A Portion of the Text of a CBS Radio
Broadcast
by Maud Booth
Date Unknown
My friends behind the walls, this is a great day for us, the first time that this great power of radio has been used to send a message directly to you.
We have heard music to which other feet were dancing, we have heard sermons addressed to comfortable and happy people in their church pews and in the homes where they have listened around the radio.
But now this great company is sending to you a message of hope, a message that must make you feel that the world wants you to look up within those prison walls and grasp the truth and facts that even though you may have transgressed the law, you within those prison walls can learn a lesson.
I who belong to the prison world who have been going in and out of prisons for 40 years know you. I belong to you as your little mother.
Portion of the Text of a 1948 Radio Program Broadcast Upon the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Volunteers of America
And in 1896 Ballington and Maud Booth founded the Volunteers of America. Its purpose as expressed by Booth was straight forward and simple.
The Volunteers of America are dedicated to one thing and one thing alone and that is NEED. Its members will go wherever there are homeless and helpless, sick and destitute, aged and indigent. It will make no difference what an unfortunate’s race, religion or creed happens to be.
If he is in need he is qualified to receive our help, both spiritual and material.