Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-04-28
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 Eyangeline 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 inn
prisoned, and a young lawyer who
had been attyacted to her and who
had offered to defend her broke all
precedent by having her appear iu
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, AID her great popularity
over the country is largely ascriba1 to
her strong resolute will power and her
faculty for making and holding
friends.
Just now, Miss Booth is keenly in
teressed 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,
ard Others are rapidly falling in line.
The boards are described as "compre'
hensiya committees OF responsible cit
liens who associate themselves to.
gether to represent the Army and the
public in the solution and reraedying
OF thosa difficult social welfare prob
lens that are impossible o. solrtl N
by local methods and by minds IN,
trained in this class of wo-k" Tina
board also attends TO tho adequate
financing Of the organization.
This practical community board
plan, which brings the best citizens
OF community together to aid tto
Salvation Army in the prevention Of
vice, crime and evil, as rell as in
treating aud curing the evils already
created. is being received with eAthus
iasnl, it is reported from all parts o.
TIE Dixie Division. The boards fuac
ton by discovering and reporting to
the Salvation Army those cases do
termined impossible Of solution by or
binary methods, locating emergency
cases requiring attention of Army
specialists and probably Army instita
tons, and in countless other ways.
Every form of service, from preach
ing the gospel to those who would not
otherwise hear it, TO reaching out kind
helping hands to the unfortunate wo
men and girls, salvaging the man whc
is depraved and despairing. and plac
ing a gentle corrective hand on the
man who, unemployed and discon
tented and hungry, might become q
community burden or a criminal. al
these things are included in tho 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 panacea for every
conceivable physical and spiritual
ailment.
! It is these things that Miss Boot
Is especially eager to promote, ant
this is what brings her so much Z
the forefront Of attention at tn
time.