Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
VAST field
OF ENDEAYOR
BY s. A. ARMY
Sixteen Major Achieve
ments of Army Are
Enumerated
DRIVE MARCH 21-23
Local Organization Seeks
to Raise $1,000 For It's
Work For Year in
Alexandria.

To millions of people the street
corner meeting and the Christ
mas dinner for the poor repre-
sent the entire range of the Sal
cation Army's activities. AS a
matter of fact, these are only a
tiny part.
The National work has been ar
ranged under sixteen major Ac-
tivities:'
/. Field or Evangelistic Work:
Each corps or field unit holds
its religious meetings in the open
air and in halls. To these the
poor, the sinful, the obviously
lost, the outcast. the reprobate,
the morally impotent are invited.
Here the Gospel is preached in
language suited to the simplest
men.
2. Stun Settlement: Officers
visit the homes, become acquainted
at first hand with, and provide for
their needs. All forms of temporal
and spiritual help are given to the
families of the district. Stun Of
ficers have been called angels of
the Slum." They also visit the
sick in their homes and in hos
pitfalls, take charge of the fami-
lies when the mothers are III,
care for the babies while the
mother works out, wash the dish
es, launder the clothes, scrub the
floors, advise, teach, pray and
champion the cause of the weak.
Stun settlements are like light
houses on a dark and rocky coast.
3. Rescue Homes; Reclaim the
and fallen women and
girls and prevent from falling
those who are on the downward
path.
4. Maternity Hospitals: Con-
nected with Rescue Homes they
provide competent and sympa-
thotic medical aid and nursing
care at the time Of confinement.
for the habias.
5. Industrial Homes: Here
incapacitated and job
less men get work, meals and
beds until they become self-sup-
porting again. Discarded house
hold material is collected and
made over for use. The Homes
are maintained solely by the sale
Of these reclaimed articles.
6. Workingmen's Hotels: Poor
men find clean beds at nominal
price in surroundings which make
for their moral and spiritual re-
7. Childrens Homes: For the
care and training of dependent,
orphaned and neglected children.
s. Young Women's Residences:
girls from factories and
department stores find good liv-
ing conditions at small cost. All
the social amenities of the family
are provided and the evils of the
common boarding house avoided.
9. Christmas Dinners: Furnish
ed by ticket to needy families.
Toys and clothing are also given
to poor children.
10. Fresh Air Camps: In the
country or at the seaside poor
and children enjoy Z
ten-day outing in summer.
II. Free Employment Bureaus:
They find work for hundreds of
unemployed men and women.
II. Missing Friends Bureau:
Locates missing friends and rela-
tives in any part of the world.
13. Prison Work: Prisoners
cared for in jails and peniten-
tiaries. Their families also car
ed for. Released prisoners started
out in useful employment amid
helpful association.
i. Training Colleges: They
train young men and women as
in the Salvation Army.
Is. Temporary Relief: The
vast valume of this includes dis
tribution of free ice, wood, coal,
medicine, etc. free day outings
for poor mothers and children.
cash disbursed to save families
from eviction or prosecution, etc.
IS. Soldiers and Sailors Aid:
Comforting and cheering men who
are far from home-a great sys-
tenn of Huts, Hotels, Rest Rooms
nd establishments for soldiers and
sailors, their relatives and friends
is now in existence both over
seas and from coast to coast al
home. There are still men who
have given up good jobs at the
beginning of the war, who are
now without means of support,
and with health impaired by ser
vice for their country, need help
and deserve lt--they frequently