Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-04-22
Commander EvangeIine Booth
Makes Public Annual Home
Service Fund Accounting.
EXPANSION OF WORK IN
ALL DEPARTMENTS NOTED
Popular Organizations Budget for 1920
Totals $4,000, ooo-DetaiIs Of Fig
ures for 1919 and 1920.

Salvation Army work as a result OF
the 1919 Home Service Fund are shown
in full accounting of that Fund just
made public by Commander Evangeline
Booth at the National Headquarters
Of the organization here. The finan,
clal statement, which is of January 81,
1920, shows total expenditures through
out the country up to and including
that date Of $13257,552, with a re-
mainder on hand for the four months
to May 81, of $91O,140.
Details of the statement disclose
that the sum of $1,441,1S was ex-
pended up to January 81, for the main
tenance of 939 corps and outposts in
all parts of the United States. This
item Includes rentals of halls and their
maintenance, salaries of 1,800 officers,
the expenses of work for children and
young people, the cost of all local re-
lief work of whatever nature, and such
Incidental expenditures as postage,
printing, stationery and the like.
In the period covered by the report
the sum of 81, 6SS, 429 was expended by
thirty-four provincial and divisional
headquarters for fresh-air farms and
camps, comprehensive relief work OF
a special nature amongst the poor, the
sick and the distressed. These head
quarters are charged with the over
sight and direction of all corps and
similar activities in their jurisdiction
no oF CO
Army effort to unoccupied fields and
localities. Hence, this item includes
also salaries of executive officers, Of
clerical and other employees, necessary
travelling expenses, postage, the cost Of
advertising, publicity and a portion of
the expenditures incidental to the or
ganization Of the financial campaigns
Details Of Expenditures.
Other items detailed in the report
include the sum of $621,099 repre-
senting administrative and other ex-
penses borne by National Hearquar-
tiers in New York and Territorial Head
quarters in Chicago; $751;, 1903 repre-
senting the cost of operating and main
tanning % rescue homes. and maternity
hospitals, a general hospital and one
for children, children's homes and II
slum settlements and nurseries; and
100000 apportioned according to the
1919 budget for the pension fund for
aged or disabled officers.
Most significant as indicating the
remarkable advancement made by the
Salvationists during the past year as
q result of the 1919 Fund contributed
by the country, are the lifting of mort
cages to the amount of 1851, 1913 and
the outlay of $7,03S,S34 for new build
ings and additions, making total of
$8,919,52S.
Hitherto demands upon the Saliva
ton Armys efforts have been so much
greater than its income that it has
labored under a tremendous indebted
ness, its officers have been reduced to
part pay year after year, and the or
ganizatiOn has been handicapped in its
operations.
Not All Mortgages Liquidated.
Only a partsof the mortgage indebt-
edness was paid off last year, however;
the increased demands upon the Army
everywhere in the country being so
great that increased and new facilities
for hospitals, rescue homes and other
Army institutions called for the out
lay of more than 100000. Army
officers hope that the response to the
1920 Home Service Appeal will be such
as to permit of the wiping out of much
Of the remaining mortgage Indebted
ness, provide for the maintenance of
the organizations established activities
and make urgently needed extensions
and development possible.
The 1919 balance sheet shows the
following:
Expenditure Reserve
To Jan. 81. To May 81.
For support Of
corps activities 81, AL, 1875 S447, 2s5. 4S
Maintenance of "a
provincial & divi-
sional hdqrs. 1,eSS, 429.62 297 1873 90
Maintenance Of ma
tional & terrific
rial hdqrs .... 62l O9997 63l74Os
Maintenance Of in
stitutions for
women and chill
Pension fund .... 4Oo,0OO.OO '''''''
Nor G a ges and
properties ..sr.. s,s1s,52s42
Total expenditures --
Tor eight months 15.257 552.s1 910.14O.59
Reserve for four ===== -=-
months $3.50. 910,14O5s
Grand total
(Amount con-
tributed In 1919 .14.1s7, $3.50
The Army's 1920 budget, asking for
100000, calls for 100000 to carry
on its evangelistic and relief work in
1000 separate centers; 100000 for
relief work among the poor, sick and
unfortunate work for mothers and
'1llildren, and other social work under
provincial and divisional headquar-
bers; S250,000 for the maintenance Of
national and territorial headquarters
100000 for rescue homes, nurseries,
nospitals, slum posts and other insti-
hltiOns for women and children; $780,
30 for the retired officers pension
nnnd. and s2,200OOO for the liquida-
ton of mortgages and the acquiring Of
new properties made necessary hy tb'