The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-08-22

rope. The boys certainly like these
little delicacies. The special feature
of our woik that they never cease
talking about is the cook g OF the
doughnuts and PIES. Often boys and
officers viii give orders for pies ana
doughnuts weeks in advance.
When the cooking time comes the
officers have to line up with the rest
of the boys. We have insisted that
in the matter of these little Injuries
the officers have no claim superior
to that of the ordinary soldier This
has come to be understood, and they
seem perfectly willing to take their
places in the line.
When the pie and doughnut wa
CONS are attacked the boys sally
forth to defend them with such en-
ergy that the enemy no doubt mag
ines they contain something very
precious from military point Of
v.ew-as. for instance. a. very deadly
form of ammunition. The cable las
already reported the enemy attack
on or of our lorries which was car
rying deiicacies for the boys. The
enemy used up a great deal of am
munition on this convoy, and al.
though they succeeded in demolish-
ing those particular pies and dough.
nuts, reinforcements were speedily at
hand from pie and doughnut reserves
which the Salvation Army women
are ceaselessly turning out in the
huts little way back
We have to take living conditions
pretty much as we find them. U.s.
ually the camps have been made
either in or very near village and
most of the girls have been able to
find billets with a family where
things are made fairly comfortable
for them. This arrangement may ne
cessitate considerable walk every
night and morning to their stations,
but no woman is accepted for SER
vice abroad with the Salvation Ar.
my who is not strong and healthy
and able to play her part under ad-
verse conditions and to endure a
great many hardships.
The men find billets in attics,
stables, haylofts and cellars and
sometimes they are so tired that
they are glad to roll themselves in
their blankets and sleep on the
ground. In the spring, summer and
autumn days, when it is fair this il
not at al a disagreeable thing to do,
but in the wet and cold winter there
is not little suffering. In some
cases the men, especially the Off
GERS, when the business of the day
is over, make some sort of rough
bed in the corner Of the hut-some.
times with just curtain around it
and there both sleep and eat.
1t is quite impossible to describe
the inferno over there. Just before
left giant shell from a German
gun pumped itself down into the
dirt within forty feet Of a Salvation
Army hut in which were Captain
Andrews and some assistants. Had
the shell exploded the hut and its
occupants would have been blown to
atoms. but although it ploughed
twelve feet into the ground it did not
go off
There are so many soldiers over
there now that the present force o,
workers, including those of the
Young Mems Christian Association
the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish
| Welfare Association and the Saliva
ton Army, might be multiplied a
| dozen times without covering the
present field fully. and yet our peo
| pie are providing recreation, cons0
lation. comfort and the power OF q
vital religion to many thousands Of
boys each week. The opportunity
II so great that it is almost discour
aging that we are able to meet II
SO incompietely, but the situation
has infused a great energy into al
our people and they are exertina
themselves to the utmost.