Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-04-16
Richmond Daily Register
J. NJ. SAUFLEY, Editor and Proprietor
SALVATION ARMY BOARD

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place in an industrial home.
4. Girl, aged 10, ruined by
stepfather, who tossed baby from
window of train on which she
was riding, was arrested for child
murder. Through advisory she
was released on probation and
sent to a Salvation Army rescue
home.
5. Widowed mother and eight
children taken in charge by jul
venile officer because children
were not going to school. Moth
er could not perform her tasks
as a washerWoman away from
home and care for children at the
same time. Through advisory
board and Salvation Army officer
her home was piped for water
and gas and tubs were furnished.
She is now able to operate her
little laundry and at the same
time care for and maintain her
children, who are all in school.
6. Orphan girl of Is, living in
questionable surroundings, re-
ceived in rescue home through
activity of advisory board.
I. Girl of II ruined by near
relative, sent to Salvation Army
maternity hospital through activ-
ity of advisory board. Father Of
child found by Salvation Army
and indicted for crime.
These are typical of several
hundred cases handled by the
Salvation Army at the instance
of its advisory boards.
The Salvation Army divides its
work into sixteen major activi-
ties. There are:
Its field or evange1istic
work. The preaching of the Cos
pei in diction suited to the sim
plest of Gods creatures with the
hope of immediate decision for
regeneration.
2-Christmas dinners served to
the poor families in need. j
3-Fresh air camps conducted
in the summer time for the ben
eft of poor women and children
Of the cities. 1875
4-Children's homse, where
orphaned, dependent and neglect
ed children are cared for.
5-Missing friends bureau
which searches for missing per-
sons throughout the world. It
has been singularly successful in
locating missing husbands and
wives and persuading them to re-
turn to their families.
6-Prison work through which
men and women in prison are
taught to accept punishment "a
just, and to re-enter the world
with a desire and intention of be-
coming useful members of So
ciety rather than hardened Grim
inals, dangerous to any comrnun-
ity in which they may chance to-
locate.
-Slum settlements from
which temporal and spiritual help
are radiated to the families of the
communities. .z .,az
S-Industrial homes where the
unfit are rehabilitated through
the performance of useful tasks
until permanent employment can
be obtained,
9-Workingmen's hotels which
provide poor men with clean beds
and clean surroundings at a nom
inal price, which relieves them
of any stigma of pauperism.
1O-Work among service men
which is extended to the present
forces or the government and
will remain a permanent policy |
toward the Army and Navy in the
future.
11-Young women's boarding |
houses where girls away from |
home find suitable lodging and |
homelike surroundings at a cost |
within their means. J
12-Rescue homes, where fall |
en- women or those with a ten
dency to go wrong are reclaimed |
Christian surroundings. |
anil teaching.
l3-Maternity hospitals which
usually connect with rescue
homes, and where the girl who !
has been betrayed receives SUI
perb attention and humane treat
ment.
14-Free employment bureaus,
which struggle with the problem
Of the temporary or chronically
unemployed.
15-Anti-suicide work which
is department of every Saliva
ton Army Corps and has practi-
,allv demonstrated IFS value in