The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-23
MISS BOOTH HERE
Head of Salvation Army VIII
Speak Here Tonight.
Began Great Humanitarian
Work When Only a Child.


A life that has been absorbed by
the work of the Salvation Army is that
of Evangeline Booth, for fifteen years
commander of that great humane
tartan organization in this country.
Miss Booth arrived in Topeka at noon
today. She will address a. public
meeting at the city auditorium to-
night.
Singing in the streets at meetings
conducted by her father. William
Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,
was a part of the child life of Evange-
line Booth. When only sixteen years
old she began her work in city slums.
Born Into Salvation Army.
st was born into the Salvation
Army" Miss Booth told a reporter to-
day. 1.-The love for suffering poor was
natural. 1t was easy for me to sacri-
flee everything else in the world to
work in the Salvation Army. I had
known nothing else. When a little
child L SAM in the streets and wheIf
hardly more than a child 1 began act
i've work in the slurns of large cities.
L love the work. 1t is everything to
me-"
Contrary to the general belief, the
war did not make the Salvation
Army" Miss Booth was careful to say,
when she was asked the effect of the
war on the organizations work.
War Revealed Service.
THE war revealed the work of our
army" she said. Always we have
served. Always we have had a huge
organization. Long before the war
we sacrificed and carried on to the
best of our ability. But the war re-
vealed our work to the world as moth
ing else could do. The heartfelt graft
tude of the boys in service toward the
Salvation Army after it followed them
so closely thru the battlefieIds, and
their loyalty to the Salvation Army
after the war, their praise of it before
their friends, opened up avenues of
support for our work that we had
never known before. Our work is
But We did not begin with the war
to work for humanity
Founded Fifty Years Ago.
Fifty-five years ago William Booth
founded the Salvation Army in Lon
don, Eng, with a small band of work.
ers. Today the Salvation Army is or
ganized in sixty-three countries and
has $4,000 officers. In addition to the
officers, who are paid workers, 47,00o
laymen give their services to the work.
Forty-two training schools in various
parts of the world fit workers to
carry on" In the United States
there are training SCHOOLS in New
York, Chicago and San Francisco.
Commander .Eyangeline Booth at one
time was principal of the International
Training school in London. Schools
are crowded to capacity, Miss Booth
said.
100000 Workers in War.
Among the armies which fought In
the world war were 100000 Salvation
Army men, Miss Booth said.
Commander Evangeline Booth is one
of a family of eight children. all but
one of wnom are living.
"And all of them but me are mar
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brave one.i -
Anyone who feels the charm of the
brown-ha;red. brown-eyed Salvation
Army leader know that it must be her
choice to be brave or unmarried,
and not any lack of matrimonial OPP
portunity.
Bramwe1l Booth, brother of Evan
geline Booth, is a worker in the Sal
walton Army with the rank of gen
eral. One of her sister, Commander
Lucy Booth Hellberg, is head of the
work in Norway.
On Way to New York.
Commander Booth is now en- route
to New York on her sea to sea trip,
having been spending several weeks in
California. She will visit Wichita for
public meeting after her address in
Topeka tonight.
The romantic story of the history of
the Salvation Army will be Miss
Booths theme in her address. The
Worlds Greatest Romance tonight at
the auditorium. The silver band of
the Wichita Salvation Army will fur
nish music at the meeting.
NEW YORK LIBERTY BOND MARKET.
New York, March o3-Liberty bonds
close: 312's. 90.56; first As, 500; second
As. 1914; first AIS. $3.50; second IA s,
Victory ga s.. 81 20. Victory 43<;s 07 20