Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-06-24
SALVATION DRIVE
IN FULL BLAST
MANY HEAR SALVATION
ARMY SPEAKERS TOAST
UNITED STATES ARMY

hunureQS or WauSau people, includ-
ing many children, whose admiration
Tor the Salvation Army as a charitable
institution is outspoken, gathered at
the Court House square last evening
70 hear Brigadier Atkins and MA"
Burdlck, the famous Salvation Army
| war hero, whose work in the front
lines making doughnuts and mending
socks for the boys amidst hardships
Few women would be able to endure.
overseas men call the latter Ma
they couldn't help it, she did so much
Tor them. An interruption in the way
OF rain caused the adjournment of the
| meeting to the Grand Opera House.
where the program of the evening was
| completed.
The Tenth Infantry Band played at
the square until rain started.
That the Salvation Army is now
raising permanent fund throughout
the United States for it's charitable
work, was the initial point made by
frank T. Regner, who acted as chair
man for the evening. 1--WE are here to
further this movement" declared Mr..
Regner. you know the glorious work
the Salvation Army has done in the
past and particularly during the late
war. Ask the returned soldier and he
Will tell you what he thinks of the
salvation Army. He will tell you it
was the Salvation Army and the S. A.
Iassle who were at the forefront from
the very beginning Now that the
war is over there is much to be done.
and much of this will be done by the
Salvation Army"
Letter Read
A letter was then read in which the
splendid example which Brigadier At
klns had set for his men was en-
phasized. 1.-THE Salvation Army has
filled position which other charitable
organizations have left vacant" was
its glowing tribute
Brigadier Atkins was then intro
duced. Il lived, ate and slept in the
same trenches and dugouts with the
men for many months" he said-"in
water, mud, and filth that beggars all
description" OF one experience in the
Toul sector he told: "In twenty-one
days our own American lads never had
their shoes off, never washed their
faces. They had one hot meal a day,
providing the Smelling was not too
heavy and that between ten and twelve
at night. 1t was what was called a
deep sea slop," meal-hot water, salt
and small piece of meat" The brig
adler described the actions of Capt.
Roosevelt when some of his men were
wounded. He declared this to be the
typical spirit of American officers. At
Catigny, the brigadier declared, the
men wore their gas masks for five
solid hours and after 169 had been
lost, made an advance and took the
town despite the odds against them.
ma" Burdick, who spent eighteen
months in France, and who won the
CroiX de Guerre, spoke briefly at the
Opera house, of some of the incidents
that happened at her hut and at the
hospital at which place she was al
ways on hand to serve and comfort
her boys" 1t was at her hut, near
Demange Auseux, that she mended
socks, gloves and made doughnuts and
pies. While working in the hospital
she always tried to supply each boys
wish, but one of these could not be
granted, for what he wanted it seemed
could not be had in Paris and that
was a mouth organ. She explained
why some of the boys did not receive
their Christmas boxes, which she said,
was on account of the labels being
lost and the government turned the
boxes over to the Salvation army to
be distributed. 1t was in one of these
boxes that the long coveted mouth or
gan was found and presented to the
boy. While in France, the Salvation
army made three billion nine hundred
million doughnuts. Mrs. Burdick
said, 81 am not egotistic enough to
believe we won the war, but l will
say think we had little part in it
by supplying the boys with doughnuts
and coffee" After the ambulance
trains would come back from the front
PA" and MA" Burdick would be there
with group of Salvation Army work
ers. to hand out doughnuts, coffee, Gig
arettes and even help dress wounds.