The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-08-06
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Must Raise Funds
SALVATION ARMY CAMPAIGN
BEGINS AUGUST 10. LETS
GO OVER QUICK

Rev. Walker of Sleepy Eye has been
appointed district chairman for the
! Salvation Army drive to start Aug.
| 10, announces that preparations have
been started to make this, District II,
ego over the top" District q. COM
posed of the counties OF Brown and
Redwood must raise 81, 800. Brown
has a quota of $6,350 and Redwood
$500.
The home folks of Minnesota will
have an opportunity to show appre-
citation for the hot cakes, the cheer
| and the welfare work given by the
| Salvation Army to their soldier boys
who were with the army In France.
The intensive campaign for S6OO,OOO
Minnesota's quota in the Salvation
Army National Home Service drive.
has been set for August 10 to 18, and
will give chance for home folks to
show their gratitude in real way. ),
julius A. Schmahl, secretary OF
state, is state chairman and has as
his first lieutenant Herbert n. Jaff-
rey, state campaign director, who has
divided the state into twenty-seven
districts. The state order of Elks,
under r. F. Eldridge, are interested
in accepting responsibility for put
ting the local drive through" in the
seventeen districts in which Elk LODI
ges are located. In the state conven-
ton held in ST. Paul recently, the or
der promised their hearty support and
voted unanimously to endorse every
move made towards raising the ma
tional quota of $15,000,000.
&c 4IaI
testimony of the soldiers who have
been actual witnesses to the Salvation
Army work done during the war, the
Salvation Army feels that it could
spend more time in philanthropic
work if it could raise money by other
means than the tambourine street
corner begging" The amount of
welfare work done in the maintain
ing of working hospitals for girls,
and free employment bureaus, aside
from the amount of free distribution
and evangelistic work is large enough
to warrant the quotas set.
Appreciation of the work done by
the Salvation lassies has spread on
the enthusiasm for the campaign. AS
one American doughboy says, "Say
folks. | was over there and | know.
l saw the Salvation Army at Cha
teau Thierry, saw it where the fight
ing was thickest, saw it where the
suffering was greatest" 1t was hot
coffee for the tired, hot doughnuts for
the hungry, and comfort for the dis
couraged which made the Salvation
Army the help that it was.
Heartiest endorsements to the
drive have been spoken by many
prominent men. President Wilson
says, 81 am very much interested to
know that the Salvation Army is
about to enter into a campaign for
sustaining fund. | feel that the Sal
walton Army needs no commentator
from me. The love and gratitude it
has elected from the troops is suf-
ficient evidence of the work it has
done, and I feel that / should not so
much commend it as congratulate it"
General Pershing says of the char
acter and experience of the workers.
"This has resulted in degree of eX-
cellence and self-sacrifice in the work
performed which has been second to
none" J. Cardinal Gibbons says.
''The man in need of help is the OBJ
ject of their effort with never a ques-
ton of his creed or color"
Let us all plan to help this Saliva
tion Army drive. 1t was because of
this that our boys, maybe those who
returned on Tuesday, were able to
return. Remember the drive starts
August 10. Don't be Stacker!
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