The Connecticut labor press., 1920-03-20
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 FRANKLIN K. LANE.

the COQQQenC0 or the common people like this Salvation Army has won them in recent years. I am going to pull off my coat and do some real work that will show where I stand when it comes to weighing the homely, unos- tentatious and highly practical relief methods of this amazing band of work CTS. heard the call. The problems of the poor are there to be solved, and they can use my poor efforts perhaps, so have answered the call.
 q won't do much talking in the can- ing drive. I will do real work, and when I do talk don't want to talk to anyone bat actual workers There will be no speech making by me to those who might be curious to hear a former cabinet 0f1cerS in action, but who are not interested in the work of the Sal ,vation Army. I shall talk to workers and only to workers The day for ora- tory in such matters has gone. We are down to brass Jacks.
 "I think I owe it as a citizen of America to show my understanding and appreciation of the helpful work the Salvation Army is doing in it's res cue homes, maternity hospitals, free clinics, industrial homes, fresh air farms and tenement house relief work.
 My testimony is not needed, how ever, in this matter. There are 2,OOO,- 900 or 3,OO0,OOO of young Americans unaware that the Salvation Army ex- isted or having no use for it's methods if they did know of it. So far as I can learn these men came out of that war unanimous on one subject-and that was that the Salvation Army under stood the average man, knew how to deal with him and simply delivered the goods on the 100 per cent basis.
 "There is no division of opinion on that one subject. There could have been no greater test for the Salvation Army than the test it received in the war. So after all I am merely adding my voice to the mighty chorus have referred to when I say that the Salva- ton Army has long since won the right to make an appeal to the rest of us for its maintenance, and I am sure 1t will not make that appeal in vain.
 "The Salvation Army one year ago abandoned its old custom of begging in the streets the year around so that its workers could devote all of their time and attention to the poor. It makes an annual appeal each May. Personally I know of no greater bull wark that could be raised against the rising tide of human unrest than to strengthen the hands of this band of self sacrificing Christian toilers who have the confidence of all men and wo- men, regardless of race. creed, color or position in life. think 1t is impor- tant for the interests of our advancing civilization that such a practical and wholesome work be stimulated and maintained to the utmost.
 "They say there are no down and outers' any more. Personally do not believe it, or if I did believe it would know that the abnormal times have swung the pendulum back too far on one side-and that 1t will swing far to the other side directly. There will always be a bottom to society. The poor will always be with us. We owe it to our fellow men to know our neigh Dor and share his troubles and prob lens, and only by that method can we, in all fairness and righteousness, keep the scales even in this life.
 q am proud to face the problems of the poor with the Salvation Army in such a trying hour, and I hope that American men and women will stand with me in the work ahead of us. But they must be workers. I shall have no time to entertain mere observers"