The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-07
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" SIS uvUBOOuSbv er
IN France
HER PEACE ARMY is IN
WAR.

feel II incumbent on me 10 CD
Glare the principles upon which the
| Salvation Army labors-the motives
that move its hands.
o.. We seek to become univer-
| sally helpful to the soldier; not in
| the large conspicuous way, but more
enphatically in the small. home-like
way bringing the pure e!evating at
Mosphere Of home and mother TO
the boys in the army and navy.
(2). We are profoundly concern
ed with the morals of the boys. We
are determined to leave no stone I'M
burned that VIII beslD to bring them
back to their loved ones at Least al
strong and untarn.shed as when they
sailed away.
(3)- But greater than all OF
these is the primary impulse Of the
Salvation Army-that Quenc1less
thirst for the redemption of men.
Our manifold mir .stfies are all di-
rected toward one goal-the bring
ing Of our brave men into saving
contact with the WORLDS one Great
Redeemer, SO that living or dying
for the principles of International
integrity, the source Of their cour-
age may be found within. For this
object my people are prepared to
give the ultimate drop of their
blood. Statement issued by the
Salvation Army, October /, 1918.
Each OF the seven overseas war ac-
tivkies, known as the United WaT
work, has an appeal peculiarly its
own and that Of the Salvation Amy
has been formulated by the soldiers
themselves Tor they have accepted
it as the ever present representative
Of home and mother.
Its lassies have welded OVER tbs
boys at tho front a most powerful
influence, physical and moral VITA
their doughnuts and coffee, noodles
and thread, fresh bandaess, voEds
OF chsef and above an e1Ds dat
pure and eiexating power giSsn only
70 those who live aoss to t1s Great
Redeemer OF the World
The soldiers chose the Salvation
Army slogan Of
'Doughnuts For DouChboys"
but they have put into it a deeper
and moro sincere meaning than the
words themselves imply for dough
nuts and coffee bring to your boy
and my boy a touch Of tho home
across the seas which they fully
Sealize they may never sss. ssxin.
The work OF tho Salvation Army
. most intimate for II is the work
Of mother" It Is carried on b1 q
fisld corps of which 0ser seventy
i've per cent are womSn who 80 In
to the trenches Drawing the splitting
tongues Of machine guns and the
bursting Of the murdero8 sheas.
Wherever the troops move the Sal
walton Army follows on. Its lassies
cook. nurse, sing and entertain. and ;
minister to those in need OF spiritual
comfort
There Is no wh!m of the injured
they do not try to satisfy. They
take as their model the American ,
mother and that they have succeed
ed in partially filing her place is
evidenced by the almosE pathetic
love ara admiration shown them by
the boys.
TELL dad, When you get back,
that they are the real thing over
here" was the message sent to T. +.
by his son, Lieut.. col. Archie Roose-
welt Don't let lin forget"
The former president has not for
gotten, neither have thousands OF
American families that once scoffed
at the tambourines and street meet
Mgs Of the days gone by. In many
q household there IS now a deep
reverence for the organization that
Mad The courage @ send It's vones
to the hiring lines that they might
bring comforts to the boy who ID
fighting the ruthless hosts Of autoo.
racy.
In the letters of the boys VIII be
found the story Of the overseas work
OF the Salvation Army. It needs on
~ presentation to strike home for
It has that same deep appeal as the
oad song Of the Civil War. r
"Just before the battle, Mother
/ am thinking most Of YOU
which for sixty years has brought
tears to the eyes and a tug at ths
heartstrings OF all who hear 4