The Mena weekly star., 1920-08-26
SALVATION ARMY
TO WORK HERE
Advisory Board Is Organized With
Membership Covering Polk Coun-
ty-0utiine of the Field Of
Action.

Representative citizens at a meet
ing held last evening at Mena organ
lied Salvation Army Advisory Board
for this county. The Board is similar
TO those organized IN other counties
of the state and means that every fac
ility OF the Salvation Army for social
relief is placed at the disposal Of ev-
cry resident Of the county. The Board
Will have its headquarters here.
The officers elected at the meeting
are Minor Pipkin. President; V. w.
st. John, Viee-president; r. II. Jones,
secretary and treasurer. The other
members Of the Board are w. e. Holt,
Sidney Duke, Rome Goff Clifton Hay,
Clyde Cunningham, J. b. Goss, r. J.
Smith, DR.. Hawkins, DR.. Fletcher W.
S. AfcLafferty, and Judge Finger.
The Board is now at work making
a study of the county By this method
IL is hoped to lis conditions so that
the wants OF all individuals and fami-
lies may be learned. All information
gathered by the board will be held
confidential. At the completion of the
study ways and means to deal with
situations as found will be discussed
by the Board members and the Saliva
tion Army when possible will be call
ed In to handle such cases as the
board recommends.
In connection with the study of the
county the Salvation Army will con-
suit with the Advisory Board thus in
surfing the proper disposal OF all cases.
The work is part of he Salvation
Army's Home service program for
1920.
The Salvation Army for forty years
has operated in the larger cities of the
United States. The work 1t has ac-
complished has won for 1t such com
mendation that communities all over
the country have asked the Army to
establish connections so that the good
might be available to all persons.
With this view in mind the Advisory
Board was organized in this county.
The Advisory Board plan of the
Army, while only a few months old,
has been adopted in several entire
states.
The establishing of an Advisory
Board In this county means that all
the homes and institutions of he or
ganization are made available to the
residents Of the county.
While the Salvation Army with its
trained workers specializes in all
kinds of social, religious and charita-
BILE work il has sought to make plain
its activities by grouping the sixteen
principal ones. Those sixteen princi-
pal agencies follow:
Emergency Departmental relief
branch available for immediate ser
vice in the event of any disaster
Missing Friends Bureau-lFor the To-
cation OF persons in any part of the
civilized world, whose whereabouts
are unknown.
Juvenile Industrial and Agricultur-
al Schools-Where physically and
morally sound citizens are developed
from delinquent boys and girls, and
i where orphans are reared and educat-
ed.
Boys Friend Bureau--To care for
F, the lad without funds or friends who
would be thrown, otherwise. upon his
own resources in strange communi-
ty.
Young Women's Boarding Homes
In which girls of small incomes may
obtain good food and clean, attractive
quarters at prices within their reach.
Rescue and Maternity Homes-To
shield and care for the girl whose in
nocence has been betrayed. give her
q fresh start on the right road. and
keep her and her baby together.
Industrial Homes Men who have
become derelicts are here restored to
the wage-earning class.
Working Mems Hotels--Where a
poor man may find a clean bed at a
nominal price amid surroundings that
make for his moral and spiritual re-
generation.
Free Employment Bureaus-To OBJ
tain jobs for the "chronically unem-
ployed."
Prison Work Caring for the fami-
lies OF prisoners and rehabilitating
the released prisoner in respectable
society
Stun Settlements--Where practical
assistance is extended to those who
drift into the lowest levels of city life.
Fresh Air Camps 10
give summer outings TO mothers and