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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

We so to the butcher shop
where we get the best meat for
our money, without reference to
the matrimonial status of the
men who run them. II would be
Just az logical for all married
men to cry out that bachelors
shouldn't be allowed 10 go into
business as II is for women TO
oppose married women working
outside of their homes, They've
got perfect right to do 1t If they
want to- and it's childish and
ridiculous for other women to
object to It.
Aside from her inherent right
to labor how and where she
pleases, the married woman who
continues at her old job has either
the necessity to earn money or
else she has some peculiar fitness
and talent for her chosen work
that would make her a loss to the
world did she retire to strict do
mesticity. II no ssleswoman, no
woman buyer. no milliner, no
dressmaker, no stenographer
should continue at her work after
she gets married, then no woman
writer no actress, no musician.
no painter should continue at
hers. That would he rather a
sQuelcher OF genius wouldn't it
Because women ordinarily marry
while they are young and before
they come 10 the full maturity OF
their power.
Yet the girl stenographer or
the girl behind the counter
doesn't compete any more with
the married stenographer or the
married woman buyer than
the girl writer does with Mrs.
HumphrN Ward or the girl ac-
tgcss does With Mrs. Sothern or
Airs FiSke.
The theory that every married
woman has somebody to support
her ana provide for her and stand
between her and the cruel world
is a beautiful one, but, uphappi-
Is. Il does not always pan out
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Revival Dancing
Caused Extremes;
No Wonder!
Dancing

The woman who had passed
thirty apologized if she was seen
dancing; and married people were
afraid to express a love for the
diversion lest they be ridiculed.
A beautiful and healthful and
enjoyable art seemed on the de-
cline.
Then suddenly change; an
awakening of dull minds; a lin
bering of stiff joints, new life in
bored faces; new interest in the
eldest of all arts.
The dance was reborn. And
youth was reborn in the hearts
and bodies and minds of men and
women of all ages.
Grotesque, abnormal. unbeau
tiful and even vicious were the
early contortious of this reborn
art. II seemed like some strange
creature which had been shut in
the dark so long that it became
half insane when let forth once
more into the full light of day.
SO cramped had it been with
its Incarceration that it flung it
self about in curious contortions
to make certain of its freedom.
But those contortions are now
becoming graceful movements;
and the insane expressions Of
liberty are resolving themselves
once more into the primal mean
ing Of the dance-the joy OF life.
Nothing more absurd, nothing
more unreasonable, could be than
the ban placed by various indi-
viduals on dances bearing GER
tain names,
One sees flaming headlines an,
nouncing that somebody IN pow
er, socially or otherwise. has sent
forth an edict against the tan
go" or some other new dance.
As reasonable would it be to
decry walking because it is posi-
BILE TO walk indecently.
AS reasonable would II be TO
brand music as an agent of the
devil because music has been put
70 evil purposes by the vicious
minded. There were certain curl
GUS dances, which sprung forth
like fungus croVths, and lasted
for 4 night and day, bearing
unwholesome names.
The turkey trots' deserved TO
be tsbooed; more particularly be.
cause Of the suggestion Of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Peoples Mandate on Canal
Tolls

President Wilson firmly reiterates declaration
of taxing American coastwse vessels using the Panama Canal
and insists that the repeal of the existing law must be effected
at this session of Congress.
He has taken his stand in direct opposition the expressed
win of his party and of the country.
On this subject the Baltimore platform said
We favor the exemption from tolls of American ships
engaged in coastwse trade passing through the Panama
Canal We also favor legislation forbidding the of the
Canal by ships owned controlled by railroad
rers engaged in transportation competitive with the canal
Progressive partys platform contained the following
declaration
The Panama Canal, built and paid for by the American
people, must primarily for their benefit We demand
that the canal shall be operated to break the ranspor
aton monopoly held and misused by the ransontinen
railroads by maintaining competition with them that
ships directly indirectly owned controlled by American
railroad corporations shall permitted the canal
and that American ships engaged coastwse trade shall pay
tolls.
Wilson also that e292 718 cast
for the Democratic Presidential electors and 29 votes
cast for the Progressive Presidential electors total ObO4
of O37 cast leaving but 436890
for other Presidential electors The 1050 votes
Wilson Roosevelt in favor of the plat
form declarations of those two parties which respect Pan
Canal tolls practically identical So have 35047
American favong the exemption of American vessels
the payment of Canal tolls in coaswse trade and
1899 800 silent on the subject
Seventy every Presden
ta election favored the exemption of American vessels from the
payment of tolls using the Panama Canal when engaged the
coawse trade These lat American voters may
troll much newspaper prominence gentlemen
neced with the transconnenta railways and their friends in
Wall Street The opposition of these rulers of traffic and their
newspaper organs the exemption of American vessels from
Panama Canal tolls when engaged coastwse trade appear
President Wilson important than pledges of his
parys platform and the declared preferences of o5o147
American voters
The Panama Canal bill exempting American ships
from paying tolls passed the Senate last year At to IT, There
decisive majority for in the House. After Engands
protest President Taft special Congress saying
that the exemption Of American domestic his
judgment justified by the the treaty and accord with
the wishes of the nation.
Will President Wilson, aided by the railroads succeed in
pesuadng Congress change opinion already recorded by
decisive vote and ratified at the polls by 1035047 American
citizens?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
A Married Woman Has a
Perfect Right To Be
in Business.

stun and nonsense! so far as
can see. there is no more reason
why the married woman who
wants 10 work and who can turn
out work that other people arc
willing 70 pay for, shouldn't work
than there is why a married man
shouldn't. when YOU hire book
keeper, or carpenter or \
plumber. Won don't consider
whether Nc is married or single.
bur the kind ur work De does
We don't p3tron,zc Mn Smith
butcher shop because he has s
wife and siN cn'iGrcu, while The
rival butcher Mr.. Jones is uu-
married. with nobody but himself
TO support
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1914. by Star Company

HANCING is an expression of
- joy in life.
When love for his Maker
awoke in man the dance began.
AS far back as history reaches
we find dancing associated with
religious rites.
Dancing comprises all the other
arts.
A beautiful dancer expresses
poetry, music, sculpture, paint
ing, all in the dance.
Besides being the most beauti-
full of all arts, 1t is the most
healthful of all exercises, when
enjoyed under right conditions.
Besides being the most health
full, it is the most moral of exer-
cises
Young people who are given
training in dancing and allowed
to dance frequently in clean.
wholesome environments and un-
der wise chaperons utilize surplus
vitality, which, when suppressed
by rigid rules or bigoted ideas,
ofttimes results in mischief and
disaster
Take the old fashioned religi-
Gus communities where dancing
is regarded as sin and there are
always to be found numerous
cases of hysteria among the
young girls and various nervous
maladies among the youths. No
proper outlet for their super
abundant young vital forces has
been provided, no escape valve.
Little children dance before
they have ever seen dancing; lit
tie kittens. and little puppies, and
all small animals dance with the
JOY of existence.
The waves Of the sea, the leaves
of the trees, the grasses of the
meadow-all dance. The sun
beams dance; and light itself is
ever in motion.
The man and woman who have
never learned the joy TO be eX-
perienced in dancing have missed
great happiness.
And they have missed a means
of physical grace.
The present renaissance of the
art of dancing is remarkable.
For decade, at least, before
the tidal wave rose, young men
fled from bathrooms and left girls
to find partners among them
selves
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Dance Has Made thF
World More Whole
some.

For many years there has nee"
q tendency, especially in AmeH'
ca. toward separate pleasures l''
men and women. Men hefdeu ="
clubs: women in clubs or ''''
own manless drawing rooms
where the eternal and Dfa-''
dwarffng and body-stitteI'ns
bridge game was pursued Sa'u'
are excellent friends TO the nu'
man race when INDUCED IN o.
casionally. But nothing is MOI y
arresting TO mental development
nothing is mme unhealthy anu
unsocial than a card mania sue"
as the bridge fobia, when "
given place now TO the oSH.'
ritis.
Women who spent entire davs
over the bridge table, oeglH'D-e
In the forenoon and ending q,
midnight, now meet their ~.
friends al musical dances N 'ue
afternoon. or balls in the eVei''''7
Men who were always M
clubs. when not in their ''T'.'
drop in at musical teas ana 7''
dancing at their own 0onrs
the homes of their friends n W p,
evening, On with the dan- 80,
will make the world more
some
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
Learn All New Dance
but Be Modest and
Graceful.

II is as innocent of anything
injurious to the morals Of the
young as skipping the rope
Instead OF selecting some one or
two new dances to decry our
we'll meaning moralists should
decry indecent attitudes or sug-
gestive movements in all dancing
The same moralists make no
protests against the waltz and
two-step.
Yet both of those dances can
be made quite as Objectionable
as any of the most modern inven-
tons, if the participants so wish.
When the waltz was first in
troduced in the ba$room it Great
ed as great excitement and as vio-
lent protests as the modern
dances are creating, Lord Byron,
who was debarred from the plea
sure by lameness, exhausted his
vocabulary of inveCtives against
the immoral waltz.
Let us be sensible and reason
able. The dance is reborn; and
it must live its life It must DO
it's work. 1t must be met as
factor in social life Instead Of
attempting to crush it, or abolish
it; instead of saying to our young
people, you can dance and two
step, but you must not learn any
of the new dances; they arc in
decent" let us say, Learn all the
new dances, but be modest, de-
cent, graceful and well behaved
on the dancing floor
Dance only with your friends
and in the environment which IS
respectable and safe from intrU-
sion of the undesirable Sh'"
all observers how beaut'tu. d
thing dancing may be
And to our older people lei us
offer hearty congratulations taa'
they no longer need apologize OF
explain when owning to love ol
the art of all arts.
For. to-day, the man or woman
who does not dance is the eXcsp'
ton.
He or she needs to explain why
Not the dancer.
A healthier world, a napp'e'
world and a more normal world
will result from the weloonl'hS
of this art than from its sup
preSsjoO
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10
The Business of Life in a
Kitchen Bores Some
Wives.

Moreover the women who are
trained to business, and not to
domesticity. are going TO assert
their rights to help their hus-
bands in the way that is most
agreeable to them and to work in
Offices and stores that they enjoy,
instead of in kitchens that they
hate The married workingwom
an may he phenomenon of the
times to-day she's going to be
the commonplace of tomorrow,
SO ] advise the single working
women not To- waste their time
in protesting against her, but 10
use il in getting ready 10 com
pete with heE
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

barnyard, and the most ungrac.
full of fowls, than for its own 3,
herent wiekedness. It was vp,ya,
rather than wicked. Dancfne il
an art; and should suggest only
the artistic and the beautiful 7,
belongs with perfumes. with Aov-
ers. with statuary and music.
with gladness and rejoicing
Long ago, In Eastern lands
devout and reverent souls danced
songs to the rising sun: and to.
day in those lands there ar.
dancers in the temples who de-
vote their lives to sacred rites
and who live purely and sweetIv
that they may be worthy in the
eyes of their Creator to perform
the religious dances.
There are moral-minded men
and women who have associated
every evil meaning with the
word tango.
Yet the tango is graceful, ar
tistic and beautiful, as the min
uet, when properly danced.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
Austral.

Miss Florence Davis of near
Calhoun is visiting here.
Misses Oracle McJunken and
Nora Cheek were shopping in
Wetmore today.
Miss Matte FORMER went TO
Prendergast yesturday where
she will remain sometime.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Hammond
went to Prendergast Sunday.
Tom Lee is on the sick list.
John Henderson sustained a
very Painful injury here Satur-
day. A rock weighing five or six
pounds fell, striking him on the
left shoulder and fracturing his
collar bone.
Frank Wiley spent Friday
night with his brother at this
place.
Mr.. Powell of Etowah was
here Saturday.
Miss Pearl Forester spent
the weekend with her aunt at
Prendergast
Misses Minnie Kate and Ber-
tina Taylor were the guests of
Miss Nora Cheek Sunday.
Anderson Pack is visiting his
uncle at this place.
Did the correspondent from
route see its shadow?
BLUE EYES.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
Republican Mass Meeting

The Republicans of Polk coun-
ty are hereby called to meet in
mass meeting at the court house
in Benton on Monday, March 10
1914 at One o'clock p. M, for the
purpose of recognizing the
County Executive Committee
and for the transaction of such
other business as may come be-
fore the meeting. This will be
an important meeting, and th5
presence of every Republican in
the county is desired. This
February 10th, 1914.
A E Love, Chairman
T. o. Pack. Secretary
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19

Harry Handy ct al, the creditors
Of said Harry Handy are hereby
notified 10 have themselves made
parties to said cause by petition
and to file and prove their claims
against the said Harry Handy
in said cause. on or before the
first day of the next term of the
chancery court 10 be held at
Benton on the fourth Monday of
April 1914. or they may be ex-
cluded from the benefits of said
suit and from sharing in the
assets of said Handy. Said
creditors and claimants are also
hereby notified that by order of
said court in said cause they
and each of them are enjoined
from instituting any suit against
said Harry Handy otherwise
than by petition in said pending
cause, as aforesaid. This Jan.
8 1914.
A. j. Williams, C. M.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
THURSDAY FEB. l9, 1914
SABBATH DISSERTATION AND THE
POWER COMPANY.

The Madisonville Democrat
comments editoriallv on the fact
that the Tennessee Power 20. S
men, who are building a trans
mission line through that place
work on Sunday. The Demo-
GRAFT classes this us Sabbath des-
ecration, and says that some OF
the people there talked of swear
ing out a warrant for the Power
Company for allowing their men
toiyiolate Gods laws concerning
the Sabbath. We agree with the
Democrat this is an evil and
should be stopped if it were
possible to do so. We oel'eVe'
as does the Democrat and all
thinking papers and people, that
the Sabbath day should be kept
holy, but we decline to say
whether or not it is absolutely
necessary for the Power Com
pany to have their men work on
Sunday. We will say, however,
that the Power Company has a
big Job to perform, having con-
,racted light and power to sew
eral towns and cities, to be Fur
nished within a certain length OF
time, and must furnish it within
the length of time specified or
forfeit their word aud probably
some money also.
In choosing between two evils
.if one must be accepted the
proper thing is to choose the
lesser one, and as We see it the
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19

One dollar year; six months
so cents; three months 25 cents.
Advertising rates on application
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
Land Sale.

W. A. Newberry In the county {. unity
VS. court OF POLK
Ida Brock ct al county Tenn.
In obedience to decree rem
dered in this cause at the Feb
ruary 1914 term of the county
court of Polk county, Tenn l
will en- the 18th day of February
1914 al the court house door in
Benton, Tenn, in bar OF the
equity of redemption, sell to the
highest bidder the following
described real estate to VIII;
Ninety-six acres. more or less
lying in the northeast quarter
of Section %, 18th civil district
of Polk county, Tenn; bounded
on the north by Tennessee Cop
per Company, on the east BY
lanes Fuller, south by T. j.
Farmer and west by N. J. Land.
Said real estate will be sold on
a credit of six months, except III
per cent of the purchase money
will be required on day of SALE
Notes with approved security
will be required and a lien re-
tanned until the purchase money
is fully paid. This Feb. 2 1914
Il. o. Pack, Clerk Co. Court
John S. Shamblin, Sol. for com.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
State of Tennessee, chancery
court of Polk county.
Eulah Graham VS.
Virdie Graham.

happening from the allega-
ltions in complainant's bill which
is sworn to that Virdie Graham
is non resident of the state of
Tennessee so that the ordinary
process Of law cannot be served
upon him. 1t is ordered that
publication be made for four
successive weeks in The Polk
County News Gazette, a news
paper published in Polk county
notifying said non resident to
appear at the next April rules
of said court to be held at the
court house 10 Benton on the
first Monday in April next, the
same being "a rule day of said
court, and make defense to said
bill or the same will be taken for
confessed and the cause set for
hearing ex parte as 10 him. This
Bird day Of February 1914.
A j. Williams,
Clerk and Master.
B. B. g. Witt, Solicitor for com.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
Nonresident Notice.

Elijah Balm ct ais No ID. In
VS. Schancery
Frank Balm ct ais court at
Benton, Tenn.
State of Tennessee, Office of
County Court Clerk, Benton,
Tennessee, January 10, 1914.
1t appearing from affidavit
filed in this cause that the de-
PENDANT, FRANK Balm, is a non
resident Of the state of Tennes-
see and cannot be served with
process. 1t is therefore ordered
that said defendant enter his
appearance on or before the
first Monday in March next, be-
fore the county court Clerk at
his Office in Benton, Tennessee
and answer, plead or otherwise
make defense to complainant's
bill or the same will! be taken as
confessed as to him and set for
hearing ex parte, and that u
copy of this order be published
for four consecutive weeks in
The News-Gazette, a newspaper
published in Polk county, Tenn.
T. . Pack, County Court Clerk
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
Legal Advertisements.

G G Hyatt VS. No. 585. State
Polk county Sof Tennessee,
ct al. chancery court
of Polk county.
1t appearing from the allega-
tons in complainant's bill which
is sworn to that G, w. McNear
& Company are non residents
of the state of Tennessee, so
that the ordinary process of law
cannot be served upon them. 1t
is therefore ordered that publ
cation be made for four success
sive weeks in The Polk County
News Gazette, "a newspaper pub
lished in Polk county, notifying
said nonresident to appear at
the next term of the chancery
court for Polk county to be held
at the court house in Benton on
the fourth Monday of April 1914
and make defense TO said bill or
the same will be taken taken for
confessed and the cause set for
hearing ex parte as to them.
This the 12 dav Of Feb, 1914,
A. j. Williams, C s. M.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19

only way to get at a decision is
to first decide which, Sabbath
dissertation or untruthfulness,
is the lesser.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
To the re ditors of Harry
Handy:

In obedience to an order made
by the chancery court at Benton
in the case OF p. ]. Farmer VS.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19

1t is better to follow good
example than to set bad one
Fool Killer.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-02-19
"cOvers Polk County like the Dew"
Polk County News-Gazette

VIM. r. RUSSELL, Publisher.
DAN HICKS, JR., Editor s Mgr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-09-09
MORRISVILLE

Miss Mary Jean Simpson spent Satur.
day at her home in Craftsbury.
Miss Reba Delano returned home last
Friday from Sugar Hill, Nh. where she
spent the summer.
O. w. Choate has been entertaining
his son, Fred W. Choate, and wife from
Readsboro the past week.
Mrs. Lee G. Tillotson returned the la 2
of h week from Huntington, where she
was the guest of E. H. Kinds and family.
Miss WinnifTed Sweet returned Satur.
day to Bellows Falls, after spending the
summer with her sister and husband
Mr.. and Mrs. Jamie Wakefield, on the
Elmore Mountain road.
Fred Badger was guest of his mother,
Mrs George Badger, short time last
week. He now holds position as in
spector of mason work for the B. & NJ
railroad and left Friday for Lancaster
n. H., on business connect ted with that
position.
Miss Faith Delano and Miss Dorothy
Lewis of Gardner, Mass, who have
spent the summer at the Delano home
on the Gilmore Mountain road, returned
last Saturday, the former to resume her
work as teacher in the public schools of
Gardner.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Prindle of st. Al
bans were guests Friday last at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Rivers on Con.
gress street, being on their wedding trip.
The bride will be pleasantly remember
ed as Miss Myrtle Macomber, having
been former resident here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred E. Mower and son,
Elmer, left Friday last for their home in
Chicago. Mr.. Mower is a brother of Mrs.
H. L. Delano and the family has been
spending the summer at the Delano
home and at other Eastern points. They
made the trip both ways by automobile.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-09-09
Methodist Church

The pastor preached a very helpful
sermon last Sunday morning to GOOD
sized audience The singing by the choir
was exceptionally good and everybody
seemed to enjoy the service.
The Junior League opened Sunday af.
ternoon with 20 present. The meeting
next Sunday afternoon will be led by
Ruth Clark.
| The Epworlh League was led by-Lu-
ellie Hobson and the roll was called by
the secretary. A cabinet meeting of the
Epworth League was held in the church
vestry Monday evening.
The Lamoille County Institute will be
held in the church this afternoon and
evening
The Ladies' Aid Society will serve sup
per in the vestry this evening from $50
until all are served.
special meeting of all the men of the
church is called for next Tuesday even
ing We hope that everyone will make a
special effort to be present.
What will Mr.. Bests subject be next
Sunday morning? "Come and see.'