An Unpleasant Task by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1906

An Unpleasant Task.

By Editor

A field of labor it would seem to us no one would wish to engage in, much less a woman, is that of hunting up deserters from the army and navy; and yet that is what one young woman by the name of Edith King is doing, hunting up and arresting deserters from the army and navy of the United States. It is said that she has returned a little over 1,200 men, traveling extensively under many disguises. There are deserters and deserters. Many young men are induced to join the navy and army through over-persuasion, when so young that they have no purpose in life formed. It would seem as tho there ought to be some sympathy for them if they break away and turn to the ordinary pursuits of life and the home circle, especially in time of peace. Surely any one adopting work of that kind has a thankless task before her, and must do it for the one purpose, for what can be made out of it, a purely mercenary business in souls.