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Show SALVATION ARMY'S "STATESMAN" V x S -s Gen. Bramwell Booth, who set foot on American soil for the first time a short time ago, is regarded as the "constructive statesman" of the Salvation Sal-vation Army. While his father, the late Gen. William Booth, is popularly credited with having originated many of the "material" schemes of the Army, the truth is that his son whipped whip-ped into shape a majority of the plans for the uplift of people. One of these is the life insurance company which the army operates in connection with its work in London. Some persons criticized the project, asserting that it was a purely commercial com-mercial enterprise, having no more right to ask for popular support than any other life insurance company in Great Britain. But in the establishment of the department, de-partment, Bramwell Booth saw an opportunity op-portunity to strike a blow at British tradition, which excludes from the so-called so-called refined employments persons who are not "to the manner born." In London especially it is most difficult for the son of a laborer or an artisan to rise to the position of an actuary or even a bookkeeper in the office of an insurance company; and the man who reaches the cashier'3 desk at a bank without the backing of an influential family must work a social miracle. |