The Washington herald., 1920-08-19
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morris.
Commander Eyn Booth.

Commander Eva Booth.
During the war Commander Eva
Booth, of the Salvation Army. won
for her organization many new
friends and much msney that an
ordinary person holding the same
official position and addressing the
same sort Of promiscuous assemblies
could not haye won. Washington
had a fine illustration Of her per-
suasive power in the address she
gave before the National Geographic
Society. II any persons came to
scon they remained to weep and
open their purses. She was sup
posed to talk about a worldwide
organization that is modifying and
aboIishing racial distinctions. 1t was
on this basis that she could prop
erly be invited 10 talk to geograph-
ers, scientists, retired admirals and
generals and globe trotters. What
she did was to tell OF the service
rendered during the war by men
and women chiefly the lsssies-who
imperiled their lives. braced up the
a. Z +. morale, and came home the
most popular of American relief
workers. And they won where 9TH
ers failed, she said. because Of train
ing for careers based on subordina-
tion to authority, moral and spir-
itual, resting on belief in the old
fashioned evangelical gospel in
which her father, Gen. Booth. lived
and wrought. Commander Booth
will soon arrive from London, where
she has been endowed with more
authority Her record during the
war has induced the central authori-
ties 10 grant this. The whole scheme
Of Salvation Army operations in tAis
country is to be revised. New de-
partmental lines are 70 be marked
out An aggressive peace-time pro-
gram is 10 be outlined pronting by
wartime tests. Popular COED will is
to be capitalized. She who can
preach like a sersph is 10 com
mand like a marshal A wonderful
family those Booths. even the recall
citrant one-BalIinEton.
Verdi, Aida" and the Pilgrim
Fathers.
A man who has Puritan blood IN
his veins has grin rather Erimly
and sardonically at the lengths 10
which they are going in celebrating
the landing OF the Pilgrims az
( Plymouth in 1920. Consider for a
moment the pageant to be given in
base ball park in Boston Septem-
ber /. The best Of New York's ana
Boston choruscs led by Emil Mol
lenhauer supplemented by a ballet
trained by Maria PaporelIo. with
-
Of Aida. and Agide Jacchia as leader
OF an orchestra are to render Nerdi's
spectacular and sublime opera.
Aida SuspectinE that some de-
fence OF the plan may be necessary
to win Puritan attendant-. the cir
cular announcing the performance
says: Aida was selected because
II Is the opera most suited TO the
open air and lends itslf TO pa=ean-
try with ease; and, while the tale Of
two Egyptian lovers has no bearing
upon the Landing OF the Pilgrims.
the Triumph scene, the greatest
stage picture ever conceived. NAV
well be construed to symbolic the
structure founded by the Pilgrim
Fathers. Is not that rich? Never
Ihcless, il ! were to be in Boston
on the night specified ! would a.
most be tempted 10 pay $50 a box
to see Amneris, Radames. Eamphis
and IN" King Of Egypt picturlnr the
"structure founded by the Pilgrim
Fathers"
Dean Gays support of Mr.. Cor.
Formal announcement by the New
York Evening Post that it will sup
port Mr.. Cox because he is wiser
and more candid than his opponent
in dealing with the paramount is
sue" Of the campaign, the league Of
nations must be credited to the man
whom Harvard men prior to the war
used to call Dean Gay" under
stand that he went out TO Ohio. care
fully Investigated the records OF the
Senator and the governor, had per
sonal interviews with them and with
persons who know them best. and
then came back TO watch the formal
UtroranCes Of the candidates. Mr..
Gay made a war record in Washing
ton that included close range study
OF public men and governmental
methods and policies. He left Har-
ward to run newspaper because he
wanted TO hit some abuses that he
discovered while here and that need
TO change.