Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — HOME SERVICE FUND AIDS PRISONERS’ WIVES [ARTICLE]

HOME SERVICE FUND AIDS PRISONERS’ WIVES

Comforts for Families of Men In Re- , formatory Named In 1920 Salvation Army Budget. Part of the $10,000,000 Salvation Anny home service fund which friends of the work of the Army are planning to rt-ice in u nation-wide appeal May 10 to 20, goes to provide comfort for those to whom justice demands that society should lend a helping hand —the wives and children of prisoners of the state institutions. Last Christmas the Army made survey of men in the state reformatory at Jeffersonville and finding that 135 men had wives and children, prepared immediately to send Christmas cheer to the prisoners’ families. A basket of goodies and gifts was mailed out from state headquarters to as many of the 135 as could be reached in this way, and the rest were sent checks covering the amount that had been spent in equipping the baskets. Letters of thankfulness poured in to Brigadier Simonson commander In charge of state headquarters, from the unfortunate wives of the men confined In the reformatory. In several cases the Salvation Army basket was the only bit of cheer that entered the homes on Christmas day. "Names of every family helped In this way last year have been kept on file in the state headquarters office, and efforts are made from time to time to discover if further help Is needed, and when the need Is there, the Army satisfies it,” stated th® Brigadier.