Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1920 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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relics of humanity are put to work rejuvenating broken down household good*—chairs, tables, beds, benches — and shoes and other wearing apparel. It Is a 50-50 proposition, for the down-and-outers are reviving their faith in themselves and in God at the same time they are repairing the furniture and other articles. They get back, too, their courage. The Salvationists tonic them up with honest epcouragement and sympathy. They go back into industry, valuable to themselves and to the nation. What becomes of the remade furniture? Families in distress obtain It at the Salvation Army relief department. Because the relief work dovetails with the Industrial departtnent the Salvation Army is able to supply Improvident families with household goods at absurdly "low prices or without any charge at all, according to the circumstances.

Ut.ru । No; the Salvation Army has not gone into the wholesale grocery business. The picture shows merely one of the Army’s relief stations. It is just like scores of others scattered through the cities and towns of me country at strategic points where quick relief can be given in emergency cases. Not limited in their stock to groceries only, these Salvation Army relief depots carry clothing, underwear and other necessaries for men, women and Children. It is the aim to have at hand for immediate distribution food and clothing for any kind of a case of need. More than 700,000 destitute persons were served temporary relief from these stations last year. And Salvation Army relief dovetails. It Is systematic as well as sensible. The industrial department gears neatly with the relief department. In "the Industrial homes the broken down

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MARQUIS SHIGENOBU OKUMA, famous Elder Statesman of Japan, was one of the distinguished guests of the Salvation Army at the recent dedication of the Salvationists’ new headquarters in Toyko. The Marquis appears at the extreme left above. Next him are Commissioner and Mrz. Johannes de Groot, in charge of the wosk in all of-Japan, one of the sixtythree countries and colonies in which the Army is laboring. “The reason I always wllMngly render any service I can to the Salvation Army,” stated the Marquis in the course of his address, “Is because the organization does not sit dovfn and content itself with past achievements, but continues to keep up a strenuous fight for further advancement in the future.”

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Photo by Paul Parker, N. T. *raK Doughnut Girl of wartime has doffed her khaki and donned the fOfamiliar blue. Today she is serving justasvallantly as ever as The Tambourine Girl of the dty slums, the aagei of the guardian of the poor. Instead of the doughboy, distressed, the sick and the unfortunate know her now and call-be Oh, boy, she’s still the <^rl— in peace as well as in war]