The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-24
SALVATION ARMY WARFARE.

SALVATION ARMY WARFARE.
The Salvation Army, for the first time IN its
history, is before the American people seeking
by means of an organized campaign, the money
necessary for the support of its activities IN
America.
AS the active head of the Salvation Army IN
the United States, Evangeline Booth says:
81 feel it is incumbent upon me to explain
briefly why the Salvation Army needs $13, O0O,-
900 to carry on it's work in this land.
'I can give the answer to the question as to
why we need the money in one Word.war. am
not speaking entirely of the world war when
say it. I mean rather the Salvation Army's own
war; the war it his been carrying on for more
than fifty years-the war of the slums. We
need $13 100000 in order that we may continue
to fight as we have been fighting for suffering
humanity; to lift up the woman who has fallen !;
to encourage the man who is faltering; to carry
milk to starving babies; to befriend the friend
less; to shelter the homeles-to perform tn my
Rad acts of service to which all of US who wear
the uniform Of the Salvation Army have dedi-
Gated our lives
"That is the war we are fighting, and our
weapons are the dollars of those who, while not
of the Salvation Army in actuality, still are of
the Salvation Army in spirit and purpose. We
ask for our armament freely without apologies,
realizing that the public knows never be-
fore what the Salvation Army is, what it's ideals
are and what its record of achievement. We
have emerged from the fires of the greatest
struggle the world has ever known was going
to say triumphant, only, triumph in the ordinary
accepted meaning of the word has no place in the
vocabulary of the Salvation Army. The only
triumphs we know are those over the forces that
cause mankind to suffer Praise and adulation
we do NOT ask. haxy OH q
are glad of the soldiers praise, not for its own
sake but because it indicates that our service to
them was helpful.
ALSO, the good-hearted praise of the soldiers
has directed attention to the work we have been
doing at home the work for which cam
paign is conducted. The public has realized that
what we did in France was exactly what we have
been doing for more than half century in the
alleys of the slums and the dens where vice lott
cred in its most hideous forms. Gun rescue
homes, our day nurseries, our lodging houses for
the unfortunate our orphanages, our fresh air
farms, free clinics, prison work, our
slums settlements, our home for the aged-these
institutions are founded on exactly the same
principles, purposes and ideals that took us to
France The service of mankind is the purpose
that underles all our works, and we care not
what sufferings, what privations what hardships
we must undergo so long can serve some
man somewhere.
ut is for the support, enlargement and bet
terment of the institutions | have just enumer-
ated that our s13OOO,OoO campaign is UNDER
taken.
1--WE call the $13,OOO,ooO that we need our
Home Service Fund. We have arrived at the
amount not by any guesswork, but by careful
and exact computation. The target of the fund
represents the sum of local needs in all parts of
the country. Actually it is to be chain of local
campaigns, for what the workers in each par
ticular city gather during the of the drive
will be devoted to Salvation Army work there
and there only. One city will not be asked to
make up the deficiencies of another"
SYMPATHY FOR SISTER CITY.