The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-15
LEE ADVISORY
BOARD FORMED
Local and County Men Who Will Di-
rect Salvation Army Facilities
In This Section
Named.
DIR. RANKIN CHAIRMAN =
+, c. Taber Of Donnellson is Vice
Chairman and J. Q. Boyd Is
Secretary Of the
Board.
DIR. RANKIN CHAIRMAN

Organization of the Salvation Army
lcounty advisory board for Lee county
|. was affected this afternoon at meet
/ ling at the Keokuk Industrial assocla
ltion's Office. Dr. William Rankin Is
. the chairman of the board, F. G
. TaDer of Donnellson is the vice chair
. man, and j. O. Boyd of Keo(suk Is the
!. secretary. The members of the com
imittee are:s
Judge John E. Craig. DR.. G. Walter
; barr, Frederic c. Smith, William Al
idrich Of Keokuk, Judge w. S. Hamil
. ton, A. C. White of Fort Madison, f
C. Taber and E. G. Lynn Of Donneif
son, and DR.. NJ. B. Fees OF West
; Point
F. P. Hanley is the organizer OF
. 1.-The board and he presided and ex.
iplained the purposes of the organiza-
ition.
In the Salvation Army drive last
ISeptember, there was provision for
1.-THE building of a rescue and maternity
home in Iowa. Part of Kepkuk's con
ltributions of $4,000 went into the
building of this home, and into the
maintenance Of it. The county's
iuuota was $1,000, and Keokuk and
this half of the county gave $4,000
Iof the amount.
What Board Does.
! County advisory boards are being
jorganized all over the state, similar
Ito the one here for the purpose OF
assisting in the work which the Sal
walton Army is doing in these rescue
homes The maternity work, juve-
nile delinquencies, and welfare work
are the three principal things with
(which the board deals. The work is
conducted through the secretary of
1.-THE advisory board, who deals with
the officers Of the home at Des
iMoines.
In the rescue work of girls, for
instance, cases are reported to the
hoard through many mediums. The
|girl is willing to go into the home
for three months, and she has no
bills to pay, the Salvation Army TAX
ling care of that The fact Is COM
Imunicated to the secretary. he turns
1.-THE case over to Commissioner
PEBBLES at Des Moines, and the girl
lis taken out of the community, re-
llieved of the shame which gossip
would cast upon her. and given a
chance to live her life again.
| Other Work, Too.
Other welfare work is handled in
the same fashion and the Salvation
| Army's facilities for rescue work ex-
tended to needy people through the
medium of the board
/ Circulars are sent out to the socie-
ties, doctors, officials who come in
touch with such conditions and the
like telling who compose the board,
and offering the help of the board in
such cases. Newspaper follow-up
publicity is given in every community
to further the functioning Of the
board.
AS one member expressed it, the
board acts as an intelligence COM
mittee.
| The facilities of the maternity
home are extended to the unfortunate
women without pay, and they are
given every care and comfort thai
can be given them. The stigma of
the Magdalene is removed SO far as
possible and everything that home
life and cheer can do is theirs to
overcome the handicap that one mis-
step may fasten to them without
such aid.