THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. ST0EL, C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publisher.
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1915
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WHEN NEW YORK PLACED BAN ON DANCING
NOW 70,000 NIGHTLY ENJOY THIS PASTIME
ONFj hundred and five years ago last Friday the New
York City Common Council passed an ordinance pro
hibiting masked balls on the ground that they would
tend to a “subversion of all just and honorable discrimina
tion of character and were calculated to encourage the profli
gate to seduce the youth of both sexes and promote licentious
ness and disorder.” The common Council was moved to
this act because a report had come to its ears that a certain
tavern was about to give a masked ball—the first in the city.
\ There was at the time a celebrated dancing club called the
“City Assembly,”, which danced at the City hotel, Broadway
and Cedar street." A very exclusive social organization, a re
mote predecessor of the' “Four Hundred,” it expended its
energies on the cotillion, tire “Pigeon Wing,” the “Double
Shuffle and the “Jlighland Fling.” But the new French
influence that had begtin to invade the staid Knickerbocker
spirit had put new ideas into the heads of the City Assembly.
Of all occasions, a nihsked ball to be a success, according to
the Common Council then, demanded a clever company so
cially. The participants should be gifted in conversation and
witty mid humorous or there was great danger that such an
occasion would degenerate into an orgy- The Anglo-Saxon
was not by nature a conversationalist, it was contended, and
for that one reason the masked ball would never la* a social
success.
And today the American people are flu* greatest dancers
in the world. According to estimates by sociological inves
tigators 80 per cent of the men and women who get married
are first attracted to each other through the dance. In the
winter of 1913*14 over 700 public dance halls were licensed in
New York and on their floors an average of 70,000 persons
danced every night. In every city, town and hamlet in the
country, an almost equal interest in dancing was manifested.
The nation’s dancing bill would pay the interest on the nation
al debt, for over a million people spend their evenings on the
dancing floor. In Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and
Milwaukee the licensed dance hall has become a source of
revenue to the city. This dance craze is attributed to the
growth of the city with its intense social hunger and to tin*
evolution of stage dancing as exemplified in a half dozen
dancing stars of genius. . Within the last year cooperative
efforts have been made to standardize the dance throughout
the country by means of moving pictures. The etiquette
of the dance, with all of its proper evolutions, its clutch, the
space between partners as practiced at West Point, Annap
olis, Newport and in many church societies, is being thrown on
the screen before the eyes of every social class. In many
places the dancing inspector has become a most responsible
officer of the law to see that dancing is conducted with proper
decorum.
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Usually it is the self-confident doetrineaire who accuses
the press of being tied up to the interests. Broad, thinking,
experienced men know better.
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This is a time of rejoicing for the far-sighted farmer who
has been able to store his wheat crop, but if the price keeps on
soaring how many loaves of bread will have to be assembled for
the whole to be seen with the naked eye.
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So Grandpop McAdoo, with his young and admiring bride
• looking on, climbed' into the locomotive and rode like a regu
lar Theodore! Was it just to prove to his appreciative audi
ence that there’s life in the old man yet!
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It is proper that Chicago should form stale bread' clubs as
a penalty for allowing the stock gamblers to scare up tin* price
of wheat. Besides stale bread would not form such a con
trast to the atmosphere of the stockyards town as the fresher
article. j
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Will some kind person tell, or explain to us, what they are
trying to do in Mexico. We hear reports of battles, presi
dents, provisional presidents and what not. Most movements
have some object, but Mexico’s object simply appears to be
to fight. Still, it is possible the fighters have some object in
view, and it would be interesting to learn its nature.
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President Wilson’s suggestion that the United States
should attend to its own affairs and let the European nations
take care of theirs is timely- When war first broke out in the
old' hemisphere there was a feeling of caution in the United
States and opinions were held in reserve, so that no match
might be lit to embroil this country. Some of our public
men, seeing a chance to get in the limelight, are now
beginning to “spout” according to the view held by the coun
try their ancestors departed from. It is high time we minded
our own business and realize that while we are made up of
many peoples, we are a nation sufficient unto ourselves
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The administration shipping bill proposes to create a ship
ping board, to finance a $10,000,000 shiping corporation and to
expend not to exceed $30,000,000 in purchasing and chartering
ocean vessels for American foreign trade. It is the purpose
particularly to devote attention to the South American trade.
Supporters of tin* bill say that such a measure is abso
lutely necessary to provide carriers to handle the tonnage that
will follow the efforts of American business men to cater to
South American needs and the activity of American hankers
in taking care of the financial situation in South America.
That the bill will become a law before the adjournment
of the notable 63d’Congress is believed certain.
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