The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
SALVATION ARMY TOWELCOME CAPT.
 SCOTT HERE TODAY
Service Will Be Held In Army Hall at 8 O'Clock P. M. for New Officer Detailed Here
 From Cleveland
BY CAROLYN B. ELLIOTT


 The Salvation Army hall on North Twentieth street, is expected to be fill ed to its capacity at the o'clock serv- ice this evening, when Staff Captain William Scott will be rendered a warm
 welcome to his headquarters in Bir- mingham.
 An attractive programme has been arranged for the occasion. when Brig adler L. NJ. Simonson will deliver the opening address, when Capt. Ethel Col wins beautiful voice will be heard in solo. and when Captain Scott himself, will speak for the first time to his co-workers of this city. A SPEAKER 'He knows how to speak, too" Brig adler Simonson assured. He always has something to say. and always says something worth while. You should hear him." he added with ! a gleam of irresistible humor. If you are within several blocks of him when he is speaking tomorrow you will hear him." Then his message is not only elo- quent. but as the old negro says: He sho' mus have eloquent voice, too,' has he?"
 I Indeed he has" replied the briga- dier He's great man, is Captain ocott, ana that the reason we call him Great Scot"
 Captain Scott has just come to Bir-
 mingham. He was transferred from Cleveland, Ohio, where for three years he was secretary of prisons whose duty it was to visit the penal institutions of the state.
 GOOD TRAINING Perhaps the Salvationists thought this was good training for the young peoples work they have assigned me in this division" said Capt n Scott whose relish of a joke is as keen as the brigadier's.
 Whatever the training there meant. Captain Scott, with his happiness and enthusiasm and good common sense; with his sympathy for all life and his appreciative understanding of young people, is the very man to win them and hold them to the fine Christian ideals that he exemplifies. 20 YEARS SERVICE For twenty years Captain Scott has been in Salvation Army work in New England, having had three appoint ments to Cambridge, Mass. While a regular Salvation Army officer is prepared to fill any depart ment of service. the young peoples work Is my speciality" he said. And while the Salvation Army ministers to all of life from the cradle to the grave, I'm glad my work is to lay the founda- tion in the young peoples department"
 Captain Scott's division, like that of Rrigadier Simonson, covers Alabama. Mississippi, Tennessee and a part of Florida, with headquarters in Birming- ham
 Though I've been in the south since September I've been in Birmingham between trains only long enough to find clean collar" said the captain. But I like Birmingham already, and can't say enough in praise of the friendliness I have found among the southern people for the Salvation Army. I have really been surprised at the kindness have met on ths streets and in places of business and 1 just want to say now that upon my first stay in the south, I am in love with southern cities and the warm hearted southern people.
 YOUNG PEOPLE
 "The young peoples work in this di- vision is just beginning to be organ ized," he said. My plan is to adopt a programme for the young people who come to us for training in body and mind. and that will instill into them the principles of Christian character that will promote their spiritual well being.
 They will be taught the proper care of the body through the right exercise, by the system we have for our corp cadets from 14 to 20 ye1rs of age. "The corp cadets a,e both boys and girls" explained Captain Scott, from the ages of 14 to 20.
 EQUALITY 1 1.-The Salvation Army has always rec ognzed the equality of men and wnn- on he explained ''anl we recognize that women sho lld have had the fran chise some fifty years ago. This came about through the influence of Mrs. Booth years before she married General Booth. when Qu.ta a young girl. she realized that her motfcr was a stronger character than her father. While ner mo!her retained her Christian character and ractice. she krew that her father | ,ften fell away from this. After her ! marriage to General Booth she rernem- bered the experience of her girlhood, ard contended stoutly at the very begin ming of the Salvation Army that equality become a part of it's policy, to be writ
 ten into its laws. This was done and
 for fifteen years the Salvation Army l has heen splendidly led by woman l Commander Evangeline Booth. l ACTIVE WORK l "I am glad to say that my daughter
 
 of the Salvation Army" continued Cap tain Scott. "A little coincidence has just happened that gratifies me. because 1t connects her first appointment with mine. 1 that I received quarter of century ago in Marlboro. Mass. few weeks ago I received wire from my dausH- ter who with other young Salvattonists.
 was being sent out from the trainiue
 sohou, for her first field service which read: My first appointment is to Mari- boro. Mass
 'The only difference is." said Captain
 Scott, smilingly. "my daughter goes as ! a captain and didn't" 1 And thiS Salvation Army daughter with her beautiful Christian character. is one result of the influence Captain Scott yields in the lives of young people-a prophecy of the ideals he will plant in
 the lives of some of those in BirminG-
 ham that will lead them into splendid ! service.
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