Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-03-29
Advisory Salvation Army.

The formation OF q Salvation Army
advisory board for this district Wal
effected last week at South Paris at {
| meeting Of representative citizens called
by Walter Dennisou. The board 10 sim.
liar to others now being formed In New
Englspd and its completion means that
every facility of the Salvation Army fol
social relief is at the disposal Of the peo'
pie Of this community.
The officers elected at the meeting are:
President-O. K. Clifford.
Vice observation-disclosures Morton.
Secretary-Miss Cora Mason.
Treasurer-Mrs. Florence Haskell
The other members of the board are:
Educational Committee-C o. Turner, chair.
man, Mrs. A. Dudley, Mrs. A. G. Wheeler, A.
b. Carcelon. Capt Guy SWEET, Mrs. Ernest NIL.
lett, Rev. Helen Carlson, Rev. n. A. Marley,
Service Committee--Chas. W: Bowker. chair
man, Dr. j. G. Littlefeld, II. NJ. Shaw, Mrs. W.
K. clifford, Mrs. T. n. Davis.
Finance Committee-E. N. Haskell, chairman,
II. W. Dennison, vice-chairman, L. A. Brooks,
Il. D. Cole, G. r. Morton, A. D. Park, n. G.
Elder. o. e. Barrows, G. T. Farnum. T. n.
Davis.
Supper Committee-Dr. Chas. Buck. o. K.
Clifford, with power to add.
The Salvation Army has operated for
more than forty years 10 the large cities
of the United States. The work 1t has
accomplished has won for it such com.
mendatiOn that communities oil over the
country have asked the army to estab-
.lish connections so that the good work
might be made available to an even
larger section of the country than at
present. With these requests in mind
the ranking officials of the Salvation
Army worked out the plan of establish.
ing community advisory board wher-
ever possible. Not only does each ad
visory board have the benefit of the
forty years. experience possessed by the
Salvation Army in solving the problem
of social conditions but in 80 far as the
situation permits also has at its disposal
the homes and institutions that are now
operated by the Salvation Army through
out the whole country.
While the Salvation Army with It's
trained workers specializss In all kinds
of social and charitable work, 1t has
sought to make Its activities plain by
grouping the sixteen principal ones.
They are:
Emergency Departmental relief
branch available for Immediate service
in the event of any disaster.
Missing Friends Buresu-For the To-
cation of persons in any part Of the civil
ICED world, whose whereabouts are uu-
known.
Juvenile Industrial and Agricultural
Schools-Where physically and morally
souud citizens are developed from delin-
quent boys and girls, and where orphans
are reared and educated.
Boys Friend Buresu-To care for the
lad without funds or friends, who would
be thrown, OF otherwis upon his own re-
sources in strange community.
Young Women's Boarding Homes
In which girls of small income may OBJ
tain good food and clean, attractive
quarters at prices within their reach.
Rescue and Maternity Homes-To
shield and care for the girl whose limo
cencs has been betrayed, give her
fresh start on the right road, and keep
her and her baby together.
Industrial Homes-Men who have be-
come derelicts are here restored to the
wage earning class.
Working Mems Hotels-Where poor
man may find clean bed at nominal
price amid surroundings that make foI
his moral and spiritual regeneration.
Free Employment Bureaus-To obtain
jobs for the unemployed.
Prison Work-Csring for the families
of prisoners and rehabilitating the re-
leased prisoner.
Slun Settlements-Where practical
assistance is extended to those who drift
into the lowest levels of city life.
Fresh Air Camps-Conduoted to give
summer outings to mothers and chill
dren OF the poor Of crowded city sec
tions.
Christmas Dlnners-Furnished to poor
families and needy individuals.
Anti~Suicide Buresu-Which has met
with marked success In the arrest of this
mania.
Work Among Service Men-Contin-
nance of the we'll known war record of
the Salvation Army among those men
,till in uniform.