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10,000 Join in!
High Tribute to!
Salvation Armv!
Great Crowd in Madison j
Square Garden to Start
Campaign Includes Cath?
olics, Protestants, Jews
Government Represented
Vice - ?President Marshall
Speaks for Country, Gen.
Vaiiderbilt for Soldiers
* Among: the 10,000 men and women
who went to Madison Squar?e Garden
yesterday afternoon to participate in
the opening mass meeting of the Salva?
tion Army drive for 813,000.000 were
many whose recollection took them
hack a generation to the day when
ridiculo and persecution were the por?
tion of these evangels of the slums.
They could recall a time when conven?
tional religion held its nose high in
the air r.t the eight of these lowly
ministers.
Yesterday they heard a prelate of the
Roman Catholic Church invoke God's
blessing on their undertaking, a
Methodist bishop exhort the commu?
nity to rally to their cause, a Jewish
rabbi bestow his benediction on their
labors.
They could picture an age when the
whole weight of officialdom and the
law was utilized to suppress "fanati?
cism;" yesterday they listened to
praise of the Salvation Army from thre
lips of the Yice-Presii?ent of tho
United States, an ex-Governor of New
York and a Brigadier General of the
American overseas forces, whiie the
blue-coated hand of New York City's
Police Department played the accom?
paniment to Salvation Army hymns.
23 Years Ago and Now
Time's flight had not altogether ob?
literated mental images of mobs in the
'FOs and early '90s asaulting Salvation?
ists with cobble-stones and decayed
vegetables; to-day these pioneers of
the movement see the city and the na?
tion responding to their call for as?
sistance' without one voice in opposi?
tion.
On the steps of the United States
Sub-Treasury, Wall and Nassau
Streets, a; noon to-day, Evangeline
Booth, commander of the Salvation
Army in America, will formally open
the drive. Miss Booth, a speaker of
?are force, was unable to address the
Madison Square Garden meeting yes?
terday because of an affection of the
throat, but her physicians expect she
will be able to take part in the re?
mainder of the campaign.
Salvation Army lassies and society
girls of New York, garbed in the
familiar bonnets of the army, will ap?
pear early this morning on street cor?
ners, in railroad terminals, hotel lob?
bies, theatre foyers, at subway kiosks
, and other places, soliciting contribu?
tions from the passcrsby. Vaudeville
entertainment will bo provided at var?
ious points.' The famous Mclntyro
Sisters will appear on the Public Lib?
rary steps at noon. With Commander
Booth at the Sub-Treasury will be
Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and a corps
of debutantes, who will fry doughnuts
and sell them at a dollar a piece.
Vanderbilt and Whitman
Brigadier General Cornelias Vander?
bilt, who heads the greater New York
drive committee, called tho Madison
Square Garden mass meeting to order
yesterday. Former Governor Charles
S. Whitman, national chairman of the
drive, presided.
Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, vicar
general of the archdiocese of Ne\n
York, gave the invocation. It was one
of the first, if not the first, occasion
upon whiqh a Roman Catholio priest
has led in prayer an assemblage held
under the auspices of a non-Catholi(
religious organization. He closed his
invocation by leading the audience ir
the Lord's prayer.
The speakers were Vice-Pr?sident
Marshall, Bishop Luther B. Wilson
Mr. Whitman and General Vanderbilt
' Commander Booth's address was rea<
by Colonel Mile^ of the Salvatioi
Army Training School. ?Rabbi Henn
Pereira Mondes pronounced the bene
diction. Mme. Sundelius, of th? Metro
politan Opera Company, sang severa
selections. There was also voca
music by the People's Liberty Chorus
under direction of L. Camilieri.
Tribute From Soldier
GeneYal Vanderbilt paid a heart;
; tribute to the Salvation Army's eer
I vices in France.
"We never saw them except whei
?ilve needed them most," he said. "Whei
j a town was taken in an advance, a
soon as the snipers had been moppe
up, the Salvation Army was there,
cannot tell you where they came fror
or how they got there, but they wer
there. And I can tell you that if you ha
been thero you would come back wit
a feeling of gratitude in yo>.;r heart
toward that wonderful organlzatlon
that army within the army.
"When the call came to war ther
was no lack of preparedness on th
part of this army," said ex~Governo
Whitman. "This army was read;
?.?quipped, trained and prepared. An
while we in no way reflect upon th
magnificent and unselfish labors an
; successful work of the other organ
1 zations engaged in war welfare a<
tivities, this comparatively small ban
? of devoted men and devoted women nu
! rejoice in the fact that the returnin
| yoldiers of the flag are giving to-ds
? unstinted praise for the services s
! abundantly and so unwaveringly re?
| dered our soldiers and our army, tr
; armies of our Allies and the armies i
| the right by these soldiers of tt
cross. -
"The Salvation Army is a very real
army, and it deals with very real
things. Poverty and want are real, des?
titution and misery, sickness and '
death aro real, cold Is real, hunger is i
real, and this army during the past |
years has been dealing with these real j
tilings and helping to make life a little I
easier for those who are not able, some?
times not willing, perhaps, to help
themselves."
Vice-President Marshall said in part:
"Generals did their duty in the war.
They stayed back where they could ?
diret the flight, but it was the en j
thusiasm of the Salvation Army lassie l
which led her to the front trenches and !
gave her the loyalty, the courage and j
the devotion to meet the boys, as they j
came out of the trenches with dough- .
nuts and hot coffee.
"I would not, if I could, take a single i
leaf from the laurel of renown which j
graces the brow of every great general j
in this war who did his duty, but I i
would, if I could, have all the world '
bow in love and adoration at the feet
of- those enthusiastic girls who for
God, humanity and democracy dared
all, sacrificed all and suffered all.
No Worthier Banner
"A disenthralled world glories in ;
the success of the armies of democ?
racy. A right thinking world breathes ;
blessings forever upon the American j
Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights
of Columbus and the Jewish Welfare
Board, but whether Jew or Greek, !
bondman or free, in all the armies of |
the Allied cause I have thus far to find
a man who does not warm with en- j
thusiasm at the mention of the valor, 1
the devotion and Christian consecra- .
tion of the Salvation Army.
"There is no banner in all tho world ?
worthier to float in the consecrated
air of service and sacrifice beside the
American banner than the banner of ;
the Salvation Army."
Bishop Wilson said, in part: "The
Salvation Army gave not only bread,
but they gave also God in that un?
ostentatious fashion that has char?
acterized 30 finely nil tho doings of
thl3 army. The men who aro coming
back will be singing the praises of
tho lassies over there, and I think that
the men, many of them who are not
coming back, will, by tho light that
this army gave and by the guidance of
its word and the faithful life, be yon?
der in the house of many mansions
remembering to-day the ministries
thoy received in fateful hours from
the hands of these loving, gentle and
humble disciples of our Lord
Seek Chance for More Service
"It is a great thing, coming here this
afternoon, to know what they desire to
have done. It is as though an army
coming back with banners that had
been riddled but that had never been
trailed in the dust, were asking aught
of those for whom they had gone and
for whom they had made the supreme
sacrifice, and when the question was
put as to tho fashion of tho high re?
ward the response was this only: 'A
stronger sword for another great fight;
that is all wo ask.' "
Commander Booth's address, rend by
Colonel Miles after Miss Booth had
stood up on the platform and received
an ovation, was largely an outline of
what the Salvation Army has done in
tho United States and what it hopes to
accomplish when its officers are re?
lieved from the necessity of continu?
ally seeking funds to carry on their
work. She told among other things of
the Salvation Army's first nursery.
"It consisted," she said, "of six
orange boxes with pillows in them,
Last year we loved and fed and clothed
and sheltered and washed and prayed
over 40,000 children otv the slums."
.wi mi maw iiMiiir ? ii ni ii n ni n i ii ?i iinrii r~n i-rcnisrs-cjT!
Dr. Mott Back;
Says T' Needs
??
More Money
Greater Necessity of Work
With A. E. F. Now Than
During Fighting, He Says
After Tour of Inspection
Pershing Praises Work
Head of Organization Says
He Took Abroad Every
Complaint To Be Probed
Dr. John R. Mott. head of the Y M. !
C A., who went abroad three months !
ago on business of the organization and !
to set afoot an investigation of an ac- ;
cumulation of complaints against the
"Y," returned yesterday on the Holland
American liner Noordam, which also
brought troops from the A. E. P.
Dr. Mott had a talk with General i
Pershing, who praised the world of the !
"Y.." and after a careful survey of the
tasks ahead of the organization in
France, he said it might be necessary to
call upon the American people for fur?
ther financial assistance.
"I was greatly impressed with the
magnitude of the work," Dr. Mott said.
"The fact that our boys are returning to
this country in great numbers has cre?
ated a need for three times as many
'Y.' workers as were in service when I
went abroad a year ago, when the
Americans were in action. ^Vo have
?service in 2,770 places in France, and
to maintain it we employ about ?3,000
secretaries, of whom nearly half aro
women. Our dry canteens have been
taken over by the army, but the wet
canteens, where chocolate, coffee and
other drinks are served, are still under
our operation in charge of women
workers.
Religion and Sports
'?The programme of our religious
work is four times greater than it was
during the war. Great attention, also,
1 is now being given to sports.
"One of the unfortunate circum?
stances attending our work is that there
are hundreds of small detachments of
; soldiers we are unable to reach, and for
whom nothing in particular is being
done. From what I have seen I am con?
vinced that all organizations engaged in
war relief in France should enlarge
their activities, rather than curtail
them. It is likely that the money given
us in the big drive of last fall may not
! be sufficient to carry on our increasing
! work, and I would not be surprised if
S we should call again upon the gener?
osity of the American people. I believe
they -want the work to go on. even if
we have to make another call for
money."
Quoting General Pershing, Dr. Mott
said: "The thing that has impressed
me day after day in the work of the
'Y' is the courage and initiative to
undertake great things. The most
wonderful thing of the war is that
2,000,000 American boys -will go home
and with pride call to the attention of
their children and grandchildren the
fact that they belonged to an army
that kept itself clean. Never in the
history of the world has there been
anything to compare with the whole
someness of the American army in
France."
Dr. Mott said he took abroad a large
number of letters that had to do with
specific complaint?, against the "Y*
in France.
"I took over with me every com?
plaint that was made against the or?
ganization," he said, "and every one
of them is undergoing careful exam?
ination. The smallest and apparently
most trivial complaint is receiving the
same careful investigation as the
larger things. The number of things
concerning which there is great cause
for complaint is small in contrast, with
the enormous volume of constructive
patriotic service that is being ren?
dered. The big work of our organiza?
tion meets with sincere appreciation
and little or no criticism."
Marine Wins Medal
Runs Up High Score in A. E. F.
Shooting Contest
LE MANS, May 18.- The Marine
Corps and the state of Texas divided
first honors with the automatic rifle
in the closing event Friday of the
American Expeditionary Force compe
! titions at the d'Avours range. Private
? Fred Kramer, 6th Marines, of Rcmsen,
Iowa, added another first to the ma
? ri?es' string of laurels by winning the
j gold medal in the individual competi
! tion with a score of 403. The 36th
j Division team, from the Lone Star
i state, took the divisional championship.
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