Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-05-13
MOTHERS ADVOCATE
DANCING IN SCHOOLS
(From Thursdays Daily

newly organized Parents Teachers
Association, waded into one of the
most serious problems confronting
the high school today. AT rous-
ing meeting Tuesday night, fifty
mothers and fathers elected officers
and effected organization after
which a lively discussion on the
merits of the dancing question in
the high school was engaged in.
For the past several weeks, op-
ponents to dancing in the high
school. urged the School Board of
Trustees to eliminate the terpischo-
rean art from the high school social
curriculum. So urgent did the anti
dancing fraternity become. that the
school board at a session last week
passed an ultimatum instructing the
juniors to discontinue the plans for
their prom scheduled for next
month. as a farewell entertainment
to the senior class. The order not
only aroused the ire Of the majority
of the juniors who had finally pick
ed the dance in preference to a
moonlight picnic, but many of the
parents of the students as well.
To use a slang phrase. many OF
the mothers of students in the high
school. came to the meeting in the
high school building with blood in
their eye" 1t was evident that there
was a storm brewing and it didn't
take long before somthing did hap
pen. The parents of the pro-danc-
ers simply out-numbered the anti
dancers by over five to one and the
discussion at one time became so
wholly one-sided that one mother
arose and questioned the ADVISABLE
ty of continuing the discussion any
longer because OF the lack of oppo-
sition from the faction which in
duced the school board to take &c
ton for their side.
81 won't permit the substitution
of moonlight picnics and auto rides
for dances in my daughters recrea-
ton" sternly declared one mother.
81 can go to dance. watch my
daughter there and know that she
is enjoying herself in a wholesome.
moral way. The fallacy OF substi-
tuting moonlight auto rides for such
a clean pastime as dancing is very
easily seen.
Taking dancing out OF the life
of my daughter is like taking honey
from the flower" declared another
mother THE child has danced ali
her life and she loves dancing and
what's more, she is going to keep
on dancing. really believe that it
is good for her"
81 don't necessarily see why the
beliefs of simply a few people should
deprive the entire high school OF
the pleasure OF dancing. On the
other hand, | don't believe that
either side should be bound by 4
unanimous decision" declared an
other. Those who won't dance are
not forced to go to the affairs then
why should the anti-dancers attempt
to deprive the others of their plea
sure. The sentiment is wholly
against this movement"
you don't object to the rhythm
of the music or the steps taken"
said Mr.. Hart, but merely the fact
that the young man places his arm
around the waist of the young lady.
That is wher the DIRECTORS to daEc-
ing make their grave error. know
and you should know that the girl
who dances through an evening
without the least bit OF evil thought
running through her mind IS much
more capable Of taking care Of her
self than the girl who has never
come i'll contact with this oppor-
tunity to become immune"
Up until Tuesday night, there was