Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — That Salvation Army Smile [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

That Salvation Army Smile

Several thousand veterans of the Argonne Forest recently entered New York harbor. Among them were several badly wounded Marines. One man, easily distinguished because of a coat sleeve that dangled empty at his side and a Croix de Guerre, was making his way slowly to the waiting ambulance when a Salvation Army girl approached him and offered doughnuts and coffee. "Now I know I am home,” he said. "Those doughnuts helped a whole lot ‘over there,’ and, first crack out of the box when we land, we find more waiting for us. The best thing about the Salvation Army work out near the front Una was the smile that accompanied the gift. Those girls had a knack of wrapping up every doughnut and every cup of coffee In a smile. The doughnuts were fine, but the smile —that took the place of powdered sugar." The Salvation Army Home Service Fund Campaign for $13,000,000 opens May 19, to last one week. ■ / . * „