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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
A New Home for the Ballet
BY FREDERIC J. HAskIN

port has 1t that he is dead, while
another says that he has recovered
from his attack of insanity and is now
conducting ballet school in Switzer-
land.
Other members of the Russian bal
let are in this country dancing, pro-
ducing and teaching. Still others arc
working abroad in cubist like produc.
tions which are attracting attention
as a novelty. Straight lines are a
feature of these ballets. Stiffness of
costume is achieved by such devices
as padding the shoulders with wood.
Heads of wood built up in cubist like
squares are sometimes worn. The ef-
feet is heightened by geometric riots
OF color for costumes and settings.
Music is of the futuristic type-at it's
best reminiscent of Debussey trifle
off key; at its worst a capable imita-
ton of the baby maltreating the cid
family piano. In this futuristic atmos-
phere the dancers create bizarre corn
positions. 1t is the latest phase Of
the Russian ballet. Mr. Tchernikoff
believes that it is step to the side
rather than an advance.
America now has a chance to be
the center of the stage, so far as ballet
! is concerned" Mr.. Tchernikoff ex-
plains. THAT so many of the Rus
SLAMS are in this country working in
different cities proves that the Ameri-
can people are interested in the art
Whether America can add some.
thing to the ballet, as Russia did, re-
i nc fn he II ic Is
to evolve anything racially character
istic out of modern America because
of the melting pot atmosphere. There
are possibilities in the Indian dancing,
however, and nego forms are an al
most untouched field. The cake walk
and shuffling steps and mannerisms
of the negro dances, adapted for bal
let, with suitable music and settings
would be very interesting.
There are American institutions
! too, that offer dance material Few
people would think of newspaper
cartoon as the germ of a ballet, ye'
Adolph Bolm is doing ballet witt
specially written music, based on :
newspaper comic character called
krazy Kat"
But whether America adds any o.
it's personality to the ballet or not
most of the important ballet work O.
the near future will be done here, Mr.
Tchernikoff believes. Ballet is feat
ured in operas, spectacular stage pro
auctions, vaudeville programs, ant
recitals.
j Ballet is popular, and yet, strangel.
enough, people know very little of it
history or technique. Mr.. Tchernikcf
! tells of a series of recitals given b.
himself and several other dancer'
which were accompanied by lecture!
on the history of ballet and demon
STATIONS of the exercises and posi-
tions on which ballet dances are built
To most of the audience these exer
cises were the novelty of the pro
gram.
Popular falIacies.
There is a great deal of misunder
standing in this country regarding tn,
ballet, Mr. Tchernikoff finds.
"For instance" he saws, there is
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Monday evening with Mrs. Will Moore.
-. Ruth Caskey entertained Satur-
day evening the following guests: Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Wright, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Moore, Rosa Caskey, Lillian Cox,
Nola Teaford and Pheba Platt.. -.
Luella Timmons spent Monday eve
ming with Anna Beteley.. Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Horn and son spent Sun
day with Mrs. Ida Richards. Mary
Morgan, Ida Plat and Edris Cheno-
weth spent Saturday with Dorothy
Slick. Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Caskey
and Chalmer Caskey and family spent
Sunday at Palestine with Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Clark. Mr.. and Mrs. Orville
Baker and daughter spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Norris. -.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dill of Richmond.
spent Sunday with Mrs. Susan Green
Mrs. Guy Spencer spent Monday with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Spencer. Miss
Ella Woods spent Monday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Stapelton
Miss Ida Plat called on Miss Edna
Davis Monday. {. Glen Peden spent
Sunday with Mrs Riley Mikesell..
Ralph Plat spent Sunday at Hollans
burg " Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Chenoweth
called on Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Chenc
weth Sunday. +. Lu Emma Cheno
weth returned home. after a feT
months visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Chenoweth, at Finley.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
PRIZES ARE OFFERED /
PIG CLUB MEMBERS

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 6.
Prizes to the number of rs, and
amounting to s275 are offered Indiana
boys and girls who enter Duroc Jer-
sey pig clubs, according to announce
ment made by the pig club committee
of the state Duroc Jersey breeders
association. For pigs shown at the
state fair, II prizes amounting to
5000 are offered, and eight prizes OF
SIS are offered for record books.
All members of the Wayne COUNTY
or other county pig clubs are usually
eligible TO the State contest, the coun-
ty clubs conforming to state require
ments. State prizes were won by
Wayne county boys two years ago and
last year. Entry sheets for the state
club may be secured from G. G. Car
ter, of Paramount.
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Suburban

WILLIAMSBURG, Ohio-Mr ard
Mrs. Safer Horn. of Richmond, Ind
called on Grandma Chenoweth and
Mrs. Ethel Reid and son. Richard, Sun
day afternoon :. Mr. and Mrs. A. y.
Rhodes spent Sunday with Mrs. Carl
F. Baker. Miss Mary Williams, Ma
rie Harris, Roma Simpson. Anon Rich
ards, Harry Downing Henry Miller,
Jim Owens and Robert Thomas spent
Sunday evening with Virena and Dor
othy Slick. -. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett
Baker and children, of near White
water, spent Sunday here with Mrs.
Jane Coppock.. Mr.. and Mrs. Orville
Baker, Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Spencer.
Mary Lowdenslager and Mrs. Pearl
Petry spent Sunday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Petry.. Mr.. End
Mrs Will Lamb of Richmond, Gertrude
! Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Thomas,
Harry Aron and Lowell Downing were
guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. E. f
| Whiteman.. Clarence Hinshaw and
| family, from Weaver's Station, Theo-
dore Thurston and family, of Union
| City, Anna Miller, of Troy, and Mr..
and Ms. John Swanton, of Richmond,
Ivan Thurston and family, of Williams
burg, and Mont Moore and family,
| Richmond. were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. c. Thurston, Sunday. Mr..
and Mrs. n. r. Clear and Pearl Hart
man, of Richmond, called on Mrs.
Mary Chenoweth and Mrs. Ethel Reid
and son, Richard, Monday. -. Mr.. and
Mrs. Riley Mikesell spent Monday at
Winchester Mrs Ben Richards, jos
sic Simpson and daughter, Roma, Mrs.
! Viola Richars, Irene Armacost, Roy
| Sink and mother and Mr.. and Mrs. ].
G. Norris were Richmond visitors en-
Monday. Mr.. and Mrs Maynard Wolf
of Richmond, spent Saturday and Sun
day with Mr.. and Ms. John Wolf. d.
Mrs. Little and Ethel Williams spent
Monday afternoon with c. f. Baker.
-. Miss Virena Slick is spending a
few weeks in Franklin Ohio. Miss
Norma Chenoweth spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs Vern Chenoweth.. Nor
ma Wolfa1 called on Alice Rife Mon
day Mary Williams and Almond
Richards spent Sunday with Mr.. ana
Mrs Descan Richard. Ida Platt enter
tanned Friday evening, the following
guests: Misses Dorothy Williams, Don
ma Irelan, Mary and Christine Nor
gan, 1rma Spencer, Susan Billman
Martha Albright, Norma Wolfal, Alice
Rife, Pearl Irelan and Viola Richards
Mae Wolfal spent Tuesday eve
ming wiah Mrs Sara Thomas. Mir
and Mrs. Peter Rife, Rosa Caskey
Mrs. James Caskey and Lila Mikesel
called on Otto Jenning and famil!
Monday. !. Hrs. Viola Richards spen
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WASHINGTON, April Els Ameri-
can ballet to be the next development
in the art of the dance? Paul Tcherni-
koff, former dancer with Pavlowa ard
now ballet master of the Washington
Opera company, says that the most
promising progress in the art of ballet
is being made in this country.
France, Italy and Russia have had
their turns at being the center of the
dancing stage, Mr.. Tchernikoff points
out 1t was in France that the ballet
was fixed into it's conventional form
almost four centuries ago when Louis
XIV was patron of the dance Foo
some years this king and more supple
members of his court took part in
elaborate ballots presented at Ver-
sailles, and finally this dancing moD-
arch established royal academy of
the dance to promote his favorite art
Dancers still describe their steps by
the terms fixed upon about this time,
Given a list of such terms as elise.
assemble, ronde de jamie, arabesque
reverence, ballet dancers in different
countries would build practically the
same dance.
Dramas done in pantomime and
dance, performed according to the
French standard of what should be
good and bad form in ballet, gained
popularity throughout Europe, and il
was not until few decades ago tina;
the art was very much changed.
| This time Russia was the innovator
! Russian dancers took the conventional
! technique of the French ballet for Z
basis and began to do radical ant
| beautiful things They went out o.
the Russian schools and astonishet
their audiences with great variety il
what was supposed to be a restricted
form of the dance.
The Russian influence has been 81
strong that we have almost forgotten
that billowy tarletan skirt was once
the stock costume of ballerina Al
most any kind of a dance-Indian
Greek, Oriental, Gypsy, pastorale-i
material for the modern ballet dancer
The traditions of the dance are no
lost, however. There is a difference
for example, between the Greel
dance which an inspirational dance
might create and the Greek dance o
a ballerina. She builds her interpro
tation on foundation of technique
positions of feet and hands which hav
been found beautiful. The rhythmic, @
nature dancer finds such a founGa
ton hampering to the freedom of til
dance Her work is less restrained
but ballet devotees hold that it is ap
TO be less artistic, since the dancer
emotions and ectasy may not Away
lead her to take the most pleasing
poses.
The Ballet Russianized.
! Russia broadened the horizon of tt
ballet But now it almost seems a
if Russia, as country, is beginnin
to peter out in it's dance offerings
due partly at least to unsettled Rus
sian affairs. The well known Russia
dancers are scattered. We are tol
that Mordkin is conducting a bale
in Moscow under the protection @
the government there, but very littl
is heard of his work Nijinsky r,
lmains an uncertain quantity. One re
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popular belief that a dancer must be-
gin as a small child and spend years
doing nothing but exercises. This idea
discourages many aspirants to ballet
who feel that they cannot enter the
work because they missed this early
training. Pavlowa did not begin to
study dancing until she was about IL
years old, and even then she studied
a number of other subjects at tue
school which she attended.
Years of work do not necessarily
make great dancer Many a balleina
has worked as hard and as long os
Pavlowa without achieving promi-
nence because she lacked the rare
combination of strong constitution,
body suited in build for ballet work.
personality, finished technique, and
a gift for pantomime. Lacking any
of these qualities a dancer may just
miss being a star Yet the idea per-
sists that the main requisite for sue
cessful career as a dancer is to start
training as child of three.
Another misconception regarding
ballet is that a dancer must be me r.
strosity of muscle. We know now
that there is such thing as overtrain-
Ing. he I IcllCIl UcillCI QS1ASCio uOC-
to give unnecessary attention to exer-
cises that overdeveloped certain mus
cles The bend of the knee called a
Pile would be practiced by baller
dancer four times in each of the five
positions of the feet, alternating TIE
right and left foot, or forty times in
all. That would develop the knee
muscles so that they were not bearti-
| full, and yet there was no particular
benefit derived from practicing this
simple bend of the knee so strenu-
ously.
! Both the muscular back, arm ano
| leg, and the normal appearing body
are seen on the stage today. The
dancer of great muscle may be a good
technician, but not necessarily so.
Such fallacies about the ballet have
become deeply rooted, Mr.. Tchernikof
says, because so little has been seer
of the art in this country. Until re
! Gently, ballet in the United States was
a familiar spectacle mainly in New
York and Chicago where the big opera
companies maintain their corps Of
dancers. Other cities saw exhibitions
only enthusiastically. But now, will
the development of community opera
and with ballet schools springing III
over the country, we have the pres
pect of ballet as a popular American
art
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
ONE OF CHICACO'S 7
HORSE-CAB DRIVERS
KEEPS UP COURAGE
tBy Associated Pressl


CHICAGO, April 6.-Repeating a
copy-book maxim to keep his courage
up, Edward Budd. the only horse-cab
driver left on the south side and one
OF the lst seven in the city, remains
on duty despite the motor competition
which he says is starving the old-fash-
toned cabby out of existence and will
soon make him memory.
Five years ago there were about
500 of us, and plenty of work for all"
he remarked as he waited for Gus
toners. mo, am lucky If l make SIS
a week. and sometimes two weeks pass
without bringing me nickel, though
m on watch from early in the after
noon until 2 or o'clock in the morn
ing.
When l get discouraged, though, I
remember saying learned at school,
perseverance overcomes every OBJ
stacle.' | say that over to myself
sometimes, and then / think of school
days in Hampshire, when / saw her
majesty, the queen. We children stood
on bench as she passed, and her
majesty stopped and pinned a white
rose on my lapel. I'll never forget
that
I'D quit driving if | could do any
thing else, but / froze my feet twenty
odd years ago in storm that tied
up all the trains. I was out all night
driving people home who would have
frozen to death if I'd stayed in and
taken care of myself Now those same
people would pass me by and take a
taxicab."
Mr.. Budd was a coachman for a
family of means in England before he
came to America 40 years ago, and has
been cab-driver in Chicago ever
since
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
PERRY FARMERS TO
DISCUSS coo FIRM

ECONOMY, Ind. April 6-Farmers of
Perry township will meet in the Meth
odist church at Economy Friday night
to discuss the cooperative livestock
commission firm at Indianapolis. Tho
plan of the company will be explained
by County Agent J. l.. Dolan.
Fertilizer orders also will be taken
at the meeting.
The women of the community will
hold a special meeting at the same
time as the men. holding separate
session. with an address by Miss Har-
man on Dress Forms" at which Mis- 5
Stella Hartman, county director of 40
mestic science instruction, will tell of
the uses and manufacture of homo
made dress forms.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
CATTLE AT EPILEPTIC
VILLAGE ARE TESTED

NEWCASTLE, Ind, April 6.-Cattle
of the herd of the State Epileptic vii
lage were tested for tuberculosis by
DR.. Alexander Wednesday, This is
practically the last herd remaining in
the county plan of T. B. eradication
by which state and county co-operated
with herd owners to establish clean
herds in Henry county.
Any individual cattle that remain to
be tested in the various townships will
be treated later, it is stated.
The work of the last few days is a
continuation of the work that was in
terrupted last winter when county
wide T. B. testing plan had been ar
ranged by the county agent and the
farm bureau
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
LEGION SHOW RACE FEELING
THING UNkNOWN; HONOR NEGRO

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April g.
That race feeling is a thing apart with
them is shown by the action of the
several San Francisco, Cal, American
Legion posts in turning out almost en-
masse for the funeral of Col. Charles
Young, one of the few negroes to grad
uate from West Point.
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Farm Sale Calendar
Tuesday, April II

Kimmel and Disher-General farm
sale, household goods, stock and i'm
plements, 10 o'clock at Kimmel farm,
212 miles southwest of Eldorado.
Thursday, April 20
A. H. Pyle, 21a miles north of Rich
mond, on Middleboro pike Dispersal
sale of registered Jersey cattle-Emi-
nent and Financial King lines, all TB
tested. Open and bred heifers and
young sire.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
OWNERSHIP OF DOGS
is CLASSED AS LUXURY

BERLIN, April g. Ownership of
two or more dogs is classed as lux
ury'' here and extra heavy taxes are
imposed under a new schedule. 1t is
estimated that the owners of 100000
dogs in Berlin must pay the govern
ment $4,000 marks for licenses.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
JAcKsoNBuRc MEETING

JACKSONBURG, Ind, April Ga
special meeting of Harrison township
farmers will be held in Jacksonburg
Thursday night, at which ]. E. Scholl
will talk on the United States Grain
Growers corporation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-06
PLACE JAPANEsE GOLD FISH

CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 6.-Sev
eral hundred gold fish of rare japanese
varieties have been placed in a pond
at the Cincinnati Zoo.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-16
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

from old members, and from new mem
bers, to the number of 27O In all. The
prize for this work was a two weeks
visit to the home economics school,
held at Indianapolis for one week pre-
ceding and the week of the fair, with
an expenses paid
Union county Poland China breeders
are hoping for a large crowd and a
profitable sale on Tuesday, Oct II
This is to be a county association
sale, and will be held on the Homer
LaFuse farm, three miles northeast
of Liberty, on the Boston pike. The
top liners of the various herds will
shoy in the sale ring.
Wheat Moving Locally
Charles Carpenter tells US that they
took in over two cars of local wheat,
on Friday and Saturday. More than
LOO bushels came in by wagon and
trucks on Friday, on which the price
was $105. This is 5 cents over the
price paid a short time ago; whea;
being pegged at 81 for about a month
with the price at county elevators
ranging between CSC and S1.02 fol
weeks Every advance uneovers q
little more wheat, so it seems that nc
matter how apparently close wheat is
marketed at harvested time, there is
always some left back in the country
This is proven true by reports from
country elevators, from time to time
The price of both sweet cream and
butter fat has moved up once more
to 40 cents a pound, at buying sta
tons in town. The wholesale price
of creamery butter was marked up tC
Al cents at the week end.
OF Interest to Women
The officials of the Preble county
farm bureau have arranged for Miss
Marie Sayles to be in the county on
Wednesday, Oct. %, for the purpos,
OF meeting the women of the county
and discussing home economics witt
them. Miss Sayles is state leader il
this extension work. Township farm
bureau chairmen are appointing two
ladies from each township as delegates
to this meeting, and others who wish
to be present will also be cordially
| welcomed. Various home and civic &C
tivities that might be taken up by
the women of Preble, will be suggested
at the meeting.
Considerable interest in federal farm
loans is being shown by Preble coun
ty farmers and arrangements are be
ing made to hold a meeting, at which {
representative of the farm loan banl
will be present to enlighten the farm
ers on its operations.
A. c. Dyer, taxation agent of the
Ohio farm bureau will be in Eaton a
the courthouse on Thursday, Oct 10
when he will discuss the proposed tax
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sales movement a farm paper editor
writes as follows: 'The cooperative
movement is growing like jacks bean
stalk. 1t is the first encouraging
sign we have had that we are making
progress, in reducing the spread be-
tween the producer and consumer-the
only way We shall ever solve the cost
OF living problem. 1t means the relief
of the individual farmer from the ruin
GUS competition of farmer with farmer,
which has made the farm industry the
easy prey of manipulating spectators
in fruits and foodstuffs with resultant
meager prices to growers and no cor
responding lower cost to consumers. .
The greatest development of COOP
GRAFTON in the United States the last
three years, has been in commodity
associations, the purely cooperative
and non-profit-sharing organizations.
The associations devoted to one thing
only the merchandising of farm pro-
ducts for their own members exclusive
ly on a standard cooperative basis.
Mr.. sapiro's Figures
Aaron Sapiro, specialist in co-oper.
alive marketing law, tells US, that, ex-
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alton amendments to the state consti-
tuition.
Now listen, good people, Just listen
According to a yeracious scribe up at
Armenia, N. D., they have a queen bee
in that town which has a name and a
pedigree, and which is worth $500.
Have they sold her for that money ?
Well no, but they have sold half in
terest in her for $3.50. But here is the
complete story-read it:
AMENIA, N. D., Oct IA half in
terest in Achievement Girl, a queen
honey bee of the Armenia apiaries, has
been sold to ]. E. Cutter and Son,
Montgomery, Ala, for $3.50, setting a
new record for bee values, according
to w. A. Critics, manager of the Am
enia bee farm.
The queen was mailed to Alabama
where she will pass the winter, to be
returned to North Dakota next spring.
She was a member of a colony which
last summer set one of three world S
records for honey production, accord
ing to Mr.. Critics."
A Farmer for Governor
John Fields, according to Senator
| Capper, has for years been fighting
| the battle of the farmers in Oklahoma
and is entitled to the united support
of the agriculturalists in that state
Capper says Fields is a mighty good
fighter, also the best informed farmer
on Oklahoma conditions. a man who
knows the difficulties and hardships
of farm life under present handicaps
and he knows that this country s
greatest material need is a square deal
/ for agriculture" Capper says: IF
lived in Oklahoma, not only would
vote for him. but I'd work for him
and do everything could to have him
elected" No mention is made of Mr.
Fields political affiliations, but he is
presumably Republican, and if the
farmers rally round his banner he
should surely win.
With reference to the cooperative