The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-02-04
PROVES VALUE or PUBLICITY
Admits He has Been offered a $4,000
Year Position Soper De-
mands That Minister Get a Job
Before She Marries Him-Again.

James Morrison Darnell is himself
again and after few days of cum
fortunate seclusion,'' as he would put
it, lodging federal Investigators, he
has come out into the limelight. From
his home in Elmwood, Ill, he is ad-
vertising for work. Morrison is not
seeking q "job far from it--he is
looking for position. Tt Is a long way
from the first page-top Of column
to the classified advertising columns,
but this is the trip that the former Ke-
nosha minister has taken. Incidentally
his case shows the value of advertis-
ing. He was struggling along in Ke-
nosha as a good preacher unadvertised
Rt a salary of a hundred month and
now that he has been properly adver-
tised and his latent qualities laid fully
before the public he admits without
blush that he had an offer of $4,000
year to sell automobiles with an assur-
ance that in the second year he would
get $4,000. He is coming to Chicago
on Friday to discuss the proposition
with the managers of the automobile
concern. This just shows what adver-
Using will do to boost the earning pos
sibilities of some people.
Darnell admits that he is now adver-
tising for work.
Ruth Soper, the Minnesota young
woman who admits that she is the
mother of James Morrison Darnell, Jr.,
of the marrying parson, and
who was known as his wife in Keno
sha, has refused to marry him until he
gets job.
Miss Sopcr has had time to think
matters over since Darnell made his
descent on the marriage license bureau
in Minneapolis and was refused Ii
cense to wed.
Miss Soper is truer to her convic-
tions of F'woman free choice said to
have been derived from her lectures
heard at the University of Chicago,
than is Darnell, who originally inter
ested her in the philosophy of freedom
in sex matters.
"Miss Soper has decided that she
will not marry Darnell until he has
demonstrated that he is capable of sup
porting her and her baby as well as
willing" said Attorney Richard J.
Tooney of Chicago.
Miss Soper does not consider that
a ceremony is essential to the future
welfare of her child. That is not her
aim in having consented to convention
alize her relations with Darnell. She
loves him and wants to live with him,
but she is true to her higher ideals and
will consider the child first.
Miss Soper believes that a good
mother is all any child needs, or,
at least, that good mother alone is
better than good mother handicapped
by a bad father. In other words, Oar
nell has to prove himself before he can
wed this girl whom the world calls
ruined And this fact is proving a
spur to the young mans activities. He
is anxious to marry the mother of his
child"
Darnell is said to have made an eff
fort to find out while in Washington
what action if any the government
proposed to take against him, but the
officials of the United States attor-
ney's Office sent him away without any
definite idea where he stood.
Since that, according to Attorney
Cooney, Darnell has been pursued ev-
erywhere, Minneapolis, st. Louis,
Washington and Cincinnati, by phan-
tom secret service men, with pockets
full of warrants for his arrest.