The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-16
EFFICACY OF CAMP
woNDERFUL WORK BEING DONE .BY SALVATION ARMY CAMP.
Few fn its Sixth week, with success- fuI Course All The Timey
 Grateful Are Bene-

Inaugurated for the relief and heal ing of destitute and work worn mothers anl children. Camp Ozone. the Salvation Army Fresh Air Camp. is nobly serving its purpose.
 This is the sixth week of the insti- tuition. and the good that has been wrought Is apparent on every hand Hundreds of sickly mothers and feeble children have been quartered at Camp Ozone since its opening day. and could one hear the oral testimonials, and behold the work of restoration that has been wrought 2 in many, there would be no hesitancy In declaring it a high expression of charitable en- deavor.
 Old women pale and palsied. burden ed with the weight of years and the hand of affliction, and tottering on the verge of the tofnb--numbers of them have enjoyed. and been benefited by an outing, in this--the Sanitorium of Nature. The roses have been made to spring to life again in the pallid cheek of pinched and poverty stricken chilihood and laughter restored to little lips. and joy to little lives from whence it had been swept by the cruel bosom of diversity.
 Old veterans of the gray, members of the s'Old Guard" of the South; these men whose names:-
 Are writ
 Where stars are lit,
 On Fame's Imperial sheet.
 Who, for the cause of the South- land faced the iron and leaden tempest for four long and hloody years. have found this delightful retreat-there under the beautiful trees. and beneath the smiling skies of'their own Alabama, smiling skies of their own Alabama, whose name they bore on their shin ing shields as in the days gone by. they battied for civil liberty and con- the Iron Cross of the South have found camp oxone a most pleasing place. and q gracious resort-where their bur dens have been frightened and their lives brightened, while they have en- joyeJ the cooling shadows and had their every want looked after by those in charge of the institution.
 As is almost invariably the case, an undertaking of this character. requires more to operate it than is calculated on--and Camp ozone has been no excepfion to this proposition.
 The expenses of the Camp have been exceedingly heavy, and Captain Odom is now engaged in making last ap- peal to the people to come to his rescue, and help the institution on the home stretch--in order that This mefci- -~~- end at the high tide of it's usefulness but be permitted to round out it's. course until the summer shall have been banished by the bracing breath of Autumn.
 There has been nothing to mar the pleaaant life of the Camp since the day of its opening; while the weather has been blazing hot. still there has been nothing in the nature Of storms. excessive rains. or anything of>that character to interfere. with the com fort and pleasure of the Campers.
 The War Cry, the leading Salvation Army Journal which is published in New York City, will in a very short time get out Camp Ozone" edition. which will contain handsome pictures of the camp as frontispiece. with a lengthy and magnificent review of the work from its inception
 The Jeffefsonian. Tom Watson's Magazine. will have handsome cuts of Camp Ozone. and a long sketch of the Salvation Army Fresh Air Service for the poor in Montgomery. This will be in the September number.
 Captain Odom Is constantly receiving communications. from philanthropists and those interested in charitable work generally calling on him toi descriptions of the work in its every phase.
 The people of Montgomery. and other sections who have responded to the appeals for this service. are being convinced that what they contributed was by no means in vain.
 In three more weeks the camp will be thing of the past, and will live long in the memory of the poor. and take its place in the charity annals of the Southland as the most whole some work of It's kind ever consum- matad in this section.