Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-08-23

win men. A commission does NOT
mean that the officers main duty is
TO give orders. A lieutenant or cap
TAIN may be seen any morning re-
moving last nights mud from the hut
moor or chopping wood for the kitcb-
en- lire, The girls have few COM
lorts and no luXuries. If their hut is
near a village they may rent a room
III cottage. If they are stationed
near the front they sleep in a tiny
unheated cubby hole built off the
main room of the hut In either
case they are cheerful and make the
best OF inconvenience and dangers.
IL cook is interrupted by a shell
railing through the roof and demol-
lshing the kitchen table, she gets the
man OF the unit to fix strip of can
vas over the gap in the ceiling, mixes
new batch of dough, takes a bottle
for a rolling pin, and goes ON with
the days work.
one OF the main difficulties in
turning out pies in France has been
the pie tin problem. The American
pie is an unknown species in France.
french pies are made in deep dishes.
Therefore pie tins, such as the Sal
walton Army needed by hundreds,
were not to be had even in small
quantities. This trouble is now be-
ing removed by shipments of tins
from America. The % tons of flour
and other supplies shipped over to
the Salvation Army workers last
week included 1000 pie tins, which,
it is believed, will greatly relieve the
pie situation. The French govern
ment has shown its approval of the
work OF the Salvation Army, not only
in words, but by recommending spe-
cial consideration in transporting it's
supplies, so that delay is minimized.
Besides cheering up the soldier
with homemade apple pie. the work
ers keep open house for men off duty.
From 200 a. m. to 900 D. m. the
huts are full of soldiers writing, play
ing checkers, reading, playing the
graphophone or piano-if the hut is
so fortunate as to possess one-and
making themselves comfortably at
home. At one end of the structure
behind counter where chewing gum
and other necessities are sold, sits the
wife of the officer in charge. She
furnishes information, advice if
asked, and help in any difficulty.
She is a middle-aged woman, prob
ably with sons on the firing line, and
her motherly solicitude for the boy
with a cold or the blues, have made
her an important element in keeping
up the morale of the army, according
to more than one army officer.
Her husband, responsible for the
hut, may be called upon to cook,
draw water, conduct meetings, or
visit hospitals. If his hut is near a
hospital, he makes frequent visits
to write letters and send messages.
If he is stationed some distance from
an army post office, he undertakes to
send money to relatives for the SOL
diers. A receipt is given each man
and the money is cabled to this coun-
try, together with a list of addresses
to which the stated amounts are to
be forwarded.
On Sunday, undenominational re-
ligious services are held, to which
the soldiers come in such crowds that
other meetings have to be held in the
middle of the week. These meetings,
say the reports, are popular with the
soldiers, especially with those about
to go into the trenches. Soldiers re-
turning from trench duty prefer
| doughnuts to sermons, particularly
at first, and the Salvation Army, I'M
| Outstanding this, supplies the i'm
mediate need.
Soldiers near a hut soon learn that
they can call upon the young women
to eliminate a hole in a coat sleeve
or a sock The Salvation Army lassie
usually rests" with a bit of sewing
! in her fingers and watchful eye on
the stove.
When she has a little extra time
she gathers roses and daisies and
goes out to the military cemetery to
scatter flowers between the rows OF
white crosses. The Salvation Army
was the first organization to decorate
with flowers the graves of the sol
j diers.
The American Salvation Army was
the first in the field. Three days
after the German attack on Belgium
the British Salvation Army was al
work, helping refugees to find
shelter, giving first aid, carrying
wounded from the battlefield. From
that time until today members OF the