The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-25
BY SUPERIOR
oFFlcERs-As STANDING CUES
TIoM8SoE BOARD TO PRO
MOTT OFFICERS IS:
AREYou#couRTING7 ANDiF so,
AYouNG LIEUTENANT MAY
BE DENIED MATRIMoNY FOR
THREEYEARs

The life of the average member of
il Starvation Army although by no
means bed Of roses, Is not without
its small p1easnresa and happy 40
rnents.
TaK about you training schools
orPolicenien soldiers and
4 GhssEssa NeE% ok
Times Fourteenth stree
New IBrlscs there is . training
ecisooI Of ie0sor moTe young women,
tseasarre roof, who are
kept%Figsdty 4 except when called
DETERMINATION Instruction IN tE2 a-t OF
courtsr marriage
PhisseiaoI OF courtship is not open
to everybody. The luckless swain in
society who is too timid to tell his girl
that he loves her, the coy maiden
who lacks the coquetry to bring such
sfaaswain to the proposing point, may
lind no comfort there. They must con-
tinue to rely on their own wit. the
advice Of friends CASUALLY found to be
worse than useless), or upon various
publications which may be purchased
for a nominal sum, and are edited to
ftall cases. This courtship school IS
limited strictly to 1assies and ladies
pfsfhe Salvation Army, who have been
chosen from local societies all over
the to become officers. None
8mustsbe.under 10 or over 40 years OF
g E.
Theresare only three of these train
ing chools in the United States
New FORK, Chicago and San Francis
cos They have two sessions a year,
winter and summer. The summer ses-
sion is NOV almost completed. The
New York trainingSschools 1.-THE largest
and the most important.
Fewa persons realize how the Saliva
ation-Arny is: growing. In 1896 it re
quired only 1000 officers to manage
the local societies scattered through
8 theSland.I In 1908 it required 3.343.
@Thisyear about 100 more will be re-
qnired. IN 1896 the self-denial income
among theSoficers-little sacrifices not
required Of officers N the regular ar
my-amounted I s26,369. Last year
l@it#was SS4,939. In the three American
training schools from 800 to 400 new
Saoficers areturned out each year to
fill vacancies, as substitutes, and to
create new posts. Unlike the regular
army cadet at West Point, the Saliva
stion Army cadet gets. no pay while
he is$4studying. He gets board and
lodging, but that is all.
Thes1ocaIposts in various States
seIect#the cadets for ohcership, and
ali money to send them to the
training schools. All east of Pitts
@burgsare sent to New York. all in the
Middle West to Chicago, and all west
OF the Rockies to San francisco.
lei exceptions. The army has
several Swedish and Norwegian posts
insthe8Northwest, and Salvation Army
forSthe@United States are there. Few
persons outside of the army nov tina
it is the intention of General Booth
to establish a. Salvation Army univer-
sfty o near New York city on a
Fery$large scale. The plans have been
drawn up and a considerable sum OF
one raised TO carry them out In
the event of the Generals death the
project will go on just b same, It
isgintended to found here a university
where from 5000 to 5000 students a
year shall receive a religious educa-
EI~tOnTGUlJe dSNliCl ouSH oo =
cefve at the Union Theological Semi
nary or any other religious college
The course will last two years, where
las at the Salvation Army training
schools it lasts only % weeks. In this
university ~coeducation will go the
limit, so o speak. but always under
the strict rules that obtain in the
training schools.
Supervision of courtship.
The Fcourtship and matrimony
course is not the only one in the train
ing school, but it is gone through as
thoroughly and conscientiously as any
other in the curriculum. The young
men and women are taught that court,
n ship5is quite as solemn and important
"a matter as marriage, and that no girl
should think of entertaining feelings
of love for a young man until she
knows him as she knows her Bible.
She may not take him off into a corner
by herself and&coo with him after the
fashion of tur1le-dove lovers the world
over. Her courtship and marriage is
more or less of a public matter so far
as the army is concerned. Her asso