The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-04-21
APPEAL FOR
SALVATION ARMY
Drive To Start Next
Saturday.

The local Advisory Board. together
with all persons interested in the
work OF the Salvation Army are re-
quested to meet tonight nj the rooms
Of the Garrard Bank and Trust Com
pany to make final arrangements
looking toward the appeal that will
be made to the people Of Garrard
county in the interest Of this work. A
budget Of $3.50 has been assigned to
Garrard county and il should be east
ly raised.
The wonderful results that will be
derived from this organization thru
the Home Service Board can hardly
be estimated. The results Of the
work Of the Salvation Army can be
measured only by the number Of
souls rescued from the pit OF dispair
Who can estimate in dollars and
cents the value TO society Of o neg
leeted child. "if youth gets a chance
% be young?"
Work among the children Is only
one Of the sixteen major activities in
eluded in the Home Service Program
Of the Salvation Army for 1921.
| Your help will mean more than
you think.
"Many persons believe that the
work Of the Salvation Army is limit
ed to street corner evangelical meet
ings," says Brigadier Herbert Rob
erts. Of Cincinnati, Divisional Com
mander OF the Army for Western
Ohio and Kentucky. "They are all
wrong. This is out one OF the six
teen major activities % the organiza-
ton. The sixteen branches Of our
work are:
/. Relief Of the Poor-where prac-
teal assistance is extended to those
who drift into proverty. 2. Rescue
Homes and Maternity Hospitals-To
shield and care for the girl whose in
nocenee has been betrayed, give her
a fresh start on the right road, and
keep her and her baby together.
3. Young Women's Boarding Homes,
in which girls Of small incomes may
obtain good food and clean. attrae-
tive quarters Of American plan prices
within their reach. 4. Industrial
Homes-where men who have be-
come derelicts are restored TO the
wage-earning class. 5. Working
Mems Hotels-where a poor man
may find clean beds ut nominal price
amid surroundings that make for his
moral and spiritual regeneration,
6. Fresh Air Camps-whieh give out
ings to poor mothers and children OF
the crowded cities. z. Christmas
Dinners-provided for poor families
and needy individuals. 8. Free EN-.
ployment Bureaus--to botain jobs
for the "chronieally" unemployed
q. Prison Work-caring for the fam
lilies Of prisoners and restoring the
former convict TO respective society,
10. Juvenile Industrial and Agrisul-
tural Schools-where delinquent
boys and girls are developed into
physically and morally sound eiti-
zens and where orphans are reared
and educated.
IL. Boys Friend Bureau-to care for
the lad without funds or friends who
would be thrown, otherwise, upon
his own resources in "A strange COM
munity. IL. Missing Friends Blu
reau--a bureau which specializss in
search for persons-sons. daughters,
wives, and other relatives, in any
part Of the civilized world. l3.An-
ti-Sucide Bureaus-which have met
with marked success in preventing
self-destruction. IL. Work among
Service Men-Continuanee Of the
well-known war record Of the Saliva
ton Army among those men still in
uniform. 10. Firle and Evangelis-
tic work-preaehing the Gospel in
languages suited TO the simplest Of
men, with its practical application, a
recruiting and retaining agency for
all churches. i6. Emergency De-
partments-a relief branch available
for immediate service in the eve Of
disaster.
"The Salvation Army through its
1921 Home Service Program is now
planning to extend its service from
the cities to the rural districts. Adj
visory Boards are being formed in
every community to accomplish this