Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-12-04
MOST FOLKS CAN HELP
Citizens Here Asked to Aid Industrial
Home in Nation Wide Old Linen
Campaign.

In making its usual winter appeal
to the folks In towns of this section
of the state, the Salvation Army In
dustrial Home in Toledo this year
asks the good people of Wauseon, in
addition to it's annual request for all
sorts of WORKOUT things no longer of
use to the owners, to lend their aid in
our nationwide "old linen campaign.
The purpose of this is the getting to-
gether of all old linens and muslins
that are suitable for the making of
hospital supplies such as bandages,
sings, pads, etc. In the field hospital
of the warning forces in war-torn
Europe, there is a dearth of these
simple things, and the lack of them,
as reported in the daily papers is
causing much suffering that would
be averted by them. The Salvation
Army has taken the lead in the move
ment to supply the needed articles.
1t has thousands of its members in all
of the fighting forces and the contri-
buttons will be spread over all the
armies. The linens are being cut and
sewn in strips of bandages in our ma
tional headquarters in New York,
whence they will be shipped across the
seas in steamers provided by the
French government.
In all homes lots of nearly worn
out things are thrown away when
they might be put to use by folks not
so well fixed and last them quite a
while. Many articles no longer use
full to the owners are really of use
Elsewhere. Our Industrial Home gets
it's working material and its income
from the handling of things past use
by others, that income making pos
sible it's labors in putting on their
feet again the down-and-out men who
come to it for succor. While located
in Toledo, its work is not merely local
in character. The men it braces up
and remakes as citizens come to it
from all over the country. So l feel
we are not getting outside u baili-
wick in asking you to>help. We do
not ask money.
In the Home rs men are maintained
all year round. They r given board
and bed and a small weekly wage.
They gather up and sort out rags and
old clothes, old papers, magazines and
books, etc. Rags and papers are sent
to paper mills. Old clothes of men or
women are fixed up where possible
and put on sale in the Home store,
where poor folks buy "for a song" or
less things they need and which they
would refuse as charity gifts.
Naturally it costs money to run the
Home; often the monthly income fails
to meet all the bills payable, but the
work goes on.
Workers in the Home are chang
ing all the time, the men who make
good going out to jobs secured for
them and their places being taken by
other needy ones. Most of the men
who live a short while under the in
fuence of the Home have made good
after they left and are keeping good.
Are there any cast-of things in at
tic or cellar of your home you will
give us? One day next week one OF
our men will be in Wauseon and
solicit most of the residents. He will
not take any cash contributions, but
will be grateful for small as well as
large donations of the worn-out ar
ticles suggested in this letter. If you
have the goods laid aside and bundled
when he calls, it will be a favor he will
appreciate. He will carry credentials.
l may add the Salvation Army In
dustrial Home, 81 Illinois street, To-
ledo, will pay the freight on any pack
ages. sent it in case it's solicitor miss
es seeing anyone who can and is will
ing to help. Visitors are welcome at
the Home and any further informa-
ton as to it or its methods will be
given with pleasure on application.
w. A, TURNER, Staff Capt. S. A.
Oficer-in-charge Industrial Dept.