Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-16
Here Is Work To Do
Salvation Army
Wants Aid To Do It

Suppose those the Salvation Army
helped this last year in Maine were
gathered before you in marching
line! Marshalled in ranks twelve
abreast, they would take nearly four
hours to pass-28,339 men, women
and children! Almost as many as
the inhabitants of Lewiston! More
than the inhabitants of any other
city of Maine except Portland!
They are not paupers, nor the pro-
fessional poor. The help that a very
large majority of them have receiv-
ed has been emergency help to meet
an acute need. For these, certainly
in most cases where women and chill
dren are involved, the acute need is
not their own fault.
More than twenty eight thousand!
The hungry fed, the homeless given
shelter, the ragged decently clothed.
The suffering poor who received coal.
I the service of doctors, medicine and
many other forms Of urgently need
ed help.
Besides these, there were 502 9TH
ers, children, mostly from congested
city tenements. and often sick or
half-fed, who were sent to beautiful
Christmas Cove. They spent at least
two weeks therein some cases three
weeks. They returned with glowing
brown cheeks.
But that is only part of It: The
Salvation Army's state-w wide work in
cludes not only ministering to the
sick, but comforting the dying, bury
ing the dead; visiting hospitals; find
ing jobs for the jobless; washing,
laundering, scrubbing for poor sick
mothers. 1t gives new and intelli-
gent interest in life to those in pris-
on. developing character in them,
blowing grit into them. 1t is tender
ly, effectively rescuing girls who are
tempted, wavering or erring.
The Salvation Army brings I'M
measured spiritual help to those who
need it most-the very poor, the
weak, the outcast-men and women
who are symbols of Ruin and who
are drifting by the crossroads Of life.
The Salvation Army is Christianity
in action.
Is it any wonder that half mil
lion and more attended the Army
meetings last year? That it's work
has grown by great leaps and
bounds. more than doubling in Maine
within the last FIVE years?
The wages Of vice and crime, like
the wages of sin, are paid by the
whole community. The national
wave of lawlessness, of social and
industrial unrest is a responsibility
The Salvation army believes in
self-help, practises it, enforces it. It
does not pauperize.
The Army finds hard cases in plen-
ty. Take this one. reported today
from Maine town:
A young mother has just abandon
ed her home, leaving five small chill
6rnn-fhn oldest a hnx ~
family has for some time been on the
verge Of need. There's been sick
ness. The husband has had only
part time work and had become
shiftless through encouragement.
What organization except the SAL
walton Army can conduct an effective
statewide search for the runaway
mother-with good chance of find
ing her and Of bringing her back to
her duty? Provide for the children
until she is found? Help the hus-
band find permanent job, straighten
him out and stiffen him up?
Who wouldn't help in work like
that?
You can't make dollars go further
in charity than by giving them 10
the Salvation Army!
An appeal for $175,000 for the SAL
walton Army is supported by a state
committee, composed of $50 of our
leading citizens. men and women, in
every part of the State. of those VINO
were born in Maine and now live
elsewhere and of our prominent
summer residents. Mr.. Charles Dana
Gibson Is honorary chairman. The
Hon. Charles S. Hichborn of Augusta
is chairman in active charge of the
appeal. Mr.. Carl A. Weber OF Port
land is treasurer. The Office Of the
Maine state committee is at 2O4 Fed
eral street, Portland.