The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02

1 and sisters-have done and are doing In | Europe.
 "The American Salvation Army in | France is small, but, believe me, it is | powerfully busy. It's war delegation came i over without any fanfare of the trumpets of publicity. It has no paid press agents | here and no impressive headquarters. | There are no well known names | other than the names of its executive ! heads, on it's rosters or on it's advisory l boards None of it's members are housed | at an expensive hotel and none of them | have handsome automobiles in which to | travel about from place to place. No campaigns to raise nationwide millions l of dollars for the cost of it's ministrations | overseas were ever held at home l im- | agine it is the pennies of the poor that mainly fill it's war chest. I imagine too, ! that sometimes it's finances are an un- 1 certain quantity. Incidentally am as i sured that not one of it's male workers | here is of draft age unless he holds eX- | emption papers 10 prove his physlcal | unfitness for military service. The Sal
 vationists are taking care to purge them selves of any suspicion that potential | slackers have joined their ranks in or ' der to avoid the possibility of having | to perform duties in khaki.
 | Among officers as well as among en- listed men one occasionally hears criti- l ciSnl-which may or may not pc Dased on fair tudgment-for certain branches of certain activities of certain organiza- i tions But I have yet to meet any soi-
 dier. whether a brigadier or a private | who if he speaks at all of the SalVa- | ton Army, did not speak in terms or ! fervent gratitude for the aid that the Sal vationists are rendering so unostenta- 1 tiously and yet so very effectively. Let
 a sizable body of men move from one l l, o3-I tG 1 there came a squad of men and women 1 of the Salvation army. An army truck
 may bring them, or it may be they have | q battered jitney to move them and thelr scanty outfits Usually they do not asH help from anyone in reaching their desti- nations They find Judgement in
 wrecked shell of a house or in the cor ner of barn. By main force ana avn M f wardness they set up their equipment, l and very soon the word has been spread
 among the troopers that at such-and-such
 a place the Salvation Army is serving free hot drinks and free doughnuts ana
 free pies It specializes in doughnuts,
 the Salvation Army in the field does the real, old fashioned, homemade ones
 that taste of home to homeslck soi-
 dier boy.
 did not see this, but one of my as- 1 sociate7 did He saw it last winter
 in q dismal place on the Foul sector file of our troops were finishing q long nike through rain and snow over roads knee deep in half-thaWed icy : clUsa~ Cold and wet and mlseraole they came tramping into a cheerless, l half empty town within sound' ana
 range of the German guns, They found a reception committee awaiting them therein the person of two Salvation | Army lasses and a Salvation Army captain The women had a fire going 1 in the dilapidated oven of a vanished 1 vulagers Kitchen. One of them was rolling out the batter on plank with an old wineF bottle for rolling pin ! and using the top of tin can to cut 1 ehe dough into circular strips The ] other woman was cooking the douSh- Snuts. and as fast as they were cooked the man served them out. splitting hot,
 to hungry wet boys clamoring about