Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-05-08

The Salvation Army needs $4,000,
900 with which to carry out next year
its plans for aiding the poor and I'M
fortunate in the United States.
1t has laid its budget before the
people, who will be asked to provide
the required funds during the next ten
days. On the answer to this plea
hangs the future of the organization
with its forty years OF heroic, sacrifice
ing service in the cause of Humanity
and America.
Franklin X. Lane, former Secretary
of the Interior in President Wilson's
cabinet, who is chairman of the effort
to bring S10,000,000 into the Home
Service fund has given the opening sig
nal and today the work of fund-rais-
ing was put fairly under way. The
volunteer workers and Salvationists
have gone out to carry the appeal OF
the great organization they serve to
the hearts and homes of all America.
Yesterday was Salvation Army
Sunday" In thousands of pulpits the
story of The Army's achievements and
plans for the future was told Min
listers and lay workers are co-operat-
ing the country over, to make the ap-
peal successful.
Salvation Army officials hope not
only to continue all their present hui
manitarian activities, but to widen
the scope of many of them. If the
answer falls short, the plans for ex-
pansion and extension must be aban-
doned and the present work perhaps
curtailed.
Only small portion of The Army's
work is self-supporting. The rescue
homes for unfortunate women; the
hospitals. including the maternity hos
pitfalls which care for thousands of
mothers of the poorer classes; the
slum settlements which are such
bright spots in the squalor of the tene-
ment districts, demand constant finan-
cial aid. The fresh air camps, the
prison work, and the founding homes
are supported wholly from the Home
Service fund. The evangelical work,
the bureaus which yearly give away
great amounts of food, clothing and
supplies to those in dire need, as well
as many other activities and institu-
tons of the Salvationists, derive their
means of existence from the same
Source.
The name OF the fund indicates the
purpose for which subscriptions are
sought. 1t is to make possible the
Home Service of the Army in Amer
lea, to insure the continuation of its
Iabors in the communities of America.
The amount sought was not deter
mined arbitrarily, but by compiling
the estimated financial needs of the
districts and corps throughout the
United States. These individual
amounts are required to carry for
ward the work IN the different locali-
ties. The effort of each community,
therefore, will be to raise the sum
an arbitrarily fixed portion of the
whole $4,000, 900, and practically all
the money raised IN a given section
will be spent there.
In it's work The Salvation Army acts
only as steward for the people. 1t
uses their money to relieve misery
and sorrow in an efficient, economical
way. The lassies know where real
need and suffering exist and they
know the means of reaching it. They
have never been known TO be afraid
of service. no matter what sacrifices
or hardships It entailed upon them
and they have always kept faith with
the people Of America whose work
they do. z.
The lassie has asked. 'Will my work
go on?"
Between today and May 20. America
gives her answer.