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Show THE CITIZEN 5 any of those marks of caste which still curse religion and cripple social service. Well has the Salvation Army been called a Flying Relief Squadron ready to answer every emergency call from the poor and needy, day and night, rain or shine. Its officers are never too weary to help the cold, the hungry, the sick, the suffering, the dying. In the winter they distribute clothing, food and fuel, with an extra supply at Christmastime, a time which has come to be associated in a special manner with Salvation Army lads and lassies and kettles for coin set up on the street corners. In summer poor mothers and babies are taken on excursions to beaches or into the country to camps for a weeks vacation. Thanks to this wise aid many a mother has been guided through dark days ARMY THE SALVATION back to hope and happiness. First and foremost among the present needs of the Slavation plea for the Salvation Army is the testimony of the Army in Utah, we are told, is a properly equipped home service buildTHE strongest soldier. How worthy the army is to receive the dona-Sioing in Salt Lake and a home for working girls. It is said that there is no other city of its size in the United States where the army has been of the public is attested by the soldiers who witnessed the wonderful work of the Salvationists in France. As near the firing line as so handicapped for dearth of adequate equipment. Salt Lake City, they were permitted to go they ministered to the wants and comforts as the capitol of Utah, receives more visitors from the state than any of the soldiers with an efficiency possessed by no other welfare or- other point, and the army is constantly being called upon to give aid to the strangers within the gates. ganization. No one who appreciates the work the army has done and is doThe cause of this efficiency lay in the very nature and experience of the society. To all other organizations the work for the soldiers ing here and in many cities from London to Melbourne and from was something new and complex. To the Salvationists it was merely Montreal to Capetown but will long for such success in the collection a new application of the work in time of peace. The loyal workers campaign that the army may be able to have the needed buildings of the other organizations gazed with envy on the smoothly operating and much else besides to help it in its social welfare work. enginery of the Salvation Army. Its discipline, its familiarity with distress and suffering, its experience in meeting the wants of strugHENRY FORDS IDEAS gling humanity all proved invaluable in easing the lot of the well or wounded soldier. trouble with Mr. Ford was that he considered the world his and was trying to make a jitney out of it. He atIn the nationwide campaign for funds the Salvationists have met with universal approval. tempted to run the world on a Ford motor. I am all the more happy to commend this organization because History is bunk to me, says Mr. Ford. Music and other arts it is free from sectarian bias, writes Cardinal Gibbons. The man in have no interest. The great manufacturer solemly swore, however, that he was need of help is the object of their effort, with never a question of his beginning to like the banjo. creed or color. Henry Ford was typical in many ways of our pacifists. Without Colonel Roosevelt voiced the common testimony when he said: At last it has won its way to recognition, and there are few thinkers much knowledge of history and little schooled in the intricacies of human nature, they adopted an idealistic doctrine with the enthusiasm nowadays who do not recognize in the Salvation Army an invaluable social asset, a force for good which works effectively in those dark of unthinking zealots. The maker of jitneys has changed since he sailed across the seas regions where, save for this force, only evil is powerful. in his peace ship with other idealistic men and women, among whom It was this thought, more than any other, that inspired the was Rosica Schwimmer, an Austrian lady of many attainments who founder of the army the thought that there were in the great cities later was revealed as a spy. regions where only evil was powerful. Among the wisest of mankind Being as keen as most American industrial captains Henry Ford the special advantage of the new organization for social and religious to sense his own folly before the peace ship landed at Copenwelfare was quickly recognized, but universal approval was long in began hagen. Something seemed to tell him that he was trying to excoming. This was due, not to the faults of the army, but, and we state a world conflagration with a dewdrop. it boldly, to the faults of those who had rested satisfied with the con- tinguish Henry Ford has learned much since he adopted the tenets of ventional efforts of philanthrophy. The activities of the Salvationists pacifism even if his soul thrills to no music except that of the banjo, of sufferappeared fantastic to those who seldom felt the pulse-bea- ts even if he still finds history bunk. ing humanity. He has learned that he never really was against either war or Here was a work that the other churches, despite their noble preparedness for war. He was against wars of aggression only and strivings, had hardly touched in the great centers of humanity. he when he assailed preparedness he meant Born in the outdoors, the Salvation Army stood, so to speak, with informs us. bared head pleading with the offcasts of society, with the poor and the Our pacifists, as a general rule, were long on idealism and short agonized to turn from the ways of vice to the sweet and sunny paths on logic. They allowed the Hun propagandists to lead them around of virtue. Those who would not venture into a cathedral or splendid as if they were trick bears with rings in their noses. When the II tin house of worship stopped to listen to that plea, uttered sometimes to shook the they danced and made themselves egregiously ridicuthe strain of a popular song or in emotional shoutings that first pro- lous. We rope had even a bishop, clothed in all the dignity of his sacred voked laughter and then melted to tears. office, conducting himself like a dancing bear every time the Huns The tortured woman on her way to seek death in the Thames gave the signal. He attended meetings of societies which had been stopped to hear the song and the pathetic sermon. Something in her formed ostensibly to promote a kind of teetotaler pacifism but which, heart and her memory awoke and bade her give life another trial. She it transpired, were designed to aid the kaisers war for world conSras taken into the ranks of the army as if she had been a Joan of quest. Arc wandering through London streets. The professional vagrant, No doubt most of the pacifists, who were not arrant cowards, the thief, the thug and the gunman thrilled to the message though were honest. To them war seemed a monstrosity in this wonderful their souls were near dead with vice and sordidness. And the army modern world of moral uplift and scientific achievement. Confronted asked no hateful questions about creed or respectability or color or by the most stupendous war of all times they were intellectually control over the purchase, sale and distribution of many of the principal food products of the American nation. Although the railroads are under government control discriminations are sanctioned that recall the worst days of rebating. The Democratic administration, as we have pointed out on another occasion, has kept the public well informed about the plunderand cried out, Help! Help! ings by the beef trust. It has stood-bThieves ! but has done nothing to catch the bold pilferer. For years the plundering of the public by the packers was confined to meat and meat products, but the trust is expanding so that it will soon be dealing in nearly all the food staples. y ns THE over-preparedne- ss, |