The Penn's Grove record., 1919-05-30
HOW THEY GOT THE MONEY
The Salvation Campaign in New York
City

This week Is a campaign week Tor
the Salvation Army and perhaps |
can tell you Of some things to get the
money out of the peoples pockets into
that of their many different recep-
tacles that you Will not read in the
daily papers. On many street corners
you will find many booths in which
are always two women not always of
the S. A. garb-with their long,
round pasteboard boxes with Sits in
the tops for money, and around the
open sides Of the booths are paste
board doughnuts, 2 feet across, paint
ed brown of two shades so near in
likeness to the genuine article that
ones mouth waters till it is out of
thought. In all restaurants are little
tables, and a chair where sits a wo-
man all day with that long box, a
sweet smile and a begging look on her
face. Saturday evening, near the end
of their campaign, which fact made
the girls desperate, but not rude, two
girls held the four corners of a bril-
liantly red blanket on a street corner
and other places, the same begging
for a little more. Dollars were pin
ned on the sides of the blanket, and
many were throwing in their money for
the very novelty OF the plan. An
other plan, a girl walked backwards
with the box in her hand, and one fin
ger held up to the passerby saying,
only one, please, only one, meaning a
nickel. They have a tendency of
multiplying into dollars. The blanket
girls were asking for pennies.
Further down on Times Square is a
pretty rustic hut, twig and leaf
matched built up high, left over from
the Red Cross drive. In this were
the k~haki-dressed boys speaking and
pleading for the money for the S. A.
girls that took care of them cover
there" They have not forgotten. In
the movies and theatres you found
them ever busy. Leggets drag stores
were giving ten per cent of their sales
on Saturday to S. A. cause, and this
means much, as they have many stores
about the city. There was a constant
stream OF customers going in and out.
The Army has come into its own.
The Master, whom they have serv-
ed so long, reaching down into the
gutter, barring their arms as it were,
through the slime to get the fallen
man OF woman for Him. Does he
care? Has he not seen? Will he
reply! Will it be short measure? or
heaped up and running over? There
was a time when it was not so popu-
lar, not SO fashionable, not so conven-
tent to admire the Salvation Army.
Only the lassie could go to the place of
the down and out, and risky places,
and be unframed, and ever protected
by her garb, and where others could
not go; but today the Salvation Army
IS on top. We all want to get on the
wagon with them. The very rich, the
very poor, their former critics, all
must take off our hats to them, for
what they did for the soldier over
there. We want to say a prayer for
them, too. This day of prosperity for
tnem-ean come so doubly quick-that
they cannot find places large enough
10 hold all the money, that the public
the world over, can and will pour at
their feet.
In one place they were selling real
doughnuts for any price that they
could get, from 10 cents up.
Patrons would compare prices to
what their cakes cost them laughingly,
but not grudgingly. On a placard at
one stand was this sign: "Take one,
but leave as many as you can" You
would not make but one hole on that
plate, would you? Down in another
place where they rent, the army peo-
pie have so or more beds where the
homeless returning soldier boys can
go. Every Wednesday night the boys
are given . most creditable entertafMs