Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
FRIRAY, JULY %, 1919


DURING the dark days of uncertainty when the
Boche were driving great human wedges into
the Allied lines toward Paris and the channel ports
the Salvation Army with doughnut and CHEEKY
word was always with the American boys in kha-
XII The acid test of any service done for our sold
iers in France, is the value the men themselves
place upon it. No matter how we look upon it, we
cannot feel perfectly satisfied with the results if
the soldiers are not satisfied. Without suggesting
any material distinction among the organizations
at the front, it is nevertheless extremely pleasur-
able to record that the Salvation Army stands
high in the affections of the American service men,
Evidences of the Salvation Army's ercellent
and unrequited services come to us from mani
sources. One tribute is printed in an editorial in
the Stars and Stripes, paper published by the
soldiers in France, and its evident sincerity makes
it worth quoting:
"Well, we are all homeless over here,
! and every American soldier will take back
:; with him new affection and new respect
for the Salvation Army. Many will carry
with them the memories of cheering word
and friendly cruller received in one of the
huts nearest of all to the trenches. There
the old slogan of soup and salvation has
given way to pies and plenty 1t might be
'doughnuts for doughboys.
'These huts, pitched within the shock of
German guns, are ramshakle, and bare and
few, for no organization can grow rich on
tamhournes at the street corners of the
/ world. But thief are doing a work that
soldiers themselves will never forget, and
it is an especial pleasure to say so here,
because the Salvation Army, being much
j too simple and old-fashioned to know the
4 uses of advertising, has never asked us to-"
Z These words written at the front are signf
can't not only because they record the work of the
I Salvation Army but because they give us pen
picture of the real devotion this service overseas
! received. Their huts were the nearest of all to
. the firing lines There under the nose of the Boche
guns, the Salvation Army girls served our sold
iers with coffee, crullers and doughnuts and it
all done in the simple way so characteristic of
them.
In the matter of funds the Salvation Army now
is trying to raise 100000 to carry on their work
of reconstruction in the State of Utah Under
the most obstinate conditions in France its workers
served our soldiers, but their task is not yet COM
plete They are taking up with vigor and forti-
tude the work of reconstruction and readjustment
in addition to their regular work of salvagng. In
order to carry out their plans, they have naugur-
ated home service drive to be held throughout
the State, July 10th to 26th.
An extensive advertising campaign should not
be necessary to put the state over the top. If the
people realize how the returned service men feel
about the service the Salvation Army rendered
them at the front, they will stand squarely back
of this drive and make it marked success. There
is no dscredting Yankee fortitude or the patriot
ism Of all Americans.
Let's see to it that the drive in our own county
is completed within the schedule time. Let's stand
back of the Salvation Army which stood back OF
our boys over there They demonstrated their 10y
atty to our soldiers in France end Belgium, now
it is up to us to demonstrate our loyalty to their
great service for humanity by giving to their home
service fund.
We ,,ct or hat served
on the battlefelds on the hospital cots, in the
dim candle-lit huts along the firing line. They
worked without thought of SELF without dreams
of compensation and exemplified the same spirit
of Americanism which you can display by support
ing their home service campaign for 100000.