Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-05-26
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, 1t 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 com.
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
lerested in the 1921 home service pro
gram appeal, which is embodied in
the community advisory board plan.
Already many hundreds Of communk
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 un.
trained in this class of work" The
board also attends to the adequate
Of the organization.
This practical community board
plan, which brings the best citizens
Of 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
las1n, it is reported from all parts OF
The Dixie Division. The boards fupc.
lion by discovering and reporting to
The Salvation Army those cases de
lermined impossible of solution BY or
iinary methods, locating emergency
,ases requiring attention Of Army
SPECIALISTS and probably Army institu
ions. and in countless other ways.
Every form of service, from preach
ng the gospel to those who would not
therwise6 hear 1t. to reaching out kind. |
Helping bands to the unfortunate wo-
mem and girls, salyaging the man who
s depraved and despairing, and plac- i
ng gentle corrective hand on the
nan who. unemployed and iiscon,
ented and hungry, might become a
community burden or a criminal, alt
hese things are included in the scope /
nd range Of salvation Army pracs
Ice.
Altogether the work Of the orga-
ization Is listed AZ Sixteen major
The list Is compressor
I've including panacea for every
onceiyable physical and spiritual
ilment.
Il IS these things that Miss Booth
J eapeciaily eager 10 promote, and
bis IS what brings her 50 much to
he foepf-ont attention at mi