Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-06-17
SAL WALTON ARMY
CAMPAIGN
FIFTY TEAMS WILL VISIT
CITIZENS SOLICITING
$4,000 FUND
"The Greatest of These is Charity"
Is Motto For Marathon County
NJ. NJ. SchOlfieId Chairman "Mas
Burdick to Speak

On July 23rd the Salvation Army
campaign in WauSau and Marathon
| county for $4,000 to be contributed
toward the S13,000,000 fund being
raised throughout the United States,
| will start. Fifty teams, composed of
citizens of Wausau eager to do their
share in giving. this organization
which has in charitable and religious
work always been recognized as fore
1 most, will start at that time to solicit,
and as motto, "The Greatest of These
| Is Charity" has been adopted. The
| headquarters in this city is the Elks'
club, cor. Fifth and Scott streets.
The city committee is composed of
| NJ. M. Scholfeld, chairman, d. c.
Everest, Frank Timlin, M. P. McCul-
| Tough, ]. N. Manson, c. E. Parker
Henry Smith and j. D. Alexander. At
| Edgar A. w. Puchner will act as
| chairman; at Mosinee, Arden Paronto,
| at Athens, George A. Kreutzer; at
Brokaw, Fred Boyce, and at Stratford,
Fred Damon, Jr Chairmen will be
appointed in the other towns and the
villages of the county this week. Mrs.
John Lull is chairman of the women's
committees of which much is ex-
pected.
"MOther" Burdick
Mrs. Ensign f. o. Burdick of Hous-
ton, Texas, Familiarity known to. thous-
ands of American doughboys as MA"
Burdick, is back in the United States
after a long service in France, and she
will speak in Wausau at some time
during the campaign. She is a sixty
year-old Salvation Army lassie and the
shell hole heroine of the Toul sector,
where she was regarded as an angel
by the soldiers of the A. e. F., whom
she adopted i'll wholesale lots as her
sons. Mother Burdick," it is declared
is not talKative and has small regard
for her war accomplishments. She
worked in the open, in stables and Gel
lar holes While rain fell in torrents.
She worked day and night cooking
and sewing for the boys and held three
gospel meetings a week at which there
were hundreds of conversions She
finally worked herself into a state of
exhaustion and was found i'll in a loft
of y she'll torn stable. Carried back to
Red Cross hospital in France, she
partly recovered after three weeks
and worked in the hospital for two
months when she insisted on returning
to the boys at the front Arrange
ments will be made for Mother" Bur
dick to talk to the public, where all
can hear her.
Over In Some Places
In many places the Salvation Army
campaign has been ended and most
successfully. In some localities this
statement has been given out by
Thomas Estill, one of The commission
ers:
Would | be going too far if l said
in thanking the people and press of
America, that | want every donor to
the fund to consider that he or she
has planted with each dollar given, a
marvellous seed in the fertile gardens
of the Salvation Army relief and well
fare activities, and that the crop to be
reaped therefrOm shall be Gods har-
vest with the givers all conscious of
having sown the seed that is to bring
forth so much cheer and comfort and
actual relief in the Swallowed corners
of our land? Even as the Salvation
Army wanted nothing for itself in the
great drive, so it wants nothing for
itself in the day of reckoning results.
~AiA IL SoPII CD " AnOW anu ne IOlu,
when we shall actually have gathered
the $l3,0O0,O00, is that it has kept the
faith and has administered the relief
planned for, wisely and we'll"
Colonel Peart of the Salvation Army
gives out the following statement of
the campaign: ''The Salvation Army
gives out the following statement of
the campaign: ''The Salvation Army
does not want money for moneys sake.
1t would no more think of striving for,
or gathering money with which to
build afund than it would consider the
cleaning of sea-shells, or wampum.
were it not for the fact that, as the
accepted and legal medium of eX-
change, money commands those things
which provide the needed relief and
aid for the poor and lowly. We are
| not, and never have been, impover-
| ished in that preparedness of soul and
| mind that shall ever enable us to ad-
minister to these about us in a spir-
itual sense"
Workers feel confident that Wausau
and Marathon county will make
showing that will be most creditable
in this charitable enterprise.