The Archive · 1939

Salvation Army's Leader

Having drunk suMiciont Niagaras of tea and lemonade, the Salvation Army High Council elected Commissioner George Carpenter as General. He received 35 votes and the second ea Gidate, Commissioner (Miss) -Bram-well Booth, got only nine. But it lad widely' been foretold that there would not be another woman General.

It is a strange turn in Fortine' wheel that only nine years ago. the new General was "banished" from I may also mention one made from the root of a Malacca cane, the native name of which is "woman beater: And one had always heard that the Malays were rather superior people.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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