Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-05-30

Salvation Army from point to point
along the firing line with the First
Division, A. E. F., on the French front.
There is scarcely anybody now who
doesn't know that a "Lizzie" is a Ford
car. The Ford car, like the Salvation
Army, was a subject of occasional rid
icule before the war, but Its record OF
service on the shell battered roads in
the zones of action gives it a unique
place in the motor history Of the war.
"a Ford could skip and jump around
where another car would have been
helpless" says Shorty" "The fact
that 1t offered a smaller target was
also an advantage.
"TIl never forget one time / was
driving down a camouhaged road.
There was q hole in the camoufiage.
Through it 1 caught sight of a German
observation balloon. Immediately after
this the shells began dropping in front
and in back of me, ripping up the road
and the land alongside Of it. My cue
was to get out of the way as soon as
possible. There were so many shell
NOIeS Ill llle IOdu Indt L ndO " Al6Ld6
and al times make a detour to the
roadside. That little Lizzie hoped
along as nimbly as a chamois. If l
had had any other car 1 doubt If l
would be here to tell the tale. One
shell dropped so close behind me that
I thought it exploded under the rear
of the car. The conclusion was some
thing frightful. Little Lizzie was al
most picked up bodily, but shot right
along and got me out Of a place where
1t would have been sure death to stay.
/ guess the observation balloon had
spotted two of our naval guns which
were mounted beside the road"
His Baptism of SheIIfire.
Adjutant Hale had about as liberal
a treatment of Bosche shellire as any
American non-combatant. He was in
the thick of it at Scissors, Mont Sec
and In the Montdidier salient.
"At Soissons," he says, at was
something terrible. This was one of
the places where the Huns bombed the
hospitals. I saw fifteen men of the
Fifteenth Division Of Scotch High
landers killed by a single aerial bomb.
At another time I saw a bomb from
IN aeroplane kill Colonel Clayton, a
southerner, seventeen of his staff and
a Frenchwoman who was working
about the ~colonel's quarters"
The Salvation Army is a military
organization. 1t is the church mill
tant. Its forces not only fight poverty,
disease, distress and the devil, but
obey orders whether fighting O. help
ing others fight.
But there was one time when they
disobeyed orders-and were officially
commended for it. "They' were a
group of Salvation Army lassies. Be-
fore the Scissors battle they were or
dered by the United States army off,
Ger commanding to keep at least forty
kilometers back of the front line
trenches. When the action got hot
they forgot all about the order and
thought only Of the needs Of the boys
at the front. The officers were too
busy to stop them and they went just
where they were needed, no matter
how close to the front 1t was. After
the battle the provost marshal COM
mended them very highly for their
splendid work and told them that, as
they seemed to regard their lives as
Of less value than the service they
were rendering. they could thereafter
so as far front as they wanted to.
"All of our women were skilled in
FIRST aid" says Adjutant Hale, "and
all had diplomas for this work. 1t
was something more than q desire to
shine as heroines that took them into
the hell Of fire."
No coxy Corners for "sherty."
There were no cozy corners or seet