The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-14

This evening the Salvation Army
home coming campaign will be pushed
along on the streets of Topeka Sal
walton Army lassies and a Salvation
Army overseas worker are to be
mounted on trucks and will tour the
avenue making stops at all of the prin-
cipal intersections. North Topeka will
not be neglected in the tour and sew
eral stops will be made on the polar
side of the river.
The talks from the truck will be
made by Miss Martha. Porter, an over
seas veteran of the Salvation Army.
Miss Porter went to the war as pub
licity writer and newspaper woman.
After being over there for time she
saw the work of the Salvation Army
and realized that her service in the
war would be more definite and real if
she went into the actual relief for the
soldiers. She Joined the Salvation
Army overseas corps as a volunteer
worker and served thru the war Miss
Porter was for twelve years a feature
writer on the Des Moines Register and
before that time was on the Chicago
Tribune.
Like Old War Days.
For little while Topeka has
donned the garb she wore in the days
of the war. Another drive is on in
Topeka today. The streets are being
combed by the war-trained veterans
of many money-raising campaign
and the merchants and men along the
street are looking up from their ac-
customed work only to see right be-
fore them the familiar figures which
all during the war portended the re-
quest for support of some drive.
BY this time the solicitors and cam
paigners do not need to hold up in
front of the prospective subscriber
an ephemeral something which may
or may not be done. The subscrip-
tons asked in this drive go to help
complete that which is already in the
building 1t is visible and tangible.
The solicitors point to the nearly fin
ished Salvation Army home at the
corner of Fifth and Quincy streets
and remind the prospect that the sum
asked is ''just what is required to fin
ish construction"
Goal Is $4,000.
The goal set for Shawnee county.
including the city of Topeka, in this
second phase of the Salvation Army
home coming campaign is $4,000.
The whole sum asked in the two
phases of the drive was $4,000. A
few dollars more than $1,000 was
fensive.
The home which is being built for
the army is a two fold memorial-it
commentaries the life and work in
Topeka of old Mother. Florence who
won the hearts of Topeka men for the
cause of the Army and is a memorial
to those soldiers of Topeka and Shaw
nee county who gave their lives in the
world war But this memorial is not
a thing of just brick and stone and
mortar.
Service for Others.
Over its stone Intel is the word
Service for others" in letters invisible
but sure. The home provides an am
pie auditorium in which the Salvation
Army may hold its daily religious
meetings 1t provides quarters for Ad-
jutant Houser and his staff of workers.
1t provides rest rooms and refuge for
girls stranded in the city. In its base
ment it provides the accoutrem of
the civilized bath. And its big, kitchen
provides plenty of room for the prep
aration of soup and food.
With the home completed and in
operation Topeka and Shawnee coun-
ty will have provided one of the finest
Salvation Army posts in the United
States for the free dispensation of
soap, soup, and salvation.