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Let a Song go out of My Heart-F.T.' BD-5396 You Leave me Breathless-F.T.
If it Rains who Cares-F.T.
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The
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1038.
73 Too
A
Young
to Retire
RUGGED face with Decomber-is a retiring age, and will go
on commanding the a young woman's com- Salvation Army which her father plexion; a stern founded. glance from over-large eyes gazing from beneath the. coy shelter of a big poke- bonnet; a bouquet of roses
In The Gold Rush
A
“You call this a bargain? Why, It ain't worth a cent more than
it's marked!"
REMARKABLE woman,
Vils "General" Booth; a nestling in the folds of hat dramatic link with the Victorian of ribbons coquettishly droop- era through whose morass ed from the shoulder; a paganism and misery the first great cheering crowds on 拯 Before she was 15 Eva Booth smile of amiable humour, of the Salvation Army generals 2,000-miles tour of the British was imprisoned for causing a then suddenly a challenging plunged, declaiming his war-cry Isles. From Land's End
in blood and fire. frown, a jutting of the chin, You are too young to have sharp cocking of the seen the great General William head-
Evangeline Cory Booth refuses to admit that 73-hor age next
a
in-
Booth?
No matter.
over known.
Booth to do.
sugges
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י
to
disturbance by atreet-pronching John o' Groat's she strode in triumph, addressing meetings in
In Hackney. Years later she 40 towne talking to boatmen, of her brother, General Bram- was fighting for the deposition fishermen, bathing girls
'well Booth-a fight to break tho 100,000 people in all.
dynastic tradition of the army. Its result was that General
是
Netherlands Indies. She talked to 260,000 people,
From these tours she comes
had
remained.
whole life has
Apart from that one war, her gons to the strengthening of her father's vast movement.
might
leader.
have been a
great
spare moments; often she will awake in the middle of the
the
Champion Of Youth
day.
chairman of the
hurdle, ride or dive on any day Booth Influence he liked. Lord Aberdare ad- Long Pilgrimage
mitted he was still good at cer- WILLIAM BOOTH thank- tain sports, but decided not to
ed God for that tiny accept the challenge. WITHIN two years of her
return to England to miracle, He knew that some Yes youth, in all but years, charge of the entire Salva- day she would control the army is still at the Salvation Army's
Army she was leading of his dreams.
He lives again in his daughter That journey took her 10 days. Evangeline. The same zealot. It was a mero preliminary to her look in the eyes, to be flashed on four months' pilgrimage through Higgins succeeded her brother; recast the existing system and and off at will; the same im the East last year. Then she new democracy came into the THE DAY OF revert to a Fund which will be perlous nose; and the same travelled 20,000 miles through army, but the Booth influenca
independent of the Colony's an benevolence giving away to a India, Ceylon, Malaya, and the RECKONING
nual budgetary system. In do- stern look illustrative of eternal For
Hongkong ing so, Mr. Caine promises that damnation. the years
KUM representing Govern-
From Telegraph has been as a voice a
the beginning she calling in the wilderness, drawment's present liability-i.e., at roughed it. Her father set her home, not to rest but to work Her, work has left her little ing attention to, and seeking the very least the money con-to work in the slums. She at the army's London head- Roy Fox Orchestra remedy for, the manifestly un-tributed by civil servants which dressed in the poorest of clothes; quartera with an energy that to show her other talents. She
astonishes her staff. sound Widows and Orphans' it has spent in other directions sold flowers in the streets.
Sixteen
·BD-5390 The Whispering Waltz .......... Henry Jacques Band Pension system employed by will be paid into the new
Even in her early teens she hours a day she is busy, if not musician instead of a religious means that tho I Lot a Song go out of my Heart-F.T.
Government in this Colony's Fund. This
was in charge of a hall in the at her desk in the City, then at
As it is she plays the; harp. civil service. For thirty years, Hongkong taxpayer must find a Edgware-road; by 23 she took her home in Esher. 80-5389 Palais Glide Medley No. 3....New Mayfair Orchestra civil servants have been mulct minimum
Two re of something ap control of all the army's work tired women offlcers act as her and the concertina in her rare Meat me Down in Sunset Valley-F.T.
annually of thousands of dollars,proaching $3,000,000 to foot a in London; at 31 she was com- personal secretaries. Little Lady make Believe-F.T.....Jack Harris Orch. contributed by them to the bill which previous taxpayers manding it in Canada.
Hers is a simple home, B- 8772 just let me Look at you
When she was 39 she became home of a woman of simple ..Noel Coward existing scheme. Apart from should have paid. If compound
the fact that, since 1908, interest is added as, morally, it the army chief of the United tastes. Eva Booth cats spar- Poor little rich Girl
Government has escaped the should be, the total is States and was called the most ingly, takes a cold bath every
SHE is a loyal champion of ..Comedy Harmonists unquestionable obligation that it creased accordingly. If Gov-popular woman in America. At morning-ns cold as I can get
modern youth. Sho should contribute pro rata to ernment also assumes the 68 she succeeded General Hig- itand anatches overy moment finds it "more open and above wards theso pensions an moral obligation of making gins as head of the entire possible, whether in rain, fog or board" than the youth of her .......Paul Robeson obligation which, the Colonial retrospective s sixty cent.
snow, to get some exercise, | Salvation Army. Office Pensions' Committee Re-pre rata contribution for every
You could have seen the first On paper it looks so simple,
Girls now who follow the Barabas von Geczy Orch. port in 1936 expressly reiter dollar paid by civil servants this striding from one control brave blossom of the great Booth fashions, she says, are not
ated, devolved upon all Colonial another $3,500,000 must be
But behind her character to another.
you walked necessarily lower in ethical Governments-it has, in addi- added to the price the taxpayer record of achievement has been through Whitechapel one evening standards than their grand- ..Peter Dawson with Chorus tion, used as "revenue" the will pay.
mothers. substantial difference between The Telegraph has assailed the the genius and tireless deter 60 years ago.
There you would have seen of the most mination of one
Above all, she smiles on civil servants' contributions and existing system for several sums paid out to widows and years, on the grounds that, terrific personalities religion has William Booth lift his 12-years- modern youth for its love
old daughter on to a soap box sport the very thing that has. Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. orphans as pensions.
when Government ultimately Think of some of her great and tell her to preach the Gospel kept her young, for Eva Booth assumed its obligations, the day
still swims and rides, and it is The system now in force dates of reckoning would find the adventures. With fearless zeal to a hostile little alum street. back to a 1908 Ordinance which taxpayer in no position to meet she took an evangelistic and She talked from her heart, not long since she gave up tennis. abandoned the Widows and the inevitable additional burden nursing corns right through the that fearless little girl of 12. InOnly a few weeks ago she Orphans' Pension Fund then in that would have to be faced. The Klondike gold rush, sharing all a few minutes she had her challenged Lord Aberdare (52- [existence and paid the fund's announcement by Mr. Caine the hardships of the pioneers. audience allent, moving along on years-old bank balance of $380,000 into that, at long last, the Tele That was a typical thing for à the tide of her eloquent sincerity. National Fitness Council) to revenue. It is probable that graph's oft-reiterated the story that widows and or-tions are to be adopted comes phane of Hongkong civil ser-simultaneously with vants built the British section of nouncement that increased taxa- the Kowloon-Canton Railway is tion for other purposes
18 not altogether apocryphal. In- inevitable in the near future. cluding this $880,000, and in the Despite the Financial Secretake intervening thirty
tion years up tary's statement that there is to the end of 1939, Hongkong no foundation for the Teic. civil servants will have paid graph's suggestion that Govern- $5,004,849 to Governmentment has made a profit out of through a four per cent. levy on the existing scheme, the fact thoir salaries for contributions remains, that nothing Govern- to the Widows and Orphans' ment can do to-day by way of scheme, and will have received reparation will benefit the ma back only $3,699,631. The rest [jority of civil servants who paid has been spent by Government. into the scheme the excess The Financial Secretary, fa] money Government derived to hla comments in Legislative offset the Colony's budget ex-WITH the reopening of schools and is not the brilliance in the individual, of to-day is that formerly the Council Inst week, termed as penditure of early days. Nor colleges for another session the that once was the case. "mischievous" the charge made can Government to-day call world of education becomes alive That there is higher level and pairta"; nowadays it is education in by the Telegraph that Govern- upon the taxpayers of yester-after its long recoss.
the mass. standard all round
without goes
revents ment was making a profit out of years to meet the full cost The boy who returns unwillingly saying. As a race we are being
the more thin the Widows and Orphans' Pen-of Government which they to school' after the manner of educated, no doubt. But many would survey of the rise of education An Scotland. At first, as so many things sion scheme: nevertheless, over avoided as a result of Govern- Shakespeare's youth may find aggra- complain that there is not the same Sco a period of thirty years, Government's action then of regarding another change in sents education vidunt desire for learning and know- Church. John Knox was the Zilber vation in the thought that still infensiva effort; nor the same Indi- were, it was in the hands of the ment has received and spent poneion contributions as budge will make it
of Scots education is a TwáL FORNO, ledge. 82,205,218 surplus contributions tary revenus. That burden will at school nowadays till he ie: 15.
t necessary for him to slay to the achome and to-day has fall on the present or future
As a nation we have succeeded in for It was his plan and ideal But 'who
every parish should postal chout, not one cent to show for it. In taxpayer. It is going to be an little sympathy older may have | making a lot of education, but it may fees to be paid by the wondthy, diama
with him, for school be questioned whether we have not with free teaching for tition, it has evaded for thir- expensive day of reckoning for today win. We were young, with made too much of it for use of he While his idea was aver ty years the obligation it taxpayers who, in view of the the days when we were young. formerly assumed of contribu-jalmost certain Increases in taxa few half-holidays, even the youngest are going about B.Sc, and BA game extent, in that most of the do not desire it nor make use it accomplished, it was successful to For the older generation there wore How many M.A. ting towards widows and orphans tion necessitated by the Colony's had to stay in 1 9 o'clock in the glad to take the first thing that come 19th century were fostered by the
for job and
and schools of Scotland previous, to the pansions on cents for every
overy of sixty swollen budget, can ill-afford to afternoon, and very soon became to hand? Many high-class shops Church.
dollar con- dig deeper into their pockets in the regular hour of leaving. tributed by civil servants. With order
advertise for girls who must have What Scotland
WA 'to. rectify unsound
Nowadays, long holidays, half- passed the Higher Leaving Certificate, kafore, wireless broadcasts, the cut- Ing. for so many youths desire to adequately tell. They were malen ting down of home lessons, and the find a job where they do not require scholars could bring. A quinonLL WAK
ld, depending on wh ably paid, atever the cost, the pre-much more interesting and expert to take their coals off. and Orphans' Pension Fund had sent Government must at the ways of teaching must make school
that at candlemas the' schstars Westd it not been abolished, the credit earliest possible moment dig it-va. Its attraction even for the familiar with the classics as once sixpence to lial cro
On the other hand, how many are bring their annual zone rangida 200 balance
crown to-day would
dullest child, have self out of the morass created
was the case in Scotland or able to the fire were also ʼn Boramon donation, been greatly in excess of by unsound administration of Judged By Resulta
talk intelligenly on the political
Hugh Miller, in “My. Bchöpf land $8,000,000. In effect, Gov-civil service pensions by past
problems of the day?
School-masters" describes the strang ernment is under * moral Governments. For each year ever, Is Scots education, famed for
The question may be asked, how
custom; af giving the dominie obligation to pay this money to the action promised by the centuries the world over, any better
raised from cock- fikhung ne a Widows" and Orphans' Pen-Financial Secretary, is delayed, than it wast And by that I mean, an allround education has stamped oven. poorest cola sion Fund if such is re-establish- the taxpayer on the day of Docs it produce realia? ed, as indicated by the Financial reckoning will be faced with anto be that it has, auncheded in proving vocation. For
out the spontaneous desire for learn viralght from the The general impression would seeming or the spirit of initiative in follow-Boya were known Secretary.
addition to the bill of at least ducing a type of Scots citizen of and the one datinst difference between University at 15, thou Government now intends to $100,000.
average Intelligence, but that there the education of the past and that
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