The Natchitoches enterprise., 1919-10-02
four ORDERS TO
Unite IN LABOR
WORK FOR SOUTH
Community Service Incorporate
ed Brings Bureau Under
One Management.
SALVATION ARMY TO
AID IN ALEXANDRIA
knights of Columbus and Red
Cross Society May Help
Office in Plans,

Cooperation between four grea
war organizations is being sought il
Alexandria, Louisiana, by F.
Barnes of Community Service, incor
porated, to relieve a possible failur,
in the employment service for for
nler soldiers threatened by the with
drawal of financial support by wal
organization that has been maintain
ing the bureau.
Community Service Incorporated
plans to handle the situation after
| November f. Until that time it is
| hoped that the Salvation Army
Knights of Columbus, American Red
Cross Society and Community Ser.
vice Incorporated. by joint financing
nay continue service to men seeking
work.
First Case on Record
This is the first time on record
that four war organizations have
been asked to support an employ.
ment bureau. Miss Barnes declares.
The Salvation Army has already
mailed It's check for 1925 to the
Alexandria representative Of Commu-
nifty Service as payment for its first
month pro ra. "a share.
eve are only too glad that you
have brought this need to our at
tention," Lieutenant Colonel George
Wood, commander of the southwest
ern district of the Salvation Army,
said in sending check to the Alex
andria organization. 1--WE are always
glad to help in any effort that has
the welfare of those men who re-
spOnded to the call of our country
and entered the service and are now
discharged, at heart. l am therefore
sending you our check for s125 to
cover our pro rata for the month Of
September
Cep!ores Lack Of Workers
Il only wish that we had officers
In your city 80 that they could oper-
ate with you and others on any line
where real service could be rendered
but am hopeful that our war work is
now coming to an end. We shall
soon be In position to have the
many workers demanded in appeals
we are receiving to open work
throughout the southwest"
'The plan that we have in mind is
to have this service under one he, i
in Alexandria" Miss Barnes said IL
explaining the work of different Or
CARNATIONS In Alexandria. 1T may
be possible that the scheme can h.
applied generally in our big cities |
where several organizations maintain
the same class of service"
Orders Labor Together
"This service will be known as
Cooperative Service" Signs will be
displayed stating that the Salvation
Army, Knights OF Columbus, Ameri-
can Red Cross Society and Commu-
nifty Service Incorporated, are work
ing together to place soldiers in po-
sition OF earn their living"
Erroneous reports are prevalent
N Louisiana that the Salvation Ar
ny now owns rescue home at Alex
.ndria," Lieutenant Colonel Wood
laid in speaking Of the new organ
zatior for employment service. This
$ not true 1t is true that the Sal
ration Army hopes to own a homo
.fter the home service drive.
The Salvation Army is the pioneer
organization in this fed. 1t owns
rs homes in the world. Is are in
he United States. They are all un-
Ter the direction Of trained women.
Is the underlying
on which they are found
ID. Kindness. sincere endeavor to
make girls realize that their cases
re not hopeless Is once the fun.
lamentals drilled into women who
york In the homes.