The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-10
People of America Will Be
Asked to Subscribe Ten Mil
lion Dollars in Ten Days
LANE HEADS CAMPAIGN
Volunteer Workers Who Go Into
Every Path Will Await Re-
port of Appeals Success

| The Salvation Army needs $1,000
! 600 with which to carry out next year
1 its plans for aiding the poor and un-
fortunate in the United States.
! 1t has laid its budget before the
people, who will be asked to provide
( the required funds during the next
ten days. On the answer TO this plea
hangs the future of the organization
with its forty years of heroic. sacrifice
| ing service in the cause of humanity
/ and America.
! Franklin L. Kane. former secretary
of the interior in President Wilson's
cabinet, who is chairman of the effort
to bring s10,000,000 into the home SER
vice fund. has given the opening signal
and today the work of fund raising
was put fairly under way. The vol
unteer workers and Salvationists have
gone out to carry the appeal of the
great organization they serve TO the
hearts and homes Of all America.
Yesterday was Salvation Army Sun
day." In thousands of pulpits the
story of the army's achievements and
plans for the future was told. Min
listers and lay workers are cooperating
the country over, TO make the appeal
successful.
Salvation Army officials hope not
only to continue all their present hu-
manitarian activities. but to widen the
scope of many of them II the answer
falls short, the plans for expansion and
extension must be abandoned and the
present work perhaps curtailed
Only small portion of the army's
work is self-supporting. The rescue
homes for unfortunate women: the
hospitals, including the maternity hos
pitals which care for thousands OF
mothers of the poorer classes: the
slum settlements which are such bright
spots in the squal or of the tenement
districts demand constant financial
aid. The fresh air camps, the prison
work, and the founding homes are
supported wholly from the home SER
vice fund.
The evangelical work, the bureaus
which yearly give away great amounts
of food, clothing and supplies to those
in dire need. as well as many other
activities and institutions of the Sal
derive their means of ex-
istence from the same source.
The name of the fund indicates the
purpose for which subscriptions are
sought. 1t is to make possible the
home service of the army in America.
in the communities of America.
The amount sought was not. deter
mined arbitrarily, but by compiling the
financial needs of the var
ious districts and corps throughout the
United States. These individual amounts
are required to carry forward the work
in the different localities The effort
Of each community, therefore, will be
TO raise the sum named in its own
budget. rather than an arbitrary fixed
portion Of the whole $40, 900 000 and
all the money raised in a
given section will be spent there.
In its work the Salvation Army acts
only as a steward for the people. 1t
uses their money to relieve misery
and sorrow in an efficient, economical
way. The lassies know where real
need and suffering exist and they
know the means of reaching IL. They
nave never been known TO be afraid of
service. no matter what .;acrifices or
lardships IT entailed upon them and
hey have always kept faith with the
people of America whose work they do.
The lassie has asked, "will my work
20 on?"
Between today and May 20, America
gives her answer.