Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-20
SALVATION ARMY FACTS
ORGANIZATION that Makes Good Use
Of Help.
NEEDS A FUND OF $l3,OOO,OOO
What the Army Did In War, What 1t
Is Doing in Peace and Why It Needs
Money to Help in Its Great Work.

The people of the south are once
more called upon to give. This time
it Is for one of the most worthy of all
cause.-the Salvation army Home
Service Fund.
When war was declared the Saliva
tion Army workers went over seas
with our boys and down into the
trenches into the very jaws of death.
They crossed the sea with our boys
with never a thought Of personal In
jury-never dreaming Of the wave OF
popularity or publicity they would get
for this humble Christian service;
they had only one desire and that
was to serve our boys when they most
needed friends. They spent much of
the money that it had taken them
many years to collect in small change
spent it Observation-Disclosures they
saw that our boys needed 1t.
All they asked in return was that
they be allowed by their every day
examples to teach the Christianity our
Savior taught while on earth.
Many soldiers tell of the wonderful
work the Salvation Army has done
overseas. To me there is nothing
unusual about the work but 1t Is the
same kind of work and service the Sal
walton Army has always given here
at home-at our very doors. 1t has
taken the stories told by the returning
soldiers who have come to know the
Salvation Army to bring about the
wave of popularity for the Salvation
Army, but the army has always worked
and served as they are now serving.
1t reaches a class Of people that
no other religious organization can or
attempts to reach. The men and
women that are too ragged and mis-
erable to attend the services at our
churches-they reach the poverty
that hides and shrinks in the by-ways
of life. A man or woman can never
fall so low, but that this army OF
earnest workers stretch out a helping
hand to them. Every man, woman and
w
this Home Service funu because there
is not a corner in our beloved land,
however remote, that does not receive
direct benefit from the Salvation
Army, for fifty per cent Of the popu-
lation of the cities is made up Of peo-
pie that come from small towns and
from those remote sections and ninety
per cent of the boys and girls that ap-
peal to the Salvation Army for assis-
tance are those who have come to the
large cities and find themselves un-
equal to the struggle for existence.
The Salvation Army conducts Res
cue Homes, Day Nurseries, Homes for
the helpless and aged and bllhd'
lodging houses for the men and Wom-
en- that are unable to pay and free
clinics-it extends it's service every
where that misery and poverty exists.
Soldiers Tell of Overseas Work.
The soldiers that are returning from
France after their hard struggle have
nothing but words of praise for the
Salvation Army, and from the lips OF
a soldier now at Camp Gordon comes
a story of a frail Salvation Army lassie
that defied the shot and shell Of the
Hun and carried him three miles to a
first aid station and saved his lie
that man is Sergeant James Mccoy
of CO. E 18th Infantry. Sergeant Nc
Coy is the proud possessor of the
Croix de Guerre, and the famous Bel
gium medal for bravery was among
the first Americans to join the Allies
in the greatest world war.
1T was on my twenty-third birth
day, August 5, 1918, in the famous Ar
sonne Forest that l received five ma
chine gun bullets in my legs as a sort
of q birthday present from the Hun,
says Sergeant Mccoy, of Camp Cor
don, Atlanta, Ca, as he eXtolled the
Salvation Army abroad. THE rain OF
bullets from the machine gun brought
me to the ground with hundreds OF
my comrades. In spite of the pain
| crawled along, and after making two
miles towards a first aid station
fell in a faint and lay there with shot
and shell bursting around me. l will
never know who found me, but when
[ awakened l was looking into the
eyes Of a frail Salvation Army lassie
who had bound my wounds to check
the flow of blood and who was bathing
my face bringing me back to con-
sciousness.
''It was after midnight, and the only
light around us came from the burst
ing bombs and the hand grenades
which were being hurled by one OF the
strongest battalions of the German
crown prince. She bade me have cour-
age and said that she would carry me
to the nearest first aid station, which
was three miles away. She unloosen-
ed my equipment and carried me in
military fashion straight out over thai
perilous journey three miles away
Time and again she stopped to regair
her strength and each time after she
was ready to go on she would bathe m!
face and make me as comfortable as
possible. How long it took her tc
bring me through that shot ridden
land | will never know, for l after
wards learned that l tainted several
times during the journey. 1t was
daylight when the lassie carried me tc
the first aid station and after she had
placed me in the hands of my sturdy
comrades she sank to the ground un-
conscious
This is only one of the many things
that | know of concerning the Sal
walton Army and their work with the
American troops abroad. They are
the greatest friends we have, and. il
the American public can only be tolc
OF ten per cent Of their heroic deeds
in No Mans Land the appropriation
Of S13,000,000, asked for by the Sal
walton Army, will be but a drop in the
bucket of the funds actually received.
Brothers, sisters, wives and sweet