The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-03-25
COUNTY ADVISORY
BOARDS OF S. A.
MEET MARCH 81
klNETY-TWO INDIANA DISTRICTS
ARE TO BE REPRESENTED AT
INDIANAPOLIS SESSION

The session, to which each county
is sending three or more delegates,
will convene promptly at 10'a. M, in
the Assembly Room of the Hotel
SEVERN. The second meeting will be
at o'clock that afternoon. There will
be no night session.
The call for this convention. which
will be unique in the history of In
diana, has just been issued by the
Salvation Armys State Advisory
Board OF which Ed. Jackson, secre-
tary OF state. is the chairman.
This board met in indianapolis re-
Gently and considered the phases OF
the Salvation Armys 1921 Service
Program as it particularly relates TO
Indiana. Careful consideration was
given to the reports from over eighty
County Advisory Boards with an az
gregate membership of 900, which
were then on file at the state head
quarters. The confidential studies,
through which a social survey of the
counties has been conducted, were
reviewed and the relationship of the
boards to the Salvation Army was
discussed
The State Advisory Board, after
going into all these matters carefully
felt that the program opens up vast
field TO the people of Indiana for most
effective service TO their fellow men.
Ii was the unanimous opinion Of the
state board that it is OF paramount
importance to develop and improve q
statewide 1921 program of service
| based upon the collective needs Of
each community.
This gathering, which promises to
mark an epoch in the progress of solv-
| ing social problems confronting the
people of Indiana. will be addressed
by number of prominent Salvation
! Army workers who will bring to all
Indiana, through it's County Advisory
Board members, a vital message on
the practical constructive work the
Salvation Army is doing in relieving
and correcting social distress.
I Commissioner William Peart, in
executive control of all Salvation
Army work in this central west, will
address the convention. Lieut.-COl.
Mary Stillwell, who started the first
Salvation Army rescue home and ma
ternity hispital in America, and who
has been in this work with fallen
women for the past twenty-eight
years. will speak. DR.. Charles T.
| Wheeler, a Salvation Army chaplain
at the front in France all the time the
Yanks were "over there" will discuss
ION Active Duty" Mr.. Herbert N.
jeffrey, the central territorial direc-
tor. will talk on, THE Duty and OPP
portunity OF the County Advisory
Boards"
A luncheon for all the delegates
will be given in the same hotel as the
convention at 1870 p. N. and he aft
ernoon session will be closed prompt
ly before o'clock, thus enabling
those attending to return to their
homes without being away over night.
At the convention there will be
number of additional members of the
State Advisory Board chosen. These
will be named with the idea Of having
every section of Indiana represented.
The present State Advisory Board
represents the careful linking up OF
philosophical men and women whose
influence is broad and whose interest
and knowledge of social service and
constructive development is known
to be definite
Governor Warren T. McCray heads
the State Board as the honorary
chairman Secretary OF State Ed.
Jackson is the chairman and Thomas
r. Marshall, who has just retired after
eight years as vice-president of the
United States, is the vice-chairman-
Mr. l.. Russell Newgent, state adju-
tant of the Indiana department Of the
American Legion, is the secretary
and Mr.. Arthur V. Brown, president
ef the Union Trust Company OF Indf
annapolis, Is the treasurer. Other
members are Mrs. Wolf Sussman.
head OF the Jewish clubs Of the state;
Mr.. Charles A Bookwalter. former
mayor of Indianapolis; DR.. Carleton
B. McCulloch, former colonel in the
L. s. army and commander OF Mobile
Hospital No. Is, on the western front
during the world war; Mr. Elmer Gay.
manager. Pettis Dry Goods Company
OF indianapolis: Mrs. Maude Lucas
Rumpler, president of the Indiana
Federation OF Womens clubs, with Q
total membership Of $4,000. and Sam
uel NJ. Ralsten. former governor OF
Indiana.
The County Advisory Board plan.
the Indiana Salvation Army leaders
explain, is unique, but it is not a
theory. An advisory board is nothing
more or less than a cooperative aux
Hilary OF the Salvation Army in its
own district. II serves as the con-
Meeting link between the Salvation
Army's facilities for alleviating social
distress and cases where such help is
needed as they exist or may arise in
the community in which the members
Of the County Advisory Board live
and are acquainted.