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Show ISalyation Army Plans Home Service Program Direct contact with, and Immediate aid for every needy person In the .'. United States Is the aim of the Salva-( Salva-( tion Army's home service program for 1920, according- to Hamilton Gardner, I commander of the American Legion in Utah, who is serving as chairman of i the non-sectarian advisor' board di- l recting this work locally. Mr. Gardner said: "Whether financially, morally or physically down the Salvation Army stands every ready to extend the help-W. help-W. . ing hand to .any individual regardless 2 of creed or color. It was this uni versal and uncompromising Christianity Christian-ity which marked the overwhelming success of the Salavation Army at homo and abroad during the recent war. It was the attention attracted by this war work which led to the popular clamor that for more than a year has been urging the Salvation Army to expand and extend its home service work in the United States to that the remotest community may benefit from contact with, this remark, able organization. "ThiB led to devising the present 1 program which Is declared to be the I most comprehensive social service ' plan ever attempted, j "For over fifty years the Salvation t j ' Army has been reclaiming fallen men I: UUU v UU1CU llUiil Lilt) B1UUU) Ul lCd.i. cities. Statistics gathered daring that period show that an overwhelming ma jority of such unfortunates have originated orig-inated from the small rural communities. communi-ties. This 1920 home service program 1 aims at tho social evil at its origin . in the small town with the hope of . preventing somewhat the great human M waste that has been a constant drain upon the country. "In this work the Salvation Army will depend for direction upon thou--j ' sands of local advisory boards more than fifty of which will be established in Utah during the wek, May 12 to 20. These advisory boards will bo composed com-posed of promient cltizons in the various vari-ous localities. They will be non-sec-' tarian in every respect Their sole function will be to advise and assist the central organization of the Sal-' Sal-' vation Army in rendering that practi cal .charity which characterizes the work of this bod'." |