The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-12
DANGER MEANS
NOTHING TO Them
"THEY HAVE BEEN KILLED AND
WOUNDED, SHOT AT AND
GASSED."
so SAYS SEARGENT STANLEY
Veteran Of Four Years Fighting
Comes Back Home to Tell About
Salvation Army Work.

Torn by shraprel and bullets, COW
cred with wounds and a victim OF
casing Sergeant James Stanley Of
the famous Prince Pats" regiment
of Canada is back home, with his
discharge papers dated Aug. 6, after
four years and two days of participa-
ton in everything the deadly fight
against the Huns has to offer. Dis
CHARGED because of his disabilities.
Sergeant Stanley intends to devote
the remainder of the war to awaken
ing the country and Canada to the
tremendous work being done by the
Salvation Army on the battle fields.
He comes in the interest of the
overseas fund.
Sergeant Stanley fairly brims over
when he talks OF the great work tho
Salvationists workers are doing on
the battle front. He says. Il can't
make a speech, but | can tell a
story, and that is what l am gong
to DO
And here is part Of his story:
"When | went to France in Aug
ust, 1914. with the Princess Pats, I
found the British Salyationist work
ers right up IN the front lines with
rifles in their hands.
christmas Eve of 1914 | will new
er forget, for up into the firing line
to us they came with boxes OF
things to eat and little presents to
cheer us But it was that way every
where. You couldn't turn around but
that one was waiting to serve you;
serve in a quiet, unobtrusive way.
always seeking 10 help.
"Ouly the men workers came up
into the firing lines on the British
front but they were right in the
front line trenches. Back little
ways were the lassies, who met the
men going up and the tired, and
hungry and wounded, some coming
back, and served them hot coffee and
food and passed a cheering word
But it is different now, for the Am
erican lassies are right up IN the
first line trenches with the men.
They take pay for food and drink
when the boys have it, less than any
other organization and scarcely
enough to break even, but when a
boy doesn't have enough money he
gets lust as much as the boy who
has. He can pay back when he gets
his pay, if he is inclined, but he new
or wants.
81 have had persons say to me:
Isn't the Red Cross efficient? To
them l have answered, Admirably
so, back in the hospitals" but there
is where the distinctive work OF the
Salvationists come in. They take
care of the boys before they go in
to the trenches and after they get
in and when they start back, Wheth-
er they are wounded or whole. The
Red Cross takes them after they are
wounded and after they have been
taken out of the trenches.
There is no way of duplicating
the Salvation Army or its efficiency.
There is something" different about
their workers They go right into
the thing, might and main, and their
service comes directly from their
heart They don't expect any better
treatment than the men. They give
fservice as though it were to one Of
their own families. There is no SER
vice too big Or too small for them
to tackle. Their influence on sus-
taining morale cannot be measured
and IT. is going to whip the Hun
Danger means nothing to them.
They have been killed, and wounded.
shot and gassed. They arc prepared
ito meet death and the savage Hun
has no terrors for them. They work
like trained soldiers, cool and collect
ed at all times. and they have saved
hundreds of boys lives. They have
Ehuts and ambulances. They con-
FstantIy are studying the situation
Ito see how they can improve their
fiabors and they do it without fan
fare. They have certainly won tha
hearts of every soldier in France. |
have never heard them criticized and
1t means "the hospital for anyone
here to say anything degratory to a
returned soldier about them. II Am,
kerica only knew the real story OF
fwhat these self-sacri1cing people do
"over there" their forces in France
would be four-foid what they are
now through demand from loyal