TAIHAPE’S COLD SHOULDER.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1918, Page 4

TAIHAPE’S COLD SHOULDER.

There is no organisation more deserving of the generous support of all the people of Allied countries for the noble, humane work it has been unswervedly prosecuting almost from the day British troops landed in Franco, than that /of ' the ■ Salvation Army. First in the field with its huts and shelters; its Red Jerseys scouring no man’s land for.those who were unable to get back; risking their own lives that the lives of their; fighting brothers might be saved, members of the Salvation Army have continued a work that has brought forth highest enconium from generals, and plaudits from kings and presidents. The wornout, tired, or wounded soldier, no matter whether he hails from New Zealand or Nova Scotia, needs no money to get all his present needs supplied, or to secure a considerable amount of comfort in food and attention, at the Salvation Army Huts; in fact he is sought out from the dead and dying, Avhcre bullets and shells fall, by the men conspicuously clad in Rod Jerseys, and all that kindly and noble natures can furnish is lavishly given without money and without price. The war continues; fields of battle are extending; the millions of men are being added to, and the Red Jersey Army find their resources being taxed beyond their capacity. Jo overcome this the various Allied Governments gave their moral support to what is termed “A Red Jersey Day,” a day set apart for an appeal to /the people of all Allied countries for money to enable the succour and saving of our brave lads, to continue, that work the Salvation Army has so . generously and heroically carried on almost from the first British rifle being fired. The rest of New Zealand has done its share towards the Red Jersey Appeal but Taihape for some unaccountable reason has lagged behind. Meeting after meeting has been called yet nothing tangible seems to have eventuated. Now, however, the Old Identities of this district are urged to make their debut as a body in patriotic work; a social is being organised to bring them together, which is to bo held in the Town Hall on next Wednesday week. As the Red Jersey Brigade has not troubled Taihape hitherto, It is hoped that everyone will rally around the Old Identities, giving and assisting in a way for which Taihape people have become justly notorious. Soldiers from the front proclaim that the Red Jersey men are the last that a grateful people

should turn tho cold shoulder to.