Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-09-18
Commander Booth Makes Appeal
to People to Raise s15, 000, 600
for Home Service.
GIVES AMPLE REASONS



ton in this country. has made an ap.
peal to the people to help raise the
$15,000,00O set as quota In the ma.
tional campaign for Home Service
funds. She tells why the money
should be raised and what the funds
raised will be used for. In her appeal,
she says:
"As the commanderin.chief Of the
Salvation Army forces in this country,
stand here today in the name Of
the most poor. the most sorrowing.
the most SHINING of this great coun.
try OF yours, and appeal to you to come
to our help. No more helpful expires
sion of your appreciation Of our serv.
ices in the war can be given us than
the splendid and substantial Offering
of the $15,0OO.OOO for our Home serv.
Ice Fund which will relieve us Of the
almost intolerable burden of street
corner collecting and which will pro.
vide the funds to do still greater
work Of relief, comfort, and salvation.
Freed from our awful financial
burdens. we can increase our merciful
errands down the Swallowed corridors
OF the great prisons, penitentiaries and
reformatories, where by our logical
methods. our hope human and Divine,
our faith In the sacrifice of the Son of
God, we have seen hearts of stone
turned to flesh. the most neglected and
degraded. elevated and made white.
the brutal and coarse made Kind and
gentle.
appeal for your help to aid US in
rendering that assistance to the cities
In providing attractive clubs for the
workingman to take the place OF the
saloon. The Salvation Army says the
poor shall have somewhere to 70
where there is light, warmth, music,
compantonship. and every imaginable
connection Of soft drink that lemon,
orange. ginger and soda can put to.
gether. lstand here today and appeal
to you In the name of the destitute
they that SILVER In the cold and
swelter In the heat; they that 60 hun.
cry and unclothed; they who live in
dim. sitting lodging houses; they who
sit in ill-lit cellars and sleep in de.
serted stable-yards; they who look for
food in the garbage cans; they who are
forced to sin through want, and driv-
en- to death through sin: they whose
whole existence Is one hard struggle
just to keep alive-Iask your help for
these. the poor and the destitute.
America has been kind enough to
call our women Of the war heroines-
and they are worthy of the name
but the great heroines oil. the Salvation
Army, the martyrs OF the Salvation
Army, are the women at our Stun Set.
Elements. our Rescue Homes, and our
hospitals. They scarcely know q
nights sleep unbroken. They work
eighteen hours day. They soothe
the pains OF the sick. They minister
to the dying. They are often the only
mourners at the pauper's grave. They
are in the haunts of vice. They are
deep in the filth, squalor, and disease
rescuing. ever rescuing human souls
and healing broken hearts when we
are sleeping. Above all champion
the cause Of little helpless children
We gather In the children from the
blast-children Of all kinds and ma
tionalities. the children Of widows who
cannot go to work because Of the bah
les, the children whom policemen pick
up and do not know what to do with
children of bedridden mothers whose
fathers are in jail. children abandoned
in vacant lots, or found on doorsteps
children who swelter and die on the
slum pavemefits In the broiling sum
mer sun and who freeze under the
scanty covering Of q piece Of sackine
when the weather is zero. We have
our homes in the country, and on the
sea shore where the waves come VI
and wash over the little feet. Yet, the
5 cruelty Of tive are held back for the
want OF money.
ut Is hard to credit that from the
early Salvation Army woman who car
ried bed on her back through the
streets to blind alley where moth
er lay dying ON rags, there came al
our social operations which are nov
to be found for the helping and shell
tering Of the poor outcast, the down
trodden and the unfortunate all ovel
the world: our Industrial homes To-
unemployed: men'a hotels for thu