Message to the Volunteers of America on the 50th Anniversary of the Ministry of General Ballington Booth.
[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.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the Volunteers of America on the 50th Anniversary of the Ministry of General Ballington Booth. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209623