The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-20
SALVATION ARMY
 VALIANT IN WAR
Having Served G!oriously in the Trenches, Is Coming Back From Overseas for Peace
 Time Activities.
ASKS HOME SERVICE FUND.
National Campaign to Repienish Re- sources Depleted by Long and Dl- rect Contact Services With Our Boys Scheduled for
 May 1928.

New York Especially Like the 100000 American boys whom it served so gloriously in the trenches of France, the Salvation Army is coming back from overseas, ready to put aside It's khaki uniform of war service, don again the "Civvies'' and embark once more on It's normal peace time activi- ties.
 And. jest like those doughboys, the Salvation Army has come out of the war victorious and with citations for bravery, decorations for gallantry un- der fire and golden chevrons fndica- tive of honorably won wounds on it's arm. The victory which the Salva- ton Army has won is a victory over the obstac cles that lay before 1t in its purpose of efficient service of the fight CTS of Pershing's army. Its citations are the thanks, cheers and prayers of 2,O00, 900 doughboys. Its wound stripes are rightfully golden of hue, for they typify the unselflsh way in which the Army threw all its resources-finan- cial, spiritual and moral-into the eff fort to help the American soldiers in France.
 Now the Army is asking the people of America to give 1t concrete evidence of the gratitude which has been so loudly, and so willingly expressed. From May 19 to 26 the Salvation Army will conduct in the United States a campaign to raise SIS 100000 for fits Home Service FCad. The money is needed both to recoup the fortunes of the Army, shattered by its long service of the soldier and to permit it to carry on the work 1t has always done on the larger scale which the public now demands. Raising the money by this means, the Salvation Army explains, will eliminate, perhaps permanently, the necessity for the ceaseless solicita- ton of funds which has been a bug
 bear to the Army and the public alike. It will permit the workers of the Army, who, forced to devote more than half their time to gathering money, were in
 consequence only half efficient in their
 evangelistic and social service work,
 to devote all their time in future to
 the duties for which they have been
 trained.
 The amount of the fund has been
 determined exactly and logically by
 means of budgets prepared locally by
 workers of the Salvation Army in all parts of the United States.
 Already headquarters for the cam paign have been established in New York City. A ready response in en- couragement and cheering wishes for success has been heard from all parts of the country. Men and women prominent in all walks of life have volunteered their services as active participants in the drive. The Army's s 2,000, 900 loyal rooters-the boys who went overseas in khaki-are all lined up ready to help. The Army not only helped them over there, but it found jobs for many of them after they had been mustered out of service, helped them get the. civilian clothing that was necessary if they wanted to take those jobs.- fed many of them, gave them shelter and furnished them with trans portatfon to their homes.
 Tc. the war service of the Salvation Army is still under way. Its workers are still, manZ of them, in France, and its huts, cIubhouses and hotels for the reception of the boys returning from broad are n full swing here