The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-07
a ration Of
Grape:Nuts
pnd cream con-
tninS complete
noul1shinent for
the body s needs /

r ing out just what was needed An
e they furnished every cent of the cos
i nearly 100000.
: These were the big, centralized con
= tributions of the Elks to the winnin,
:. of the war There were others, O
somewhat similar character. At CAM
Sherman, near Chillicothe, Ohio, TO-
example, bad situation developed
: because the little town couldn't take
care Of the relatives and friends who
came to visit the men and officers
: in the camp. The local lodge of the
, Elks did its best, and finally asked
the Grand Lodge-the central gov
erning body of the order-for help
The answer was the erection of a
building where comfortable rooms
and good food were at the disposal
of visitors at cost price.
Cinderella, the Salvation Army.
But this sort of activity didn't sat
isfy the Elks-the half million or
more individual Elks, scattered all
over the country in their local lodges.
They knew the part their order was
playing. They were proud of that.
But the two base hospitals, the big
reconstruction hospital in Boston, all
the other things the Grand Lodge had
done and was doing, didn't give the
individual Elk much chance to feel
that he himself was helping. After
all, what did paying an assessment OF
dollar or so amount to? 1t amount
ed to lot in the aggregate, OF course,
and the Elks knew that, and were
glad. But-they wanted to do more.
They did! No one knows just how
the association between the Elks and
the Salvation Army began. But it
grew into one of the big things of
the war.
The Salvation Army went to work,
quietly and without any talk, as soon
as we began mobiizing our new arm
les. The Salvation Army isn't rich.
1t hasn't any machinery for collect
ing money. And still it succeeded in
carrying on it's work for year with
out making an appeal to the country
for money. Haven't you wondered
sometimes how that was accomplish
ed How it was that the Salvation
Army, alone of all the big war-relief
bodies that were working with the
troops in France, didn't come dun
ming you?
Well, the Elks are responsible, in a
great measure. Elks seemed to hear
more about the Salvation Army and
its work from the first than the gen
eral public did. One reason was, l
imagine, that the war crowded the
Elks out of house and home so thor
oughly. They gave up their club
houses and their lodge rooms to the
Red Cross all over the country, you {
Know
Sometimes they kept one room in a
zig building for their meetings; some {
lines they just borrowed room when G
hey had to have it. t
The Elks are a convivial lot. They s
mock around a good deal. And they t
ire the sort who have on tap, always, | a
good deal of sympathy for the I'M r
er-dog. +
They couldn't help seeing a good 0
cal of what was being done for war
elief. And they seem to have seen +
he Salvation Army as sort of Gin "
erella. So, here and there, quite Il
spontaneously, local lodges of the
,lks began getting in touch with q
'cal Salvation Army leaders.
"See here" the Elks would say, in Fl
fleet: "You people are doing r.
lightly good work You need money. :
We want to help. We can't go over
1ere and bake doughnuts for the
oys in the trenches, but, by thunder,
re can help you to get the money
on need! How about it?
They Saw Us Through.
Then the time came, in the spring
1918, when the Salvation Army
eeded five million dollars and simply
ad to make drive to get it. By
lat time the tie between the Elks
Id the Salvationists was pretty well
Established.
Reports had been coming in to Sal
ltion Army headquarters about the
lip the Elks were giving. And the
aders of the drive were nervous.
ley didn't know much about raising
oney on wholesale basis. They'd
ways managed to paddle their own
noe. They didn't have a great pub
.ity department. They didn't have
" of the machinery the Red Cross
d the Y. M. G. A. had.
So they went to the Grand Lodge
the Elks. And the Elks, who had
en- hearing from their local lodges
eeted them with enthusiasm. In
IRE than fifty cities the Elks took
mplete charge of that drive-not-
ly in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kan
J City and St. Louis.
They paraded the streets; they got
circuses. They left the Salvation
my people, who really had enough
do with their regular work, free,
! guaranteed the money.
They saw US through" says Col
Il W. A. Mcintyre, who is at the
I'd of the army's New York office
ere still little dazed by all they
for US. We never could have got
money we did without them. We
ldn't ask them for anything they
MT give US. Usually we didn't
e a chance to ask Thew took