Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1919 — What Doughboy’s Mother Thinks of Lassies of Salvation Army Overseas [ARTICLE]

What Doughboy’s Mother Thinks of Lassies of Salvation Army Overseas

What the American doughboy,, the 'overseas service man especially, hlnks of the Salvation Army and its work in the war zone is as an oft-told tale, wherever America’s youngest veterans get together. But here is what a Yank’s mother thinks of the ‘Army’’ and its splendid overseas record and in writing of it she quotes from letters received from her son in France. She’s a typical Michigan mother is Mrs. William Hoffman, 151 Stewart avenue, Jackson, although her story is typical of the same expressions that have come from Indiana mothers, especially since the announcement of the Salvation Army Home Service Fund drive for 000 during this week. Mrs. Hoffman’s letter is quoted from the Jackson, Mich. "News’’ as follows: “To the Salvation Army and whom else this may Concern which should be All Humanity: I just want to express my heartfelt thanks to the Salvation Army. Although I am not a member of any religious organization it is my duty as a mother who has a son in the war to ten you what he has said to me in several of his letters. In one, written since the signing of the armistice, he says: “ 'Ma, last evening 1 listened to a .sermon by a Salvation Army ma-n who had just been away from the good old U. S. A. nineteen days. It sure was good. He told me what the folks back home were doing and it sure does make a fellow feel good. Guess I grew a foot listening to him. « in one of the papers I noticed that the Salvation Army is trying to raise a fund of $13,000,000 to finance itself for home service. If ever there was a deserving organization, it’s this one. In our last big drive the Salvation Army lassies were with us, scarcely taking time to eat and if their canteens were with or without sup. piles there was always that ever welcome smile and that ever needed thread and needle.*