The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-08
SALVATION ARMY
WORK PROPOSED
Advisory Board Desired i'm
Brattlebor0,. Mr.. Kay
Explains
NOT PLANNED TO
FORM CORPS HERE
Board Would Respond to Emergency
Calls in Interest of Good Citizenship
and Keep in Touch with Headquarters
-Another Meeting Planned.

-Anofher Meeting Planned
A meeting in the interest of the Sal
vation Army was held in the Chamber
OF Commerce rooms yesterday afternoon
at o'clock and was attended by several
representative citizens Commander
Kay, state director of Vermont, ex-
planned many reasons why the Salvation
Army plan to form an advisory board
in Brattleboro should he given serious
thought By all who have the welfare of
the town at heart. He said the Saliva
tion Army had no intention of establish
ing an army corps in Brattleboro What
the real purpose of the Salvation Army
is, will demand cooperation and real in
terest. They ask for an advisory board
of men and women for the purpose of
fostering good citizenship and who will
stand as representatives of the Saliva
tion Army in Brattleboro to respond
to any emergency call requiring the re-
moval of cases to homes and instittl-
! tlons, other than locally promoted, and
coming within the realm of Salvation
Army service, where provision is made
through which the subject may not be-
come dependent on another community:
to provide Salvation Army specialists
| Tor visitation to an advisory board when
SbclI service Is requested ana IN the
/ opinion OF the Salvation ARMY the ex-
| igencies and Importance of the situation
requires 1t; to give advice in every case
/ submitted
! At the close of his talk there was gen
eral discussion and it was decided to
try to interest larger number and TO
have another meeting in about three
weeks, when Mr. Kay will return to
! Brattleboro An advisory board may be
Organized at that time.
] Mr.. Kay explained that the Army
work is peculiar to itself. .,yVe do not
proselyte," he declared. we know no
creed or denomination, but work on
! lines adapted by and for ourselves. The
advisory board plan is not new, it IS
very Successful in "a states and fune-
tions splendidly with the Salvation
Army and has proved its worth to many
/ communities.
''In Boston. which is Headquarters for
New England. the Salvation Army main
tains rescue and maternity homes where
over 700 girls were taken care of last
year. A free clinic provides treatment
/ for the poorer classes and 3S000 were
given attention in 1920. Over 1900
children were looked after in the day
nursery, taught fed and given ideas of
better living. These tots are given
motherly care while the mothers are
earning the living.
! Industrial homes provide many ways
for men beyond the earning period to
he self supporting Forty-nine hun
dred poor children were given an out
ling at Canton, Mass. at the Army's
fresh air camp. Boarding houses pro-
wide up-to-date places for young women
at n nominal cost who do not earn sui
| fcent for their needs.
! "In our relief department we supplied
$500 quarts of milk to underfed babies.
gave away p tons of coal. besides cloth
| ing and food and $1,000 baskets OF food
at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We
1 n Iahora a nt har
places.
i "As national organization, recog
nized for tho results produced by it dur
ING a period of 80 years. the salvation
! Army's budget OF expenditures has been
I distributed more or less ealltablv
throughout all the states, including al
most eyerv county and community In
creasing burdens have naturally IN
! crea sed the requirements IN personnel,
! institutions and maintenance.
Through public interest the means
have been ungrudgingly at hand. The
cost has i'm a large way been borne by
/ the committee nearest the point wherc
'destitution and misery culminate IN the
, unfortunate becoming a public charge
and not-as should be-borne at the
points of origin.
/ an other words, the large cities are
now required to bear so per cent OF the
Salvation Army maintenance cost as a
/ protective measure for their own social
defence. when it should he recognized
that the cost ought to be allocated
more Justly to each community IN the
/ land as its pro rata contribution 20 the
great mass of unfortunates who come
/ from the smaller communities to metro
rolitan cities each year to hide their
condition from those they know.
Thus the responsibility OF raising
reasonable sum of money in every COM
| munitv each year is matter. that
should be accented as only fair and
inst bv any resident in any community
who viii undertake to learn the facts.
| sSTha Salvation Army wants co-onera-
;! tion in Brattleboro Moral conditions
can be bettered We want to establish
nermanent rehabilitation. II the cit
| izens viii give us what we ask we can
| without interfering with churches or To-
cal welfare organizations give Brattle
boro what other counties have found,
| indispensable service.