The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-05-16
FACTS ABOUT THE SALVATION ARMY
Bv ELIZABETH TYLER =

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 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 ye;'s to collect in small change
spent it ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS they
saw that our boys needed it.
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 wonder
full work the Salvation Army has done
overseas. To me there is nothing
unusual about that work, but it is
the same kind of work and service
the Salvation Army has always given
here at home-at our very own doors.
1t has taken the stories told by the
returning soldiers who have come to
know the Salvation Army to bring
about this wave of popularity for the
Salvation Army, but the Army has al
ways worked and served as they are
now serving.
1t reaches a class Of people that
ae other religious organization can Or
attempts to reach. The men ana
women that are too ragged and mis-
cradle 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 helping
hand to them. Every man. woman anu
child incAmeriea should contribute 10
this Home Service fund because there
is not a corner in our beloved land'
however remote, that does not receive
direct benefi. from the SaiVa1lon
Army, for fifty per cent of the popu-
iation of the cities is made up OF
people that come from small towns
and from those remote sections ana
ninety per cent of the boys and girls
that appeal to the Salvation Ac4i3
for assistance are those VINO nave
come to the large cities and find them
selves uneoual to the struggle for ex-
istence.
The Salvation Army conducts Res-
cue Homes, Day Nurseries. Homes lol
the Helpless and Age d and baha'
Lodging Houses for the men and WON
on that are unable to pay and Tree
clinics-it extends its services every y
where that misery and poverty exists.
Soldiers Tell OF Overseas Work.
: .The soldiers that are returning
from France after. their hard strug-
gle have nothing but words OF praise
FOR the Salvation Army, and from the
,ips Of soldier now at Camp Gordon
comes a story of frail Salvation
Army lassie that defied the shot and
she'll of the. Hun and carried hlm
three miles to a first aid station and
,ayed his life-that man is Sergeant
lanes Mccoy of Co. E 18th lnfan-
.ry Sergeant Mccoy is the proud
nossessor of the Croix de Guerre, and
.he famous Belgium medal for brav-
.ry was among the first Americans TO
Ioin the Allies in the great world
var.
at was on my twentieth birthday
August 5, 1918, in the famous Arsonne
Forest that I received FIVE machine
enn bullets in my legs as a sort OF
a birthday present from the Hun
saws Sergeant Mccoy, OF Camp Cor
don. Atlanta, Ca, as he extolleo tne
work of the Salvation Army abroad.
"The rain of bullets from the ma
chine guns brought me to the ground
with hundreds of my comrades. IN
sn;ta of the pain, crawled along, and
after making two miles towards a
first aid station fell in faint ara
law there with shot and shell burst
ing around me. will never know
who found me. but when l awakened {,
I was looking into the eyes OF iran
Salvation Army lassie, VINO nao
bound my wounds to check the iio"
of blood and who was bathing my face
bringing me back to consciousness.
ut was after midnight, and the
on,v light around us came from the
bursting bombs and the hand gre
nades which were being hurled by one
of The strongest battalions OF the GER
man Crown Prince. She bade me
have courage and said that she woulo
carry me to the nearest first aid sta
tion. which was three miles away;
Che unloosened my equipment and
carried me in a military 1asnlon
straight out over that perilous Jour.