The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-19
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FACTS ABOUT THE SALVATION ARMY
By ELIZABETH TYLER

Hore called upon to give. This time
IL is for one of the most worthy of al
cause.-the Salvation Army Home
Service Fund.
When war was declared the Saliva
ZION Army workers went over seas
Win our boys and down into the
trenches into the very jaws of death
Ihey crossed the sea with our BOYS
win never thought of personal in
Jury-neVer dreaming of the wave OF
popularity or publicity they would get
tor THIS humble Christian service;
'hey mad only one desire and that
was 10 serve our boys when they most
needed friends. They spent much OF
the money that it had taken them
many years to collect in small change
spent 1t ungrudgingly-becau 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
Iul 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
tne Salvation Army has always given
mere at home-at our very own doors.
IL mas 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
no other religious organization can or
attempts to reach. The men and
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 and
child in America should contribute to
this Home Service fund because there
is not corner in our beloved land,
direct benefit from the Salvation
Army, for fifty per cent of the popu-
lation of the cities is made up of
people that come from small towns
and from those remote sections and
ninety per cent of the boys and girls
that appeal to the Salvation Army
for assistance are those who have
come to the large cities and find them
selves unequal to the struggle for ex-
istence.
The Salvation Army conducts Res
cue Homes, Day Nurseries, Homes for
the Helpless and Aged and Blind,
Lodging Houses for the men and Wom-
en- that are unable to pay and free
clinics-it extends it's services every
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
lips of soldier now at Camp Gordon
comes a story of a frail Salvation
Army lassie that defied the shot and
shell of the Hun and carried him
three miles to first aid station and
saved his life-that man is Sergeant
James Mccoy of Co. E 18th lntan-
try. Sergeant Mccoy is the proud
nossessor of the Croix de Guerre, and
the famous Belgium medal for BRAY
erv was among the first Americans to
ioin the Allies in the great world
war.
SIT was on my twentieth birthday,
August 5, 1918, in the famous Argonne
Forest that | received five machine
gun 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 extolled the
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
spite of the pain, crawled along, and
after making two miles towards a
first aid station | fell in faint and
Law there with shot and shell burst
inc around me. l will never know
who found me, but when l awakened
I was looking into the eyes of frail
Salvation Army lassie, who had
bound my wounds to check the flow
of blood and who was bathing my face
bringing me back to consciousness.
ut was after midnight, and the
onlv 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 babe me
have courage and said that she would
carry me to the nearest first aid sta
tion. which was three miles away.
She unloosened my equipment and
carried me in military fashion
straight out over that perilous jour
new three miles away. Time and
again she stopped to regain her
strength and each time after she. was
ready to go on she would battle my
face and make me as comfortable as
nossible. How long it took her to
bring me through that shot ridden
land I will never know, for after
wards learned that l tainted several