VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA

a religious organization founded in 1896 by General Balling ton Booth and former members of the Salvation Army with the object of aiding people not hitherto reached or affected by the ministrations of other religious corporations. If eonducts Christian, social and philanthropic work throughout the United States and in 1922 had a membership of 10,000. In 1920 there were 61 homes or institutions conducted by the organization, such as employment bureaus, wood-yards, cooperative stores, boys’ clubs and reading rooms. The benevolent work also embraced industrial effort, trade and sewing cla es, shelter, supplying coal, milk, ice and clothing to the needy, hospital nursing, summer excursions, fresh-air camps, and food for wives and children of jail inmates through the agency of the Prison League. The organization conducts the Volunteer Hospital in New York and has established Working Girls’ Homes in large cities.