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Show THEJO RDANJ OURNA L,MIDV ALE.UT AH ----~ FI RS T Poet Hcu Right Idea ol Loyalty to Town • to hav e a proving ground The Literary Digest reprints t}lls from the Herald (Tippecan oe City, Ohio) as a sentiment typical of the period. The Digest says It thinks It knows what Mr. Mencken will say ot It, so oft'ers something , the editor says: ' "MY TOWN CAN'T BE TOO GOOD FOR ME." Three years ago Genera l Motors pur.. chased an 1125-ac re tract, 40 miles from Detroit and accessible to all its .. car. and,tru ck division s. BY "WIB" CHAFFEE (For nearly three years the Chattee jingles have appeared in the advertising of The Big Green· Barn garage and they have been a source of enjoymen t to all. His present contribution, publlshed below, cannot be classed as a jingle, however. in our opinion It Is not only his masterpiec e, but a bit of verse that Is outstandin g ln current poetry.) • This was transfo rmed into a great Proving Ground , with every kind of road and grade over which an automobile is called upon to travel. My Town can't be too good tor me, Nor I too big or good for It; Though small in size My Town may be, I'd have It big In "Push" and "Grit." Here the collecti ve experie nce and brains of the whole Genera l Motors family are brough t to bear upon the problem s of each membe r; and here each make of Qenera l Motors car must prove itself against the best that Americ an or Europe an genius haa develop ed. My Town :nust meet emergenci es With dauntless courage, vim and "Pep"; Though progress Is not bought with ease,. My Town must not get "out o! step." My Town must tackle every taskGo forward always- ne'er back down. 'Neath foreign suns though I may bask, I'd think with pride of this, My Town. My Town, of No matter Nor yet how My Town's course, Is good enough, how my fortunes swell, !ortune may rebulf, defamers I would quell. The Proving Ground marks a forward step itl. the guarant ee of motor car sat• isfactio n. It is your final assuran ce that you are investin g when you buy a Genera l Motors car -And yet, down deep wlthln my heart I know My Town Improved could be; To help Improve I'll do my partMy Town can't be too good for mel Several Reason s Why One Should Own Home S There are many reasons why people should own their own homes. The purchase of a home is the most Important Investmen t you' will make, and, probably, the largest purchase you wlll ever make, if you are In ordinary circumstan ces. It Is the one which will have the most influence on your well-being , comfort and happlne!'>s. To own your own home gives one a feeling of deep personal pride and satisfactio n, besides reflecting the per· sonal preference and taste of the owner. Your home becomes the center of your most cherished memorles and assodatlon~. the center of your life's interest. Therefore , It means more than money can buy. Home owpership is a symbol of se· curity and success. A home of your own is Insurance against fear unll won-y in old age. Insurance statistics show that those who have provided for the "evening of life" live longer than those who have no thought of "the tomorrow. " By PROEHL HALLER JAKLON HORT skirts are no longer news. And woman's apparel, what there Is of It, Isn't halt the topic of heated conversati on that It was a few years ago. Of course, now and then you read a news Item announdn g that next season's skirts are to be shorter or perhaps you may encounter a wheezy old joke Involving some peculiarit y of woman's dress, but, In general, critical comment on feminine attire occupies less and less space In our news columns. Of fashions und modes we have npleuty, and the space devoted to style information steadily Increase!<, for as u nation we have become dress conscious. Short skirts are no longer news merely be· -cause news Is supposed to concern lt!'.elf with the unusual. And short skirts are no longer unu~mal. Today long skirts are almost a<> rat·e as the bustle. You see short skirts evcrywhe rellorter than they ever were-and the world goes along unshocked and, for all that has been prom· lsect and threatened , seemingly unharmed . 'Vomen's clothes are lighter now than the:v ~ver have been, with the exception of the period dlrectly following the French revolution , when e girls of l\Iarseillcs wore simple tunics mod· ~ed aftet: the fashion of the ancient Greeks. The elothes of 1\flss 1926 weigh sixteen ounces. To llst them here would add scarcely one Jlne. And it S<'ems that America by no means is unique In this matter of dress. France, England, German~·. In fact, most of the civlllzed world has <leclared for the new freedom In dress, and Is getting away with it. In Paris the skirts are so -shOJ"t tllftt an American woman who ftad lived there for several y~ars found upon returning to our shores that It would be necessary to remodel l1er clothes. In Berlln and London It is the same. The lower picture above shows a group of Berlln mannequin , with their numbers waiting to be called. l<'rom the standpoin t of health today's fashions t\aYe the endorsem ent of physicians , except where fashion demands dieting and self-starva tion In order to attain that slimness which American s have come to recognize us beauty. Medica'! sci· ence many years ago warned the ladles that if they perRlstcd In encasing themselve s In long, tight-fittin g corsets they were likely to Injure themselve s permanen tly. They l-aughed at this advlee at first, but gradually they loosened the &rings. Then the World war came, and the l~Unger generation , finding it could play better '-.'ifthout harness, discarded the corset entirely. Some of 1he abbreviate d dresses of today would tla\le caused a panic in the streets ot twenty :years ago. Does that mean that women have be~.»me depraved? Is It "Immoral" to wear skirts that reach only to the knee? "No daUghter ot mlne will make such a spectacle of herself!" said parents with Nineteent h century standards of modes and manners. Now these same parents 1.21 the gallery a llttle puzzled and bewildered , patiently watching, secretly relleved that wom~·s attractive ness, far from being Impaired, has \JQ~ett greatly enhanced by her new liberation. One observer argues that the Idea ot Immorality Is closely allied to the Idea of shame ; and that., having got rid of a good deal of shame, we have attained to a higher degree of moral health than prevailed In Jane Austen's day when woman had only one preoccup ation-sex . This Is the op!Dion of Hugh A. Studdert Kennedy, former (.J()ndon correspon dent of the •Chrlstle.n Science llonltor, nnd brother of the Rev. G. A. Studdert K<e~medy. W-riting In the Forum, Mr. Kennedy recalls a .June dny fn Lon.don twelve years ago. Passing under the Admiralty arch, he was shocked to behold a woman "obviously ot grace and refinemen t, beautifull y gowned In the mode ot the day, save thr the outrageou s fact, that the sleeves ot her were completely transpare nt from the ,..,zlsts t() the shoulders. " ~oon a crowd started to follow her. Some !fQnths hegan to jostle her, and ''before I knew ,...hat 1 was doing I had pushed my way through t.ll<' <TO\\d, !'nlh;ted the ~ervlces of a policeman , Keep Roof Painted and between the two of us we got the half-faint· lng girl into a taxi. By the time I had deposited her at Queen Anne's mansions, where she was staying with her father and mother, she had tearfully explained to me that they hall just arrlverl from New York, that every woman In New York was wearing that kind of dress, that she never dreamed that such a thing would happen, and that she would never get o>er It." Ten yeurs, Including war years, passed. Mr. Kennedy again passed under Admiralty arch Into St.•Tames' park. "Ever~·where one looked, dotted about the lawns, ·were girls, not In gowns with trans;:>are nt sleeves, but In gowns with no sleeves at all ; In gowns that did not come one Inch be· low the knee; In gowns devoid of necks and only very transpare ntly supplied with backs. "Ten years before, one lone girl clad after a fashion, which now would be regarded as almost Quakerish In Its modesty, had creatE!d something bordering on a panic in this place; women open· Jy dubbed her a hussy ; men and boys openly followed her, and passers-by had wondered what the world was coming to. ''And this was what the world was coming tobare arms, bare knees, bare necks, and, yes, bare backs, too. ADd yet I could not help but note how unconcern ed everybody seemed abOut It. It seemed to me that the air Wfl.S cleaner and purer than It had been ten ysars before, as If an unholy pressure had been relieved, and Impudent hocus-poc us shorn of Its Imaginary power. Legs were evel:ywhe re, arms were everywher e, and yet the mert and boys passing back and forth were going about their dally walk and conversation just as If nothing were happening , just as 11' the world around them wer.e not coming to anythin_g out of the ordinary, after all. "A great artist once told me an Interestin g story. \V-e were talking about women's dress, and how entirely It was a matter ot the point .of view. He recalled one day when he wa& a. young art student that a curious thing happened at the life class he was attending. The model was a young girl of refinemen t and beauty of form, and the cla-ss was drawing her undraped figure. She was a good model, and had been sitting motionless for half an hour, when, suddenly glancing upwards, she saw the face ot a man peering at her through the window of the skylight. She had been posing for half an hour before a class of fifty men, yet when she saw this face at the skylight, with an outraged cry, she threw a wrapper around her shoblders, jumped from the plat· fo.rm, and withdrew In t.3ars to her dressing room. "Now the artist has always been regarded as necessaril y a man of looser morals than the man who follows other callings. It Is an absurd as- The timber framework by which the r,)oflng or coYering materials are supported -should be coated with paint before the outer covering is laid on. Valless, gutters and downspou ts should be painted as soon as they sumption, of course, but It arises !rom the fact are put In position. There is a that the average human being, dragooned into a tendency to(lay to rely upon galvan· 'respect' for the 'mysteries ' of women 'B dress , lzed metal. Under the mo:st advant::t· cannot conceive of anyone, who does not give a !l;eous conditions the life of gulvaf!iz. rap for It, as anything but Immoral. Artists are I log Is fifteen years and Its tenn of not less moral than other men, but have, on the usefulness may be considerab ly contrary, gained a certain measure of freedom shortened under adverse circumfrom that Incubus of mystery which makes for, stances. For instance, galvanizin g, 11' as nature Intended it to make for, the excita- exposed to the erosive elements of tion of desire. And the average human mind re· ocean ulr, will not serve as a prosents the acquisitio n of this freedom. tection for more than three or four "A hundred years ago the •,vomanly woman' years. Whereas, under the same conhad perhaps reached her most 'womanly' ex· ditions, gutters 11nd Rpouts will last pression. The women of Jane Austen's day were from ten to twelve years If regualmost completel y preoccupi ed with questions of larly painted, or made of zinc or sex. They had it for their every thought. They copper. sewed a little, cooked, and played the harpsichord, but when they did these things, It was alArchitec ture Improve s ways with some very gallant gentleman In view. The dwellings of any people are the And as to the very gallant gentlemen , they were surest indication of their strength. so gallant that a chance view ot my lady's ankle Our highest civic jdeals spring from was sufficient to put them Into a cold sweat. sources which have their origins In "I begin to see thl.s younger generation today happy, thriving communit ies. Since as 'some holy thing.' With unei'ring, it uncon- the· enlightene d communit y offers the scious wisdom, the modern woman Is doing the best field for the merchflld lslng of first things first, she Is getting rid of the mystery lumber, the Interest of the lumber of the fiesh. And the man who twenty years lndustry In improving small house ago was fired by ~he suggestion of mystery of the architectu re In America might result clothed form finds himself unmoved in the pres- :trom no motfve other than the seeking ence of ao much nakedness , because It Is un- tor commercia l gain. The motive, ashamed. however, lies deeper than this. They "The lack Qf morality ts not in the nakedness realize that beautiful homes are IUl but In the -shame, and the shame grows le!ls day Inspiratio n to better living. by day. The question of sex !..s really occupying thought far less today than at any time in hisThrifty Illinois City tory. And so when a prince of the church declares, aa he did recently, that he Is shocked at Ot all the cities that dot the state 'the unparallel ed depravity of woman's dress,' ot Illlnois, Moline, pe':rhaps, Is un· and declares that he Is 'at a loss to explain the equaled In one evidence of the thrift universal decadence which has swept the world,' ot Its Inhabitant s. Eighty-fou r per the womnu of today Is apt to answer him short- cent of the homl!s In that city are ly enough. owned by their occupants . That ts "No transition al period Is desirable for Its own more than an Indication of Industry sake. and e.s far as the relation of the sexes Is and thrift; It' Is proof that the people concerned , we are pasalng through a period of of Moline belleve in their city. Hometransition . a period ln which license Is, more oft· owning solidifies a communit y. In this en than not, mistaken for liberty, and old-time respect Moline should be as solid as Ideas vanish in a peal of lnughter. And the rock.-Chi cago Journal. laughter is the most wholesom e thing about lt. The surest way for the world to rid itself of the Playgro unds Help hocus--pocus of sex Is to laugh at !t. A. home with playgroun ds, flowera A lady with a lamp shall stand and sunshine Is the birthright of eop. In the great history of the lund. ery chlld. Well. the lady has come, and she Is standing. And her Skirts are short, and her arms are bare. Beauty in Copper Roof As to her back, I cannot see It, for her face Is Th1! copper roof Is a thing of beaut7, towards me; but on her face, upturned to the light of her lamp, l.s shining the glory or 11 ne.- wtth a color runge adaptable to lUll type of house or to any envlrOillll eut era." • GE NE RA L M OT OR S • CHEVR OLET • PONTIA C , OLDSM OBILB OAKLA ND , BUICK , CADILL AC GMC TRUCK S YELLO W CABS, BUSES AND TRUCK S Approp riate Another Titian Reporte d ")fy nephew, Lester, is working on After remaining unnoticed for ~·ears a farm over in Wawhoo county," said covered with dirt and grime in an old Farmer Fumblega te. shop in Berlin, a painting believed to "What kind of a farm hand does be another real Titian has !Je( n toehe make?" asked Farmer Funter. ported found and identified as one of "Just about the usual kind, I guess. 1he g1·eat artist':; works entitled "\' eTie was photograp hed by a moving nus, Cupid and the Organ !'layer.'' picture company the othe.,r dny, anJ they used u slow-moti on camera on 'l'he Ia. t thing- some men thin!{ of is him."-Ka nsas City Star. frNtuently the first thing tl1at would get them Into trouble. 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