Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-21 | Page 6 | Doughboy is Honest

DOUGHBOY IS HONEST. The honesty of the American soldier in Franco has been put to the test and not found wanting. In fact, his honesty has been proved beyond doubt, and in a manner that leaves no question ques-tion that he is -worthy of trust. Commandant and Mrs. J. M. ITale of the Salvation Army spent twclvo months in the war zone. During that time they loaned tho boys of one artillery artil-lery outfit 20,000 francs, and they kept an accurate account of what happened after the loans wore extended. This is the record: Number of borrowers, 203. Amount borrowed, 20,000 francs. Average loan, 90 francs. Largest loan, 500 francs. Amount repaid, 19,060 francs. Bad accounts, 2. Loss, 40 francs. Commandant Hale says that the experience ex-perience of himself and his wife is no different from that of other Salvation Army workers. Out of probably 1,000,000 francs loaned in tho aggro-gate, aggro-gate, the loss, he estimates, was less than 1000 francs. ""Whenover tho 'ghost, walked' for the boys," ho adds, "the first, thing thev did was to hunt up Mrs. Halo to take up their I. O. U. ?s. " It is something to build up a rcpula-tion rcpula-tion like that; and it is quite certain that the run of dealings in civilian life do not compare favorably with thoso of the Yanks ii; tho service. 7