Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-29
Jailed, MISS BOOTH
PLEADS OUR CASE
COMMANDER OF SALVATION ARMY
IN AMERICA BOOSTS PRO-
GRAM FOR 1921.

With reports coming into headquart-
ers of the Dixie Division, Salvation
Army, daily, telling of the advance
ment OF the 1921 home service pro-
gram appeal all over Tennessee, Mis-
.sissippi, Alabama and northwestern
Florida, the attention of citizens of
this section has naturally turned to-
ward Miss Evangeline Booth, com
mander of the organization in the
United States.
This unusual interest in her person
atty, it is said, was probably re-
sponsible for the revival of the story
of how, when young girl, she was
arrested at Eastbourne, wild, reckless
seaport town near London, where she
was doing some relief work in CON-
pany with her father, the founder of
the Salvation Army. She was i'm.
prisoned, and young lawyer who
had been attracted to her and who
had offered to defend her broke all
precedent by having her appear in
court and plead her own case. She
was discharged and released from
prison.
1t is said that her service, which at
this time was characterized as ex-
ceedingly brave, has always remained
the same, and her great popularity
over the country is largely ascribed to
her strong resolute will power and her
faculty for making and holding
friends.
Just now, Miss Booth is keenly in
terested in the 1921 home service pro-
gram appeal, which is embodied in
the community advisory board plan.
Already many hundreds Of communi.
ties have established these boards,
and others are rapidly falling in line.
The boards are described as "compre-
hensive committees of responsible cit
liens who associate themselves to-
gether to represent the Army and the
public in the solution and remedying
of those difficult social welfare prob
lens that are impossible Of solution
by local methods and by minds I'M
trained in this class of work" The
board also attends to the adequate
financing Of the organization.
This practical community board
plan, which brings the best citizens
of a community together to aid the
Salvation Army in the prevention of
vice, crime and evil, as well as in
treating and curing the evils already
created, is being. received with enthus-
iasm, it is reported from all parts Of
the Dixie Division. The boards func-
ton by discovering and reporting to
the Salvation Army those cases de-
termined impossible of solution by or.
binary methods, locating emergency
cases requiring attention Of Army
specialists and probably Army institu.
tions. and in countless other ways.
Every form of service, from preach
ing the gospel to those who would not
otherwise hear 1t, to reaching out kind
helping hands to the unfortunate wo-
men and girls, salvaging the man who
IN deprayed and despairing and plao-
ing a gentle corrective hand on the
man who, unemployed and discon-
tented and hungry, might become a
community burden or criminal. all
these things are included in the scope
and range OF Salvation Army prac-
tice
Altogether, the work Of the orga-
nization is listed as sixteen major
activities" The list is compressor
sive, including paqacea for every
conceivable physical and spiritual
ailment.
1t is these things that Miss Booth
Ia especially eager to promote, and
this is what brings her so much to
the forefront of attention at this
time.