The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-11-06
TASK AT FRONT
is TO Minimize
The HARDSHIPS
Evangeline Booth Tells
What Is Asked of Workers
Now Appealing for Funds
UNITY OF ACTION
A VITAL FEATURE
Seven Organizations Each
Doing Excellent Service
Commended by Writer.

(By Evangeline Cooth, Commander of
the Salvation Army in American
There is one task and only one for
war relief organizations to perform
at the battlefront It is the task of
minimizing in every way possible the
hardships and sufferings that in
evitably befall combatants in these
hideous wars. To such a task it is
the bounden and solemn duty of all
right thinking and loyal persons, able
to do the things that are necessary
for the alienation of wars woes, to
dedicate their hearts, their hands,
their heads-and their lives.
All personal and private leanings,
whether the same pertain to the
church, politics, social ethics or ne
imaginary lines of. caste, should be
swept aside in the crisis of war, and
the guiding thought should be-ser-
vice, War relief must be rooted in a
genuine determination to help with
out giving hindrance, 1t can best be
done by the practical organizations,
qualifying under the rules of COM
mon sense as a unified whole. If 1t
was good for the Allies to weld their
giant armies and navies into one vast
unit, and place the same under one
control it is good for the war relief
organizations to adopt the same
policy-for in unity, indeed, there is
strength.
| Concert of Action.
do not mean by this that any
organization or particular creed or
denomination should sink its entire
individuality as in an great melting
not for such unified service. But l
do mean that there should be a con-
cert of action; a unison Of spirit and
intent; a coordination in plans for
service; and in consequence, a more
highly intelligent effort to reach the
point of saturation in the work to be
done.
When the armies of the Allies were
placed under General Foch and the
strategy of war was left, so far as
the Allies were concerned, to a single
war council, it was not found neces-
sary to erase the marks of identity
from any unit. French soldiers re-
NAMED just as French as ever they
had BEEN The British Tommies are
still their old selves The Americans,
assuredIy, forfeited none of their in
dividuality as the most marvellous
lighting machine put together as If
overnight, in the history of mankind.
Cogs of Machine.
Yet they became of a sudden cogs
in a vast machine. They toiled and
struggled for a common purpose.
And when General Foch finally was
cloaked with the authority and pow
er which enabled him to direct the
forces of righteousness, each con-
tingent in it's place, and without
duplication or confusion, that instant
Germany was beaten. When CO.
ordination swept through the forces
of the Allies, Germany no longer had
a chance to win.
So in war relief. Never apart in
our righteousness, We must think as
one, strike as one, suffer as one, and
rejoice as one-if we are going to be
|, worth anything at all to the soldier
and to the sailor, in his extremity.
This is the spirit of the seven great
; war relief organizations our presi-
. dent has commissioned to do this bis
thing-the spirit to stick alongside
: the boys sent to do the battling, and
, help them materially and spiritually
to Withstand the greatest ordeal il
the worlds history-to overcome the
greatest monster of evil that has ever
reared it's head.
} We seven will do the job, Mother
, and Fathers!
: Trust us! Help us!
} We are seven-we are one!