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Show SALVATION ARMY IS fXMNG GREAT WORK Decorating Graves of Soldiers; in Addition Addi-tion to Furnishing Boys "With "Goodies."' By M. F. MXJEPHY. (New York Tlmes-ChtcaRo Tribune Cable, Copyright.) pAWS, July 27. The Salvation Army France does more than furnish the p's with goodies "just like mother used make." There, is another branch of J"pT work which finds a sympathetic. M'onse in the families of the men. and of ,Vvork is the decoration of the praves tne fallen soldiers. On Memorial day Wrod " 1l"' Staves were thus rcmem- bJ'tf SaIvationists plant the flags sent if 'ne, mothers on the graves of their r,mh en under shell fire, and write the thi r a description of the spot where vLsons lie' (isn'f, 8 to ihe hospitals are numerous, w'sS Eoodies and flowers to the l, , eu ahd writing letters for those M j',6 Unable to do so. On the Fourth Pari'1. mre than 000 men visited in the fruit -iV,HSpitals alone were supplied with 'he sn1 cand5"' The men and women of "rk n lon A"y risk their lives in Mlsa r the front. As an instance. 'Pent f Van Norden of New York "troop ,h nordhs driving- an automobile '10"-t e olten-bombarded areas, and 1 '.d, r was sueh as to be mentioned IjVf'fVus cond8 ro'n a general for meri- I "wit'dn an Nrden also has medals for I Akron am ln Siberia. Joseph Hughes of worker, was badly 4 x$itr lle we,lt Ior assistance for Sltsou, Wno had been thrown into his j y the explosion of a shell. |