New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

"A So o"'ouAIS. Included among the
women on the committee are Miss T
Louise Sands, Mrs. Morris Kellogg,
Mrs. Frederick Lewisohn, Mrs
Dalziel, Mrs. William Greenough
Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard, Mrs
Douglas Robinson, Mrs. E. l.. Bay
lies, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman. Mrs
Whitney Warren, Mrs. Charles L
Oelrichs, Mrs. John f. Drexel, Mrs.
George Gordon Battle, Mrs. II. F. Os-
born, Mrs. Walter Maynard, Mrs. F.
Gray Griswold and Mrs. Ralph Sanger.
Colonel Margaret Bovill will be in
charge of $50 regular Salvation Army
lassies who will collect donations at
subway kiosks, elevated railroad sta
tions and on buses, trolley cars and
street corners.
Both they and the volunteer workers
will Use the sealed boxes adopted for
the campaign. Each day the boxes
Will be turned in to Charles H. Sabin
president of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany, treasurer of the drive. The
boxes will be destroyed every night
and new ones distributed the following
morning Thus, no account. will be
Kept of the amounts collected by in
dividual workers.
Borough Campaign Leaders
The campaign in each borough will
be under the direction of distinct
committee, although General Wander
bit will head the drive for the entire
crater city. The Manhattan chairman
is Joseph P. Day, Stanley E. Gunnison
is chairman in Brooklyn, Judge Georre
V. Mullan in The Bronx, Clarence M
Loves in Queens and Frederick A
Johnston in Richmond.
George Gordon Battle in a letter to
The Tribune yesterday bore witness to
the worthiness of the Salvation Armv's
plea for funds and to the scrupulous
care with which the money it receives
is expended. He wrote in part:
1T may not be amiss for one who
mas personal knowledge of the facts TO
assure those who contemplate MAKING n
contribution to the Salvation ANN,
fund that the money Of the army is OK
pended with the most scrupulous care
and economy and with the highest de.
gree OF efficiency. AS chairman of the
Nationally War Work Committee of the
salvation Army, as representative Of
the Salvation Army in the United War
Work Campaign drive and as mem
per OF the committee of eleven which
mas distributed the funds raised in
that drive have had an intimate per-
sonal knowledge of the activities Of
the Salvation Army both abroad and on
inns side OF the water. I can and do
certify that the most scrupulous econ
omy has been observed in all ex-
pendltures, that their accounts have
been kept in the most busincsslike
manner and with the greatest accuracy
that no excessive salaries have been
paid, and, indeed, that such salaries
have sufficed only for the living OK
penses OF the devoted servants Of the
army.
Worked at Home, Too
Furthermore, | would call the at
tention OF the American public to the
fact that the Salvation Army has not
only done wonderful work overseas
but 1T has already established MANY
huts in great centres Of population and
in many of the camps in this country
1t is impossible within the limits of
this letter to give any detailed list of
these nome activities. But they have
been very extensive, very beneficial and
very eihclent in every respect. SO that
the salvation Army already has proved
Itself not only MS an overseas war re-
net and religious agency, but as pro-
hclent in the same line of noble en-
deavor in war time in our own country
Those who think of contributing may
be assured that they cannot possibly
give to higher or more beneficent
work, and furthermore, they may be
certain that in the execution of this
work there is no extravaganza, no
loose methods; but on the contrary,
the strictest economy and the most
businesslike procedure"