The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-01-23

isfy the Elks-tiie 100000 or rao-e In
disidual Eiks. scattered all over the
country in their local lodges. Bur
tne two base hospitals, the big re-
lconstruction hospital in Boston, afr the
otner things the grand lodge had dore
ana was doing. didn't gise' the irYdfvfd.
uai Elk much chance to, feel that ne
hfnseif was helping. But-they
| wanted TO do more.
! They didf No one knows inst bov>
the association between the, EIks apa
the Saiavatior Army began. But ie
4 grew INTO one OF the big things of the
/ war;.
The Salvation Army went toe work.
quietly sud without any talk, as SOON
az we began mobfIizing our-new arm
ies The Salvation. Army isn't ,1cb.
1t nasnt any MAJ hfnery for collecting
money. And sttI it succeeded in car
rsfnz- on its wer1t Eur . year vftbout.
making an appeal to--&e-~ounsl
mocer Havdc y0a wondered some2
i-tises' how that was accomplishment
How it was that the Salvation Army.
aiones G all tEae big war-relief bodies,
that were working with the troops I'm
France, didn't COME duuning you?
Wen. she Es are RESPONSIBLE. IN a.
great MEASURE. They gave up their
club houses and their lodge rooms to,
the Red Cross all over the country.
you kucrZ
The Eiks are a convfvLaI lot They
kroeh around go1d deal And they
are thessar5 ~ho have on zap, always,
good desd of sympathy for the under
dog
They ooaiin't help see ug a good
deal of what was being duze for war
-elief- And they seem to have seen
the Saasazsizn Arur as sort of Cfn--
de-ella- So. here and there. quite
spontaneous y. local i0fges of the,
Elks began getting II touch with local
Salvation Army leaders,.
They cosaid NOT go over there and
bake donxfinuts for the bays in the
trenches; but. by thunder. they could
help to get the money that was need
ed, Hocx abouf Rg
~Thoy Saw Us Tbxouuh--
TheE -he time came. IN the spring
of 1915 when the SaTvation Army
needed $4,000. .1se and simply had to
make "a drive tor get BY that time
theetses uetweszn the Erfs and theeSal-
vationtsts was pretty well established.
Reports had been coming in to Sal
vatiorr Army headquarters about the.
help the ElISs we're giving. And
thee isadecss ok the drive wereenervuus~
They didn't sanw much abaat raising
money on wha,es.le basiss They'd
always managed to paddle their own
came. Tksy didn't havesany Of tho.
machinery the Red Cross and the T.
Nc G.. a hsd
So, they went 70 the grand lodge of
dlee Elks. And the Es1s. who, had.
hsens hearing fom their local lodges.
greeted tAem With enthusiasm. They
laft the Salvation ArHs people, who
really had enough tcs do with their.
regular work. free. and guaranteed
the meney.
They saw us Through" says, Col
W A. Mcintyre. who is at the head OF
the army's New Yeck office Were.
stiit lite dazed, by al they did for
US We never could have got the
moaey we did without them. We
couldn't ask them for anything they
didn't give us Usually we didn't
have CHARGE to ask, They took
hold of oue drive magnificentiy.
There aren'r words strong enough to
praise the silks.
Wh<e the Etks Can, Do
1t isn't a, new thing for the Elks to
turn in and help in an emergency,
either. Back in 1906. when the news
OF the Disaster in San Francisco was
fiashe4 over the wires, Bob" Brown
of Lsuisviiie was grand exalted ruler
OF the order. He caught the FIRST
tram for Chtcago. wiries Fred Robin
SON then as now grand secretary. to
have IS 900 in cash and tickets on the
Over'ard Limited ready for him Rob-
inson gave him $4,000. and Brown
beat al records in reaching tho coast
More money. in cash. kept coming
to hfm. Ee stayed there for weeks.
and fo- time the Elks were the only
people who had any cash at all for re-
lief work--the banks being closed.
Ths Elks contributed ard sent in
400 carloads of food to San Fran
cisco. And Trey raised so much
money that Borvn eouldn+ spend fe
all. and out of the surplus fund was
estab fshed that the Elks have used
ever since to give quick relief In case
of disaster.
They helped in the same way at
the time of the Dayton floods In 1913.
and after the forest fires In Minnesota
last autumn.
| And at Christmas no soldiers chill
dren lacked Christmas cheer. House,