Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-17
SOLDIERS WILL AID
SALVATION ARMY
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firms had been written to organize
their individual canvasses; the plan
was discussed for staging huge
athletic carnival at Chestnut street
to-day one week, and the gallant
volunteer soldiers were lined up in
squads for making their tours. An
appeal was made to-day to all re-
turned soldiers to join the canvassers
committees. Those who want to
help were asked to report tonight
at 219 Market street at o'clock.
Reports show that every fraternal
and civic organization in the terri
tory is in to help. The Elks gave
! things a big impetus by handing
over $500 collected at a recent in
formal meeting addressed by Rabbi
Haas. The Elks are lending most
! substantial aid all over the country.
The local order of Moose tripped
along with a $50 check and offered
the services of their fine band for any
! time called upon.
The Doughnut Sellers
Those who will sell doughnuts for
the benefit of the Salvation Army
are: Mrs. Edward J. Stackpole, Jr.,
chairman; Mrs. Ross Hickok, Mrs,
Henderson Gilbert, Miss Emily
Bailey, Mrs. John c. Herman, Mrs.
Hoffer Detweiler, Mrs. Thomas Gra-
ham, Mrs. Robert McCreath, Mrs.
Henry NJ. Gross, Miss Almeda Her
man, Miss Mary Creighton. Miss
Maude Stamm. Miss Katherine
Stamm, Miss Ruth Payne, Miss Eliza
beth Knisely, Miss Mildred Astrich,
Mrs. Howard Bingaman, Miss Mar
ian Hean, Miss Katherine Simonetti,
Miss Adeline Paul, Miss Marian
| Conden, Mrs. William c. Wan
baugh, Miss Mary Koons, Miss
Eleanor CopeIin. Miss Jeanette Clas-
| ter, Miss Honora Rosenthal, Miss
Rita Buxbaum, Miss Katherine
/ Bailey.
Mrs. Stanley Adler, Miss Anna
Bacon, Miss Helen Marshall. Miss
Mary Meyers. Miss Sarah Denehey
Miss Dora Coe, Miss Martha Fletch-
er, Miss Katherine Hart, Miss Mary
I1iester. Miss Matilda Hester, Mrs
Philip Meredith, Mrs. Henry Bent
Mrs. Arthur Kunkel, Miss Caroline
! Lynch. Miss Constance Ferriday
Mrs. Lesley McCreath, Mrs. Farley
Gannett. Miss Anna Henderson
Miss Helen Bennethum, Miss Clarissa
/ Claster, Miss Romaine Boyer.
Roosevclt's Opinion
The attention of the executive
committee was called to the fact
that that great American, Theodore
Roosevelt, among the last things he
wrote gave message as follows con-
corning this humane activity. Said
he:
mo history of the nineteenth CEN
tury, and probably no history of the
twentieth century, will be complete
that does not deal with the work of
the Salvation Army. For many years
the general attitude of cultivated
people towards this work was one
either of contemptuous indifference
or of jeering derision. At last it
has won it's way to recognition, and
there are few serious thinkers now
adays who do not recognize in the
Salvation Army an invaluable social
asset, force for good which works
effectively in those dark regions
where save for this force, only evil
is powerful.
"At the beginning the Salvation
Army was a purely religious body;
but those at it's head were driven
into social work because of their
sympathy with suffering. They had
not planned out their work from
the outset; they took it up, piece
by piece, just as their hearts re-
sponded to appeal after appeal made
by the suffering people with whom
they were endeavoring to get into
touch. They prayed with and
preached to men and women
weighed down by sorrows and mis-
cry of dire poverty, and then they
found that they simply could not
leave these men and women without
stretching out a helping hand to
them They were brought in con-
tact with wrong-doers and criminals,
they learned their secret history,
they found how great a proportion
of human sin is connected with
wretched surroundings; and then
they felt i'll at ease until they tried
to help and reform those who had
been even more sinned against than
SHINING. Thus by degrees their So
cial work increased and took on a
multitude of different forms, and
their constant endeavor was, not
only to regenerate the individual,
but also in practical ways, by expert
ment and trial to find out how best
to do away with the circumstances
responsible for the individuals fall.
They steadily developed their work
along the lines of elf-help, self
management, self-support, for one
of their great underlying principles
is that the individual must cooper
ate in order to bring about his own
moral and physical redemption"
SERGEANT L. L.. RAIgCH