El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-01

a crusade under the auspices of the
rescue department. She will accom-
pany Lieut. Col Mrs. BovilI to Detroit
early in March, where she will present
to the clubWOmen Of that city the
claims and merits Of the Salvation
army.
Her itinerary may also take her to
Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati and 9TH
er cities in the mideastern states.
Il want to show women who have
been deucately nurJured and have had
the benefit Of good homes and educa-
ton how effectively they can work for
the Upllft Of unfortunate members of
their sex by cooperating with the Sal
walton army continued Mrs. Brown.
This is not the work Of crank. 1t
is work along practical and construct
i've lines, and it is work in which any
woman ought to feel proud to engage"
Mrs. Brown said she attribdted the
success of the Salvation army in its
dealings with women largely to the
fact that the mother and child are
kept together.
an the 18th street home this policy
is adopted with the full and hearty ap-
proval OF the auXlnary,' she said. The
mother OF the child who has come into
the world in an irregular manner is
taught that she owes it double OBJ
legation She owes 1t first the debt OF
love, because she is its mother, ana
then she owes it a deeper devotion be-
cause through no fault of its own it
has reached the world, from the stand
point of society, in q tainted condition.
The officers there, under the direc-
ton Of brigadler Brown, try to i'm
press upon her the fact that by con-
Cealing the relation existing between
herself and her child she multlpIleS the
sorrows Of both. The results of Il IS
policy have been such as to make its
wisdom unQuesuOnable. It is a fallacy
to say that the mothers chances fer
reformation would be greater if sep
arated from the child. Our experience
. shows that the exact opposite is the
Holy Ties strengthened.
While a woman never fully forgets
the shame of her fall, as time goes by
and the holy ties which bind her to
her irregular offspring become stronger
a sense of security returns, and happl-
ness and peace follow. In other words,
the child becomes the redeemer of the
mother"
Mrs. Brown said not only does the
rescue department literally drag from
the cutters women who are apparently
beyond hope and restore them to de-
cency, responsibility and God, but It
does q vast amount of preventive work,
4 do not mean by this that women
who have never fallen are permitted to
mingIe freely in the home with women
depth of depraYity," said the speaker.
7 mean that many girls who have
taken their first step on the path 10
ruin are brought to the home and are
prevented from plunging farther into
the gulf 1t is wonderful the skill, the
tact and diplomacy that are used by
the devoted workers in the establish
ment. They never seem to tire Of their
Throw out the lifeline and never give
And yet you find there no maudlin
sympathy, no weak liberation OF will
full breaches of discipline. The basic
principle of the home is love. but it is
love intelligently directed and wisely
controlled. I have told scores of club
women in New York that they could 40
nothing better than ally themselves
with a movement of this character
Money Used for object Sent
MY friends and I looked into this
Phase OF the work before we agreed TO
become q part" said Mrs Brown. 1t
too often happens in large OrganiZa-
tons whose enterprises are manifold
that the contributor who wants to all
certain branches of it has his money
devoted to other branches mere his |
sympaJhleS are not so fully eul5sted
But this cannot possibly happen in |
the Salvation army. It's administrative /
any rate, are concerned, is the most ad- ]
mirable have ever examined.
If you send two cent stamp to ma /
tlonal headquarters and intimate that /
1t be given to Lieut. Col BOViu to pro- /
mote the work of rescuing fallen wOm-
en-, you may be absolutely sure that &,
1t will promptly reach her. When you ]
add to a good system love which is as /
near perfect as anything on this earth /
can be, you have an ideal condition /
Mrs. Brown said she liked the Saliva /
ton army's policy of requiring that all |
should work
"IdIeness and reform cannot go to-
gether," she said ITO be lazy is to be .
sinful, and I am glad that this is one Of
the paramount doctrines Of the Saliva
ton army. 1t is its policy to require /
that all their beneficiaries work while /
and when able to do so. In this way
they inculcate self respect and keep |
the tempter at a distance.
when every girl is taught to work 1
our streets will not be so infested !
with women who are trying to trap
men as they were trapped by men. Of I
course, the rescue home is doing more |
work among those who are victims or
false love than those who are selling /
themselves for gold
Ell PasO women are working 10 es-
tablish one of these homes in this city.
They have six lots, already paid for,
and $4,000 cash on hand They need /
about $500 more.
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