Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-26

JASHINGTON D. c.. July 22-Over a hun
w dred Salvation Army girls from this coun-
W try have discarded the blue poke bonnet,
full skirt and tambourine for a khaki-colored
uniform, tin hat, and bingham apron. In
this costume, with gas mask convenient, they
are ready to meet shrapnel, mud and roaring
hot kitchen fire while they prepare doughnuts
and coffee for our men at the front
The Salvation Army works unobtrusvely, but
effectively. Since America entered the war, $50
of its men and women have quietly gone to
France to supply of the soldiers needs, such
as homemade pie, buttons sewed on to stay,
place to spend time off duty and not least i'm
portant, disinterested' advice.
Close to the front lines in dugouts cottages
or made-to-order huts they set up shop and hang
out their sign. kitchen stove is the most i'm
portant item of equipment. Salvation Army
unit may struggle along with a well-behaved
stove and no roof to cover it, but lacking
means of cooking the most elaborate hut is
failure. For the Salvation Army speciality is
cooking. Doughnuts, apple pie cookies, coffee
and cocoa-these the capable young cooks turn
out in quantity every day for the edifcation of
the American soldier to whom life without pie
is a calamity. One girls record for doughnuts
rests at $500 in a morning Even $500 dough-
nuts do not last long if line of hungry soldiers
extending far down the road is waiting its turn
at the mornings baking
AT night, about the time wnen the soldiers
are shifted, Salvation Army lassies, escorted by
officers of the organization, go on expeditions to
the trenches, armed with coffee and baskets of
pastry. AS the men relieved from duty come
out from the trenches the girls distribute their
SAACs' <Ao OuS SOIulSI says, "A cup OF SCedmlnS
coffee may not look like luxury to the civilian,
but to the tired, muddy soldier just out of the
trenches, it is the last word in material COM
fort"
One fact about these girls which the soldiers
note and appreciate is that they real work
ers with no fuss and feathers, going calmly
about their work under fire and infusing the
elusive home atmosphere into the huts where
they cook and
There are now twenty-five of these nuts built
by officers of the American Salvation Army, and
more are being erected The unit assigned to
each hut consists of Salvation Army officer, his
wife and two young assistants. The
young women, as we'll as the men, are usually
commissioned, for the Salvation Army among
the first to give women equal rights with
A commission does not mean that the officers
main duty is to give orders. a lieutenant or
captain may be any morning removing last
nights mud from the hut floor choppng
wood for the kitchen fire. The girls have few
comforts and no luxuries. If they stationed
the front they sleep in a tiny unheated
In either they are cheerful and make the
best of inconvenience and dangers If cook
is interrupted by a shell falling through the ROOT
and demolishing the kitchen table she gets the
man of the unit to fix strip of canvas over the
gap in the ceiling, mixes a new batch of dough,
takes a bottle for 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 unknown species in France,
French pies being made in deep dishes. There
FORE pie tins, such the Salvation Army need
ed by hundreds, were not to be had even in small
quantities. This trouble is now being removed
by shipments of tins from America. The twenty
five of flour and other supplies shipped