Show Commissioner Smith of the S A Resigns LONDON Dec 5The Times announces Commissioner Smith of the Salvation army has resigned His resignation the Time says is most important because he formed a substantial guarantee that an earnest and busiuesslike effort would be made to execute the practical part of Gen ral Booths scheme of social reform The authorship of In Darkest England is now comlnon knowledge but a charitable chari-table hypothesis assigns General Booth credit for having written at least two chapters of the book Booths expla nation is that he supplied a profession writer with materials for tho work The Times believes when the whole story Is revealed re-vealed it will be found that the substantial parts of the scheme of city and farm colonies originated with Commissioner Smith Nothing but a sense of duty the Times adds could have induced Commissioner Smith to re sign at so important a juncture There must be something wrong with the scheme or the management of the funds Those who promised donations are now entitled to withhold them until I fnll and satisfac tory account of Smiths resignation is given He was the lie and soul of the socIal so-cIal roform wing of the army It is likely his resignation is destined to be the deathblow death-blow to Booths more ambitious schemes |