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THE CHATTANOOGA NEWS ? CHATTANOOGA, TENN., SATURDAY, auhust b,
J COMMAND EL
PASO DISTRICT
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4-Gen. Howze, Just Back
From France, Ordered
to Bodrer.
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Washington, Aug. 28. Maj.
Cen. Robert L. Ho wee, who has
just returned to the United
States from France, where he
commanded one of the regular
divisions, has been ordered to
proceed immediately to Fort
Bliss, Tex., to take command of
the El Paso border district.
. AGED WIDOW HURT.
Jasper, Aug. 21. (Special.) Mn.
Mollis Wyrlck, living alone on her farm
near Jasper, was severely hurt by some
falling- Implement, causing an abscess
on the lower limb. Mrs. Myrtle Dyer,
her daughter, was called from Dunlap
ana win remain lor an indefinite period
wan ner moiner.
New Fashions in Names for Heroes, Like
Women's Frocks-"Dirck" Banishes "Jim"
In tdodern Fiction Reviews of Recent Books
New's want columns are The Shop.
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Styles In the names of the hero and
heroine of the love story shelf change
fully as rapidly as do , the stylos
from Paris. Ministers are now In
velRhlng against the barelegged
styles of the boulevards. Critics
might well inveigh equally against tie
barelegged names with which the
hero and heroine are beset
"Dirck" has been hero of eight
short stories in the various lighter
than air fiction magazines the past
month. The reactions of "Dirck." In
all the stories, show him to be more
or less the same sort of a fellow who
was called, In the Saturday Eve
ning Post of ten years ago, Richard
or Tom or Bill. Yet one expects a
little something exotio from a "Dirck."
A hero by that name should have a
magnetic presence; his eyes should
enthrall the poor gullible ffirl : she
should forget the ordinary common
place yojing man, who has wished a
simple ring on her finger, and follow
the Interloper. There Is. or should
be. a certain fitness about the re
lations of name and character. Per
haps a "Dirck" by any other name
would make love as sweetly, but cer
tainly he could not do It as subtly
and Irresistibly.
Similarly "Vvette," and "Star" and
"Gay" are taking the place of Mary,
Maud and Margaret In the world of
girls in books. "Yvette" should be
capricious, headstrong and eaptlvat
Ing; but she is nowadays a sign of
a writer's ennui with his work, and
dressing up a, bad piece of work with
more names.
To cite one Instance where the au
thor fits an appropriate character to
the name. Can one imagine a Robert
W. Chambers' heroine named Jane
or Maud or Martha? And If one
could by sheer force of will power,
accomplish such a ffeat. Imagine her
acting like a Jane or Martha or
Maud? No, Indeed! Nobody except
Sylvia or Valerie or Jacqueline could
stroll slowly around smoking ciga
rettes and getting drunk In that
delicately devil-may-care way that
Robert has made the reading public
so extensively familiar with of late
years.
Then there's Reggie. A funny story
Just naturally Isn't there without a
Reggie, nowadays. But Reggie, him- i
self may be all sorts of a fellow from
the felnd that "left it to Jeeves,1
reguln person.
Tbe-re is another class of authors
who stick to their Inst in the way of
names. These writers, who feature
the persistently cheerful little girl or
big girl with the double name. You
know at first glance that "anybody
named SaJly-Lou or
In a manner befitting his name. Hud
died together1 In the gloom, he and the
heroine drank warm wine and discussed
their affinities. Bill, In order to show
tnat he was a regular guy, departed
abruptly with her necklace and pocket
book. "You don't care for that sort of
literature, you say? All right, let's turn
to one of these solid, highbrow maga
zines." A similar Inventory gives us
Paplllon, Madge, Regennult, Adelaide de
la Koret, Dong Yung, Kitty and Carrie,
or maybe Carrie belonged to another
magazine. Anyhow, the story In which
she appeared was labeled: "By a New
Writer." Next time he'll probably call
her Adrlenne. N , 1
After an exhaustive research among
the welter of modern fiction ono feels
like setting up an Impassioned plea for
a few more Marys and Little Liza
janes.
"DAVID VALLORY," by Francis
Lynrio; Chas. Scribner's Sons. An Inter
book, and one that shows a slight new
note for Francis Lynde. To l a sure Mr.
Lynde sticks to nls favorlto mi'lor. the
Tallroad and construction work, but It
is a bit more here than the mere ro
mance. He has given a psychological
study of the effect of loyalty, mis
placed and misapplied, In warp char
acter. Vallory Is a youne- mrn who seeks a
fortune and a sweetheart; of course in
the Inst chapter he finds them both;
that Is assumed when the book begins;
but In between, the aangers of knives
and gun-play, untimbered mines, cave
Ins and desperadoes are met with un
ruffled equanimity.
David's father waa under obligations
to the girl's father; the father was an
unscrupulous railroad contractor, who
made his profits by milking the con
tract, skimping the work and cheating
the Inspectors. The daughter, of course,
was a high moral agent. David was
put In a position of great trust, and In
fluenced by his loyalty to-the man who
had loaned his father $100,000. he con
nived at the short-measures and rotten
construction
The deux-machtna In the shape of
a tunnel cave-In, imprisoning the hero,
the heroine, and many workers, Is In
troduced to causa a moral reformation
In both the corrupt contractor and the
super-loyal hero. The book enoe with
them starting to llvo happily ever after.
In "David Vallory" wo have an Inter
esting study In moral degeneration.
Through a feeling of gratitude to the
man who has saved his father from dis
grace, the hero begins "descent to
Avernus," from which ne Is lescued
partly by accident, and partly l y the
personality of Virginia Grillage, his em
ployer's daughter. The denouement,
brought shout by the rave-In of a tun
nel, due to faulty construction, Is the
resolving force of the story's develop
ment. One may say that David Val
lory's change of heart Is brought about
In a rather conveniently sudden man
ner, fnml'lar to authors. Hut after all,
things happen pretty much the same
way In real life, and events play a big
part In the shaping of characters.
Ehen Grillage, the contractor king. Is
he typical figure among modern busi
ness financiers, the man who has a
double conscience, one for business inn
one for his personal affairs, or per
haps he Is Just another version of Shake
speare's Julius Caesar, a man out of
time with his tlmelkv
Booth Tarklngton has said that there
ought to be American fiction for Ameri
cans. According to Mr. Tarklngton we
are tainted with "Medlterraneanlsm,"
an affliction that makes tis feel that
a story which turns out with every
body living happily ever after Is untrue
to life. This Idea Is an Inheritance
from our old world ancestors, who
seldom had an opportunity to see
stories end happily. Wo who live In a
new world ought not to feel that hp. pry
endings are untrue to life, says Mr.
Tarklngton. According to this theory,
Francis Lynrte's novels are truly
American. Matters are always satis
factorily adjusted In the last chapter,
and hero and heroine start out on a
career of uninterrupted bliss, a state of
affairs which Is rather refreshing In
Iheso days of hectic fiction.
SHIVERY, SHIMMY SYNCOPATIONS, SO-CALLED
DANCING, ARE SLATED TO BE REPLACED
BY MORAL TROT TO TUNE OF A TEMPO
Do You Sign
Your Letters
TWICE?
Dancing Masters Plan War on Jazz Evil Immoral Dancing Has Gone
as Far as An Impatient Public Will Permit, and Must End.
(BY HAROLD K. PHILLIPS.1
New York, Aug. 23. (I. N. S.)
Shlmmery, shivery, shimmy synco
pations, ear-splitting jazz mus'o and
"public vulgarity poorly disguised as
dancing" must go. This was the
unanimous opinion expressed today
by dancing masters from every . part
of the United States, who assembled
here to attend the annual convention
of the American National Associa
tion of Masters of Dancing.
Not only do the instructors, who
represent the highest-class academies
in this country, intend to fight the
"Jazz evil" by means of nronairandn.
to a I but they will formally join forces
with welfare bureaus and copeless in
larger cities to ban those thrilling
wiggles of modern times from both
public and private ballrooms.
The stops and glides that have-
grown out of the syncopating jazz
music of today will be replaced by
miiv.inn Unore graceful and more moral trots
couldn't heln but be a rav of sun- I lo .ne lune OI a tempo- a nappy
shine in any home. There is some- me?!"m he''
thing depressing about these Polly-
veen the colonial minuet
anian girls. After an hour with a book
of this kind one rises feeling that
something really ought to be done
about things in general.
Time was when one met a hero
wearing a family name in the place
where most of us carry Jim or Bill
or Henry, one knew right away just
where he belonged. That Smith Jones
told the whole, story. We felt sure
As Far as Can Be Allowed.
"Immoral dancing has gone as far
In one direction as an impatient pub
lic will permit it to go," declared
Fenton Bett, of Dayton, O., president
of the association. "Either the danc
ing masters must educate the people
to discard suggestive movements In
the ballroom or justly alarmed par
ents win demand that the police abol
that hack of him stretched a lonu I !sn H dancing, just a they have
line of noble ancestors, with at least 1 banished John Barleycorn. Do you
one governor of a state. But nowa- I 04111 tne shimmy dancing? I'll tell
days, Spottiswode Tompkins may be jyu the history of that dance,
the son of a factory foreman, and ' It was first discovered four years
work his way through college by j a ln a nBro danc hall in Chl
sweeplng out the buildings. The au- c,,s- Several instructors saw the
thor doesn't care negroes going through movements
On the whole if the author of the and 8ee,ln5 a,n opportunity to make
present day would onlv pause a mo- mmKy(Jruh,we, lt ,n l00.'
ment to consider before labeling his Wl" Help Women Police,
characters, it might save the reading ,.J. can t reform dancing, though,
public many a disappointment. An 1"t'1 J " di bo'lshL the
author really has no right to call a ! fefrJ iTn J. I T n f T
. ..,-., j .. " , -,,, v. bells, drums and wash boilers. Mod-
lZ. If", 2m V ."X nt? - JL S cm music compels you to adopt those
knows he s going to act like 'Jim, 1erky teps and we ,ntend Jntro
inventory of the names In a popu- 3 the p,aCe 0(
tar magazine, from cover to cover, re- tn.e. syncopations,
vealed the following list: Carol. Rose, , Women police In every large city
Mnrle, Winifred. Adrlenne, Muriel, Tea- 'n the country have been trying in
belle. Mllly and Kitty. Note Kitty, vain to fight this evil, and we are
please. The heroes who played oppo- now going to help them. We will es-
site these leaning ladles bore equally tabllsh an Information bureau In
fetching appellations. They were, Greg- Waltham, Mass., where our secre-
ory. Allan. Claudius, Jacques and Bill, tary, George F. Walters, will dls-
SerSTllrn8Jraon iv thh tWn mat trlbute Pfres and literature de
lounpre lizard, only tne mpf tnlnpa mat- ,v.. , , ,
tered to Greg, so one day "when a cur- s"11?lnsr what ls proper f1" an,d
tain of rain shut off one street from ! wnat ls n1' l,Pn request. The wel-
another," he eloped with the heroine I fare workers really do not know
but discovered at the first corner that ! themselves what proper dancing ls.
he had forgotten his rubbers, ard bad This bureau will solve that problem
to go nacK. Jacques for one, behaved for them.
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people will voluntarily
adopt proper steps and positions;
otners will be made to.
Blames Melting Pot.
Mose Chrlstensen, of Portland, Ore.,
blamed the melting pot class for
these "startling conditions."
When women stop twisting their
spines into sailors knots from the
waist down instead of the waist up,
the ballroom will become a safe place
for refined young girls," he asserted
with energy. "Our music today ls
filled with half notes and three
quarter notes and it seems the most
natural thing in the world to do a
contortion act instead of executing
an artistic, step. No wonder our Eu
ropean allies are alarmed over the
Introduction of American dancing
Into their hitherto dignified circles
Our music the so-called typical
American music is nothing but an
adaptation of the negro Cakewalk.
"We are establishing a national
school for music and dancing and it
will set the standard for dancing
throughout the country. It ls very
singular that the government should
have excepted dancing classes from
a war tax on the ground that they
are a part of the nation's educational
system. Dancing should become part
of the curriculum of all public
schools.
"There ls a time and a place for
everything. But the dance hall ls
HE'D TIE PRESIDENT
I NEW STEPS DESIGNED
I ' New York, Aug. 23. Already
I the country's foremost
I dancing masters are riiy to
I offer a new step or a series of
I them to take the place of the
I discarded shimmy. It ls to be
I known as the Internationale,
I because it contains steps rep-
I resenting all of the allied na-
I tlons.
I . "The Internationale Is quite
I simple," as Oscar Ihiryea detn-
I onstrated it, and, above all, ls
I moral.
I "You see, just take two steps
I forward, then three quick bal-
I nnclng steps left foot to the
I right, right to ihe left and left
1 to the right. Now step to the
I right side with the right foot
I and click the heels together.
I That is army taps. Repent the
I same to the left side. That, is
! navy taps. Then two steps,
I military in effect, to the right
I angle forward. That is the
I military dash of France.
I "Put In a few recognized vn-
I rlatlons and you have the in-
I ternatlonale."
4.
no place for disgusting Immorality."
Miss Luella Ilanes, of New Orleans,
pointed to tho fnet that throughout
the country there Is a determined
movement to reform dancing or ban
ish It.
"This movement Is more wide
spread than, people believe." she Bald.
"The fox trot, waltz and one step
will be retained, but. .all objection
able features will be taken from even
these dances. Our modern stage ls
partly In blame.
Make Dancing Decent.
"Theatrical managers seem deter
mined to make professional dances as
vulgar as possible and added Insult
to injury by making remarks about
them from the stage. Young people
see these dances and immediately
Imitate them and with startling suc
cess, too. Thousands of dollars are
being wasted every year to pay dance
hall inspectors. We intend to make
dancing so decent that Inspectors will
not have anything to do."
In this she waa enthusiastically
supported by Thomas McDougall, of
Pittsburgh, and Miss F. Kohl, of
Madison, Wis.; Mn, Gus Zlrnmer
mann, of Cleveland; Fred Christian
sen, of Seattle, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs.
BIynn, of Rockford, 111.; E. B. fiay
nor, of Chicago; E. B. Everetts, of
Houston, Tex.; Miss Ila Knowles, of
New York, and Otto Deinemann, of
Boston, are also fully in accord with
all of the views.
The National Association of Mas-
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Completed a Thorough Bookkeeping
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Representative Campbell would
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bill to make It unlawful for the chief
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Individual Work Counts
Chattanooga Business College Has a
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Mr. E. J. PInegar completed a thor
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attainments and ability to keep hoi'ks.
The average time required to do
tho work Mr. Plncgar did Is from
four to six months. His unusual
progress was due to the fact that
he applied himself in the proper way,
devoting every hour not needed for
recreation to his studies, and that ,
he, as well as every other student of
Chattanooga Business College, re- 1
celved Individual instructions from
an able corps of Instructors. 1
This school occupies the entire
third floor of the Live & Let 1ive ,
building, conveniently located at the 1
corner of Market and Seventh streets,
and Is first aid to those who seek
a business education and to those
who employ office he4p in any a
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Address Chat-
Cnllera. Chatta-
ters of Dancing and the American
Society of Professors of Dancing, the.
two oldest dancing associations, have
amalgamated and are meeting In
joint session.
Their combined forces have pledged
to fight for proper dancing until the
battle Is won.
Wouldn't it be Just as sensible to sign letterf twice m to hare
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