THE SALVATION ARMY 



36. 



ments in the land of cherry blossoms was 

 the definite crusade against prostitution 

 in Tokyo. 



In the ultra-conservative Orient, for 

 years prostitution had been looked upon 

 as a social necessity. When Colonel 

 Yamamuro understood what the Army 

 had been doing for the protection of 

 women all around the world, he decided 

 that he would enlist its aid for the women 

 of his own country. 



He made a special appeal to the moral 

 sense of the community. Then he pre- 

 pared a special Rescue Edition of the 

 Japanese War Cry and secured its entree 

 by thousands of copies into the segre- 

 gated districts of the city. In the mean- 

 time homes were prepared for girls who 

 might wish to change their mode of 

 living. 



A BITTER STRUGGLE AGAINST TRADITIONS 

 OF THE EAST 



Then began that long and bitter strug- 

 gle against the traditions and customs of 

 the East ; but in the end the Army tri- 

 umphed, with the help of the best ele- 

 ments in the ancient city. Today what- 

 ever of the "social evil" exists in Tokyo 

 certainly exists as a voluntary and not a 

 compulsory system. 



Many of the prominent men in Japan 

 are sponsoring the Army and all that it 

 stands for. 



For a period of ten years the Emperor 

 has promised annual funds as an im- 

 perial contribution to further the work 

 of the Army. 



Relief-work was organized by the Sal- 

 vation Army in Switzerland and in Italy 

 for the benefit of the thousands of ref- 

 ugees who fled before the invading Aus- 

 trians during the World War. 



Officers were dispatched to Serbia to 

 conduct relief-work, and when the Ser- 

 bians began streaming into Italy, as early 

 as January, 1916, the Army homes were 

 crowded to their capacity. In connection 

 with other work in the war zone, the 

 Army organized to care for interned 

 prisoners of war in Holland. This work 

 later received special mention by the 

 Dutch Government. 



A new field recently entered by the 

 Salvation Army is that opened in Portu- 

 guese East Africa. 



At Bandoenig, Java, a new children's 

 home has just been opened under the 

 auspices of the Governor General's wife. 



In connection with the Memorial Train- 

 ing College in Sweden, Commissioner 

 Ogrim was successful in raising an en- 

 dowment fund, to which the King of 

 Sweden and Prince Bernadotte were 

 among the principal contributors. 



A WORED CONGRESS OF SALVATION ARMY 

 WORKERS 



It was in 1883 that the Salvation Army 

 first opened fire in South Africa. Now 

 onr organization is working in Zambesi, 

 Rhodesia, and the desolate island of St. 

 Helena. Seven industrial homes for 

 women are now in operation in South 

 Africa. 



The story of the Salvation Army must 

 be told as the history of a world-wide 

 organization. Upon its flag the sun never 

 goes down. There is a picture in my 

 memory which illustrates this in a mar- 

 velous way. It is a picture full of won- 

 derful color and brings back the gather- 

 ing of our last international congress in 

 Albert Hall, London. 



There, under one great roof, 14,000 

 people were gathered from the ends of 

 the earth, dressed as they were when the 

 Salvation Army found them. The Zulu 

 was there, with his shining brown shoul- 

 ders and his loins girded with the skin 

 of some wild beast of the snake-infested 

 jungles ; there was the yellow-skinned 

 Chinaman, with the colors of his univer- 

 sity, royal blue and dark yellow ; there 

 were the glossy-haired East Indians, with 

 their scarlet cotton coats and yellow tur- 

 bans ; and Maori girls dressed in rainbow 

 colors. The East Indians expressed all 

 the Anglo-Saxon language they knew in 

 the three words, "Salvation Army, halle- 

 luiah !" 



DELEGATES IN WHITE EROM JAVA'S LEPER 

 COLONY 



In this picturesque gathering there 

 were one or two who wore clinging snow- 

 white garments. They came from the 

 sad little island of Java, where Salvation 

 Army men and lassies give their lives to 

 help the lepers. 



There were picturesque mountain- 

 climbers from the Alps, with their staffs 



