The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-15
|ALvAT|ON ARMY
| ASKS ONLY S25O0
: OF CARTER COUNTY
gBOURINE BETHOD OF GETTING
wUNDS REPLACED BY DRIVE
THROUGHOUT NATION

crdmore and Garter county citizens
E asked TO raise only $500 In the
200, 900 drive for the "iome'Ser'
= Fund" OF the Salvation Army
II starts this week. The workers In
: drive have the slogan, Help those
,) helped the boys"
.his drive Is the initial substitute for
!. well known, "tambourine girl OF
A past. The following article from
Oh Literary Digest shows the reasons
R, the adoption of new methods to
sc money for this great organi@a-
o.. The article follows;
/he tambourine girl OF the saliva
l Army has been voted about as
,ensively useless as charity baZaars
other fields for raising the neces'
v funds for the Army's work. Com
nder Evangeline Booth has decided
[ her time Is better employed IN
day nurseries that the Army runs
|, besides, the American people
,e been educated by the war In
cker and more efficient methods
raising funds for necessary relief
rk. The salvation Army will soon
RI a drive for the Home Service
nd" of 100000, beginning May
and 1t is going to get its money by
aight appeals TO the public. The
rd of every returning soldier is
,ranty that these appeals will not
in vain. The sun sheds some light
this Forthcoming effort:
Maybe some folk will be asking
Y. when the Salvation Army SOt a
.e from the millions raised by the
tied War Charities drive, it wants
re so soon. Wen, in the first place,
slice the Army received wasn't
large, considering the millions oil
ighnuts and pies it baked for our
IS on the other side, and the choco-
2 and coffee and cigarets and WIFI
paper and other comforts almost
hout end that it provided, not to
ntion the personal service of its
rkers everywhere they were need
right up to the front. And in the
ond place the work over here that
:, war couldn't be allowed to inter
IT must 20 right on.
An Italian boy who fought and
ned two wound stripes with the
ops that helped break the Hinden-
rg line faced a salvation Army lass
was giving out doughnuts and
coffee to some just-landed men on
Hoboken pier one day last week.
" he burst forth with his mouth
of doughnut, is that club you had
mothers at "a Cherry Street still
n?' Cause if ii amt my mother is
e awfully lonely. She started goin'
ere when she COULDN'T speak no
glish hardly, and it was about all
yours. My mother amt much to
ite, 50 | didn't hear nothin while
was on the other side about that
b o yourn, and | says to myself
IS |, It's sure u pity if, seem all
.y'e doin' for US boys, the Saliva
Army has had to give up what
/ y done at home"
|: ''The clubs fsoulishing, and SOS
settlement-ho house and the kinder
l rten and everything at 81 Cherry
eet,' the worker answered, and
ppy grin welled up under the par
ration on the lads face as he
ched his haversack and tin hat and
Ter burdens to more comfortable
sition and passed on with his pals.
That colloquy just shows the spe-
| charm of the salvation Army and
reason for the hold it has ON the
tsses-no red tape, no standoffish
SIS, no side just simple friendli-
IS and the desire to serve and with
all to serve in the most practical
needed way. While they were
iving shot and shell and bombs and
son gas to carry comforts to the
Us on the IIindenburg line they
mt neglect TO give encouragement
the mothers on Cherry street-and
odness knows that if ever any one
eded encouragement it is house
yes on Cherry street. Down in that
eet which was once the most alis.
ratio part of the town. where the
aux and bellies of Colonial times dis
rted themselves where the best
Miles lived, as some of the beauti-
carved woodwork that still remains
re and there in the old houses, tho
lily battered, attests-there are now
eat poverty, great oVercrowding,
ge families budding in one flat, and
King in boarders at that.
And the babiesl In one year the
erry Hill Settlement Day Nursery
red for $4,000 babies, whose moth.
go out to work. who but for the
lvation Army would be locked in at
me alone, or left to the mercies of
others or sisters hardly old enough
look out for themselves"