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PA.GZ TWO. TRVSSDAT, JAlTUAST 22, l20t THE GASTOffIA GAZXTTX JAZZ MUSIC, SHIMMY AND OTHER DANCES TABOOED NEW YORK, Jan. 22 Old-fawhion d, keejt-your-listnce dunces, are to (lis place the modern Jazz steps, if the na tjonwide reform movement undertaken by the American National Association oi Dancing proves successful. '1 he dam- mivtors it is iinnouuceil here ing rount fathers nnnn the support of mothers, daughters, sons, dance hall proprietors, dancing teachers and hostesses and, if necessary the police department to exterminate the "half Nelson" "body hold," "Shimmy loek" and other im ported ballroom grips which are practiced by some dancers. Cheap and vulgar music is also to coim under the lau and, aceor.ling to a cir cular just issued by the association, thone in charge of community or public dances are urged to show their opposition to un desirable dances by "You will please leave the hall" cards to those who per mat in offending. The women, it is charged are often as much to blame as their partners and, in some cases, dance hall proprietors are ad vised to pick out ten or a dozen ob jectionable collides and, if a warning is disregarded, to oust them at once. "You will soon see," the circular reads, "that you have raised the stand ard of your establishment and that the loss will 1k moTe than made up by double the nninU'r of persons who li;ie respect for you and your dances. " j Home of the rules ami regulations which all are urged to obey follow: Dance music should lo bright and cheerful, properly accented ami the phrases well divided. Cheap, vulgar inns kr of the extreme 'Jazz' type invites heap, vulgar meaningless dancing. It is useless to exjieot refined dancing when. J the music lucks all refinement, for, after . it??, what is dancing but an interpretn tion of music I 'The Association has adopted the fob lowing tempos, it being impossible tin1 masters say, to regulate fast dancing: ' "Waltz 4N measures to minute. "Two-Step .... o4 measures to minute. "One-Step . .. 6i measures to minute. "Fox Trot .... 40 measures to minute. ' "Dancers should assume a light, grace- 1 ful position," say the masters. "There should be no jerky half-steps for these I cause undesirable variations. Partners! should not dance with cheeks close or ' touching nor should the clasp be tight. ! 'Neck holds' are positively unpardonable. The gentleman's arm should encircle his j partner's waist, his hand resting lightly j just above the waist line. The lady's! left arm should not encircle her partner's shoulders or neck . "Steps or movements that cannot be controlled should not be taught by danc ing teachers. Short side steps, first right, then left, when done continuously, are not conductive to refined dancing and should not be permitted. 'Shimmy danc ing,' a shaking or jerking of the upper part of the body while taking short steps or standing still, should not be tolerat ed palms. "The proper dancing step should be the same as a natural walking one ex cept in exhibition dancing, which proper- j ly belongs to the stage, not the ball- room. Exceptionally long or short steps i are not in good form. "Dancing should be from the waist down, not from the waist up. Copying of the extremes used on the modern 1 stage is in bad taste. KememlT that the majority of dancers desire to dance ( according to the best accepted standards. 1 Hint U nitlunit the slightest trace of j fense to dignity or decorum. " SHIP SERVED IN TWO WARS; NOW A BLACKENED HULL. ITALY IS TO HAVE A VICTORY CELEBRATION Rome, Dec. .to Italy has not yet had its victory celebration. The ceremonies which were to have taken place early this month had to be jKJStiwned because of the d'Annunzio incident and the unset tied political conditions. But prepar ations continue and when the palms of victory are handed to the heroes of the great war early next spring it will be a celebration not excelled since the most glorious days of the Roman Empire. Workmen are now engaged in inak ing highways by which the troops may pass along exactly the route followed by the forces of Titus and Constantine when they returned to Home along the Appian Way aiui made their way through the I ' ( . 1 1 1 a 1 1 Knriiin to the capital. The vie-' torious army will inarch under the f:nniiis arch of Constantine, through the an h of Titus, past the ruins ot the Col isseiim, which Titus built after his con j quest of .Jerusalem, through the historic j nuns of 'he Itoinan Forum, past w hat j remains ot the 1 emple ol the estai Virgins, up the Capitoline Hill to tin Altar of the Father and, the monument erected to the illustrious Victor Kmaniiel II. Since the days of the Kmpire the cen ter of Rome has undergone many changes and it will require much temporary re construction to make it possiblu .for troops to follow the ancient course of ictors. Steps have replaced the :m cient highway leading from the Roman Forum to the capitol. Consequently it will be necessary to build wooden roads oer these to ,n t-oumdntc the cavalry and artillery. I'art of this road has already been constructed and rises generally from the ruins of the tribune where Marc An tony delivered the funeral oration over . I alius Caesar to the level of the ap proaches leading to the capitol steps. ('auiion and ammunition carts and motor lorries will replace the chariots and inotars dragged up the famous Capitoline Hill centuries ago. There will be no elephants aud camels, no prisoners in chains. Hut aircraft will hover over the ceremony and attest modern man 'h conquest of the air, even though he has never been able to equal the art achieve ments of pagan Rome when it was capitol of the entire known world and nil dis covered portions of Europe, Asia and Africa were ruled from the very spot where Italian soldiers will receive their SEW YORK, Jan. ZZ. The passen ger steamship tt. l.ouis, with a record of having served with distinction through tw war in which the t'iwtei States was :i u-Migc r.".nt, and ia the interval carry ing j .tssciiger a rosa .iie Atlantic under the American rlag, is now a blackened 1. 1. II. the victim of a tire -started by a painter's torch. Tin' big ship was being reconditioned at a b i yard fur service after her sec ond honorable discharge from the 'co lors" when the accident took place. Her owners, the American Line, say she can be repaired, but it will mean practically rebuilding her and it is task of many months. The St. Louis, was christened by Mrs. (irover Cleveland. Her construction and launching was an epoch in American ship building in that she was the first "ocean greyhound" to be build in this country. She made her first voyage in June of 1 !.). Under a contract with the Ameri can government she was entrusted with the fast mail of Kngmnd and Europe. 1'inler command of Captain W. Good rich, I'. S. X., she was equipped with heavy guns as an auxiliary cruiser in the Spanish American war. Her first adven ture of note was when she was ordered to cut the cable between Santiago de Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica.' Running up until she was under the direct fire of the nuns of Morro Castle, American gunners sent hack shot for shot and succeeded in silencing all but the mortar batteries of the fortification, while sailors were fishing out and cutting the cable line. On June Kt, 1SSIS, she captured the British freighter Twickenham which was taking a cargo of coal into Santiago pre sumably to be used for the Spanish fleet. She was off that port when Admiral Cer vera made his dash for the open sea, and -he brought to Portsmouth, X. H., the i.iiilured Spanish Admiral and 74f5 mem bers of the crew of his defeated fleet. In 101" when the United States joined the war against Germany, the St. Louis was one of the first American passenger ships to be armed and to defy the Ger iii. i a submarines and mines. She hail it'ii, y narrow escapes, and once was ac tually hit by n torpeno but without seri ous damage. She carried to anil troni Prance thousands of American soldiers and she was one jf' the last ships to be re leased from war duty to ret.nn to pur el's of peace. th Hard Question. 1 Mother," asked the little boy, "when tire goes out, where does it gof" "I don't know, dear," answered mother. "You might just as well ask me where your father goes when he goes out." BERLIN, Jan. 5. -taper protests notes - Three thousand in other words have been sent by the German government to Hie Entente charging breach of the armistice. I SOME BIG BARGAINS AT STOWE'S FOR THIS WEEK ONLY For the remainder of this week we are offering all our winter coats, coat suits and sweaters at a discount of 20 and 25 per cent. All this season's goods. If you don't need one of these until next winter it will pay you to buy now. We also have 25 coat suits, up-to-date in style and fabric, which we are offering this week only at one-half the regular price. Fifteen dresses-Crepe de Chine, Silks, Messalines go in this sale, this week only, at one-half price. Remember these prices are for this week only. Come and get your part of these big bargains. H. P. STOWE COMPANY J. F. THOMSON, Manager. West Main Ave. Salesmen and Advertising Men to Lead the Way in 1920 By WILLIAM H. RANKIN New York Chicago The following is the creed I would suggest to increase production and lower the cost of living in 1920 : Work Work Work More Work More work to the hour. More hours of work. 8-10-12 Hours a Day. We're behind.., Let's catch up. Let us put more work into every hour and more hours into every day to serve as an example to other workingmen and the rest of the world. Let us do our best to make Progress and increase Production through more work done per hour and more work hours per day. Let's work with all our might all our brain all our heart to make the world see that the only road to permanent prosperity is hard work. The world needs more of everything. It looks towards America to produce. What will America do? Listen to siren calls of the false gods of unrest, or get down to business? Will we shilly-shally, parley, delay, linger and wait while the world starves? Will our American workmen be blind to the cause of the High Cost of Living? Will they continue to try to boost themselves up by their boot straps, in an attempt to beat the1 high prices? Will they fail to see that every disturbance every hour of "lay off" costs them more than their higher wages? Will they be blind to the fact that shorter hours, higher pay de feats the end they are seeking? That higher pay for less work means higher price for less of everything they need? Will they persist in their frenzied "dog-chasing-its-tail methods" un til the craze of unrest spreads to the farm? Will the farm hand demand a 44-hour week, and thus boost prices still more? Will the American workman continue to be the unconscious tool of Bolshevists and I. W. W.'s? Will labor act as a "cat's paw" and tinge itself in the first of discontent to further the cause of destruc tionists, who would make license of liberty and substitute immorality for morality? Will Americans let a few "born in bitterness" foreigners whip them into a tempest of discord, that will wreck their Life and Liberty. No, a thousand times no ! We have faith in the American spirit. Deep down in the heart of every American working man or em ployer is a patriotism as sturdy as that of the man who made the Dec laration of Independence. This was shown in the great war. It helped to win the war. It will defeat the insidious foe of American Progress and Prosperity, dis guised as the friend of the working man. Production alone will cut down the cost of living. Production means work an honest day's work for the farmer, the plumber, the carpenter, the office man, the office boy. It means work with hand, with heart, with brain. The price of prosperity is work. The price of contentment is work. Good, faithful service for good pay is the salvation of America and of the world. Prices are soaring. The old Increase the supply by work We are away behind on production, law of supply and demand always works, and prices will come within reach. Because men are now off their nrental balance, the country is off balance. It is up to the advertising men to work to help to restore balance, to reduce prices by increasing production. Increased production will make present wages buy more. It's the only way to break the vicious circle higher wages-less work higher cost of living. Most laboring men think that the men in the office, the salesmen, the advertising men and the clerks all have an easier time than they, that the inside men work fewer hours per day than the laborer or the skilled workman. Let's show them that that is not true. Let's talk less and do more. Let the advertising men, the salesmen, the clerks and their associates set the example by working 8, 10 and 16 hours a day. I know hundreds of men advertising men working for newspapers, magazines, farm papers, trade papers, billposters and outdoor advertising, advertising managers and advertising agency men who, during the past four years, worked 8, 10, 12 and 16 hours a day every day in the week in order that they might do their own job and work for the United States Gov ernment besides. These men are working that way now because they have to keep up with the presentday advertising production. But let us all go a step farther and let everybody know there is no eight-hour day in the advertising business, and by our example show our fellowmen that the way to lower the cost of living and increase pro duction is for all of us to do more work per hour and work more hours per day Saturday included. Give Prosperity a fair chance. Do all you can, and then do more for one year. Work Work Work. It's the simple, sure way to prosperity. Work only will win in the fight for greater production and the reduction of the high cost of living. But let the sales and advertising men lead the way. By our ex ample let us show the laboring men that we are ready and willing to work 8, 10, 12 or-16 hours, if necessary six days, and if need be, seven to bring up production and help to reduce the cost of living. Let us advertise that fact, and let everyone know we are not look ing for the best of it in hours, hard work or financial gain. sr
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