The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-07-15
EXTENDS ITS FIELD
Work of Salvation Army to be Carried
Into Most Remote Sections
of the United States.
County Advisory Boards to be APP
pointed to Cooperate With
Army in Activities.

it is about to extend the scope Of it's
humanitarian work, commenced over
40 years ago, into every county, city,
village and remote section of every
state in the union through the organi-
cation Of county advisory boards of
the most representative citizens. The
army does not contemplate the intro
duction of new methods. It indicates
rather desire to expand the present
efforts of the army and to extend the
ministering hand of mercy to all parts
of state rather than to be limited by
the present corps centers. Most i'm
portant of all is the wish to reach the
very source of the great social prob
lens and to help in controlling the
strong currents of life that sometimes
become so unruly. This, it is believed,
is definite step toward the practical
solution of big problem.
The Salvation army, in its home ser
vice program for 1920, undertakes to
provide cooperative auxiliary which
shall represent it in every community.
This auxiliary will be known as the
Salvation army advisory board and
will be composed of substantial citi-
Zens Of each county. It will study the
local situation by means of program
prepared for it and the board itself
will Judge of how and when the Saliva
ton army and its facilities can be
made use of to best serve the citizens
of a given county. Not only this but
through every board all the citizens
of any county will have full opportuni-
ty to constructively improve that coun-
TVS situation.
The Salvation army has corps and
institutions located at strategic or
focal points in every state and is in a
position to care for needs as they may
develop. In addition to the corps To-
Gated in the larger cities and manned
by skilled officers of long training, the
army is able to assist county ad-
visory board through the medium of
the following departments and institu-
tons:
Emergency Departmental emcr-
gency department of the army is and
will always be at the service of any
community in case Of disaster wide
in scope or merely individual in char
acter. The army realizes there are
always cases where help must come
first and investigation later. Military
in character, it can mobilize it's forces
and resources upon the shortest notice.
The activities of the army following
the San Francisco fire and the Calves
ton and Dayton floods are as we'll re-
membered as its more recent assis-
lance in Halifax, N. S., Corpus Christi,
Texas, and Fergus Falls, MINI.
Missing Friends Bureau Through it's
organization, worldwide in character
the army is operating with signal sue
cess a missing friends bureau. This
bureau is international in character
with over ten thousand local branches
represented by crops in sixty-four
countries and colonies. Through it's
eighty periodicals with a circulation
of more than million copies per week,
and through it's officers and soldiers
scattered all over the world, the Saliva
ton army is prepared to search for,
with a fair prospect of success, any
lost or missing man, woman or child.
All the machinery of the army will be
put into operation to find any missing
friend whose loss has been discovered
by a county advisory board. The
search does not end with the physical
discovery. The army determines
whether the "lost" requires help OF
any character and, if so, it undertakes
to provide. The army is willing at
any time to look up friends in any
city and make inquiries as to their
well-being.
Juvenile, Industrial and Agricultural
Scholastic bad boy or girl of the
community where the delinquency is
a case of misdirection or an over.
abundance of animal spirits uncon.
trolled, or the orphan child, will be
given opportunity to mould life anew
at one of the agricultural and indus
trial training schools and farms op-
Grated by the army. These potential
bad citizens are made into good ones
and tax consumers into taxpayers.
Boys Friend Bureau-If boy with
out funds or friends leaves for a city
the chairman of the county advisory
board will be requested to notify state
headquarters. An officer will meet the
lad, and care for him until he gets his
bearings and after. The free employ
ment bureau is at his service and the