The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-16
SALVATION
ARMY APPEAL
PLANS MADE
Maintenance Budget Endorsed
and Appeal Committees
Are Appointed

The Salvation Army advisory board
met with the local officer, Adjt.
Piercy, and Mrs. Mary T. Wishman,
state field director for North Dakota,
at luncheon yesterday at the Grand
Pacific hotel.
Judge A. M. Christensen; who has
been the president Of the board for
four years, presided. The maintep-
ance budget for 1926 was presented.
and the past. years report given Of
services rendered in Bismarck and
Burleigh county by the local corps.
Budget of $4,000 Required.
The itemizcd financial budget was
endorsed by the Association of Com
merce and reported favorably by its
board of directors, and it was accept
ed as read. Plans were made for the
appeal" to be made the first week
in February, by the advisory board,
assisted by the field director, who
has been eight years with the Army
in this capacity. Mrs. Wishman was
here in 1921 and directed . success
full appeal at that time, with Mr..
"Pcte" Fields as local chairman.
Appeal Committees Elected.
The following men and women will
have charge of the appeal this year.
and the campaign will be so arranged
that no one will have to give great
deal of time TO the work. Many
workers. will be added to the contact
committees from the clubs and or
ganizations throughout the city. Mrs.
WishAaen will speak Of the Business
and Budget Of the Salvation Army
in many gtoups gathered for regular
meetings.
.division9 -Robt. Simpson.
Appeal secretary business mems
division)--H p. Goddard.
Treasurer of Funds-J. l.. Bell.
Chairman Of Men on Capitol Hill
Capt. E. G. Warner.
Chairman of Women on Capitol
Hill-Miss Crissy Bulge.
Chairman of Women's Division
Mrs. Alfred Zuger.
Secretary and Districting Chairman
of WoMen-Mrs. +. ]. Taylor. q
Appointment Chairman-Mrs H. H.
Chairman of Women in Industry,
down -town-Miss Henrick Beach.
|. Chairman Of Schools Miss Esther
MAXWELL. i. ~
Advance Gifts Committee. L.
Bell, H. P. Goddard. A. NJ. Christian
son, L. K. Thompson, r. L. Simpson.
J. c. Taylor, F. L. Conklin, Carl Nell
son.
General Team Captains-Alex Ros-
en-, @. \. Olson, w. F. Cole, Frank
Snyder, E. 6. Larson, Henry Murphy,
C. E. Stackhouse, A. J. Arnot.
Organization Chairman John L.
George.
The Army's Work and Purposes.
Mrs. Wishman, in addressing the
advisory board, gave resume Of local
and geneysl work and purposes Of the
Salvation Army as it has come to her
attention in the eight years she has
served as field director in the United
States. "The business Of the Saliva
tion Army" she said, "is that Of res
cue and reclamation Of the, criminal,
vicious, dissolute. hopeless. helpless,
fundless, friendless; Of visitation
among the lowly. poor, and sick and
sinful, showing the way to better liy-
ing; giving the gospel of another
chance to the discouraged and way
ward.
"Under the charter of incorpora-
tion from the state Of New York in
1899, the Salvation Army derives its
legal existence and is defined as an
orRanizatioh designed to operate IS
: religious and charitable corporation
in I'll cities and states in the United
States. 1t enumerates as it's purpose.
the spiritual, moral and physical ref
0rmation Of all who need it; the dis
semina tjon Of Christian truth by
means of open and indoor air meet
ings, and Il is authorized to Establish
= vide variety Of homes, bureaus and
institnsions essential to and devoted
TO religious and humanitarian pnr-
suits. 81
Il ssThe salvation Army teaches God
% Lovs. It believes that charity, to
BE- permanently recOnstructive, must
Be- pnderstoed - the beneficence Of
God, and the work Of the salvation
Army. Ct ss s
Attention Vas called to the fact
that the budget was not. raised last
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