The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-23
TELLS
 HOW HE MET THE SALVATION ARMy

Judge Ben Lindsey, who spoke in 1 this city, yesterday, at the Y. M. ! c. A., showered praise on the Sal walton Army in an interview and | commended the people of the city | for the generous manner in which | they were responding to the Salva- l tion's Army's appeal for funds for it's | Christmas dinners for the poor and l its winter relief work. Judge, Lind 1 sey spent many months ia the | trenches studying the war relief | work there. q don't wonder that the people re- | spond liberally,'' said Judge Lindsey. 1 Tn fact they would give even more l 1 if they knew what I know about the work of the Salvation Army over | there' Every soldier and sailor that I have seen had nothing but the best to say about the Salvation Army. Even now their words jingle in my ears as they shouted back from the trenches: Judge, when you get back home tell the folks not to forget the Salvation Army. They are the real thing
 And I know they are the real thing l have shared with the boys the doughnuts and chocolates and coffee that seemed ito be so much better than any other doughnuts or coffee or chocolate I ever tasted be- fore. How well l remember after the battle of Seicheprey following with 1 one of them an exciting chase aiound' Dead Mans Curve, down from the heights of Beaumont, to draw up breathlessly in Q shell-torn village, to be welcomed by de gang as it might seem at home, with the wild, joyful acclaim, Come this way, Judge; the old Salvation Army is sticking with us like 8. brother---sinlzerS and ChOco-
 late, coffee and pie
 Here are some of the stories that
 the boys told me about the Salvation
 Army: You see, Judge, the good old
 Salvation Army is the real thingl
 They don't put on no airs. There
 ain't no fiub-dlIlb about them and you
 don't 'see their mugs in the fancy
 magazines much. Why, you would
 never see one of them in Paris around
 the hotels. Good Lord, you'd never I know they existed, Judge, unless you
 came right up here as close to the
 front lines as the colonel will let you
 And say, Judge these guys don't
 preach to us, neither. They just feed
 us up---thats what they sdo.'
 The Salvation Army street kettles
 did a brisk business Saturday. To- , day bright and early members of the Mothers Comfort club took hold and
 assisted in the street collections. By
 noon the level of the indicator kettle at the corner of Main street
 and Fairfield avenue stood at four
 inches with only three more inches : to gather between now and Christ l mas eve to raise the kettle to the
 brim
 The street collections of the SaIva- ! ton Army this year have been. the largest in its history and triple, if not quadrup1e those of former years. At noon today the Lake Torpedo plant employees presented to the Sal vation Army a Dodge commercial car, l suitably decorated with the crest of , the Salvation Army, and appropriate lettering, "The Salvation Army, l Bridgeport District" The second l Christmas gift presented by the Lake - Torpedo Go. employees was a check for
 s1,200. Plant Engineer Flames was
 the master of cerem onfes, and there
 were addresses by Mayor Clifford B.
 Wilson and Philip Brill, the works
 manager, prayer by Rev. Alexander
 Alison, Jr., and benediction by Rev 5 Father P. J. McGivney. The two
 gifts were accepted in a speech by
 Commandant William Dermody of the l Salvation Army.
 P The Salvation Army Christina.
 Cheer club is steadily gaiRing mem
 bers. Louis B. Powe, cashier of the n Connecticut National Bank, who i. treasurer of the club, reports a nun. ? Der of big gifts. All that Is neces. = sary for membership is to send S1 tc , Mir. Powe.