The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-07-09
SALVATION ARMY
WANTS S13,OOO,OO(
American Public Asked to Support
Home Service Work.

Confident in its ability, proud of its
record in both war and peace. and con
scious of the enlarged field where its
service is urgently needed, The Sal
walton Army will ask the American
people for $13,0OO,OOO during the week
of May 1926, for its Home Service
work
With the 100000 no beautiful edi
fees will be built, nor any pipe organs
be purchased, but an Army, doubly
efficient in time and workers, will
enter the trenches of poverty, vice
and immortality With new vigor will
the work of Transforming human
wastage into hopeful productive eff
fort go on For "a man may be down
but he's never Quit"
To countless Americans this organi
zation, which has done noble relief
work among the poor for fifty years
was practically unknown until ouI
doughboys began to sing it's praises.
Founded by the late General VIII
lam Booth in London, in 1865. Tht
Salvation Army was first known as the
Christian Mission, the present name
being adopted in 1877. The Army
works for the salvation of mankind
from all forms of moral spiritual and
temporal distress. Its government is
military in form and in its tactics
militant and aggressive. 1t is a reli
gious body, existing in two phases:
the evangelistic and social relief.
The religious and philanthropi(
work of The Army is in many and
varid forms; its doors are open ia
every human being that may need
help; no condition creedal, ethical.
racial-are made Beyond feeding
the hungry, housing the homeless
clothing the ragged, healing the sick
cleansing the unclean, finding work
for the unemployed, comfort for the
dreary and hope for the hopeless,
The Salvation Army. maintains Slum
Settlements from which radiate neigh
borhood relief (the workers care for
babies, wash, scrub. teach, advise and
champion the cause Of the weak in
every way) Rescue Homes for fallen
women (and IS per cent of the women
passing through the Homes are EN-
stored); Maternity Hospitals, Indus
trial Homes, providing temporary en-
ployment and shelter, giving voca-
tional education; Workingmen's
Hotels, Children's Homes for orphans
and neglected children, Young Wo-
npn'c poardipO lIO,,o. uN,,oc1, A L..
Camps and Missing Friends Bureau.
Other forms of activity include Free
Employment Bureaus, work among
prisoners and the families Of prison
ers. the distribution of free ice. coal,
wood, clothing, medicines and cash.
The war work done by The Army
needs no description here.
The organization girdles the globe
from east to west and from north to
south. Its officers are men and women
possessed of passion to help and
save others; their lives are dedicated
to this most noble purpose, and they
receive no profit for their labofs.
This. briefly, is the background.
Public indifference toward its work
has changed into widespread popu-
larity and warm-hearted enthusiasm.
1t is the attitude of the public, not
the work Of The Army, that has
changed.
1t is the new order of things that
has caused the commanding officers
of The Army to take a great forward
step. They realize the work must be
placed on solid financial foundation.
Just about half of the time of the
workers has been devoted to the col
lection of funds. Collecting money by
tamIborine methods is now regarded
as wastage of the time and energies
Of the workers which can better be
spent in social service work.