The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
THE SALVATION ARMY GIRL
OF M1RTH TO LECTURE
IN COMING DRIVE

Rheba Crawford. one OF the pest
known Salvation Army workers OF
note in the South. and a speaker and
writer OF no mean import, will tell
from her own smiling lips. just what
the Salvation Army has done in the
, past war, how 1t has labored in the
South and how 1t has loved and
mothered into goodness. untold num-
bers who happened to go from the
straight and narrow path fpr a short
time.
old, Miss Crawford has been a Saliva
ZIONIST for every moment of that
time, for she was born into the Army.
She IL the daughter of Brigadier A.
w. Crawford. who Is in charge of
the Southern Division for this all
human cause.
When but fourteen years old, Miss
Crawford longed to do something
material for the cause she loved so
dearly. She finally received permits
sion from her father to engage in
street collection. She made good
from the start. She has personality.
a smile that wins and her kindness is
an added feature to a real lovable
character.
Then came street service. At first
she was q reader but with time she
became q speaker Of note and for
many years she was in charge Of
large street service once a week II
was Rheba Crawford's helping hand
and pleasing manner that has help
ed many a man who was down-and-
out to recover himself and again bat
tie the commercial fight of life as q
man.
In he
Miss Crawford was sent to a training
school from where she went to New
York City. Oficials there realized
her worth and from the start she was
given Broadway from Forty-second
Street north. Every one knows that
this Is the hardest Of all districts for
q tambourine girl. but Miss Craw-
ford was soon the idol OF the people
who patronize the gay light district.
Miss Crawford also spent eight
months In England attending an In
ternational congress of Salvation
Army workers. She was recognized
there as one who would soon make a
real name for herself and add more
honor and glory to the organization
Of which she was a part.
When the war broke out. Miss
Crawford was among the first to see
combat service. She passed her ply
steal examinations and was ready to
go overseas but then came the order
from the Secretary Of War that wo-
men under twenty-five years OF ago
could not be granted passports. This
ended Miss Crawford's chance of go
ing abroad. She labored at home and
the various camps in the South can
attest to her ability to win a boy from
the wrong to the pathway of the
right.
Miss Crawford left the Salvation
Army service for about a year to en-
gage in Journalism. She had the
human side OF life as we'll booked,
but she wanted an atmosphere diff
ferent to her evangelistic training.
She investigated working conditions.
covered the criminal courts and after
the war. the old love for her chosen
work called her back into the folds
OF the Salvation Army work.
As tambourine girl she was a
winner. but now that the tambourine
will soon be q thing Of the past she
will help in the coming Salvation
Army Home Service Campaign to be
held in May. What she will have to
say will be from her actual exper-
fence. her training and her love to
help anyone who Is in distress.