The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18


 , Salvation Army in America. called by the international headquarters E Lon don, thousands ot Londoaers had filled tho hall and were being tuned away refcre Miss Booth had landed from her liner Southampton.
 When she finished speaking, about 10 O clock, the large central hall of Vest minister was still surrounded by people. and she was given another ovation. The crowd ran after her motor car for quite d distance. With her was Mrs. Bram- we'll Booth, wife of General Booth, eld- est son of the founder of the Salvation Army and brother of Miss Booth, and Col. w. $. Barker. her aide, who had charge of American Salvation Army work l in France with the A. E. F. Miss Booth was born in London, where the Salva- | ton Army was founded by her father, William Booth, in 1877.
 1 Her dramatic address was largely a 1 tribute to the American people. After describing the work of the SalVauon Army among the cosmopolitan population of the United States in the early days of the European war and before, Mss Booth gradually worked up to the reileE work that the American forces in France undertaken by aid of a loan of $25,ooo from New York banks and $10o,OOo from I international headquarters in London. The Salvation Army was first to reach the troops in France, and it's etforis were so quickly appreciated by Genera' Pershing and the soldiers that the Amer l jcan people soon made it possible to re- l pay loans and augment the staff ana equipment in France.
 She quickly described the work, the 1 famous "doughnut girls in their haloes i of tin hats under fire, and the return home of the troops so grateful to the | Salvation Army that their cheering from 1 liners in New York harbor to the Sal vation Army hut at the dock became a disorder and had to be stopped. | Her work had not very enviable po- siton before the war, she said, but atter- wards it was different. The American people now loved the Salvation Army and 1 she saw the time had come to rise aboVe near-bankruptcy and free the organi- zation from the hardship and waste or time collecting pennies by the shaking or tin cans on street corners. She hai bravely made estimates that the enor- nous sum of $13000,00o was necessary 10 put the Salvation Army on it's feet. Theh, with frequent outbursts of emotional teh- derness for the American people, she de- scriped how she announced to the papers that drive for the great sum would be undertaken.
 "Echoes of islanders against the great American press have reached me, sns declared "They are wholly untrue The American press is gieat-hearted in- stitution, noble in it's purposes. It IS hard to describe what took place. The press of America, all over great America, laid itself out in toll, in tedious work, in ca reful writing, in the contribution ot priceless free matter and free space Every paper and magazine gave willingly to the Salvation Army Our slogan, A man may be down but never out wal spread across the frort of publications from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as well as hung in banners across the great ave ruas O. all cities. by those wonderfully puhlc-spirited citizens.
 You saw the slogan on the buildings
 of the rich men of the country and on the tattered huts of the poorest, "A man may be down but never out. On build ings and restaurants and across the en frances of great hotels, "A man may be down but never out Give to the Salva- ton Army Help the Salvation Army.
 Great railway depots put up speakers platforms for eight days. Everybody who could open their mouths before crowd and say anything, from Washington down to villages, gave of their time and spoke for the Salvation Army. Motor cars were decorated and people spoke | from them.
 Some of the governors of states said l Hands off, The Salvation Army has nothing to do with this. I will under.
 take the state drive and send you tht i money, The western territory did equal. i ly we'll better in some instances, than the eastern territory.
 1 EVEN CONNECTS HELPED 1 ''Everybody gave Even the convicts
 asked to help. One reformatory for boys
 undertook extra work and provided s3fo | for the Salvation Army. Poorest of peo- l pie borrowed to give to us Crippled sol
 ders from the hospitals insisted on rid 1 ing through the streets on wagons and 1 shouting Give to the Salvation Army 1 Policemen with tears running down their {, faces, solicited for us where we had col lecting boxes. Sometimes 1t took from six to eight men to carry in trunks of 1 money from street corners
 "One morning when the sun was shin- | ing, we found that America had turned | into the coffers of the Salvation Army
 SIS. 900 0o0-s14. 900, ,0oo of it in cash.' | Miss Booth, who had been interrupted l frequently by cries of Praise America and "Iialleluja was at this point faced
 by such storm of applause and shout | ing that she coudl not proceed for sev- eral minutes.
 | After briefly describing the greater ef- | hcieEcy of their work of salvation. since ] revivals might be conducted instead oi l 'cOllecting DuSlneSS. thanks to the great drive, and the visitation of prisons and siums might be trebled, the saving oi souls increasing tremendously in the last | few months, she led up simply and powerfully to a great climax.
 | 1t has been Christ in deeds that has l been our sweetest teaching and our com potency dealing woth sorrow. dark ness and sin. It has been Christ in deeds that has helped that great country l to write those lines immortal on the annals of history, the decree of prohibit ton, that has driven from American shores the worlds greatest curse.
 Tn the face of a pandemonum of shout. ling, applause and stamping Miss Booth produced from a hiding place large American flag with which she marched back and forth many times across the stage. increasing the pitch of the demon. stration nearly to a frenzy. There were more than five thousand persons In the hall, and their tumut was taken up by 1 the crowds outside the locked doors It was a long time before she was able i to resume and 1t was noticed that she and nearly everyone in the audience were in tears.
 1 If America has nothing else--and do not say she has not-if America has nothing else, she has that great bright i itwinkling star in her banner of glory ithe leading of the world in the driving !away of drink. Oh. you Salvation Army do the same thing, Drive this early Igrave digger. this heart breaker, this 1 life destroyer. this great consumer. this boiling. burning liar from your British | shores!''
 STAGGERED BY SUCCESS