The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-08-21
Commander EvangeIine Booth
Makes Public Annual Home
Service Fund Accounting.
EXPANSION OF WORK IN
ALL DEPARTMENTS NOTED
Popular Organizations Budget for 1874
Totals SIC, 1000, ooo-DetalIs Of Fig
ures for 1919 and 1920.

advancement In every department Oh
Salvation Army work as result o!
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 finan-
cial statement, which Is of January 81.
1920 shows total expenditures through
out the country up to and including
that date of $13,257,55o, with re-
mainder on hand for the four months
to May 81, of $910,140.
Details Of the statement disclose
that the sum of $1,441,1 1875 was ex-
pended up to January 81, for the main
tenance of $50 corps and Outposts in
Ill parts Of the United States. This
TEN includes rentals Of halls and their
maintenance, salaries Of 1900 officers,
vonn; people, the cost of all local re-
lief work Of whatever nature, and such
occidental expenditures as postage
printing. stationery and the like.
Al TIC HCilOh CONCICu ny tLC ICDOlL
the sum Of S1,CS8. 429 was expended by
thirty-fOur provincial and divisional
headquarters for fresh-air farms and
amps, comprehensive relief work OF
| special nature amongst the poor, the
Ick and the distressed These head
quarters are charged with the over
sight and direction of all corps and
imilar activities in their jurisdiction
us we'll as the extension Of Salvation
.rmy 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
adj, ertising. publicity and a portion Of
the expenditures Incidental to the or
ganiaatiOn Of the financial campaigns.
Details CT Expenditures.
Other items detailed in the report
include the sum of $621,099, repre-
senting administrative and other ex-
penSes borne by National Hearquar-
ters in New York and Territorial Head
quarters in Chicago; $197 .309, repre-
scnting the cost Of operating and main
tanning % rescue homes and maternity
hospitals. a general hospital and one
for children, children's homes and II
Stun settlements and nurseries; anu
$500 0C0 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
result of the 1919 Fund contributed
by the country, are the lifting of mort
cages to the amount of $1,SS1 1893 and
the outlay of $7,O3S, 1874 for new build
ings and additions, making total of
$S,919,52S.
Hitherto demands upon the Saliva
ton Army's efforts have been so much
greater than its income that It has
labored under q tremendous indebted
ness, its officers have been reduced to
part pay year after year, and the or
ganiZation has been handicapped In it's
operations.
Not All Mortgages Llquidated.
Only 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,O00,O00 Army
officers hope that the response to the
$40 Home Service Appeal will be such
as 10 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 1910 balance sheet shows the
following:
Expenditure Reserve
To Jan. 81. To May 81.
corps activities S1.44l.I85.1S e4&7.23J.4Q
Maintenance Of "a
provincial & dIvi-
sional ''dqrs.. =. 1858, 42q 60 2s7.1s3.ss
OF ma
icnal & terrific
- "a
Ma lntenance of in
y wome IONS and ch iHr
ps Sr en- i ts9 , sos e 1o22szos
NJ or t Tes and
properties ..... S.91952S42
Total axpen futures ---------- $500 -
for eight months 13.25T5S2.9l 9IOI405s
months ~ sio,I46Ss -
(AmOunt coo
tributed in 1917 .I41eT. $3.50
The Arny'S 1920 budget. asking for
f10.0000o0 calls for $1,000 900 to carry
on its evangelistic and relief work in
1000 separate cenrers: 100000 for
relief work among the poor, sick and
work for mothers and
and other social work under
provincial and divisional headuuar
Sers; $3.50 600 for the maintenance Of
lational and territorial headquarters;
100000 for rescue homes, nurseries
hospitals, Stun posts and other insti-
tiltionS for women and children; $780,
200 for the retired officers pension
fund, and $3200000 for the liquida-
ion of mortgages and the acquiring of
lew properties made necessary by the
Army's 1920 extension program.