Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-05-08
SALVATION ARMY TO
SPEND MILLION DOLLARS.
FOR ERECTING BUILDINGS

Atlanta, Ga, May Assured of
the success Of the coming Salvation
Army Home Service Campaign, the
National Committee today announced
that almost 100000 in cash has been
allotted to the department OF the South
for the erection of buildings to be used
for Salvation Army purposes. TO car
ry out the plants, A. Ten Eyck Brown,
of Atlanta, one of the best known ar
chitects in the South, has been en-
ployed by the Salvation Army Home
Service Fund, Southern division head
quarters, to prepare plans and specifi-
cations for the various buildings which
J will be erected in the south within the
next year.
In discussing the matter, Edward
Young Clarke, director of the Southern
division of the Home Service Fund
Campaign, said:
"The allotment On approximately
100000 for a Southern building fund
means that more than one million dol
lars will be spent by the Salvation
Army in the South for buildings and
property. The money 10 be received
from the campaign will be but d
small percentage Of the actual amount
to be spent for building purposes.
The various committees VIII undoubt-
eddy be employed to secure loans on
property purchased and to mortgage
the buildings in accordance with the
plans of the building committee.
Almost every large city IN the South
will receive an appropriation for the
erection of a Permanent LONE for the
Salvation Army and to further equip
the local corps to carry on their work
of uplift and to help the man "who is
down but never cut" All Of these
buildings will be. according to Saliva
ton Army regulations, which, although
simple in design, will greatly add to
the beauty of the cities in which they
are to be erected.
The plans and specifications being
mapped out by Mr.. Brown will be in
suggestive fora SO that local COM
mittees will in no way be hampered
in the carrying out of their own build
ing ideas. In this way every build
ing will be erected according to the
building codes of that city and in har-
mony with ideas and needs of local
community.
The Salvation Army officials in the
South have already received options on
valuable parcels of land centrally To-
Gated. These properties will be taken
up within a very short time and active
plans made for the erection of the Sal
walton Army buildings.
Before the buildings are erected,
three channels will have to be sailed.
First, the local committee will formu-
late it's plans, who will in turn submit
them to the division commander
Meeting his approval, they will be
carried on to the local provisional Of
ficer, who is Colonel Richard f. Holz,
Philadelphia In this manner every
one will have a say as 10 the matter
of the building to be erected and the
site selected.
The announcement of the proposed
expenditure of more than million
dollars in the erection of buildings will
greatly add to the real estate industry
in the South. The proposed plan of
the Salvation Army brings with it the
announcement that their work in the
South will be greatly enlarged.
Following are the towns in the state
of Mississippi which. are to receive
an allotment, and the amounts of the
allotments:
Hattiesburg, $4,000. 90; Jackson,
$4,000 90.