Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-18 | Page 27 | Salvation Army Opens Drive $13,000,000 Needed for Homes

SALVATION ARMY OPENS DRIVE 3 0 $13,000,000 NEEDED FOR HOMES x sS .N N " s- j Evangeline s N - 's I Commander ;4T ": ' Si ' o the V x 1 V f United States p , - -N a "s- ! ' xl! Salvation ICV.v !, ! ( VV. iiZ Army t i K : Forces, r ' N " " $ Who Is IV ;- Directing ' 'CJi $13,000,000 n Beginning 'f4?yt Tomorrow, I -1 s " t " Yf, A'eu; antf I - - k tV Larger Homes xN , o J" 4 to Reclaim l x s .v, -v,s ;4 the 1 . , C tr TrA Unfortunates If - s ' 1 Every Dollar Collected to Be Used in Alleviating Unfortunates. BACKED by President "Wilson, the churches, the press, civic and social organizations, all branches of the defense service and the vig-orous and enthusiastic cffori s of thr workers themselves, ihe Salvation Army's $13,000,000 home service fund drive promises prom-ises to be launched tomorrow under the must auspicious circumstances. It will continue until May 26. "Writing to the national headquarters of the Salvation Army, President Wilson sai d : "I am very much Interested to know that the S-ii v;i tion Army is about to enter into a c m i n p a i g n for a s u s t ai nin.tr fund. I feel th:it the Salvation Army neds no cctmnendation from me. The love ana , gratitude it has elicited from the troops is a sufficient evidence of the work it has ; done, find T feel that I should not so much j commend it as congratulate it." 1 Tho war Is over and the boys have not . forgotten. The Salvation Army ha,s come 1 into its own. According to authorized statements, the ar record of the Salvation Salva-tion Army Is about as nearly perfect, as that of any other organization composed of mere human being-s ever was. Every dollar of the thirteen million the army hopes to collect during the campaign is to be used in the development of the home work of the organization; that is, among the poor and unfortunate of (he United States. Tt is said that every dollar contributed to the Salvation Army in the paut has returned more than a dollars' worth of good in the relief or" distress or the reclamation of an unfortunate. With the fund hoped for secured, the activities ac-tivities of the organization will be enlarged en-larged and the amount of good accomplished accom-plished multiplied many fold. Not only will returned soldiers be contributors to the fund, but they will al?o be its strongest strong-est boosters, and they wili undoubtedly have much to do with making the drive a huge success. The Salvation Army has special facilities facili-ties for reaching people who really need charity and aid, and the officers and soldiers sol-diers of the army know how to place such niil to the best advantage. In addition, tho army has tho oonfidt-nce of the governments gov-ernments of the world, as seen in Great Hritai n in sending 10,OOH suits of used uniforms to the officers of the amy. without with-out cost, the clothing to be distributed in Serbia. Tito Salvation army's practical work In Belgium, France and Russia and Kngiand has followed 'the armies from camp to camp, in the front line, in the hospitals, in the trenches; and wherever they have gone soldiers' benedictions have followed the men and the woir.cn who labor among tho destitute, the lowly and the downtrodden down-trodden in every count! y of the world.