The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-10
"7he Salvation Am1y''
Thomas P. Cassidy, World War Veteran, Mem
Der of Advisory Committee, Reviews Far-Flung
Charitable Activities of Great Organization.

The 1ar-reachlng cnarlCaDle Ell.
forts of the Salvation Army were
reviewed by Thomas P. Cassidy,
a member of the local advisory
board, in a radio broadcast over
Station WATR Monday evening.
1t was part of the radio program
boosting the local army's main
tenance appeal, which is now ap-
preaching the $4,000 mark. Mr..
Cassidy, who is local Superintend-
ent of the Prudential Life InSur-
ance company, concluded his adj
dress with an appeal for funds.
His remarks were as follows:
"All things come to all mem
that's what the Salvation Army
used to say.
To the World War veteran, the
Salvation Army is an organiza-
ton whose work overseas earned
his lasting gratitude. To the
average housewife in many New
England communities it is an Or
ganization which welcomes con-
tributionS of unneeded clothing
and furniture, and old paper and
magazines, all used to some good,
though perhaps vaguely under
stood purpose. To many others, it
is not much more than a small
group of men and women In uni
form on a street corner, in any
weather, singing or speaking or
beating a drum.
But; as the officer in charge of
the local corps will tell you, all
these are merely fragmentary as
poets of an organization that en-
cages in many activities, each
important for human welfare, ma
terial and spiritual-an organiza-
ton with close yet flexible bonds
that embrace the whole of the
United States. Certain functions
of Salvation Army work have
grown tremendously in the United
States in the last 80 years, par
ticularly those dealing with so
cial welfare and relief.
Charitable Center
To begin with, each corps of the
Salvation Army is center OF
charitable work in addition to its
being a center of spiritual activ-
tiles directed particularly at the
unchurched and those who other
wise seem hopehssly lost.
Then there are two great
branches of the organization
which supplement its spiritual &C
tivitieS, the mems social service
department, and the social service
department for women and chill
dren, besides a variety OF smaller
departments of Salvation Army
social welfare work.
The two departments named
have grown to such proportion as
to convey the impression to many
minds that the Salvation Army
primarily and essentially Is a So
cial service agency. This impress
sion is wrong. These social Serv-
ice functions must be understood
in their entirety as a material
demonstration OF the Tel1glO1l oA
Christ. Their benefits are be-
slowed impartially and without
consideration of race, color or
creed: religious exhortation is not
forced upon the beneficiaries, and
If these become interested in the
Army'S spiritual activities to the
extent of experiencing a change
of heart, a conversion, the first
care Of the corps officer is to urge
upon the convert his reinState-
ment in his original church or
faith If its ties are still felt by
him.
: Social Service
Industrial homes maintained by
the mems social service depart
Inent number lot In the United
States, In New England they are
located at Boston. Brockton,
Springfield and Worcester, Mass,
&c Providence. r. Z. and at