Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-26
DOUGHNUTS MADE
POPULAR SYMBOL
SALVATION ARMY

American doughgirls and dough
boys have marched over the Rhine
into the land of the boche ant
though the shells have ceased tc
scream overhead there is still
work for both OF them. Hungry
American stomachs must be fed
tiresome bridgeheads guarded, and
above all that, splendid morale
which has made the Yank the best
i fighting man in the world, kept
up.
No one recognizes this more than
the war department. 1t keeps
sending for Salvation Army lassies
and their rolling pins, and as long
as it calls they respond. There
are more Sallies IN the land of oc-
cupation than there were in
France during the fighting. They
are there because they are needed
and they will be there until the
last Yank has been moved home.
This work has been put on the
Salvation Army as a duty and it
has accepted the burden. although
it means a heavy expenditure and
the S. A. is not rich. Out of its
exhausted treasury it has supplied
ths money needed to send 250
more girls and to operate A more
motortrucks from Paris to the
Rhine. 1t receives no revenue or
profit from the sale of its supplies
for there is not a single set of
books in any hutment across the
seas. Its lassies just pay out and
take in. The losses are light, for
the Yank is honest. but 10 matter
how small the loss may be there
is no profit 10 offset it.
No wonder the lassies are loved
by the boys when doughnutS are
sold at three for five" which is
less than they can be bought for
a. home If a boy is not aware
that he is expected to pay and
tucks away a couple of hot erull-
ers in his capaeious pockets,
nothing is said to him about price.
Or suppose the paymaster is hate
and he is without any "kale" he
gets his sinkers just the same, and
if he is shy the lassies just stuff
them into his pockets ara that is
all there is to it.
Doughnuts are the popular sym
Dol Of Salvation Army work abroad
but do not forget that even though
the bOche has stopped firing his
Big Berthas" there are still large
mum bers of very, very sick soldiers
who need attention. These lads
are homesick in spirit as we'll as
ailing in body. They are impa-
tient They have whimsical tastes.
They want little things and fret
themselves into fever wnen they
cannot get what their capricious
minds demand. Here steps in the
lassie. She will spend a day find
ing a certain kind of tooth paste,
a favorite jam or a particular va
riety of fruit.
She does not attempt to force
religion. but always offers COM
fort. She is doing an angel of
mercy's work just as she did ii
under fire-quietly but effectively.
She is keeping up the morale of
our troops and doing i. so well
that the boys want to see more
and more women of her ilk follow
them on. She is to them a living
of the religion they
love and want.
Even the officials of the foreign
have recognized the
value OF her work and last week
Premier Clemenceau.Yth the tiger of
France" declared that she had
been one of the most potent fac
tors in winning the war.
lis this work to be continued?'
the doughboys ask.
They want it and have planned
to aid the Salvation Army in doing
it. They are banded together to
assist. for they know that every
penny raised foF the Salvation
Army will be used for them and
for their needy relatives.