Bonners Ferry herald., 1919-09-16
SALVATION
ARMY DRIVE
STARTS IN THIS COUNTY NEXT
MONDAY AND WILL LAST FOR
ONE WEEK
COUNTY QUOTA is ONLY $1,000
L. b. StOokey Is Chairman of the
Boundary County Drive

Boundary county has been asked
to raise $1,000 for the assistance of
the Salvation Army in a drive which
starts September %.
E. B. Stookey is the chairman Of
the drive and this week, with the
assistance of his executive commit
tee, will perfect details of the drive
organization, appointing district
committees and apportioning the
county quota.
1t has been proposed that the drive
committee solicit subscriptions on the
basis, as far as possible, of one days
wages, for each laborer of the coun-
ty. This plan may be adopted. 1t
seems certain that the quota assigned
this county should be raised without
a great deal of difficulty as every
one knows the work accomplished
by the Salvation Army in war and
that the organization is greatly de-
serving of the assistance being asked
for the furtherance of its work.
Previous to the war large cam
paign was practically unknown in
Salvation Army operations. Funds
were collected by personal solicita-
ton by the Salvation Army officers
themselves. This method was very
unsatisfactory. The sacrificial SER
vices of the Salvation Army were
not understood. Interviews were diff
ficult to secure. Amounts contribut-
ed were small. Each Of the depart
ments of the Salvation Army sent
out their own solicitors to the same
prospects in the same territory.
There was much duplication and
overlapping. This caused great
shrinking in results and much incon-
venience and criticism from friends
of the army. One subscriber might
be approached by several depart
ments in the same day. Obviously
there was great inefficiency.
The call of millions of men to the
colors and the needs of hundreds
of thousands of their families was
an unprecedented challenge to the
sacrifice and service of the Saliva
ton Army. The army was obliged
either to find the huge sums of
money necessary for the home and
overseas work or to admit for the
first time in it's existence, that it
could not measure up to a need
hence, the necessity for appealing to
the whole country from coast to
coast by means of a financial cam
paign, and hence the recent National
War campaign.
Meantime, reports of the work of
the first few Salvation Army Off
GERS at the front had come home
from the soldier boys themselves,
and from their generals, through the
national newspapers. When the war
work campaign was presented it was
wave of popularity, enthusiasm and
ed States now understand the Saliva
tion Army, thoroughly believed in
it, and were prepared to support it
to the limit. Nine million dollars
was raised in very short time. By
the time the United War Work cam
paign was presented, the Salvation
Army had been so universally ac-
knowledged by the soldiers and sail
ors, by their generals, by the ma
tional newspapers and magazines, by
the pubic IN general and by the
United States government that the
Salvation Army was included for an
additional three and one-half million
dollars in the budget of that cam
paign.
The tremendous war work of the
Salvation Army both at home and
overseas, had crippled its peace op-
erations. Thousands of Salvation
Army officers and soldiers at home
and abroad, had bent all their en-
ergies towards war work. Officers
to man, and money to finance, the
local corps and institutions of the
army had been largely diverted to
war work. Building programs had
been entirely abandoned for many
months; in short, there was the most
urgent need for a great movement
to reinstate the peace work of the
Salvation Army, not only to a pre-
war basis, but also on an extended
scale, commensurate with the vastly
greater demand made upon the or
ganization by the public as result
of the war record and popularity of
the army. Hence the need of the
present campaign.