier one day." Lieut.. Nc
Allister went on, land l noticed q
great ragged hole in his coat
"'What in the world Is that?' l
asked him.
He looked down at the hole, he
hadn't seen 1t before. then put his
hand in his inside pocket and drew out
4 small book. 1t WAS a Testament, the
kind we had been giving the boys. En-
bedded in it was a Jagged piece Of
shrapnel.
THAT accounts for the bruise over
my heart he said slowly. We'll, !
guess this little book saved my life all
right. It's the first Testament l have
ever had
Tasks ut the Front.
I'VE wero giving out oranges at this
hospital one day and six Germans
had been detailed to help us. They
sorted the bad fruit from the good,
and we asked the boys IL we should
live them some.
Nav replied tall lad. don't give
! EN- nothing, and the others echoed
this sentiment. SO We didn't.
"a little later we came back and
found the prisoners happily eating
oranges while six doughboys looked
on.
."'Where did they get those oranges?
I wanted to know.
1.-THE former speaker grinned rather
sheepishly and said dissustedly, I'VE
gave EN- to the poor nuts. We didn't
want EN-
i've seen wounded Germans and
Americans brought in together and
our boys motion to the doctors to &c
ahead with the Germans.
I'VE made lemonade for the blesses
in summer. We had to walk mile for
| tho xx-af lint n ua a worth 20 I,aco,, &c
the spring was ice cold. We didn't
have any lemon squeezer and making
q hundred gallons of lemonade with
out one is some job"
zone Of the hardest things HAD to
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THE SALVATION ARMY IDEA

with the United War Work Council;
"I am giving all my time and going
in debt to give money. and then feel
shamed because ! am giving so little
every time I see q man with a leg or
an arm gone.
These men must be cared for when
war ends; We are not going to turn
them out when the clock strikes for
peace: We are going to get them into as
perfect condition for times OF peace as
for times or war. All this will take
money. There Is so much to be done
that the SUN we ask for, $l7o,5o0,90O,
doesn't seem half enough.
at should be remembered that this
sum isn't for the Y. NJ. c. A, the Y.
w. c. A.. the Jewish Welfare Board,
the Salvation Army, the American Lii
brary Association. the National Catho-
lie War Council OF the War Camp
Community Service-for any one alone
of the seven. 1t is for all Of them
all are doing splendid work. and it
would be a case worthy OF space on
the billboards II there is any boy or
girl in service who Is not benefited
by one >or several OF the seven"
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IN. ADVANCE OF THE ARMY ITSELF

"Our girls are very daring; they do
not know fear. and sometimes they adj
vance so far that we lose track OF
them. on this occasion started out
with another officer in a Ford car TO
locate three of our girls who, with n
driver were somewhere near the front
line. They had with them a three ton
truck loaded with supplies. and we
knew that in their zeal to get as near
tho needy as possible they would be
close on the heels Of tho front line
force.
I'VE rode some distance and failed
to find them. but found ourselves in a
little town from which the Germans
had Just fled. II had been four years
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They Are Famous for Their Daring and
for Their Doughnuts Too---SsA|ve-
ton Army S War Record

they helped her serve the 500 men in =
hut close by. Her companion had gone
to bed. worn out, but she was still on
the job, and she had been on 1t all the
day before, and all the night before
that. Say, wanted TO cheer for her.
Our girls have got the work Of
making pie crust, rolling 1t out and
mixing and cutting out dopghnuts
down to a science. II has become al
most an automatic job with them, and
they do 1t SO quickly that l am nos
exaggerating when l tell you that two
OF our girls supplied 1000 men with all
the coffee they could drink and all the
pies and doughnuts they could ca.
doing the cooking and the serving with
the help of the men, in less time than
you could credit.
Our doughnuts have made a lie
with the aviators. On one occasion a
man flew forty-five miles and back 10
get supplies for his unit. We loaded
up his car and felt so complimented
because of the effort he had made 10
reach us that We refused to charge him
a cent.
Yes" he continued. Il am hearing
that we have made ourselves very pop
ular over here because Of what we are
trying to DO for the boys over there. I
am glad our work is appreciated. We
ask for little in the great drive, but We
make every cent of 1t work for the
comfort of the boys in uniform"
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camp for German officers. and as they
had lived there four years it was as
pretty a place as you would care to
see. There was little settlement of
rustic bungalows and tho dugouts were
cemented. They had electric lights,
there was a moving picture theatre, a
swimming pool and two billiard halls.
To find secure shelter from air raids
they had dug deep for their dugouts,
and l counted seventy-two steps IN
going down into one.
Our girls had taken up their quar-
ters in an officers bungalow. and within
sound OF the shells whlstling around
them they were rolling pie crust and
making coffee as unconcerned as IL in
their mothers kitchens at home. Our
girls carry their bedding along with
them, and we sometimes wonder why
for IL the need OF their services Is
pressing they do not 90 to bed at ALL
" will never forget ono scene. II
was cold and rainy and near o'clock
| in the morning, when in a ride to reach
an outlying post l came across q barn
brilliantly lighted. I stopped my car.
got out. and found there one OF our
girls rolling out biscuits and making
coffee.
SHE was assisted by a number OF
soldiers. who kept the fire going,
watched the oven and carried the pans
/ for her. and when enough were baked
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Those Who Did and Those Who
Did Not-A Salvation Army Appeal

AFTER kinds of peope-those
those who DID NOT.
legitimate rivalry competition relief
anywhere, time.
your dollars
his services in France!
dollars doughnus cheer
boy of yours success!
Mothers of America reach battle front
there and for
Let join together wreahs the lives the
ing the of the dead.
Common pracicabity and quick relief
for service to fighters
The regenerating and renouiding world Don't
spectator.
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DO" said Adjutant Purviance, was to,
tell boy OF his mothers death. His
Captain came in with letter written
to him by his sister and one for the
boy. He was Just kid-17 years old
When finished he said:
"'I guess my sister thinks I'm going
all to pieces now and don't care what
happens. But she's wrong. I'm going
to live n straight, clean life so III he
able to meet my mother when it's all
over"
Did you have any regular hours?"
I asked. I'VE people at home are very
ignorant, I'm afraid
They all smiled.
I'VE slept when We could. There
was always so much to do" Capt. Nc
Allister answered me. ION moonlight
nights the Boche airplanes insisted on
bombing us until 3 o'clock in the morn
/ Ing, so what was the use Of going to
| bed? Besides the boys like to sing at
/ night.
! My sister and l played our guitars
while the boys sang with us Mother
Macree,' It's Long, Long Trail and
Pack Your Troubles in Your Old Kit
are some of their fayorites, but they
! like hymns too.
7 One night in a partly demolished
church. where We were quartered for
the night along with a company OF
! artillery boys, some OF them built u
! huge bonfire in one corner against
the stone wall and We all gathered
around for a sing.
In Captured German Quarters.
"Twenty-four hours after the ST.
Mihiel drive had started we were fia
teen kilometers beyond what had been
the German front line trenches. We
found building with II great sh-!.
hole in the back. 1t had evidently
been German canteen, for part OF
an inscription read 'Comrade. step In.
So we accepted the invitation and soon
had our fires started and were doing
rushing business. The boys don't
like TO have things given to them I'M
less It's just before or after an attack.
AT other times they insist on paying
for their food and drink.
This hut was at the crossroads
and I wouldn't hesitate to say we
served 10000 men that day with hot
chocolate. candy. nuts, raisins and
doughnuts.
"One Of the prettiest sights here. at
least 1t seemed so to us" said Capt.
/ McAllister with her bright smile, were
the scores Of prisoners being marched
to the rear. There were 1000 In one
lot and 1,50O in another guarded by
hve Americans.
!
When We moved up to the Argonne
Forest We went TO the hospital there
and asked the doctors If we could help.
They all looked at us as only men and
women can look who have been UP
three days and nights. So the entire
staff went to bed and We took charge
for the night.
THAT village was shelled the next
night and all the troops were ordered
out. So we went into the woods and
found miniature village the Germans
had left behind in their quick getaway
There were number of log cabins. some
fitted UP as sleeping rooms. Others
as dance halls and billiard rooms. All
the cabins weresurrounded by beautiful
flower and vegetable gardens. Our
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nearer than the Fed Cross nurses. Ia
their ministrations they do not confIs
themselves solely to comforting tie
physical being with hot coffee n! !
food; they have taken courses III III :
AID and are as expert in giving >
hrst relief to a wounded man us TIL =
are in rolling dough. Every Salvati, a
Army girl before she dons the uniform
Tor service In this country or ove.-
seas must know how to sew. how ~
nurse the sick, how TO cook, how q
bandage a broken limb and how q
clean up room and make a place ssr.
Itary and habitable.
1t is for the purpose OF keeping
these girls on tho job OF training more
or them and for buying the chocola.s
and pies that have cheered so many
boys at the front that the Salvation
Army has allied itself with the otheS
six war work organizations D A. er-
peal to the public for funds.
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boys had plenty Of fresh vegetables for
their mess for days.
I'VE found rabbits. too. lots of them.
For n while we were afraid the rabbit
pie was going to shove the apple pie
out of its place in the doughboys' af-
fectiona. One OF the officers presented
me with German piano. found in one
OF the dance halls. which Is now sound
ing good old American tunes TO enter
tain American boys.
cone of our most irving duties" said
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Capt McAllister, was TO play at the
funerals l think We sang at more
than a hundred in the Argonne Forest"
L thought We were a bit fed up
with staying indoors" said Adjutant
Purviance, 80 | suggested a walk, say
ing. Let's go up on the hill and put
some flowers on the three American
graves there So We wandered off into
a poppy field and gathered armfuls of
these flaming flowers. After we had
decorated the graves we went on to the
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hospital and gave the remainder Of our
load to the sick boys"
That's why the seven service organi-
cations are sending the flower of Amer
lean womanhood to France to do for
our boys the things their wives, moth
ers and sweethearts want to do but
are too far away to do.
Will you help the United War Work
Campaign over the top that the agen-
cies may continue 20 do these things
for your boy In khaki?
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to the day since the Germans had cap
turcd the town. and when we drove In
cannot describe the scenes that fol-
lowed.
THE women and children - there
were no men in the town and no boys
over 16-threw themselves on our
necks and wept They kissed us, they
cheered. they fell to their knees and
prayed. II was a scene I can never
forget. With the exception Of two
French scouts We were the first in the
town, and when told that we were
ahead OF the army we were much sur
prised.
I'VE finally found our girls in n for
est three miles away. 1t had been n
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BY ELEANOR BRODNAx.

T~HEY are not "three little maids
from school," in bingham and
sunbonnets. but Three Little
Lassies from France. in khaki. And
the diminutive adjective isn't out of
place in describing them either. these
three Salvation Army girls. Adjutant
Helen Purviance, Capt Violet McAllis-
ter and Lieut.. Alice McAllister, who
have come back. across the ocean, not
because they wanted TO but because
they want to ask the American people
to give more than $170, SOC. 900 for their
boys in France.
We hear a great deal about the
doughnuts that have helped to make
the Salvation Army famous In France,
but very little Of the brave women
who stand knee deep in mud and I'm
der shell fire to make these doughnuts.
"None of US have been out Of the
sound of she'll fire since we have been
in France" said Adjutant Purviance
out of her fifteen months experience,
and the McAllister sisters, who have
been there half that time, agreed with
her. "The mud seems like some awful
living thing. the way it clings to YOU"
she went on.
81 remember one rainy spell that
lasted thirty-six days. Perhaps you
have some idea of what the mud was
like after that. I had trench feet at
that time. They were pretty painful
too" she added with a smile.
"Of course You couldn't work then
ventured to say. 90
Eyes. did. There was so much to
be DONE" she answered simply.
Then Capt. McAllister told me about
! the time they started across veritable
sea of mud to the field hospital:
II took one step and lost my rubber
boot. There was no chance OF getting
1t. The mud sucked It down like
magic. A couple of stretcher bearers
saw our plight and came to the rescue
We were carried into the hospital on
stretchers."
Helped in Field Hospitals.
The McAllister sisters bear the dis
tinction Of being the first American
women to assist in the field hospitals
They always offered their services
during drive. They washed the
bloody faces Of -tloughboys Will
, gentle hands, cheered them up with Q
few words of United States talk, made
hot soups and chocolate for them. Al
i for the poor fellows with abdomina
wounds, they were only allowed Il
moisten their lips.
Il remember one brave kid. who wa.
simply riddled with machine gun bull
let's" said Capt. McAllister.
swell, they peppered you up some.
I said to him.
"'Just a little he admitted, but w
2 sure gave Fritz hell"
Our boys are splendid" Lieut.. Nc
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y VANGELINE BOOTH, COM
mander Of the Salvation Army
- In America, calls herself "the

mander of the Salvation Army
- in America. calls herself "the
poorest woman In the world"
THAT is what I like about the Sal
walton Army" said boy who had
seen two years service at the 'front.'
"All / saw there were poor just like
me, and because they are poor and
lowly and did not put on frills / felt
free to go to them whenever I needed
lift. Their pies and doughnuts were
great, of course. but they are the
smallest part Of what they have done
| for me-
When it is counted up there won't
| be- any Smallest part" in the work
! Of any organization that has been Of
service to the young men and women
who are carrying on this war; every
organization has been strong and effi-
Client. and every wheel has kept NOV
| ing TO make this war little different
| from any other war in the care given
those who are offering up their lives.
"They deserve all We can give and
more" said n man who is working
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APT. MILES of tho Salvation
| Army Is Just back from the
~ front line in France and Bel
GUM after seeing service for fourteen
months.
THE Salvation Army" he said. SIS
always represented on the very front
line, and on one occasion found my
self two kilometers beyond the front.
1t happened this way:
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w IlTHlN three days after war
w was declared between Great
Britain and Germany the
Salvation Army was on the battlefield
preparing To do the humanitarian work
which is the aim of the organization
all over the world. When this country
declared war on Germany and her al
lies Col. Barker of the Salvation Army
and his secretary went to France and
outlined the work OF the Salvation
Army from this country. He was on
tho ground, with all plans made, Just
one month before the first man of the
American Expeditionary Forces landed
in France. This is a record to remem-
Der when the Salvation Army makes
its appeal for money to carry on the
work.
The Salvation Army girls have the
record overseas OF venturing nearer
the front than any other women; even
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Salvation Army.

WE have the AS Army puts women in the
pulpit from the armys NiRhn
gales bringing the horrors of batleds
beautiful influences of glorious
army forms very important of this unity
success we'll knowing the old adage unity strength
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-07-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Serial No. Ol55,s

Department of the Interior. Z. s.
Land Once at HALEY, Idaho, June 70,
1918.
Notice is hereby given that Gardner
P. Hawkins, Of Stanley. Custer County
Idaho. who. on July 81. 1914. made
Desert Land Entry, Serial No. ola5'aa,
for BIS SW..; WV SEN, Section s,
Township 10 North, Range IL East,
Boise Meridian, has fled notice ct in
tention TO make Fisal Proof. to essal +.
lish claim to the land above descr;s bed,
before H. II. Marshall, United States
Commissioner, ~ Stanley, Idaho, q
the twenty.second day of August, lois
Claimant names at witnesses:
Leslie ). Niece. frank A. Niece, b..
fus b. Cothern. Joha =. Thompson, all
Of stanley. Idaho. BEN R. GRAY,
il. aal Register
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Serial No. 0l3l17

Department OF the Interior. Q. S.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho. Juae c,
1915.
Notice 10 hereby given that Nick
Zeck Kiser, of Challis. Idaho, who, on
May 6, 1913, made Homestead Entry,
Serial No. Ol7l71, for Lot 1; SWl4 NV
4 Section .; SCI NEll, NEA SEA,
Section 8, Township 10 North. Range
Is East, Boise Meridian. has filed no.
tice of intention TO make Five Year
Proof, to establish claim to the land
land above described, before Earl j.
Michael, Clere CT the District Court,
9th Judicial District. at Challis. Ida
do, on the frs. day Of August, 1918
Claimant names IS witnesses:
Jonathan cob, f. A. Dougherty. ".
X. Huntington, William K!ug, all OF
Challis, Idaho. BEN r. GRAY,
j26 jySe Register