The Washington times., 1921-05-08


Salvation Army becomes an invest
r,ent In the welfare of Washington.
We invest that dollar SO as to squeeze
II ON II every atom of good possible
to extract In some ways the dollar
ray be regarded as an additiopal
endowment fund.
Dollars given to the Salvation
Army by Washington people a score
OF years ago still are at work in
Washington for the welfare of Wash
ington. Here Is how we do II. You
know the building at 12l Pennsyl-
vonia avenue northwest called the
Social Service center7 Well, that
social Service Center was started
with dimes, dollars and thousand
dollars given to the Salvation Army
years ago, just as the people of WASH
ington today are giving money.
But that Social Service Center
doesn't need q penny of the peoples
money today! The center Is self
supporting. The dollar that you gave
the Salvation Army and that went
into the center has been used over
ard over again for welfare work.
HUMAN REPAIR SHOP.
1.-The Social Service Center is a
factory where we repair clothes, fur
niture, snoes ana men- II Is chieny
man repair shop
I'VE gather old. broken down fur
niture, worn shoes, delapidated
clothes. and men who think they are
about worn out and we repair them
and put them back into use again.
The men come to us voluntarily. The
furniture, clothes, ETC.. we gather in
all parts of Washington and we use
six horse-drawn teams and three autos
In gathering this cast-on material.
THE men wander in when they
have reached the end of their rope.
In modern language they are
through They usually are without
relatives, friends, and have no work
or money, no place to sleep, no.
where to eat and have reached the
bottom rung on the down-and-out
adder. Our slogan is: A man may
e down, but he's never out Using
his slogan as our guido we start
to work on the men who are down
nd try to help them up.
HAVE AN EASY START.
I'VE put them to work first We
ell them: You get nothing that
you don't earn At first, we give
EN- easy work. We see that they
are warmly clothed. properly. fed,
ard that they have proper sleep
and baths. Step by step we lift
them up. We use them in repairing
and vanishing old furniture, junk
that was given us and that we got
by sending out wagons and gather
ing.
1--WE sell this repaired furniture
and clothes and shoes and that is
where we derive our chief income
for maintaining the Social Service
Center. In the year which ended
last February we repaired 1873
pieces Of furniture, 1887 garments.
2.752 pairs OF shoes. and 5.s35 other
articles. This work was equal to
that OF $40 men working one full
day.
Now remember, all of this was
done with waste material. The ma
terial in all probability would have
been thrown away-wasted-unle
we had collected Ii and in about
nine cases out Of ten the men would
lave gone to waste unless we had
picked them up and started them
back to work.
ave usually are repairing about
forty men in this Social Service Cen
ter. Every Saturday night we give
these workers a cash grant. This
money varies In amount We try to
gradually increase the amount of
money that we give man so as TO
encourage him Frequently the men
save a little each week, and finally
are able to leave the center and again
take their place in the world--back in
use again.
PAID $1,000 LAST YEAR
"In the year just ended we dis
bursed about $4,000 in cash grants to
the men working in the Social Service
Center, and every penny of that money
was earned by the men themselves.
We derive a considerable income and
keep the center on self -supporting
basis by maintaining secondhand fur
niture, second hand clothes, second
hand shoes, and secondhand book
shops in the center for the sale OF
the material that we repair there.
1.-THE way in which we operate this
Social Center Service Is typical of the
methods OF the Salvation Army work.
Any man who put a dollar into that
center has reason to be proud today.
The dollars that are given today will
find Just as useful purpose, for the
outstanding idea in our finances is TO
make every dollar go as far as pos.
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