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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
DIR. PARKHURST
Writes on
Modern Dances
They are fads, tofill up the
emptytime and minds of ,I
their devotees---A fund
to give the deserving a
RNzzazaaM
By REV. DIR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST.

THE estimate that one VIII pass
i on the troops Of men and
- women with whom, at pres
emit, ballroom gymnastics consti-
stute the sum and substance Of
life will depend on what one con-
siders to be the real nature OF the
delirium.
Even to call It delirium may be
a misuse Of terms, for 1t would i'm
ply degree Of mental !ntatuatioH
approaching to lunacy, and we
should be averse to supposing that
these stalwart men and beautiful
women are all of them candidates
for the madhouse. Such posi-
btlity cannot be quietly contem-
plated.
A broad view OF the entire situa-
ton leads rather to the conviction
that the phenomenon which we are
now considering is due not so
much to a disordered mind as to
emptiness of mind, 80 that what
is now going on is to be explained
ON the familiar principle that ma
ture abhors a vacuum, and that
these people are throwing them
selves into these fantastic gambol.
ings in order to satisfy an aching
void
The object is to get rid Of the
emptiness, and when that Is the
object It does not make 30 much
difference what 1t is filed in with.
They are in this respect like GER
tain fish that always 60 through
the water with their mouths open,
everything being grist that comes
to their mill.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
Questions Answered

founded the first English colony
In New England. The Puritans
came a few years later and
founded Boston. or the "Massa-
chusetts Bay Company"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
Never Any Good.

Never Any Good.
Still. when n man doesn't like
his wife's housekeeping. or thinks
she spends too much money
bling !-he begins lafnbasting her
cooking and extravaganza. And
she goes on burning the roast,
and making dish water coffee,
and buying imported lingerie and
French hats.
IL a woman objects to her hus-
bands belonging TO a club, or
smoking, she keeps busy, day in
and day out, pegging away with
her little hammer--knock- knock
knock, and still he puts on his
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

inclination to revenge our hurt
pride by persisting in doing the
thing we were censured for doing.
OF course il we we're the grand
noble creatures we should be, bent
on our highest self development,
when our attention was called to
our faults we would devote our
energies to building up and
strengthening the weak spots in
our characters. That would be
the logical thing to DO, but alas,
which Of us are logical, when 1t
comes down to brass tacks with
us?
A Sure Tip.
Surely this alone should fur
nish tip to the knockers that It
would be better to throw away
their hammers and get busy
spreading the salve II they want
results. AS matter of fact,
everybody knows that all you've
got to do to make a woman break
her neck Is to dangle a little fiat
terry before her. She will go for 1t
every time, and so l advise the
husband who bemoans his wife's
bills to try praising her economy
a little. Let him discourse before
company upon her thrift and
what help she IS. and, my word
for 1t, she viii put a Yale lock on
her pocketbook that it will take
professional safe cracker TO
undo.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

DUHo attention has sesa
called to the Establishes;
Of fund to be made avail.
able under easy conditions to nan.
pie OF approved character upabl.
to furnish other security, but vbo
by the aid Of temporary loan nav
be able to make a start in TIA
world. and after a time return TIA
loan with the addition OF a small
amount Of accumulated interest
Tho names associated with I'm
undertaking are of men amply
able to endow the scheme and 10
administer It with discretion. Il
is not charity but business, and vet
like all business that is transacted
by men with Christian impulses
favored with human consideration.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17
How do you talk into the telephone?


Do you bow and smile and make faces at it when you
saying Good morning fend7 Or have you become real
telephone user? And do talk all sorts of friendly things into
the telephone with change Of expression your face?
That should interest you for has meaning Some people
step from the telephone and make small bow when they
say Good morning"
your laid back fiat against your head do they
stand out?
1t considered beautiful to have them fiat against the
head But they better for when they stand An
standing catches the sound FROM IN FRONT
II does catch the sound well from behind the projecting
ear But longer in danger of
troubles from behind probably the projecting barring the
uQliness, Is the kind most desirable
Does your face change you get older7
IT OUGHT TO.
successful he gets older usually his get
bigger.
And he ought notice his lower jaw Determine
on and the exercise of will power brings out the jaw Many
in his old age who lived worked thought wed
terminedy has his lower jaw half inch farther than
when he started as young man.
Women ought to notice considerable change in their
heads pass they their brains they will find
that their forheads get higher and sagher And they
md other changes in the shape of the skull.
man who thinks very hard dies with skull very much
nner than would have been he had thought less And that
is interesting.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16
THE LARGER VIEW.
People viii Buy by Mail, Because
They Think the Article i'm View
is Few Cents Cheaper.

The reason why many towns do
not so ahead fast is very much the
same as those WAY the majority of
people achieve no great success.
Most people grab the pennies of to-
day, and disregard the dollars of to-
morrow. In the same way communi-
ties fail to take the larger view
and do not build for the future.
The majority Of young men would
rather quit school and go to work
for dollar a day, and continue all
their lives on small pay, rather than
so to colleges and technical schools
and fit themselves to earn large sal
aries at some time in the future.
The disposition of the public in
making purchases is much the same.
People will buy in distant cities and
rival places nearby, merely because
they think some article is a few
cents cheaper. BY so doing, they
help build up some place in which
they have no stake and no interest.
In nine cases out of ten the out
side purchase, is not any cheaper.
The purchase IS made by mail. and
can't be examined, or it is made
hurriedly, without good advice from
"a friendly salesman. You can't get
something for nothing. If person
pays a low price, he is probably get
ting second quality goods, which he
could have bought for the same price
at home.
If the people of this town should
stand Loyalty by our own home en-
terprises, and make it a principle to
buy at home whenever possible,
there would be a new growth of
prosperity here. The larger sums
of money in circulation here would
mean more stores, more people en-
ployed, more money paid in taxes,
better public improvements.
Any one owning any property or
business here would see that proper
ty or business advance in value.
There would be more chances here
for young people and more would
be paid in salaries and wages.
Why not take the larger view, and
give more thought to the wisdom of
buying at home and building up our
own town?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16
THE UNDER DOG
A GRIPPING PLAY
Coming to the Grand Opera House
Decorah, Thursday Evening,
September "a.
DEALS WITH BIG QUESTIONS
AND TEACHES A LESSON
1t is IA Gripping. Interesting Drama,
and is Winning the Approval of
Enthusiastic AuGta ces
Everywhere it is
Played.

THE Under Dog" a grip ling and
interesting drama which is winning
tie approval and applause of big
audiences everywhere, is booked for
the Grand in Decorah on Thursday
evening, Sept. "a, and the follow
ing from the Indianapolis News
viii give the Grand's patrons an
idea of this great play.
THE Under Dog, a play new to
Indianapolis but one that will proba-
bly, prove a banner attraction at the
West Washington street playhouse,
opened a weeks engagement yester-
day to a well filled house which
voiced it's approval of the really
fine play which was presented by
a most capable company. 1t is a
rare kind of play to which faith
ers ought to take their sons, to
which mothers should accompany
their daughters. It's intensely hu-
man qualities, its two love stories
are blended and projected with good
stage craft and yet above, beyond
and all about this unusual play
looms the big n valuable theme,
argument, moral which vitalizes
without overshadowlng the play as
"a whole. Its happy ending comes
only after a rushing series of thrill
ling yet utterly logical climaxes
which make the performance valu-
able as well as memorable. The
young and decent chap who be-
comes "the under dog in the play
rs not unlike your own brother,
father or sweetheart in the begin
ing. 1t was even a 'commendable
motive But a first wrong step in
ours for him a torrent and an avail
anche of circumstances too power
full for him to control. He becomes
a ward of society, a prisoner, pivo-
tai character in this play, but it is
fate and his misfortune which point
and balance the entire motive and
action of the play. Especially COM
mendable is the acting Of Jack Bel
grave, the under dog, Jane Bab-
cock as Jean Evanstone, Leo Lind
hard in the role Of Larrie McKanne,
IneZ Ragan as Bijou L.aFleur, Laura
Heinrich as Mrs. Wilmer. and John
DeArnold as Andrew Michaels.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

II Is COMING FALL"

When the family shivers about
IN the morning and the wife insists
that a fire in the furnace is an
evening necessity, whpn the birds
begin to gather in focks, when the
threshing is all over and the fall
plowing begins it's coming fall.
There's something that comes
with it, feeling of something gone
and lost. The summer has gone so
soon and it was a good summer.
Most summers are. And now the
fall comes with its changing and
tickle weather, the forerunner of
change and of winter.
Instinctiyely we dread winter. 1t
is an inheritance from our forbears,
the Earbarians who moved with
the sun or suffered in the caves and
huts of the primitive peoples. Win
ter with its sheltered and heated
homes is not a thing to dread but
the old feeling remains along with
the rudimentary muscles of the
first men. The first signs of fall
affects us as they affect the SOUR
rels and the birds.
But fall, when the first chilly
days of change have come and gone
is the most beautiful season of the
year in Iowa. An Iowa fall is a
delight. Sunshine with a tang in
it grateful and stimulating, long
smooth highways, brown woods,
harvest, garnering of fruits and
grain, of fragrant apples, lusty po-
tatoes, great loads of corn and
cribs heaped to the last board, an
Iowa fall is like no other season
anywhere on earth.
And the fall is coming. The chill
evenings and sharp mornings her
aid the frost that comes along in
September, and speak of the wne-
sap days of October, rich mellow,
full grown October. Then shall
come the first shrieking winds of
early November, the futter of
snowfakes and the banked fires
that shall never cease until April
smiles and weieps and laughs to-
gether again at the beginning or an
other summer time.
Taking it for all in all Iowa
weather is mans weather, as Iowa
lis mans place to live in. The
changes are grateful changes and
make for the independence and self
helpfulnass that characterize. low
ans. All in all it couldn't be bet
ter weather. Taken as she is Iowa
is altogether lovable, her weather
the best weather, her seasons the
fullest ones and her people princes
Of the earth. Come summer or fall
or winter Iowa is always Iowa. in
dividr2l, splendid, fruitful grand
old Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

it Will be well for all to be On hand
early and secure a comfortable seat
Governor Clarke has been speak.
ing in other parts Of the state tc
large and interested audiences, and
his frank discussion OF the questions
which are now before TRIP people
of the state are causing the people
to examine carefully into the real
merits Of the questions at issue, and
as a consequence the Governor rap.
idly is gaining strength in every por-
tion of the state. He is a strong
well-poised Iowa since 1856, in the
prime Of life, with an enviable rec
ord as citizen, legislator, and as
Speaker OF the Iowa House of Rep
tesen tatives, as Il eutenant Cover
nor and President of the Iowa SEN
ate. and lastly as Governor of Iowa
As speaker of the House, and as
President of the Senate he presided
with such ability, tact and impair
tiality that all parties and factions
were agreed upon the verdict that
no other person who had held these
important and responsible positions
excelled him.
Governor Clarke, like hundreds OF
other mon of prominence in Iowa
and the United States sprang from
sturdy parents who were pioneer
farmers in the early days of the set
tlement OF Iowa. The Governor
spent his boyhood on a farm in Da-
Wis County, Iowa. receiving his ear
ly education in the rural schools of
tne county, in which he was also
engaged as a teacher for some time,
later graduating from Oskaloosa col
lege, from which he entered the
State University of Iowa College of
Law, graduating therefrom in 1873,
in which year he married and set
tied in Adel, Iowa for the practice
of his profession. He has lived an
exemplary life in that city, and is
highly respected as a citizen by all
irrespective of party affiliation. You
are vitality interested in the ques-
tion now before the people of the
state. Come out and hear the Gov
ernor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16
GOV. CLARK WILL
SPEAK IN DEBORAH
Iowa's Executive Will be Prin-
cipal s. ker at Big Republic
oaha AEy in Decorah
'mber "a
PROGRAM A BE
HEN Y AFTERNOON
In Grand Operas LrnIse, Beginning
at Two O'clock. Governor
Meeting With Big Re-
ceptions Everywhere
: He A. pears.

The Republican county central
com, ittee has arranged for big
republican rally, to be held in De-
corah on the afternoon of Thursday
Sept. oath, with Gov. Geo. W.
Clark, Of Iowa, the chief speaker OF
the day. Owing to the fact of their
being a show at the Grand that eve
nng, the program will be held in
the afternoon at the Grand, and
will start about two o'clock. There
will be a big crowd out. to hear
Iowa's chief executive that day, and
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

THE announcement the president
is TO De candidate for reelection
will doubtless dampen the enthusi-
asm of the Bryan men, not excluding
the secretary himself, for no matter
how much he may deny he does not
seek the presidency it is generally be-
lieyed the Nebraskan has con
suming desire to receive the demo
cratic presidential nomination
again." says the Dubuque Times
Journal. 1t was Mr.. Bryan who
wrote that single presidential term
into the Baltimore platform.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

The war has been kind to Wilson,
in saving him from going on the
stump and trying to explain some
of the things which his congress
has done. Good as Mr. Wilson has
been in his personal attitudes, es-
pecially toward peace, he could not
explain the extravaganza Of a con-
gress, elected to economic thai
appropriated one hundred millions
more than the "extravagant" repub-
lican congresses that preceded this
one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16
CiYiliZatiOn2

IL is a truth that cannot be ig.
nored that the worlds belief In the
policy Of peace is less than skin
deep when real proyocation or even
opportunity for waging war arises.
In spite of fair-weather conferences
throughout Chrisendom, and all
that has been dreamed at the Ha-
que, there is needed only a spark in
the realm Of international dissen-
sion, and flame leaps into being.
A scratch on the fabric of civiliza-
ton reveals the ancient reliance
upon brute force.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

If the Germans lick the French
the Russians whip the Austrians
and the Germans take Paris and
the Russians Vienna and Turkey
crosses the Bosphorus and Italy
jumps the Turks and sthe English
fleet commands the seas and the
Iowa corn crop turns out bigger
than expected and Connolly gets the
distance flag and Waterloo wins the
pennant, what kind of a winter do
you suppose we are going to have?
asks the Marslt1lltown Times-Re-
publican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

Greenville (O.) Courier: The
very principle of Protective Tariff is
exemplified in municipal ordinan-
ces throughout the United States,
wherein carpet baggers foreign
tradesmen are assessed license
Tariff fee-to do business against
local dealers. Such Protection is as
natural and as reasonable as is the
Protection any father would offer his
family.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

The job of living with hot tenn
pered woman in the summer time is
worth a medal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

How would it do to drop a few
bombs on the price of sugar." sug-
gests the Iowa City Citizen.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

A man who can dispose of his
troubles for consideration is a
genius.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

The crouch is the limit of some
mems depth of feeling.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16
PRICES MAKE 1914
|0WACROp MARVEL
Agricultural Department Declares
1t Exceeds That of 1912.
of 1912
TOTAL VALUE 1857 .S10,3OO
Si9,S5S,5iO GREATER THAN '13
Figures Are Based Upon Size o
Yield and Probable Prices to
BE Secured.

Iowas principal grain crops iris
year are valued at $357,S19,300,
or S49,S5S,540 greater than the
crop ofI913 and $S9,5O1 900 great
er tran the crop of 1912, according
to figures prepared by the Iowa de-
partment of agriculture based up
on the estimates for 1914 issued by
the United States department of
agriculture.
In arriving at the value of the
grain crops for this year, the price
paid to the farmer at the present
time was used. The figures for the
former years are based on Dec. pri-
ces.
Worth. More in December.
The department. says that usually
the December price is 10 cents a bu-
shell higher than the September price
so that the 1914 crop will be worth
considerable more Dec. l than at
ipresent.
The value of the principal grain
grown this year follows:
Corn-365, 100000 bu. at 6Oc
$219, 100000.
! Winter wheat-1O,346,OO bu at
$1O5, $1O,SB6,3O0.
Spring wheat-4,72O,OOO bu. at
$1.o5, $4,956,OOO
Oats-15S, 100000 bu. at 45c,
$71,100,OOO.
Barley-1O,2OO,OO bu. at soc,
$5,1OO,OOO.
Hay, 100000 tons at s12,
$46,SOO,O0O.
Worth More Than 1912.
In 1912 Iowa had the greatest
crop yield in the history of the
state. That year the corn, crop was
36,36S,40O bushels greater than
this year, but the price was so low
that the crop sold for $67,30O,376
less than the 1914 crop will bring.
According to the Iowa department
the Iowa farmer was never so pros
porous as he is today. Not only are
the six principal crops due to bring
in millions more than in any previ-
Gus year, but everything raised on
the farm will yield revenue in the
same proportion. Rye, buckwheat,
alfalfa, garden truck, potatoes, ap-
pies, poultry, eggs, butter and all
other farm products are bringing
better prices than at any time for
the past fifty years, at this period
of the year, it is said.
Comparative Figures.
By way of comparison, the de-
partment has issued the following
figures on the tax principal crops
for 1913 and 1912:
For 1912-Corn, 421, ,36S,400 bu-
shells, value $151, ,69S,624; oats,
206,949,700 bushels, value $55,-
.S76,419; winter wheat S,13S,52
bushels, value $6,344,153; spring
wheat 9.4S6,7O0 bushels, value ST.
209,9S2; barley 9,587,760 bushels,
value $4,793 $50; hay 4,2S7,6OO
Continued on last page)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

The consolidated school district
is growing into favor rapidly" says
the Burlington Hawkeye.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16

~
the Pred
h fg don hastily
the an
drrdh
were
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-16
News Snapshots
OF the Week

kinds was at a standstill,
French army near Paris.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-13
WILSON, TO DATE
s@Uncle Joe" Cannon Reviews
Acts of the Administration.
Compares Precedent Breaking
With That of Lincoln.

Peoria, Ill, Feb. 13.-President Will
sons breaking of precedents in his ad-
dresses in person to congress. his aban-
donment of the New Years day White
House reception, and the progress OF
the Democratic administration in gen.
eral, came in for adverse criticism at
the hands Of former Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon at a Lincoln anniversary din
ner here tonight. The former Repubn-
can speaker of the house Of representa-
tives coupled his eulogy of Lincoln and
the Republican party with dire pre-
CictiOnS for the cOuntry's welfare un-
der Democratic rule.
"Mr. Wilson is our president for the
time being and the Democratic con-
gress is our congress. making
laws under which we all must
live, and we will obey the law
and grin and bear whatever ills may
come" said he. But the rainbow has
not come down in Illinois as our op-
ponents predicted it would ten months
ago when Mr.. Wilson appeared in per-
son before congress to deliver his first
prophecy of the New Freedom.
Meanwhile President Wilson is en-
gagged in smashing precedents- Some
one has said that a precedent en-
bodies a principle and the human race
has been living under precedents since
the days of Moses. The devil was the
first smasher Of precedents and he has
been busy through several thousand
years trying to smash good precedents.
I would not intimate that the devil
could even get into the White House
grounds with a strict Presbyterian
president on guard. but some Of the
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-13
INSTALL AN 0CTOPHONE
Iris Introduces Novelty in Nfusica
instruments.

The management of the Iris theater has
added another attractive feature of en-
tertainment to the popular place by in
stalling an octophone. The octophone is
new but one Of the most artistic electrical
operated musical novelties produced. It
is an original musical creation which is
sure to surprise the patrons Of the pop
ular movie house. Each part Of the
mechanism is located in different parts of
the house and sounded from a keyboard.
note is operated independently and the
vibrations fill the entire building.
4 .le vibrations of these instruments do
not have the mechanical sound which
often destroys the attracttveness but
every one is pleasantly and mechanically
tuned in a manner which win meet with
hear-J approval
All classes Of selections can be rendered
on this octophone. The keyboard IL cor
rectly timed and enables the operator to
render classical. sacred. popular or rag
time selections with the same perfection
and use as is possible in the use Of q
piano.
The octophone can be operated accom-
panied by any kind of a musical instru-
ment ard when accompanied by piano.
the results are highly satisfactory. AS ac-
companist to a soloist the rendition II
equally as pleasing.