New Ulm review., 1922-01-11
ANNUAL APPEAL
SALVATION ARMY
SOLICITING COMMITTEE TO
BEGIN CAMPAIGN HERE
TOMORROW. . l..
MANY-SIDED ACTIVITIES OF
ORGANIZATION WORTHY
OF SUPPORT. x

The final preparations for the annual
appeal OF the Salvation Army, which is
to- be launched in New Ulm tomorrow
cThursday) morning, are now being
made and will be completed in time to
start work promptly, according to
Mrs. Mary Wishman of the Salvation
Army Headquarters, who is here to as
sist in making the campaign the sue
cess it rightly deserves. Mrs. Wish
man spoke IN some Of the local churches
Sunday, and on Monday evening gave
an interesting talk at the monthly
meeting of the New Ulm Commercial
Club. Committees are now being
completed and it is expected that the
drive will go over the top big.
Money for State Work. d
The money solicited through the
annual appeal is for the state wrk of
this great mercy dispensing organiza-
tion. It is used solely for the support
Of the Rescue and Maternity Home,
the children's work, the upkeep of the
Young Women's Boarding Homes, the
Industrial Home for old men, who
would otherwise be charge on the
county, but in this way are still tax
payers, instead of tax-consumers and
have their independence and receive a
small wage in addition to their Home
privileges
Employment for 5000 People.
The Free Employment Bureau of the
Salvation Army furnished work for
more than $4,000 men and $4,000
women in the United States last year.
In the stress of labor and employment
conditions, this was as great service
to the public as any other line of the
Salvation Army work.
Find S89 Missing Ones.
The Missing Friends Bureau, out of
2,273 inquiries, located 889 missing
persons for poor people last year in the
United States. 1t meant sunshine and
happiness to many broken fresides
This is the only agency doing this kind
of work without money and without
price to those needing this kind of help.
The state money also enables the
Army to pension the officers worn out
in the service and this is a great Joy to
the hearts of the Divisional officers,
who, before the annual budget plan,
was adopted, had to see the dear, faith
full servants of God and humanity go
unrewarded till the curtain-caI came
for the far-away country.
Maintains Training Schools
The training schools for new officers
are financed for those unable to pay,
but desiring to serve as the Salvation
Army does, and they are training for
special service, because the calls for
the work are so great. Only specially
trained officers are qualified to fill the
need. The personnel is always too
small to provide adequate numbers Of
| workers. ~ : ~
It is for these needs that,the money
for state work is required. The Twin
Cities and all corps towns carry the
full expense Of their own Salvation
Army work and in addition, subscribe
20 per cent to the state work.
Cares for Unfortunates.
Brown county last year had the free
service for several unfortunates, and
no girl is ever turned away from the
Salvation Army Rescue Home. She is.
helped to forget the past and look
hopefully toward the future She is
taught to support herself and the child
honorably, and the Salvation Army
carefully watches her footsteps for
three years and provides her positions
in sheltered Christian women's homes
as-a domestic or seamstress, where she
with her baby is enabled to earn her
living and regain her. confidence and
faith in her fellow-men and women.
Eighty per cent Of the girls make
Il good and not only live a credit to
I themselves and society afterward, but
assist in saving other girls who are
erring. The "Out-of Love-Lov Club
girls, who have travelled the way of the
shad dowst themselves, bring hundreds
Of .untaught, lonely girls back to the
path Of right-living before the final
penalty has to be paid.
Support Is Necessary.
!. As long as the Salvation Army
serves as it does, where it is needed
!, most, it automatically shuts itself of
! from all support, except from CRATE
1 full public, whose rehabilitation worl
4 lit is doing. Only two per cent Of tn,
1 state budget is required for the salarie
of Salvation Army officers. Wher,
/ lis there another investment like. it?
The money solicited by the car
q fpaigns does not do the Army one singh