River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-06-19
Soldiers Endorse
Salvation Army Fund
Elks of u. S. To Raise
$4,000, 900 In Drive
from June % to
July S

United States have started a cam
paign to raise S13,000,000 in sup
port of the Salvation Army, this
fund to enable that estimable or
ganization to carry on it's great
work without the handicap of hav-
ing to tediously solicit in small sums
by the old methods of personal
canvass from house to houses, store
to store and on street corners,
methods that have not only subject
ed members of the Salvation Army
to much hardship, and in some in
stances, abuse, but which have been
inadequate in keeping the finances
of the organization sufficiently
strong for the rapidly charging
scope of it's work. Pierce county
members of the B. P. o. E., although
belonging to lodges in several
different cities, have banded to-
gether and are united in the work
of having this county's contribution
to the Salvation Army fund make a
good showing, and in having that
showing credited to this county.
One Of the strongest Endorsements
given the Salvation Army comes
from our returned soldiers, and an
organization which has done so
much for these gallant boys, and
under conditions so trying, certainly
deserves every consideration from
the people of this country. Keep
this drive in mind, and pass the
word along, with your endorsement.
THE SOLDIERS ENDORSEMENT
We ase sure glad to see the Elks
getting up fund for the Salvation
Army, and we know that if the
people generally could realize the
great work the men and women of
this organization did during the
war, as we saw them doing it, there
wouldn't be minutes hesitation
about getting a healthy subscription
from anybody who was at all inter
ested in a soldier or sailor of the
United States forces, or in the job
that this country set out to do
over there" For the Salvation
Army certainly did do it's share. and
more, towards Uncle Sans sue
cess.
The Salvation Army lads and
Iassies were with us from start to
finish. They gave us lunches and
cigarettes and sent out our post.
cards from the troop trains when
we were going from one camp te
another in this country, at the start
and in these camps they had their
supplies handy all the time. AND
when we got across, there they were
again, right with US passing Out
the doughnuts. the smokes and the
good cheer at every jump thr ough.
out the stiff work in the training
areas.
Then we got up in the gooey
trenches, Or along the supply lines
out with the motor lorries. or on the
hike-no matter where we were
sure enough, long with US comes
the Salvation Army folks, passing
food and hot coffee if it was avail
able, giving first aid to the wounded
kidding along a desperate "blue'
soldier, writing home for the
''blesse," or skipping among the
men even while Heinie was putting
'em over fast. They were sure or
the job, everywhere, herding to-
gether the little French kids in the
back-area towns, trying to feed anc
brighten the poor little buffers UP
over in the hospitals where the Rec
Cross was overworked; in newly..cap
tured towns they seemed to ''se
up shop" among the ruins and BIZ
there ready for US with their hot
coffee and doughnuts before Frit,
got out of sight and while he wa.
sending back his parting shots;'
they were up at the edge of No
Mans Land where the night raid.
always left them work to do-anc
then, when the shooting stopped
and some of us went on int
Germany, there they were. still with
us, dealing out their chuck, theil
Tags, and their good cheer.
They're at it yet, over there
right along with the A. E. F., anC
they're also here in the home camps
and down on the Border. It's grea,