The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-10-02
PRAISE FOR THE ~.
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SALVATION ARMY

It is with pleasure and satisfaction
| have this opportunity of writing a
few words of appreciation expressing
my pride, gratitude and thankfulness
to that noble organization which has
done and is doing and will do so much
for humanity, The Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army deserves all the
praise it is getting for it's unexcelled
service to the soldiers in the camps
and billets and even in the ternches
during the late World War, and the
people of this city and county ought
to respond generously in the giving of
their money to this wonderfully patri-
Office organization to assist it in carry
ing on the great work.
Personally, l have much to be CRATE
full for, and particularly to certain
members of the Salvation Army. Why
the first day I landed in France-and
the day was bitter cold, with snow and
ice in abundance-after night-cross-
ing of the English Channel and a
strenuous day of making camp and no
chance of a neal and my pal spied
Salvation Army canteen in the camp.
However, we were disappointed in
finding the canteen closed; seeing how
disappointed and famished we looked
the Army man and his good wife op-
ened up their hearts and their stores
and made US hot tea, biscuits and
doughnuts, one of the finest meals /
ever had.
Again, twenty-five miles back of the
lines our boys were delighted with the
comradeship, pies and doughnuts of
the Salvation's men and lassies who
were continually working to keep the
boys cheerful and happy amid the
foreign surroundings and in the snow,
mud and cold of that first winter in
France. 1t is true that a Salvation
Army captain held the individual's s
world record for the number of pies
he made in one day, and the boys
broke a record in disposing of them.
I well remember those generous and
big hearted men and women who
cheered the boys by their example and
the distribution of doughnuts and cof-
fee when my regiment had returned
to "rest" after an ardous time near
the Verdun front.
We had left the front lines about
noon, marching the balance of the day,
and in the early shank of the evening.
1t being the spring of the year OF
course we played through slush and
mud, putting up for the night at Ance-
mon, a village on the Meuse River.
The next morning we took train for
no one knew where except the COM
mander. We arrived at small station
in the vicinity of Barbecue, famous
for it's jellies, detraining in the rain
and marched distance of IL kilome-
ters through mud and water and inky
darkness to small town arriving at
midnight weary, foot-sore and hun
gry...s.Y on. can imagine the Joy and
delight Of the men to find waiting fol
them those beautiful lat least to us)
Salvation Army. lassie with hot coffee
and delicious doughnuts. Nothing
ever seemed so much like home to me
and how happy and truly thankful
we were that there was such an army
as the Salvation Army, and that these
people were our own people.
There are many incidents of like ma
ture that could mention in connection
with the work of that excellent and
efficient organization. How their peo-
pie endured hardship; their kindness
and generosity to us, and their endur-
ance and fortitude. The boys loved
and revered them.
1t is only right and proper that we
should do all we possibly can to aid
them in raising the necessary funds
to replenish that spent during the war
on our own boys. This money is spent
in the greatest of causes for the ben
eft of humanity-for men and women
who need help as we did. All honor
to the Salvation Army. Give them all
THEODORE S. HENRY.