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Mosnay, OCTOBER 17, 1938.
THE DAY OF RECKONING
-Too
73 Young
A
to Retire
RUGGED face with December-is a retiring age, and will go
on commanding the Salvation Army which her father stern founded.
a young woman's com- plexion; a glance from over-large eyes gazing from 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 whose morass of
In The Gold Rush
REMARKABLE woman, this "General" Booth; a
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"You call this a bargain? Why, it ain't worth a cent more than
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ed from the shoulder; a paganisin and misery the first great cheering crowds on Before she was 15 Eva Booth smile of amiable humour, of the Salvation Army generals 2,000-miles tour of the British then suddenly a challenging plunged, declaiming his war-cry Isles. Front Land's End to was imprisoned for causing
in blood and fire.
disturbance by street-preaching John o' Groat's she strode in frown, a jutting of the chin,
in Hackney. Years later she You are too young to have triumph, addressing meetings in a sharp cocking of the seen the grent General William 10 towns-talking to boatmen, was fighting for the deposition head-
. Booth?
fishermen, bathing girls Evangeline Cory Booth refuses
100.000 people in all. to admit that 73—her age next
to
remuined,
to the
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
BD-5391 You couldn't be Cuter-Quick Step ..Henry Jacques Band
The Moon of Manakodra-Waltz BD.5388 The Blue Danube Swing-Quick Step
Black Eyes-Quick Step
The Ballyhooligans ......Roy Fox Orchestra BD-5377 You went to my Head-F.T.
Let a Song go out of My Heart-F.T. BD-5396
If it Rains who Cares-F.T. BD-5390 The Whispering Waltz
.Henry Jacques Band 1 Let a Song go out of my Heart-F.T. BD-5389 Palais Glide Medley No. 3....New Mayfair Orchestra BD-5393 Meet me Down in Sunset Valley-F.T.
Little Lady make Believe-F.T.....Jack Harris Orch. B. 8772 Just let me Look at you .....................................Noel Coward
B- 8779
Poor little rich Girl
Now we'll drink just one more ...Comedy Marmonists The Village Band
......... Paul Robeson
B- 8781
No More Negro Folk Song) En can ta dora Maria
B- 8780 The Wind has told me so ...Barnabas von Geczy Orch.
B- 8771
Kiss-Serenade (De Michell)
Waltzing Matilda....... Peter Dawson with Chorus
Walata Poi (Hill)
great
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
Two re-
lender.
of her brother; General Bram- well Booth-n fight to break the No matter. He lives again in his daughter That journey took her 10 days. dynastic tradition of the army. Its result was that General Evangeline. The same zealot. It was a mere preliminary to her look in the eyes, to he flashed on four months' pilgrimage through Higgins succeeded her brother; reeast the existing system and and off at will; the same im the East last year. Then she a new democracy came into the revert to a Fund which will be perious nose; and the same travelled 20,000 miles through army, but the Booth influenco independent of the Colony's un- benevolence giving away a India, Ceylon, Malaya, and the nual budgetary system. In do- stern look illustrative of eternal Netherlands Indies. She talked Apart from that one war, her
whole life has gone For years the Hongkong ing so, Mr. Caine promisea that damnation.
to 250,000 people. Telegraph has been as a volco a sun representing Govern-
From the beginning she From these tours she comes strengthening of her father's calling in the wilderness, draw-ment's present liability—ie, al ing attention to, and seeking the very least the money con- to work in the alums.
roughed it. Her father set her home, not to rest but to work vast movement.
Her work has left her little She at the army's London head- sound Widows and Orphans' it has spent in other directions sold flowers in the streets.
have been a astonishes her staff.
Sixteen might Government in this Colony's Fund. This means that the
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, 1longkong taxpayer must find a civil servants have been mulet minimum
Edgware-road; by 23 she took her home in Esher. of something
control of all the army's work tired women officers act as her and the concertina in her rare spare moments; often she will annually of thousands of dollars, preaching $3,000,000 to foot in London; at 31 she was com- personal secretarica. contributed by them to the bill which previous, taxpayers manding it in Canada.
Hers is a simple home, the awake in the middle of the existing scheme. Apart from should have paid. If compound
When she was 39 she became home of a woman of simplo the fact that, since 1908, interest is added as, morally, it
Eva Booth cats apar
Champion Of Youth United tastes. Government has escaped the should be, the total
the army chief of the isin States and was called the most ingly, takes a cold. bath every. unquestionable obligation that it eroased accordingly.
SHE is a loyal champion of should contribute pro rata to-ernment
the popular woman in America. At morning-"as cold as I can get also
modern youth.
theso
entire possible, whether in rain, fog or board" than the youth of her gins as head of the wards obligation which, the Colonial retrospective il sixty cent.
snow, to get some exercise. Salvation Army. Otlice Pensions' Committee Re- pro rata contribution for every
duy. You could have seen the first port in 1936 expressly reiter dellar paid by civil servants this striding from one control brave blossom of the great Booth fashions, she says,
On paper it looks so simple,
Girls now who follow the aro not ated, devolved upon all Colonial another $3,500,000
be must
But behind her character had you walked necessarily lower in ethical Governments-it has, in addi- added to the price the taxpayer to another.
as "revenue" the will pay.
record of achievement has been through Whitechapel one evening standards thun their grand- tion, used substantial difference between
The Telegraph has assailed the the genius and tireless deter- 60 years ago.
of the most There you would have seen. civil servants' contributions and existing system
for several mination of one 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 of old daughter on to a soap box sport the very thing that has ever known. 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 of reckoning would find the adventures. With fearless zeal to a hostile little slum street.
she took an evangelistic and taxpayer in no position to meet
She talked from her heart, not long since she gave up tennis. the inevitable additional burden nursing corps right through the that fearless little girl of 12. In Only a few weeks' ngo "sho that would have to be faced. The Klondike gold rush, sharing all a few minutes she had her challenged Lord Aberdare (52- announcement by Mr. Caine the hardships of the pioneers, audience silent, moving along on years-old that, at long last, the Tele-That was a typical thing for a the tide of her eloquent sincerity. National Fitness Council) to
If Gov-
assumes
She
pensions an moral obligation of making 68 she succeeded General Hig- it"-and snatches every moment ands it "more open and above
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The system now in force dates [back to a 1908 Ordinance which abandoned the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund then in existence and paid the fund's bank balance of $380,000 into revenue. It is probable that the story that widows and or- phans of Hongkong civil aor vants built the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway is not altogether apocryphal. In- cluding this $380,000, and in the intervening thirty
yours up
when
In-
is
Booth to do.
graph's oft-reiterated sugges- tions are to be adopted comes simultaneously with nan nouncement that increased taxa- tion for other purposes inevitable in the near future.
Despite the Financial Secre-take tion tary's statement that there is to the end of 1939, Hongkong
no foundation for the Tele- civil servants will have paid graph's suggestion that Govern- $5.004,849 to Government ment 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 Orphansment can do to-day by way of scheme, and will have received
reparation will benefit the ma- back only $3,699,031. 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
Long Pilgrimage
mothers.
Above all, she smiles
on.
chairman of the
hurdle, ride or dive on any day Booth Influence he liked. Lord Aberdare ad- mitted he was still good at cer- WILLIAM BOOTH thank- tain sports, but decided not to WITHIN two years of her
ed God for that tiny accept the challenge. 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.
helm.
Is Scots
Education What It Was ?
The one distinct difference between
his comments in Legislative offset the Colony's budget ex-WITH the reopening of schools and average Intelligence, but that there Council Inst week, termed as penditure of early days. Nor colleges for another session the is not the brilliance in the individual the education of the past and that "mischievous" the charge made "Ma Government to-day call world of education becomes alive that once was the case. by the Telegraph that Govern.
$2,205,218 surplus contributions
are older may have
ledge.
the
of to-day Is that formerly That there is a higher level and emphasis was fald on the "lad o' ment was making a profit out of upon the taxpayers of yester-after its long recess.
The boy who returns unwillingly standard all round
досл without pairis"; nowadays it is education in the Widows and Orphans' Pen-years to meet the full cost
of Government which they to school after the manner of saying. As a race we
are being the mass. sion scheme: nevertheless, over avoided as a result of Govern-Shakespeare's youth may find sggra- educated, no doubt. But many would survey of the rise of education in Nothing reveals this more than a a period of thirty years, Government's action then of regarding vation in the thought that still complain that there is not the same ment has received and spent (pension contributions as budge-another change in Scots education/ Intensive effort, nor the same indi Scotland. At first, as so many things Church. John Knox was the father to the scheme and to-day has tary revenue. That burden will will make it necessary for him to stay vidual desire for learning and low-were, It was in the hands of the
full on the present or future at school nowadays till he is 15.
of Scots education in a real sense, not one cent to show for it. La
But we who
An a nation we have succeeded in for it was his plan and ideal that taxpayer. It is going to be an Inddition, it has ovaded for thiX expensive tiny of reckoning for little sympathy with him, for school making a lot of education, but it may every parish should possess a school, ¡ty years the obligation it taxpayers who, in view of the o-day secina a picule compared with be questioned whether we have not fees to be paid by the wealthy classes,
formerly assumed of contribu- almost certain increases in taxa-
the days when we were young,
made too much of it for those who with free teaching for the poorer. ting towards widows and orphans tion necessitated by the Colony's few half-holidays, even the
For the older generation there were do not desire it nor make use of it. While his idea wha
nover really pensions on a basis of sixty swollen budget, can ill-afford to had to
How many M.A., B.Sc.s, and B.A.sacco youngest
accomplished, it was successful to are going about seeking for a job and some extent, in that most of the and very soon 4 came glad to take the first thing that comes schools of Scotland previous to the tributed by civil servants. With
rectify
o hand? Many high-class shops 19th century were fostered by the the regular hour of leaving unsound this and compound intereat financial administration of past days, shorter hours, playing-fields passed the Higher Leaving Certificate,
Nowadays, long holidays, half-udvertise
for.
girls who must have Church. added to the money which would
· Scotland owned What galore, wireless broadcasts, the cut-apprentices to trades have been lack- have accrued to the old Widows"
Watever the cost, the pre-ing down of home lessons, and the ing, for so many youtha desire to dominies at this time no one can and Orphans' Pension Fund had it not been abolished, the credit sent Government must at the much more interesting and-expert find a job where they do not require adequately tell. They were miser- balance, to-day would have carllest possible moment dig it-ways of teaching must make school to tako their coats off.
have its attraction oven for the
cents for every dollar con- Idig deeper into their pockets in afternoy in till 3 o'clock, the
been greatly in excess $8,000,000. In effect,
order
years.
to
of
self out of the morasa created dullest child. Gov-by unsound allministration of
civil service pensions by past Judged By Results erament is under moral Governments. For each year
$
The question may be asked, how-
to Ita
ably pald, depending on what the scholars could bring. A custom was On the other hand, how many are that at candlemas the scholars would familiar with the classica na once bring their annual fees ranging from was the case in Scotland or able to sixpence to half a crown. Pents for the political the fire were also a common donation,
תם
talk intelligenty problems of the day?
Hugh Müler, in "My Schools and School-masters," describes the strange custom of giving the dominia" fees But so
obligation to pay this money to the action promised by the ever, Is Scots education, famed for Mass Methods a Widows' and Orphans' Pen- Financial Secretary is delayed, centuries the world over, any better aion Fund if such is re-establish the taxpayer on the day of than it was? And by that I mean, It may be that the very success of raised from cock-fighting. ed, an indicated by the Financial reckoning will be faced with an Does it produce resultat
an alkound education lins stamped loyal was the education given that Secretary,
The general Impression would seem out the spontaneous desire for learn- even the poorest scholar could go addition to the bill of at least to be that it has succeeded in pro-ing or the spirit of initiative in follow-straight from the parish school to the Government now intends to $100,000.
ducing a type of Scots eltizen of an ing a vocation.
University.
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