| Show SUICIDE MANIA IS INCREASING Salvation Army to Combat This Evil Says Eva Booth MESSAGE FOR SHOP GIRLS WILL PARTICIPATE P IN CONVEN CONVENTION CONVENTION CONVENTION TION OF CHARITIES I I 4 WHAT EVA BOOTH BELIEVES 4 4 That there is a mania among 4 4 the unfortunate and poverty ty 4 4 stricken classes In this country 4 4 today for suicide and that un unless unless 4 4 less It is checked fearful results 4 4 must ensue 4 4 That the thing of paramount 4 4 importance to be taught the 4 4 4 great mass of working girls In Inthe 4 9 4 the United States Slates today to ad advance 4 vance the standard of morality 4 4 among them is love of home 4 4 That among the great class of 4 4 bums unfortunate and poor 4 4 men men the most important thing 4 4 4 today is to teach them the value 4 4 of a dollar honestly earned 4 4 That scandals in high society 4 4 in this country have no effect 4 4 whatever on the morals of life of 4 4 the great mass of poor people 4 4 throughout the United States 4 4 That the class of people In Inthe the 4 s 4 4 United States among whom the 4 4 Salvation Army workers labor Is 4 4 about 25 per cent better off to today today 4 4 day morally mentally and In Industrially Industrially 4 than a year ago to today today 4 day 4 44 4 4 44 4 Such scandals as the marriage of or Wil William William liam Corey Cory president of the steel trust to his actress sweetheart and his desertion of the wire wife who helped him to iris his high position In fn the tile world do not have hare one par particle particle tide of influence on the great mass of peo pea people plc Ille of ot the slums of or the United States nor noron on oil the people generally throughout the tho country among whom wo we work So said Eva Booth commander in chi chief f of the forces of the Salvation Army Arm In America last night In her room at tile the Kenyon hotel just juet before leaving for Los Log Angelo Angeles Society Watched There have been many scandals Jeand ls in the high bight society of this country tub past year yeara a number numb r of particularly bad municipal scandals have been brought to light but we find that they the exert practically no in fluence of or any an sort over oer the very poor people of the large and smaller cities or r upon th working girls and women of the country countr Commander Booth was in dead dead earnest Down under her window as she spoke the tha th Salt Lake branch of the Salvation Army opened up for the evening services at the corner of Second South and Main streets street The womans eyes e es lighted up and she stopped talking for a moment as the first notes of the cornet comet and the rattle of the drum came up to her from one of the thousands of little bands she heads in this country What is the most important thing the till working girls of this country should be bo taught to raise the standard of morality among th them m and help them better their condition Miss Booth was asked Teach them the joy jO of a home and give them a taste of home life was the answer That is the message I would give gie tonight to the working girls of Amer America America America ica It comes before cleanliness devotion to religion and in fact to everything els e ewe else we try to teach the girls we come In con contact contact contact tact with lith If Jf you ou could Issue but one ono message to tonight tonight tonight night to the poverty stricken despondent and Idle men of the country what would it be was asked Learn the value alue of a dollar honestly earned and never give up to the Idea that the world owes ow you yell a living is the ales mes message sage you could take to them th m were It the only one I could give tonight the com corn commander mander answered The time was getting short and Miss Booth wait walt for any anymore an more questions She talked of hersel herself her work wod and the conditions prevalent In Inthe inthe Inthe the country today toda among the slum set settlements settlements settlements It was a different woman who sat at in the tha th Kenyon yesterday esterday afternoon and talked of these things than the one who a year ago sat In the West est hotel In Minneapolis and ROO discussed her work A year ago Eva Exa Booth was thin her face tace was wan wait and pinched and she looked anything but a aleader aleader leader of or men and women Yesterday she looked the picture of or health Her face lace was full fun and wore a happy smile Her great dark eyes were less Jess somber than a few lew months m ago Wore High Heels Hees A peculiar woman is Miss Booth Clothe her in garments other than her uniform and you would still pick her har anywhere as asa asa a n woman of Individuality anti strong per personality personality Yesterday she sh wore a pretty and stylish blue dress with a high collar Her feet were encased In small shapely patent leather pumps and the heels were just a nice stylish height In fact she shelo looked lo ked quite satisfied and comfortable and would have haxe proved proc Quite a revelation to those who think a slum worker should affect clothes spring heel shoes and a few oth r kindred things She is about medium height Her hair Is black and curly curl and it fhle loose about her head Her hands are long and taper tapering taperIng ing anti and firm She shakes hands with you as though she meant It and she talks like a whirlwind One cant get a question In edgewise after aft r she is once started Her eyes snap with a peculiar brightness when she is interested in fn her hr subject and she clasps and unclasps ner nr I Continued on Page 2 SUICIDE MANIA IS INCREASING Continued from Page 1 This Is tho the woman who has charge of the Salvation Army Anny in America a Her father General Booth is commander of ot the Salvation Army Arm of or the world and the two will meet in Seattle Juno 16 when General Booth returns from Japan They will go at once to New York and General Booth wilt will sail for tor England returning next fall faU for tor an extended American tour Miss Booth returns west early earl next fall fail fallon fallon failon on a lecturing tour that will include Salt Lake She is the woman w who at l the annual convention of ot tho National Association of Charities and Corrections In Philadelphia last year ear was made the object cC of ot a viru virulent vim lent attack by bv E D man manager manager manager ager of the Minneapolis branch of the as charities Tho latter charged Miss Booth and her father with collect collecting collectIng collectIng ing millions of ot dollars annually from the public of this country and of ot making such statements as they chose as to the dispo disposition disposition of or tho money He lIe attacked the methods used by b the Booths in securing public subscriptions subscript ons and declared they were accountable to no one for tor the man manner ner xer In which they spent the tho publics money monc Ready for It This Year The Booths Th at the time timo prepared soy BOV several eral answers to the attack We shall certainly participate In the coming convention Of the National Association of Corrections and Charities to be b held in Minneapolis Minn Mina next month and while we do not ot anticipate any i such attack against our work this year we are prepared to meet anything of ot the kind that may occur said Miss Booth yesterday esterday The work of ot the Army ormy she declares re is steadily broadening in its scope No plans are under consideration ld at present for any departure from the regular line of tho the work of the Army The com corn commander commander mander talked strenuously of the num number numb b ber bem r of suicides g that have taken tak n place In Inthis Inthis inthis this country the past year It is getting so the first thing a de despondent despondent despondent man or woman thinks about Is self destruction she said last Jast night It ItIs Itis ItIs Is growing rowing worse and worse and I have decided that we shall work specially along this line Une next year at least she said I 1 believe the people throughout the country as asa a whole with will whom we WC are lre thrown In inc contact c are arc fully fUll 20 M per cent better off or today than they the were a year ago n o was washer washer washer her comment On lIn n social and industrial con conditions conditions prevailing at nt present among the poorer classes of the thc country It was train time when she finished j talking and surrounded by b her ht r secretaries Hides aides hurried to waiting carriages the hotel and was as driven down past the little band of ot singing Army work V I j ers ems on the street to the depot She goes oes to Los Angeles Ange 3 San Francisco Portland and nd then thea Seattle In her hel party is Com Corn Commissioner Commissioner missioner Kilby Colonel French Brigadier Barker Brigadier Stanyon Stanon and Miss Emma Bart Bail private secretary to the com corn commander commander mander |
