The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-09-28
SALVATION ARMY DRIVE

The Salvation Army of Idaho Is
making a drive for funds to carry on
the rescue work, and Bingham
county has been assessed to raise
$500 as its quota of the state work.
The drive in Bingham county will
be the week of October to 16 and
you will be asked to contribute. Mrs.
Beulah Clark spent Sunday and
Monday in Blackfoot arranging for
the work, and addressed audiences
at the churches and schools, ex-
planning the purposes and the
! methods of doing it.
Their work is helping suffering
humanity in any form, but especially
those who cannot help themselves,
owing to temporary helplessness and
inability to get help from those who
owe 1t to them by reason of family
relations or other ties. NJ
Perhaps the most touching and
fruitful cases. Of need are Sthose of
erring young people, who thru
lack of understanding ',or lack
Ct stamina to resist temptation, get
into trouble they cannot remedy and
must have help for. Girls who can
not face their own people in their
trouble, are cared for in what are
known as rescue homes, where they
are received without reproach, pro-
vided with such care and nursing as
is needed, and are restored to
health, strength and usefulness.
There seems to be some evil impulse
imbeded in too many human hearts
that makes them harsh toward those
who violate the moral law, and most
harsh at the very time when the
erring one needs love and sympathy
and the best protection and tender
care. Parents sometimes disown a
daughter and turn her out Of doors
at the time her heart is breaking
without their reproach and when
nothing short Of the Divine Power
is great enough to lift the weight OF
grief that overtakes the victim.
When. such calamity arrives, the
troubled one generally contemplates
several things-suicide, confession
to parents, a criminal effort to de-
feat nature, and a total disappear
ance from all places where she is
known, and no matter which course
she chooses, she is likely to conclude
afterwards that any one of the
others would have been preferable.
In any event, the death rate is high
and wrecked life is to be expected.
But modern thought points to the
fact that thru all the centuries of
harsh means, with warnings and
watchings and punishments by
death and all the milder things,
humanity still has erring ones and
there are ways to salvage these lives
and place them again on the high
road to happiness and usefulness,
and the Salvation Army is doing it
by kindness and infinite toll. It
costs money to do it right, and the
| average rescue home takes care of
about $50 year, or three new cases
week. When the case no longer
needs special care, the home looks
out for futures in the way of getting
employment or restoring them to
their homes or friends and arrang-
ling the delicate preliminaries which
the erring one could not arrange for
herself.
| This is only one phase of rescue
work-there are others sad enough,
too sad to discuss, but the Salvation
Army knows no limits and draws no
line when erring boys and girls or
men and women are the victims Of
| poisoning too disgraceful and too
complicated for them, but which
| science can successfully Combat IL
drastic measures are taken soon
enough. No home can set itself up
| as being immune from such calam-
titles, however impossible it may seem
today.
The drive next week to raise
money for the rescue home is used
in such work as we have indicated
above and in many others things
that you would approve Of If you
had detailed information about it.