Herbert Hoover: Message to the Volunteers of America on the 50th Anniversary of the Ministry of General Ballington Booth.

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58 - Message to the Volunteers of America on the 50th Anniversary of the Ministry of General Ballington Booth.
April 30, 1929

Herbert Hoover
1929

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[Released April 30, 1929. Dated April 5, 1929]

My dear Mr. Young:

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the ministry of General Ballington Booth is rightly the occasion for general felicitations, and I gladly extend mine both to him and to Mrs. Maud Booth.

Their work in developing the Volunteers of America into an organization of its present high social value is a distinctive contribution to human welfare. Yours faithfully,

HERBERT HOOVER

[Dr. Alton M. Young, Volunteers of America, Inc., 34 West 28th Street, New York City]

Note: General Booth, the son of Salvation Army founder William Booth, was the originator and head of Volunteers of America. At the time of the President's message, the Volunteers were holding a convention in New York.

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=22089.

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