Newark post., 1919-03-19
SIS OF THE RED HAT
BAND AND JINCLING
TAMBOURINE GONE.
svation Army to Adopt
\ More Efficient Method
of Raising Funds


d hat-band and The jingling
mbourine - the Salvation Army
ri whose work as a collector of
)dd dimes and nickels probably
vas the biggest factor in making
he organization known throughout
.she country. She has done the
work that was set for her to do and
her task is finished.
The demand for efficiency, the
adoption of more strictly business
methods in raising funds for re-
ligious social service and charit-
able work, and last, but possibly
equally important, the adoption of
the constitutional amendment fav-
oring prohibition, all were con-
tributing causes for the Salvation
Army's Executive Councils recent
decision to stop all public solicit
ng for money. Behind everything
lse as the principal cause for this
adical change in the army's
aethods is the great war.
Back in the days when the or
anization sill was in its infancy
md only gradually becoming
,nown in the United States, the
tamborine girls had an important
mission. For years they tramped
!. -he streets of the big cities, tam
bourines extended for the passer:
iby's penny. In fair weather weather and
foul the tambourlne jingled and
ratified at street corners. Midnight
freT1entlN saw the lassies of the
poke bonnets invading saloons in
the worst quarters of the cities
where the organization was estab-
lished.
"a penny or whatever you can
spare-please give," they entreat-
ed and seldom did they go away
empty handed.
The casual listener to Salvation
Army street corner preaching -
the man and woman who used to
pass critical remarks about the
teachings of the man who told how
he was "saved'-views the army
from new angle now. No longer
does the street corner band -
sometimes out of tune and time
but always in earnest, find itself
the butt Of some ones joke. No
the role played by the tambourine
girl in France took all the laugh
and criticism out Of the American
pubilc's viewpoint.
Don Martins Tribute
1t was Don Martin, who died il
France while serving there as cor
respondent with the American
armies for the N. Y. Herald, VIII,
paid one of the finest of tribute
to the work of the tambourine cir
as he found her on the battlefield
and thereby probably did as mucl
as any one else in directing tn
American public's confidence t
the organization. He wrote:
"Whenever you see the whisker
ed old Santa Claus with kettle an
bell, who stamps his feet to kee
warm as he watches the huma,
currents swirl around him in Her
aid square, or wherever else it ma
be, give him something. When tn
Salvation lassie comes around wit
her modest appeal to help the boy
at the front, don't turn her away
for the Salvation Army is a minis
tering angel to the boys in tn
fighting ranks.
"It takes human nature as
finds it and asks no question
There is not soldier in Franc
who does not tip his hat to it.
is right there under fire, selling {
bare cost chocolate, coffee, gun
cigarettes; giving away when tf
boys are without money; sendin
everything it can spare to tf
trenches and accepting not pei
ny for this invaluable service
writing letters for such as do n,
take readily to penmanship, bl
have heartstrings just the same
doing a thousand and one thin!
to offset the brutalizing influence
of war, and getting nothing for
except the satisfaction that COM
.--rood and askir