Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1921-02-28
GAL WALTON ARMY
ARIZONA BULGE
FIXED At S25,400
Maricopa County To Be
Asked to Subscribe 81, 800
in Home Service Drive
All Counties Represented
at Convention

Arizona VIII be asked to subscribe
$500 to the Salvation Army Home
Service campaign during the week of
March 21-2S as a result of a state bud
get unanimously adopted at conven-
ton of county advisory boards at the
Hotel Adams yesterday. Maricopa
county's quota in the drive was an
lnounced as $4,000 by Vernon L. Clark,
chairman of the state advisory board.
The state budget has been cut to the
! very bone. Salvation Army officers an
lnounced at the conclusion of the meet
| ling.
] Although our program for 1921 is
the broadcast ever arranged for Arizona.
our budget this year is much smaller
than last. is much smaller, in fact.
than will be actually necessary to ac-
complish the things we have planned
without dipping into reserve funds
Major Duncan, campaign director, ex-
planned
in announcing the state budget,
however, we have taken into full con-
sideration present conditions in Ari-
4 IONA and we have decided that a great
good can be accomplished from the
1 outset by not asking one penny more
than will be absolutely necessary to
see the state organization through thu
year"
Convention Enthusiastic
! Yesterdays state convention, held at
the Hotel Adams starting at 10 O'Clock
Sunday morning, brought delegates
from practically every county in Arf-
IONA. The meeting was an enthusi-
lastic one from start TO finish. At noon,
a splendid luncheon was served in the
Hotel Adams dining room to delegates
and interested workers.
For the space of a few hours yes
lterday, Governor and Mrs. Thomas E.
| Campbell Mayor Willis H. Plunkett
and other prominent county and state
officials and business men made the
/ Salvation Army their church and sang
its songs with a vim that made the
Blue room of the hotel ring.
i The goveror rendered a warm well
come to Lieutenant Commissioner and
Mrs Adam Clifford of San Francisco
Territorial commander for Salvation
Army affairs. in the western part of the
United States, and to all visiting dele
gates who had assembled from the var
ious counties Of Arizona. He spoke oi
J the wonderful work being accomplished
! by the Army whose work he has
i recognized as of distinct importance te
, this young, growing state. Its work
among dependent children, he declared
was particularly gratifying to him and
he hoped to get members of the legis-
lature sufficiently interested in this
! type of welfare work to insure the
states doing a worthy part in Shout
ldering the burden Of the dependent
child.
J Tell Of Army's Work
Lieutenant Commissions Clifford, II
his reply, gave an acceptable exposi.
ton of the Salvation Army's work IL
Ibis territory and told how his people
are forever doing kindly acts that arr
never told from the house tops.
4 "Salvationists," he said. ARE trained
to look for sorrow, and to render hell
when they find it. We don't wait fol
poverty and heartaches to come to US
1--WE go and hunt it up" 1t was fur
Their explained that this service is on'
LOT love in which $4,000 bandsmen ant
$4,000 songsters are giving their SER
lvices to the Salvation Army withou
Ipay.
City Commissioner Luke Henderson
Iextended a warm welcome to the visit
ling delegation on behalf of the city.
Lieutenant Colonel Marcussen. menl
social and prison work director TO
this territory. and Flora Lee. of tn
women's rescue and child welfare de
partments, thrilled their audiences
with stories of Army rescue that wer
at once tragic and romantic. Colone
Marcussen told how the Salvation
Army is making the penitentiaries SAT
for liberty by getting the inmates con
verted and turning many Of them int
I SaIvationists.
The work of the Army in Arizon;
proved that the Salvation Army was
ii live issue in the welfare of the stat
and could not easily be dispensed with
he concluded