The Penn's Grove record., 1920-04-30
Commander EvangeIine Booth
Makes Public Annual Home
Service Fund Accounting.
EXPANSION OF WORK IN
ALL DEPARTMENTS NOTED
Popular Organizations Budget for 1920
Totals $40, 600, ooo-Details of Fig
ures for 1919 and 1920.

the 1919 Home Service Fund are shown
in a full accounting Of that Fund just
made public by Commander Evangeline
Booth at the National Headquarters
Of the organization here. The fnan-
cial statement, which is of January 81,
1920, shows total expenditures through
out the country up to and including
that date of $13,257,552 with a re-
mainder on hand for the four months
to May 81, of $910,140.
Details Of the statement disclose
hat the sum of $1,441,1S5 was ex-
pended up to January 81, for the main
tenance of $50 corps and outposts in
all parts of the United States. This
item includes rentals of halls and their
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 1858. 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
as well as the extension of Salvation
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
g~anization Of the financial campaigns.
Details of Expenditures.
Other items detailed in the report
include the sum of S621,099, repre-
senting administrative and other ex-
penses borne by National Hearquar-
tiers in New York and Territorial Head
quarters in Chicago; s187, 300 repre-
senting the cost Of operating and main
tanning 25 rescue homes and maternity
hospitals, a general hospital and one
for children, 8 children's homes and IL
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
a 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,O38,S34 for new build
ings and additions, making a total of
$685. 2S.
Hitherto demands upon the Saliva
ton Army's efforts have been so much
greater than Its income that it has
labored under a tremendous indebted
ness, it's 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 part of 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 $7,000,000. 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.
corps activities 81. AL. 1878 SAT-, 2s5.4s
Maintenance of "a
provincial & divi-
sional hdqrs..... 1855, 42s.6 81 297, 1873. %
Maintenance of ma
tional & terrific
rial hdqrs...:... s21. oss.s7 ss,474.os
Maintenance Of In
situations for
dren .....:...... 9 7.sos.75 1o2, 2s7.os
Mortgages and
Total expenditures - -
for eight months 13, psf, $50. 81 910. 140. SO
Reserve for four ===== ====
cTsaS total
tributed in 1919 IA, 1877, sea- so
The Army's 1920 budget, asking for
$4,000 600, calls for "a, 900 to carry
on it's evangelistic and relief work in
LOCO separate centers; $1,000, 900 for
relief work among the poor, sick and
unfortunate, work for mothers and
children, and other social work under
provincial and divisional %headquar-
tiers; $250,O00 for the maintenance Of
national and territorial headquarters;
$4OO,0 600 for rescue homes, nurseries,
hospitals, slum posts and other insti-
tutions for women and children $780,
600 for the retired officers pension
fund, and $2,2O0,OO0 for the liquida-
ton of mortgages and the acquiring o.
new properties made necessary by the
Army's 1920 extension program