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OCTOBER RELEASE Hongkong Telegraph. Evangeline Cory Booth refuses
BD-5391 You couldn't be Cuter-Quick Step ..Henry Jacques Band
The Moon of Manakoora-Waltz
BD-5388 The Blue Danube Swing-Quick Step
Black Eyes-Quick Step
BD-5397 You went to my Head-F.T.
If it Rains who Cares-F.T.
BD-5390 The Whispering Waltz
B- 8772 Just let me Look at you !....
Poor little rich Girl
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B- 8779 Now we'll drink just one more
The Village Band
: B- 8781
No More (Negro Folk Song) En can to dora Maria
Walata Pol (Hill)
..Paul Robeson
For
to admit that 73-her age next
also
commanding the Salvation Army which her futher
In The Gold Rush
REMARKABLE woman, this "General" Booth; a
A
Booth ?
No matter.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
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Orga, 1972 by Duttal Posturo Kyndere bes!
"You call this a bargain? Why, it ain't worth a cent more than it's marked!"
John of Groat's she strode in
remained.
B
Apart from that one war, her whose life has gone to the strengthening of her father's vast movement.
leader.
spare moments; often she will awake in the middle of the
day.
mothers.
оп
a young woman's com- will go on
a stern founded. plexion; glance arom over-large eyes gazing trom beneath the coy shelter of a big poke- bonnet; a bouquet of roses nestling in the folds of hat dramatic link with the Victorian ribbons coquettishly droop- era through whoso morass of
a Before she was 15 Eva Booth ed from the shoulder; "a paganism and misery the first great cheering crowds_on
was imprisoned for causing smile of amiable humour, of the Salvation Army generals 2,000-miles tour of the British
disturbance, by street-preaching then suddenly a challenging plunged, declaiming his war-cry Islos. From Land's End to
in blood and fire.
In Hackney. Years later she frown, a jutting of the cnu:, You are too young to have triumph, addressing meetings in a sharp cocking of the seen the grent General William 40 towns--talking to bostmen, was fighting for: the deposition of her brother, General, tram- fishermen, bathing girls.
well Booth-a light to break the head-
100,000 people in all.
Its result was that General That journey took her 10 days. dynastic tradition of the army. He lives again in his daughter Evangeline. The same zealot It was a mero preliminary to her MONDAY, OCZODEN 17, 1938.
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 perious nose; and the same travelled 20,000 miles through army, but the Booth influence
a Indin, Ceylon, Malaya, and the independent of the Colony's an- benevolence giving away to RECKONING nual budgetary system. In do- stern look illustrative of eternal Netherlands Indies. She talked
to 250,000 people. The Ballyhooligans
the Hongkong ing so, Mr. Caine promises that damnation.
From these tours she comes years
From the sum representing Govern-
beginning she Her father set her home, not to rest but to work
Her work has left her little .Roy Fox Orchestra Telegraph has been as a voice
calling in the wilderness, draw-ment's present liability-.., at roughed it.
She at the army's London hend I Lot a Song go out of My Heart-F.T.
ing attention to, and secking the very least the money con-to work in the slums.
have might
been B great astonishes her staff. Sixteen BD-5396 You Leave me Breathless F.T.....Roy Fox Orchestra remedy for, the manifestly un-tributed by civil servants which dressed in the poorest of clothes; quarters with an energy that to show her other talents, She
sound Widows and Orphans' it has spent in other directions gold flowers in the streets.
new
Even in her early teens she hours a day she is busy, if not musician instead of a religious As it is she plays the harp .Henry Jacques Band Pension system employed by-will be paid into the
Two re- Government in this Colony's Fund. This means that the was in charge of a hall in the at her deak in the City, then at I Lot a Song go out of my Heart—F.T,
civil service. For thirty years, Hongkong taxpayer must find a Edgware-road; by 23 she took her home in Esher. BD-5389 Palals Glide Medley No. 3 .... New Mayfair Orchestra civil servants have been mulet minimum of something ap control of all the army's work tired women officers net as her and the concerting in her rare
annually of thousands of dollars, proaching $3,000,000 to foot a in London; at 31 she was com- personal secretaries.
Hors is a simple home, tho BD-5393 Meat me Down in Sunset Valley-F.T.
of simple Jack Harris Orch. contributed by them to the bill which previous taxpayers manding it in Canada. Little Lady mako Believe-F.T.
When she was 89 she became home of a woman
Eva Booth cats spar-
Champion Of Youth the fact that, since 1908, interest is added as, morally, it the army chief of the United tastes.
SHE is a loyal champion of Nool Coward existing scheme. Apart from should have paid. If compound
Government has escaped the should be, the total is in States and was called the most ingly, takes a cold bath every
modern youth. Sho If Gov- popular woman in America. At. morning-as cold as I can get ..Comedy Harmonists unquestionable obligation that it creased accordingly.
assumes the 68 she succeeded General Hig-It-and snatches every moment Ands it "more open and above should contribute pro rata toernment wards these
pensionsan moral obligation of making gins as head of the entire possible, whether in rain, fog or board" than the youth of her
snow, to get some exercise. a sixty cent-Salvation Army,
You could have seen the first obligation which, the Colonial retrospective
Girls now who follow the On paper it looks so simple,
not Unice Pensions' Committee Re- pro rata contribution for every
had you walked necessarily lower in ethical B-8780 The Wind has told me so ... Barnabas 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
to another. But behind her character ated, devalved upon all Colonial, another $3,500,000 must be Kiss-Sorenadó (Do, Micholi). }
Governments--it has, in addi- added to the price the taxpayer record of achievement has been through Whitechapel one evening standards than their grand-
There you would have seen .Potor Dawson with Chorus tion, used as "revenue" the will pay.
Above all, she smiles E-8771 Waltzing Matilda
of the most substantial difference between The Telegraph has assalled the the genius and tireless deter 60 years ago.
for several mination of one civil servants' contributions and existing system
old daughter on to a soap box sport-the very thing that has 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 O
when Government ultimately ever known....
Think of some of her great and tell her to preach the Gospel kept her young, for Eva Booth still swims and rides, and it is assumed its obligations, the day
She talked from her heart, not long since she gave up tennis. she took an evangelistic and The system now in force dates of reckoning would find the adventures. With fearless zeal to a hostile little blum street.
Only a few weeks ago, she back to a 1908 Ordinance which taxpayer in no position to meet nursing corps right through the that fearless little girl of 12. In abandoned the Widows' and the inevitable additional burden
chairman of the 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 (62-
the hardships of the noncers. audience silent, moving along on years-old existence and paid the fund's announcement by Mr. Caine That was a typical thing for a the tide of her eloquent sincerity. National Fitness Council) to hurdle, ride or dive on any day. bank balance of $380,000 into that, at long last, the Tale- Booth to do.
he liked. Lord Aberdaro ad revenue. It is probable that graph's oft-reiterated sugges
Booth Influence
mitted he was still good at cer- the story that widows and or- tiona are to be adopted comes
with an phans of Hongkong civil ser-simultaneously
WILLIAM BOOTH thank- tain sports, but decided not to
ed God for that tiny accept the challenge. vants built the British section of nouncement that increased taxa
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Yes youth, In all but years, other the Kowloon-Canton Railway is tion for
purposes
He knew that some return to England to miracle. not altogether apocryphal. In- inevitable in the near future.
take charge of the entire Selva- day she would control the army is still at the Salvation Army's
helm. cluding this $380,000, and in the Despite the Financial Secretion Army she was leading of his dreams. jutervening thirty years up tary's statement that there is to the end of 1939, Hongkongno foundation for the Tele- civil servants will have paid graple's suggestion that Govern- $5,904,849 to Governmentment has made a profit out of through a four per cent. levy on the existing scheme, the fact their 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, in money Government derived to his comments in Legislative offset the Colony's budget ex-ITH the reopening of schools and is not the brilliance in the individual, of to-day is that formerly the emphasis was laid on the "lad o Council last 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 a higher level and pairte"; nowadays it is education in
goes without the mass standard all round
Nothing reveals the education in by the Telegraph that Govern- upon the taxpayers of yester-after. Its long recess.
As a race we ara being The boy who returns unwillingly saying. mont was making a profit out of years to meet the full cost
But many would survey of the rise of of educated, no doubt. mannor the Widows and Orphans' Pen of
Government which they to school after the
that still intensivo effort, nor the same indi-were, it was in the hands of the aton scheme: nevertheless, over avoided as a result of Govern Shakespeare's youth, may find aggra- complain that there is not the same Scatkind. At fret, og en many things of Scots education in (sarcal: benso, A period of thirty years, Government's action then of regarding vation the thought date to intralesist for lostring and know- Church. John Knox Way the Lather ment has received and spent pension contributions as budge will make it necessary for him to stay ledge. $2,205,218 surplus contributions tary revenue..
every parish should That burden will nt rebool nowadays ill he is 10. As a nation we have succeeded in for it was his plan and Idead" that Claser But we whs are older may have making a lot of education, but it may j (eds to be paid by tha<WP_Fybe dødrer to the scheme and to day has fall on the present or future
Foaching
was never, not one cent to show for it. In taxpayer. It is going to be an little sympathy with him, for school be questioned whether we have not with tree addition, It has evaded for this expensive day of reckoning for 10-day seems a picnic compared with made too much of it for those who while his
days when we
were young. do not desire it nor make use of accomplished it was success! ty years the obligation it taxpayers who, In view of the
How many MA, B.Sc., and B.As same extent, in that most For the older generation there were
job and Scotland formerly, assumed of contribu- almost certain increases in taxi tew hair-holidays, even the youngest are going about seeking for a comes shops of Scoter Pa
tani ting towards widows and orphans tion necessitated by the Colony's had to stay in till 3 o'clock in the glad to take the first
band? Many high-class shops Church pensions on a basis of sixty swollen budget, can ill-afford to afternoon, and very soon 4 became advertise for girls who must have what centa for every dollar con- dig deeper into their pockets in the regular hour of leaving.
Nowadays, long holidays, hair passed the Higher Leaving Certificate, What Scotlandown
adéquately tributed by civil servanta. With order to rectify unsound days, shorter hours, playing-felds apprentices to trades have been lack") dominies at this lime". this and compound interest financial administration of past anlore, wireless broadcarts, the cut- a fob where they do not require alors could bring
ing for so many youths desire to added to the money which would years, gam
ting down of home lessons, and the ways of leaching must make school and Orphans' Pension Fund had sent Government must at the way on attraction, aven for the It not been abolished, the credit earliest possible moment 'dig It-I dullest child. balance to-day- would · have saif'out of the morass created been greatly in excess of by unsound' administration of
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have accrued to the old Widows" watever the cost, the pre- much more interesting and export to take their coat of how many are that at candlemas the
Indeed By Résults.
On the other hand, how many are bring thele ennust familiar with the classics as one sixpence to half a was the case in Scotland or able to the fre were also talk intelligenty on the political: ti •Mutor; int problems of the day?
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| $8,000,000, -- In effect, Gov-civil service pensionis, by past The question may be asked, how-Mass Methods
ernment is under Ma moral Governments. For each year ever? Is Boots education, famed for oblication to pay this money to the action promised by the centuries the world over, any better It may be that the very success of loyal was a Widows and Orphans' Pen-, Financial Secretary delayed, than it was And by that I can, but the spontaneous desire for learne
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