Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-22
Vast C0.eHy Plan In Africa.

merged StrugglerS of the urban abyss
es whom everybody but God and Cen
eral Booth seems to have forgotten. y
proposition of that sort few years
ago would have been greeted with
shifts of contempt. But not SO now.
Booth has shown that he can do things.
Then there is what General Booth
calls the University of Humanity"
He proposes to establish one branch of
it in London and another in New York.
The purpose is to teach the doctrine
and science of human brotherhood. All
other sciences and doctrines have their
great schools, says General Booth, and
why not human brotherhood?
Personal Description of BG0.E.
Whatever may result from these new
plans, this is quite programme for Il
man seventy-cight years old. Let Us
consider the man himself, as | saw
him the other day in the national head
quarters building of the Salvation
Army, in New York. just after his ar
rival in this country. He is tail and
straight. He is not spare, though
somewhat angular. His frame is big.
His shoulders are broad. His head il
long. and the white hair rises almost
perpendicularly from his crown. The
long beard is still whittier. The eyes
are a gray blue, soft and humorous in
| their perpetual twinkle. The nose
| now there is the distinguishing feature
| Of General Booth. TO appreciate that
| nose properly you must see it. Photo
| graphs don't show it all 1t is some
| thing like an eagles beak. The tip emf
| of it extends down an inch or SO below
| the nostrils. 1t is Il wonderful nose,
! the most wonderful l ever saw. and
| perhaps in that nose lies the Samso-
! MAN power of this great organizer and
commander. Lord Wolscley. himself Il
great soldier ana organizer. callcI
Booth the greatest organizer in The
| world"
General Booth is 4 vegetarian.
| though not radical one. He SubSists
chiefly upon rice toast, tea, milk and
light vegetables. He works ten hours
a day, whether ut home or abroad.
| His staff travels with him, working
| hard to keep the pace. At his home in
London the old general has Il work
shop i'll Il plain room. From there he
directs his world wide army. on tie
wall is huge map of the world. Lit
| tie flags stuck in the map indicate the
| location of the corps. \ red flag
means that work is going on all right.
A blue flag means that the corps needs
prodding by orders from headquarters.
a yellow flag is a call for the com
mander to visit that corps right off
and look into things, and the general
buttons up his long military coat and
takes the fastest conveyance.
Some years ago General Booth was
being entertained in an American
household where there We're no serv-
ants. In the manner of the English
man at home he put his boots outside
the door when he retired at night His
host saw them there. Some time later
he said to Darlington Booth, the gen
my in America:
Il did for your father what I would
not do for the Prince of Wales. !
BACKED his boots
Baliington Booth fell upon the neck
of the man and Rugged him. That was
before Ballington and his wife seeded
from the Salvation Army in 1895 and
formed an independent organization
called the Volunteers of America This
! secession has been the old generals
one gNqt sorrow 1t is well known
that he brought up al his children t.
take high commands, subordinate Il
/ himself, in his army. Commander Bal
lington Booth and his wife We're order
. cd to transfer themselves to India
They loved America and rebelet
against going. The commander stooj
e out for discipline; hence the split.
An Autocrat In His Army.
General Booth is an autocrat in hi:
= army, just as any real commands
must be. What he says goes. He i:
;, the general. INSTRUMENTATION he viii
:, not tolerate. His is the great execu
tive brain that rules the ranch. -
dozen such executive energies" say:
the London Mail, would evangeliZ
: the world in lifetime If there
must be autocrats it is fortunate 70
4 the world that this one is no charla
tan. but an orthodox Christian Will
y the central idea of applying Christian
k lity where it will do the most good
h General Booth, it should be remem
}. bered, has not set up any new reli
e gion, such as the late Dowie and per
;; sons Of that ill have tried to do
:. Booths religion is the old homespul
John Wesley Christianity, his cree,