Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-29
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
While Husband Conducts This
ORGANIZATION She Takes Charge
Of Efforts in PenitentlarIes.
.. En- gontc East From witt to
Coast and stops Over to Lecture
In salt Lake.

.ry n,easant appearing woman Is
- harrington Booth, under whose
leadership $4,000 men are enrolled IN
,bs work of prison reform in America
vrs pooth arrived in Salt Lake TINS
s.r,ng from san Francisco. and Is
r.sistered at the kenyon. She was
,oupa in a happy frame of mind over
Sen Lake weather when interviewed
~ tbe eNewsP just before leaving tor
a spin about the city ito get some or
,hIs delightful sunshine"
,you know" she added, ut was ram
IN fearfully in San Francisco, and TINS
= ,be first really pleasant day ! have
bade chance to spend out of doors
Ear some time, SO don't make your m
teryiew too long, Will you"
While ON the coast, Mrs. Booth Went
.brouph the two big California PRISONS
and she intends to visit other state pri.
sans In the west during her present
,our. Tonight she viii lecture IN Bar
ratt hail under the auspices OF the Mu-
mai Improyement course. The NUM-
her is an addition TO the course as
announced, but season tickets VIII au-
init holders. The proceeds from inc Zee
ture Will go into the prison REFORM
funds which Mrs. Booth uses IN car
rying on her work.
PREVENTATIVE WORK.
When asked TO tell something Of her
work in prisons, Mrs. Booth deciareu
that she must not be confused Win the
salvation Army. For many years nay
husband and myself were at the neah
OF the Salvation Army, but we finally
left II for reasons Of principle, and pc
gan TO build up this American work
a which You know as the Volunteers OF
4 America" Out here in tho west 1t per-
haps Is rot so familiar as farther east
where the population centers are larger
and oford more practical field for re-
form effort.
Much OF our work Is preventative
rather than curative. We try to pro-
tect the working girl, and the working
child from starting along the DOWN
ward path. Ny husband, Darlington
Booth, Is more especially in charge of
I the general reform work, while my
special department has been the pris-
ons, and in this field our most extreme
ideas have been carried out
In all our work, we try to furnish
only that help which assists either men
or women 10 reinstate themselves in
society and become independent of
charity and support The hand of true
charity never lowers the sense of true
manhood and true womanhood, but
rather tends to cultivate self main
isnance, self respect, and self improve
nent We find In our work threa
easses needing help. There are those
Eaose need Is temporarily, during a
selse OF sickness or to tide over u sud-
den financial loss. those of the second
aass, who have drifted into Indifferent
and parasiuoal life, and who may be re-
stored to self help through the exer-
'lon Of a strong hand, and finally the
elass that through hereditary disease
OF accident are incapacitated TO do any
~oK' Inese need guardianship and
permanent assistance.
INSTITUTIONS MAINTAINED.
The Institutions we maintain are 10
a 'ones loe men, seven homes for women
~ u ivgf MONIES Tor children. During
!. .,,s p ~ year 2so'sl2 lodgings were CIV
"a az lp' 10 meals We're paid for, and
th... $500 IL Win
.nese homes are maintained wood
smas. industrial departments, coon
y WI stores, and the like. In New
su'k we have the st. Gregory lymer.
ssaey hospital, which is foremost In
bsSS,,tshce In our hospital work. n
mn naauisd l'S2S emergency cases during
o v,s week last month, and thai Was
~ an average week.
,,, ~ our prison work. of course 7 an,
smI,e directly interested. Here Tho re-.
n S'n OF the past year show that over
ai,s Ssr cent Of those we have received
lSv seuy from the prisons, are now lana
' y, SOBER Industrious lives.
s,nd. aaoition 10 that tens Of than.
l.srns " people are In touch with the
my Issue at al times through corresnon nao
iusso anu personal visits. so thai Il has
., W., marked influence on The woriS
then nv, ana criminals. Not so MANY ~
tocis,r ars nov voted to be hopeless ~
nj i've, ana incapable OF leading hon
prltonss Inc crusade in behalf Of tho
fyer oner has borne better f,u,ts " ,h ,ns
fir,, an dreamed 1t would. when the VIAL
Folppssled 20 me ms A practical f,e,d !"
Mrs " pnlns her lecture here ton ,Sd
~ ,s roolh win leave for the eas, sn.
tosard" S returning from n coast to. az
"er Now York home. p