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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Worldly Goods. One fact not generally understood is that the Salvation Army, sometimes called the church of the unchurched, is just as definitely a religious body as, for example, the Methodist Church, from which it is a sturdy sprout. Its soldiers are its parishioners-generally people with regular jobs...
Officers are selected from the ranks of the soldiers and are trained for nine months at one of the army's four schools. They must be high-school graduates. Courses are short on arts but long on fundamentalism, homiletics and crowd psychology. One of their textbooks is the army...
Cadets spend time learning to play trombones, trumpets, accordions, euphoniums, graduate with the rank of probationary lieutenant. After a year of correspondence study and strict probation, they are commissioned as second lieutenants with the legal standing of ordained ministers. From there they advance through the field ranks: first lieutenant, captain...
Officers' pay ranges from $10 a week to the "about $70" a week paid to Commissioner Pugmire. The Salvationist owns few worldly goods, no home, no furniture. What he needs, beyond food and clothes, is provided for him. He is ready to pick up in an instant and fly...
Cold Soil. Commissioner Pugmire's plain, earnest, large-jawed face is that of a veteran campaigner. He has been dedicated to the cause for almost half a century. A third-generation Salvationist, he and his forbears-bridge army history from its founding to its present day.