Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — Page 3
THE EVENING BEFUBLWAN.
WILSON ENDORSES SALVATION ARMY.
■ President Wilson, burdened B as he is, found time to cable B his endorsement of the Salva- • a tion Army Home Service Fund B Campaign, which will be con- ■ ducted during the week of a May 19-20. The cablegram : a Commander Mias E. Booth, ■ Personal, Salvation Army, B 120 West Fourteenth street, B New York: B I am very muoii Interested B to know that the Salvation B Army is about to enter into a B campaign for a sustaining B fund. I feel that the SalvaB tion Army needs no commenB dation from me. The love B and gratitude it has elicited B from the troops la a sufficient B evidence of the work it has B done, and I feel that I should B not so much commend it as to B congratulate it. Cordially and B sincerely yours, B WOODROW WILSON.
“OUT OF LOVE” CLUB UNIQUE ORGANIZATION
Members Are Girls Rescued b) Salvation Army. . The “Out of Love” Club is one oi the important club organizations main tained by the Salvation Army, in this country. In every - large city whert there is a Salvation Army corps girls who have been helped back into ths normal pace of a workaday world art proud of the membership in this club Disappointed, loveless girls who do not forget kindnesses shown them In theii hour of greatest need give out of lovt to help other girls receive the same friendliness. In a simple, quiet way this unique idea has been maintained for over 20 years. In every large city in the countrj there are girls who have needed th< ministrations of the Salvation Army After they have been helped and seir on their way again they become lift members of this club if they so desire Only girls are admitted who have giver a good account of themselves for al least one month in the positions fount for them by the Salvation Army aftei their from a hospital or home These girls pledge themselves to keej alive the spirit of friendliness and home which the Salvation Army hat spread among them. The girls are expected to dress in a plain, simple way, and avoid in any sense of/ the word gaudy or tawdry clothing. Gossiping or tale bearing is tabooed If members of the club transgress this rule they are Hable to suspension for a month or longer. The "Out of Love Club" is one of the many activities that will benefit by the success of the Salvation Army House Service Fund Campaign for $13,000,000 May 19-20.
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She Followed the Line We Sent Over the Rhine
The familiar figure in blue uniform and poke bonnet Is back home to serve, after four years in khaki with the boys “Over There." Salvation Army lassies served old fashioned American doughnuts in the front line trenches, and now that the war is over they will be found agairi In the slums and dark places of our great cities, ready to give a helping hand to men, women and children who are on the down grade. The Salvation Army Hom* Service Campaign for 513.000.000 opens May 18. to last one week. v
MISS BOOTH, IN RAGS, AIDED LONDON POOR
Salvation Army Commander, Disguised, Roamed Through Slums to Study Intimate Problems of East End Unfortunates. Miss Evangeline Booth, daughter of the late General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, has given her life to the service of the poor and the unfortunate. Few persons, if any, know she went about in
Evangeline Booth, Commander of the Salvation Army in the United States.
the East End of London disguised in rags that she might help the unfortunate. When her father stood erect amid *a storm of abuse and even physical violence she stood beside him. She knows how , th^ poor suffer because she has suffered with them. She knows there still remains in the wreck of a dissolute man a spark of manhood that will kindle a redeeming flame, because she has fanned many flickering sparks until her patient has regained his feet She now heads the Salvation Army in the United States at the great moment of its career. The old time slurs and doubts have been banished. During the week of May 19-26 the Salvation Army will appeal to the people of the United States for thirteen million dollars to carry out Its after-the-war program. Contribute to the Salvation Army Home Service Fund Campaign. Remember, to the Salvation Army “A Man May Be Down, but He’s Never Out”
THE $13,000,000 SALVATION ARMY POSTER
“A man may be down, but he’s never out,” the Salvation Army slogan, furnished the theme for the official Home Service Fund Campaign poster designed by Frederick Duncan, the noted artist. From this lie has evolved a striking artistic creation,’typifying the hand'of the Salvation Army reaching out to rescue those who are enshrouded in the clouds of poverty and vice. A Salvation Army lass is the principal figure, and the scarlet lining of her cloak, thrown back as she enfolds those who are calling out to her in distress, furnishes the poster with its one spot of brilliant color. The background is of •blacks, grays and greens, indicative of the stonu clouds of misery and want.
SALVATION ARMY NEEDS
Annual Budget Shows Reasons for $13,000,000 Drive. Vast Activities Conducted by 1,000 Corps In United States— Future Plans. New York.—(Special)— The annual budget of the Salvation Army, containing a detailed and comprehensive statement of the cost of maintaining its varied activities throughout the United States, has been issued from National Headquarters, 122 West Fourteenth street. The statistics show why it is necessary for the Salvation Army to go before the American people In the week of May 19 to 26 and ask them to contribute $13,000,000 to Its Home Service Fund. There are 939 corps and outposts of the Salvation Army in the United States. The cost of maintaining these is $2,685,000. The maximum income which these corps may expect from collections in meetings, contributions of members and other outside contributions is $715,000, making the net total* cost of supporting the corps sl,970,000. The cost of maintaining divisional and, provincial headquarters, which supervise the work of the local corps, will be, according to the budget, $580,000. Besides the work of supervising the local headquarters, the provincial and divisional headquarters are in charge of several of the Salvation Army’s largest activities, including the operation of fresh air camps for children, relief and employment bureaus and the provincial bands. Under the heading of “natibnal and territorial obligations” the Salvation Army includes the expenses of maintaining what are among its best known Institutions, those which may be grouped under the general name of “social work.” For this purpose the' Army wants $1,270,000. The pension fund budget is $400,000. The Salvation Army has determined on the erection of many new buildings for social work in the future. The building program will require expenditures of $1,875,000. The remainder of the amount sought for the Home Service Fund is for corps, divisional and provincial buildings and a small contingent fund. Details of the Salvation Army’s activities in the United States for the last year show how remarkable is the scope of the Army’s endeavors and what vast numbers of people it serves. For instance, the Army maintains sev-enty-five hotels for men and women. Last year 1,650,528 persons found sleeping accommodations in these. Beds were supplied for 127,889 children in the Army’s four children’s homes in the same period, while 48,519 children were sheltered in the slum nurseries. In the industrial homes beds were supplied for 1,742,815. In the rescue homes and maternity hospitals 1,899 girls iwent under thf care of the Army laat year. - The Army hgs 2.918 officers and cadets in the United/States. Last year jhey preached te over 24,000,000 per-' •OATS. ... v.
RENSSELAER, INDIANA,
EVANGELINE BOOTH TELLS HOME SERVICE FUND’S NEEDS.
Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, explaining the puimose of the campaign for which will be conducted from May 19 to May 26 for the Salvation Army Home Service Fund, said: “The Salvation Army has been tolling on the upward trend for more than half a century, doing just what It did in France, all In the same spirit and manner, but you did not happen to hear of it, perhaps. “The war depleted our forces and our finances at home. There must be not only a rehabilitation now, but we must rise to the new high-tide mark and equip ourselves to maintain here in the United States the contracts we were privileged to make on both sides of the sea because of the war.”
The Salvation Army Home Service Fund campaign for $18,000,000 will be conducted during the week of May 1926. Its success will enable the Salvation Army to practically double its efforts among the poor. The Salvation Army returns from the trenches of France to take up its half century old battle In the trenches of poverty in the United States. Remember the Salvation Army Home Service Fund campaign for $13,000,000 May 19-26.
LLOYD GEORGE PRAISES “ARMY.”
★ Evangeline Booth, Commander A A> of the Salvation Army in the A ★ United States, received the fol- A ★ lowing letter from David Lloyd A ★ George: * ★ "British Delegation, A A “Paris, April 8, 1919. A ★ “Dear Madam—l have very A A great pleasure In sending you A A this letter to say how highly I A A think of the great work which A A has been done by the Salvation A A Army amongst the Allied Armies A A In France and the other theaters A A of war. From all sides I hear A A the most glowing accounts of the A A way in which your people have A A added to the comfort and wel- A A fare of our soldiers. To me it A A has always been a great joy to A A think how, much the sufferings AA and hardships endured by our A A troops In all parts of the world A A have been lessened by the self- A A sacrifice and devotion shown to A A them by that excellent organiza- A A tion, the Salvation Army. Yours A A faithfully, A A “DAVID LLOYD GEORGE. A A “Commander Evangeline Booth. A A New York City.” A A The Salvation Army Home A A Service Fund Campaign for sl3,- A A Odb.OOO will be conducted during A A the week of May 19-26. A ★ ■ ; . A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The Salvation Army’s slogan is “A man may be down, but he’s never out 1” The “Army" will ask for $13,000,000 during the iyeek of May 19-26. Your contribution will help- prove the truth of the slogan. . > ■ < The success of the Salvation Army Home Service Fund campaign for $13,000,000— May 19-26—means less pov erty and less crime in the United States. J
SALVATION ARMY VALIANT IN WAR
Having Served Gloriously in the Trenches, Is Coming Back From Overseas for Peace Time Activities. ASKS HOME SERVICE FUND. National Campaign to Replenish Resources Depleted by Long and Direct Contact Services With Our Boys Scheduled for May 19-26. New York (Special).—Like the 2,000,000 American boys whom It served so gloriously in the trenches of France, the Salvation Army is coining back from overseas, ready to put aside its khaki uniform of war service, don again the “Civvies” and embark once more on its normal peace time activities. And, Just like those doughboys, the Salvation Army has come out of the war victorious and with citations for bravery, decorations for gallantry under fire and golden chevrons indicative of honorably won wounds on its arm. The victory which the Salvation Army has won is a .victory over the obstacles that lay before it in its purpose of efficient service of the fighters of Pershing’s army. Its citations are the thanks, cheers and prayers of 2,000,000 doughboys. Its wound stripes are rightfully golden of hue, for they typify the unselfish way in which the Army threw all its resources —financial, spiritual and moral—into the effort to help the American soldiers in France. . Now the Army is asking the people of America to give it concrete evidence of the gratitude which has been so loudly, and so willingly expressed. From May 19 to 26 the Salvation Army will conduct in the United States a campaign to raise $13,000,000 for its Home Service Fund. The money is needed both to recoup the fortunes of the Army, shattered by its long service of the soldier and to permit it to carry on the work it has always done on the larger scale which the public now demands. Raising the money by this means, the Salvation Army explains, will eliminate, perhaps permanently, the necessity for the ceaseless solicitation of funds which has been a bugbear to the Army and the public alike, ft will permit the workers of the Army, who, forced to devote more than half i their time to gathering money, were in consequence only half efficient in their evangelistic and social service work, to devote all their time in future to the duties for which they have been trained.
That Salvation Army Smile
Several thousand veterans of the Argonne Forest recently entered New Fork harbor. Among them were several badly woundedi Marines. One man. easily distinguished because of a coat sleeve’ that dangled empty at his side and a Croix de Guerre, was making his way slowly to the waiting ambulance when a Salvation Army girl approached him and offered doughnuts and coffee “Now I know I am home,” he said. “Those doughnuts helped a whole 10l ‘over there,’ and, flrat crack out of the box when we land, we find more wait ing for us. ' The best thing about the Salvation Army work out near the frou' line was the smile that accompanied the gift. Those girls had a knack ol wrapping up every doughnut and every cup of coffee in a smile. The doughnuts were fine, but the smile —-that took the place of powdered sugar.” Th* Salvation Army Home Service Fund Campaign for $13,000,000 opens May 19 to last one week. * , '
JUDGE WAS ON RIGHT, TRACK
New Englander a Pioneer in Scheme 1 of Conserving Water for* Use in Summer Months, i Present-day Interest In the development of. water power has recalled a modest, old-fashioned episode In the history of New England when, some time in the forties. Judge Nathan Crosby drove round Lake Wlnnepesaukfee in his carriage and made rough calculations of the effect upon local agricultural land if the lake level were raised a. few Out of that
The amount of the fund has been determined exactly and logically by means-«ff budgets prepared locally by workers of the Salvation Army in all parts of the United States. Already headquarters sos the campaign have been established In New York City’. A ready response tn encouragement and cheering wishes for success has been heard from all parts of the country, Men and women prominent In all walks- of life have volunteered their services as active participants In the drive. The Army’s 2,000,000 loyal rooters —the boys who went overseas in khaki —are all lined up ready to help. The Army not only helped them over there, but it found Jobs for many of them after they had been mustered out of service, helped them -get the cl vtll ftn clothing that was necessary if they wanted to take those Jobs, fed many of them, gave them shelter and furnished them with transportation to their homes. For the war service of the Salvation Army is still under way. Its workers are still, many of them, In France, and Its huts, clubhouses and hotels for the reception of the boys returning from abroad are In full swing here. Neither, the Salvation Army asserts, will its war work be abandoned until the last boy is out of the khaki of the army or the blue of. the navy. The larger activities which necessitated the coming campaign* will exist and be financed independently of the service of the fighters from abroad.
CARDINAL GIBBONS ENDORSES S. A. DRIVE
Venerable Churchman Exoresses Hope That $13,000,000 Will Be Raised. The following letter was addressed t,o former Governor Whitman of New York state.by Cardinal Gibbons: “Honorable and Dear Sir —I have been asked by the local Commander of the Salvation Army to address a word to you as National Chairman of the Campaign about to be launched in behalf of the above named organization. This I am happy to do, and for the reason that along with my fellow American citizens I rejoice in, the splendid service which the Salvation Army rendered our soldier and sailor boys during the war. Every returning trooper is a willing witness to the efficient and generous work of the Salvation Army both at the front and in the camps at home. I am also the more happy to commend this Organization because it is free from sectarian bias. The man in need of help is the object of their effort, with never a question of his creed or color. “I trust, therefore, your efforts to raise $13,000,000 for the Salvation Army will meet with a hearty response from our generous public. Faithfully yours,
“J. CARD. GIBBONS.”
‘‘hie grew a plan by which Lakes Winnepesaukee, oquatn, Newfound and others have since been used .as storage basins, conserving water for the summer months, and thus becoming modest pioneers of the more impressive plants for water utilization that will doubtless be a feature of the United States in the not distant future. Judge Crosby, however, may have had no more idea Of the transmlssion,of water power in the form pf electricity than his buggy had of becoming an automobile.—Christian Science ■■