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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 4, 1920 - M rp . J t v -pv - ;i nV r I III: f : , ; . r ' n If J i. i ."' ,,. n o Army worker, H. Keith Stayton, prom- f P if " ' " ' --. 1 v -lW Urd bride of lllard S. Evans. e " ' 0it4," I Captain Clarence A. Miller ana Captain Catherine, A. Miller aometlmea re- i I . J Jv lw Romance Goes Hand in Hand With Her Humani tarian Work and When She Marries She Stays Married, Judging From the Army's "No Divorce" Record. LL i ft s Captain Martaa Irwin, wedded to Captain Ralph MUler. Captain isei Johnston, the bride of Lteutenant M'illiam Slater. or,: BY HELEN B. HOFFMAN. IT Is quite likely that you have as sociated the tambourine with the Salvation Army. Perhaps you have not thought of wedding bells as being quite as appropriate to the back ground of that Interesting bonneted company. Tet Salvation lassies do marry. If you looked at the record for June alone you must suspect that they marry pretty much like other folks. What is more, Salvation lassias seem to stay married. Divorces are not only unfashionable in this division of human service, but a "no divorces" record Is said to have been estab lished. Anyone knowing the vast amount of time given by the Salvation Army lassies to helping unfortunate mem bers of society would never, for a moment, dream that these same young women wearing the stiff blue uni forms and unromantie looking bon nets, would have time to think of themselves and their own happiness and comfort. They haven't, as a matter of fact They find happiness and satisfaction In their work in the work to which they have dedicated their lives. Nev ertheless, Cupid. has a mysterious and unexpected .way of making his Influ ence felt, and when romance crept Into the lives of several of the Army workers, young people working side ty side, drawn to each other by. the . earns interests. It seemed the most natural thing in the world for the romance to develop. From Dongbnnta to Wedding Rings The record of Salvation Arjiy ro mances and marriages might easily provide a standard for idealistic mar ried life. In the whole history of the work of the Army In this country, no divorce scandal has marred its peace ful routine. With divorce suits chok ing the business of the courts, this record puts Salvation Army marriages In a class by themselves. "As a matter of fact," an officer of the Army explained, "we have no policy on divorce, for the' subject has never confronted us." "Why. then," it was asked, "in this day of reckless divorce, are Salvation Army workers immune from this so cial epidemic, which is steadily in creasing?" , "Simply because' marriage among Salvation Army workers is not en tered into lightly," explained a leader of the Army. It is urged that young people know each other at least six months before marrying. Thi helps them to avoid making the mistakes ao many make when they rush into marriage after a mere introduction. "Another reason I think for suc cessful marriages among the Salva tlon Army, may be attributed to the fact that the husband and wife share the same interests. They continue their work In the Army after mar riage, and as both have a common working Interest, neither becomes bored when the other discusses some thing be or she cannot comprehend of cares nothing about. I believe if more people found mutual Interests in their married lives there would be (ewer divorces." The first of the Jane brides. Miss Tlolet McAllister, was one of the orig JnAl "doughnut sifla" la France, Siie Is one of the heroines who loomed large In the world war, and being young and pretty' besides, it Is no wonder that Captain Harry Booth, who was sent to France to help with the work of the Salvation Army at the conclusion of the war, should have lost his heart at once to his attractive little co-worker. At the Army canteen in Brest Miss McAllister met hundreds of the khaki clad boys she had cooked doughnuts for near the front line trenches. They poured through this canteen en route home and their remarks of admira tion for the courageous young woman who had served them hot coffee and doughnuts under fire and shell only deepened the feeling which Captain Booth had come to entertain for this heroine of the many drives. Miss McAllister, who has been In charge of a Salvation corps of Phila delphia, was married June 10 to Cap tain Booth In Memorial Hall, Phila delphia, and no bride had a prettier wedding. Captain Booth and his bride will reside, in Des Moines, Ia.7 where he is in charge of the Army work. The young bride will assist her hus band in his work there, remaining a captain in the Army. A recruit to the Salvation Army and a husband are identified with Lieu tenant Kate Hillman's romance, for Mars and Cupid led Jamea Dempster Into the ranks of the Salvation Army. James Dempster formerly of Pat erson, N. J., while employed in the finance department of the United States army Q. M. C. supply depart ment at Camp Dix during the war, met Miss Hillman. Dempster, young and homesick, made frequent visits J 8 3 3 20 Violet McAllister, one of the or...l doughnut artrla In mranee and now the bride of Captain Harry Booth whom ahe met 'over there." to the hut conducted by the Salvation Army. His comrades joked him on his abnormal appetite for doughnuts, but as It turned out. the object of hie spare time visits was really Miss Hill man. Later on he told her about It. She Captain Clarence A. Miller and Captain Catherine A. Miller sometime celved one another's mail by mistake. And that la how thia romance began. said she would not quit the Army to marry him, but that if, after the war, he still felt the way he did she would consider his proposal providing he would joint the Salvation Army. Ke gladly agreed to this. Today he is a cadet at the Army training college In New Tork city. He will graduate with with the rank of lieutenant this month, and then his official engage ment will be announced. Another war-time romance, which will end In a Salvation Army wedding this month, will be that of Verner Van Syckle, a former member of the naval air service and at present a cadet in the Salvation Army training college In New Tork City. Before young Van Syckle went overseas he was stationed at Provi dence. R- I. The young aviator had no Intention of joining any other army than Uncle Sam's when he left his home in Easton, Pa., for war duty. But at the Providence canteen he met Miss Ollle Smith, or to be exact. Lieutenant OUie Smith. "One day I asked Miss Smith how she'd like to become Mrs. Van Syckle, and she said that would be fine, if I would become Lieutenant Van Syckle of the Salvation Army," said the young man, telling of his romance. "I was glad of the acceptance, and of the invitation as well. I had a great admiration for the work the Army was doing for the men, and so M'ss Smith and I had art understanding before I sailed overseas." Cadet Van Syckle received the French order of merit for his services abroad. He spent a year and a half "over there" and then came home and entered the training college of the Salvation Army. After their wedding In Providence they will take up their Salvation Army wsjrk together. When Captain Catherine A. Miller marries Captain Clarence A. Miller In New Tork another romance will be recorded without even a change In names. The romance of the Millers began last autumn in Asbury Park. N. J, where Miss Miller, who had been doing army work In Michigan, was taking her vacation at the Salvation Army rest home. Captain Clarence Miller was conducting meetings at the New Jersey resort when they met. Fate decreed that their acquaintance should continue, for both were trans ferred to work at the New Tork head quarters at about the same time. Cap tain Clarence A. Miller is connected with the legal department of the army and Captain Catherine A. Miller is a member of the editorial department. Their romance was brought about by the similarity of names. Captain C- Miller received Captain C Mlller'i mail and telephone calls would not Infrequently go to the wrong Captain Miller. So the upshot of it was that Captain Cora Booth, the bride of Cap tain Peter Johnston. they decided that two Captain Miller in one family would not be so confus ing as two Captain Millers unmar ried. k Romance and Bnmanltarlanlsm. Captain Ralph Miller is following the example of his brother Clarence this month by taking a bride, who as Captain Martha Irwin served as secre tary to Colonel Barker when the lat ter was in charge of the Salvation Army forces in France. Another June bride Is Captain Agnes Johnston, married to Lieutenant Will iam Slater of. New York headquarters. And still another Salvation Arm wedding was recorded this month in New York, when Captain Cora Booth, now stationed at Port Chester, became the bride of Captain Peter Johnson. The last of this big group of June romances which had their inception in Salvation Army work is that of Candidates E. Faith Stayton and Wil lard S. Evans, who are the youngest members of this great army, which extends from coast to coast. Both these young people are still in training for array service, and ths army authorities have withheld offi cial sanction until they have had fur ther experience in army work. 60 the romance of the Salvation Army workers, in a way. represents the romance of the organization Itself In Its love and service for humanity. CITY OF NEWTON, KANSAS, BUILT ON YOUNG GEOLOGISTS KNOWLEDGE Water Alone Needed by Big Railroad Company and University Professor Discloses Secret of Underground River. ' A1 KANSAS university freshman and a professor fell into step on Massachusetts avenue one day last fall and began to climb the long hill up Mt Oread together, says the Kansas City Star. The conversa tion lagged. To put his new acquaint ance at ease, the professor asked him what part of Kansas he came from. Newton," said the freshman. The professor pondered for a moment, then: Hm Newton: that's where they have so much trouble with their wat er supply, isn't it?" "Why, no!" said the freshman, los ing his reticence In the Interests or his home town: "we've got the best water supply In the state of Kansas." How come?" the professor asked. with a twinkle In his eye. Well, you see, there's an under ground river six miles west of town. At least they call It that. All they had to do was to s'nk a lot of deep wells and connect up a pipe line. We've got water enough for a city the size of Wichita, or maybe Kansas City. As fast as the town grows a couple of hundred or a thousand, they sink another well." ' What Professor Might Have Added. "That makes it nice," said the pro fessor with a twinkle In his eye. ' "I'll say It does," the freshman agreed. And when he touched his cap and turned off into the Y. M. C. A. a few minutes later he was observing to himself that these professors were interesting old chaps, after all. Professor Erasmus Haworth eon tlnued on down the canfpus and climbed the steps of the geology building. There, on the wall of his private office was a geological map of Kansas. The professor stood in front of it a few moments, tracing with his finger "an old dry river bed that centuries ago was the Smoky Hill, down through McPhereon and Harvey counties, where it passed to the west of the town of Newton. The fresbmaa b4 JtoW the txuOi . abeuJt the underground stream. But he had given only half the story and the half which Professor Haworth could have told, but didn't, is this: "Back In the early '90s, Newton, Kan., was an inconsequential station on the Santa Fe, a muddy main street, a cluster of stores and a few hundred inhabitants. The railroad division point was BO miles west. But certain high Santa Fe officials studied the map one day and discovered that Newton was the logical point from which to run a line south through Wichita Into Oklahoma and Texas. Looking ahead a few years, they saw the wealth of traffic from this fer tile southwestern territory pouring into the Santa Fe arteries at this strategic point. Water Meant Division Point. The railroad officials went to the mayor of Newton and said: "We want to make Newton a divi sion point. We want to cut a line south from here into Wichita, down through Oklahoma and Texas. But we must have water. A few hundred gallons a day won't do. We've got to have it by the thousand gallons enough to water all our engines for the long runs east and west. What can you do for us?" - Newton couldn't do much. The town's water supply was pathetically small. A few pumping wells and cis terns to catch the surface water, those were about all. The townspeople had barely enough water to supply their own needs, certainly not enough to share with two or three hundred thirsty railroad locomotives. "Give us a year or two," said New ton, "and we'll see If we can't find some water somewhere." And with out making any definite promises. the Santa Fe officials said they'd see. Newton thumped its brow and sent out a hurry call to Kansas university. "Send us somebody to locate wat. i er," it implored. "None of your magic peach-tree wavers, or your storm brewers. We want eomebody "who knows where water is and how to get It. Somebody who knows!" This urgent message was . turned over to the department of geology, and a young geologist by the name of Erasmus Haworth, who had been mapping rock strata and outcrop pings throughout the,, state for the last two summers, and teaching the science of the earth's composition in the winter, was summoned. Undersrroand Stream. He consulted his maps when he saw the telegram from . wton and smiled. The summer before he had worked out the course of an old river bed down through central Kansas,- and he knew or thought he knew exactly what was going on in the sand strata hundreds of feet below the surface of that dry channel. His map told him that the stream had passed within a few miles of Newton. His knowledge of geology told him that millions of gallons of water had worked down through the loose soirt and that undereath the dry" river bed a vast stream was moving slowly through the sand across a bed of shale. . " . This knowledge he verified by trac ing the stream up through McPher eon, where several large wells had been drilled, and farther, north to Lindsborg, where the old "ghost river bed' joined the present channel of the Smoky HilL So when he packed his bag And took the train at Lawrence" for Newton he already knew, within .a mile or two, where Newton's water supply was coming from. A committee met him at the train. They hired a livery rig and drove him, according to his instructions, west of town. He spent one after noon driving about, squinting at the surface, chipping a few rocks, crum bling some soil between his fingers, h en. h took the train back to Lawrence. His trip cost the town of Newton: Professional serr1c .........'.$ 6.00 Railroad (are (estimated) 4 00 Meals. Pullman 2.00 Livery hire 1.50 Total .113 50 A few days later his written report went back to Newton. It told where to drill to get the largest flow of water and approximately how far apart to put the wells. If his report was followed carefully, Mr. Haworth assured the Newtonians they would find an inexhaustible supply of water. Expert's Opinion Doubted. A well was drilled and, sure enough, it struck an abundant underground stream, yielding a flow of several hundred gallons. The president . of the Santa Fe was summoned to watch the test and he was satisfied. Then rose the question of expense. A bond issue was necessary to com plete the drilling and lay a pipe line to the field. Fifty thousand dollars would be required. he money would have to be provided by the commun ity. An element of doubt entered the minds of come, citizens. Suppose the test well had struck an isolated vein? Suppose its flow of water had been only a temporary freak? Suppose Ha worth's theory of an underground stream should turn out false and un founded? Fifty thousand dollars was a lot of money and the Idea of sinking it all in an underground proposition with nothing sure to bank on made many of the citizens hesitate. The issue was to be put to a public vote and the campaign reached its climax in March, 1897. With the town senti ment divided, the two newspapers wrote to Haworth at the university and asked him again to explain his theory so that 'the people would un derstand. They both made it clear tokhtm that if he expressed any doubt at all about the existence of the under ground river the bond issue would be defeated. He must either come out emphatically-and flat-footedly with the positive statement that the water was there, or hedge, as experts are sometimes Inclined to do, and cause them to lose faith in him. Both newspapers asked him to sum the situation up in an open letter through their columns. Haworth went over, a Is maps and his data again, and checked up the levels and the topography of the old river bed. He pondered the whole problem for a day or two, and then wrote to the newspapers. He knew the water was there, even if it was out of sight, and he said so. His letters left not a shadow of doubt In Newton's 'skeptical community mind. The bond Issue carried. The wells were drilled and the water gushed up into the pipe line just as Haworth had said it would. Then the Santa Fe brought its division point, and Its roundhouses and its repair shops, and laid them in Newton's lap, and within the next five years prop erty values in the town advanced 2, 000,000. All for an expenditure of J1S.50 and the scientific knowledge of a man who knew and was sure that he knew. The sequel of that story is found in the announcement recently that Pro fessor Haworth Is to retire from Kan sas university, after 25 years of serv ice, to become consulting geologfst for the big oil Interest at a figure which will carry from 60 to 100 a day. His knowledge, which in the past has been so valuable to the state. Is now going to reward him and his family in the measure of its value to a great Industry. . Curate Aviator Wounded.. ASCOT. England. Wing Com mander Bankes Jones, formerly cu rate of Holy Trinity church, Sun nlngdale, . is reported to have been recently wounded near Jerusalem. According to the Evening News, Com mander Jones was flying, when he observed a large number of Arabs, who had been causing trouble, and instead of shattering ' them with bombs he flew low to achieve his end by less deadly means. The tribes men, however, opened a heavy fire on . the airman, who received bullets through both thighs. Newfoundland to Preserve Souvenir of Hawker. ITndercarrtage Dropped When Fs. moil Trans-Atlantle Air Flight Besrun Presented to Museum. Maoris Investigating Theory. HONOLULU. Twenty Maoris from New. Zealand, have arrived here with James M. Lambert, head of the Mor mon mission of New Zealand, for a series of teats to establish or refute the theory that the Maoris and the Hawailans are sprung from the same stock. The Maoris will spend two months in the Hawaiian islands as guesta of the Mormon, church here. ST. JOHNS, N. F., July 3 The un dercarriage which Harry Hawker dropped from his airplane when he took flight from here a year ago on his pioneer attempt to cross the At lantic without stop has been recov ered, and presented to the publie museum for keeping with other ex hibits associated with the colony's history. The gift was made by W. B. Grieve, M, L. C, who purchased the carriage after fishermen had' picked it up off Cape St. Mary's. 200 miles south southwest from the point where Jt was dropped into the sea. When Hawker set out on his trans oceanic attempt on May IS, 1919, he flew over the airdrome of Frederic P. Raynham, almost on the edge of the coast. Within sight of his rival, who was standing by his plane un able to take-off because of an ad verse wind. Hawker cut loose his un dercarriage as a gage to contest for the honors of the air. and to lighten his load; then winged away seaward with Ireland as his object. Raynham. accepting the challenge, sought to start notwithstanding the unfavor able conditions, but he was unable to leave the ground and his machine was wrecked, he was injured and his navigator. Major C. W. F. ' Morgan, almost killed. Hawker, It will be re called, flew 1100 miles before engine trouble brought him down. The undercarriage was actively sought by Hawker's agents and by others as a souvenir, but search of the coast and of nearby waters, long continued, failed to disclose the wheels and their mount. Fishermen recently picked the carriage up off the coast, southwest of Cape Race, and brought it into Presque. where they disposed of it for a nominal sum. . " Northern Railway Wanted. CALGARY, Alberta. The most northerly trans-Canada railway pro posed Is. one to connect Great Slave lake with the Hudson's Bay com pany. It is claimed that It will be a valuable means of transportation for oil and grain from the north, A A i