The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-04-29

i which m Pr declared part rus y.
gives his approval 10 q letter writ
ten b. Cardinal Basili0 Pompili.
| NicarGeneral OF Rome. reproving
the sins that are creeping into our
civilization The new paganism. the
Cardinal SAYS In a letter printed IN
the ~Osservatore Romano the Or
gan Of the Vatican. lis threatenins
10 overWhelm the faithful He ure-
e. the clergy 10 wan people o. the
grave onense against God OF partici-
Eating in amusemenis which are in
citant 10 corruption So far as men
ton OF the tango is made the Carii-
nal Vicar confesses himself deeply
.rieved 10 learn that an attempt g.
being made 20 introduce certain
dance from over the seas which
gsavely outrages modesty and which
has already been condemned BY
many illustrious bishops and prohibit
"a even i'm Protestant countries.
The letter. 50 the newspaper dis
patches aver. was edited by the Pope
to eliminate some OF the vehement ex
pressions IL originally contained.
The Cardinal Archbishop OF Paris.
however has been more unsparing.
His lo.te-. we are told by the press
declares dancing the tango 4 sin
which must be confessed and for
which penance must be done. and
adds.
we condemn the dance imp0rte.
from abroad known under the name
OF the tango. which. by It's nature is
indecent and offensive TO morals.
and in which christians may not In
conscience take part. II will. there.
fore. be the duty OF confcssors 4,
take police OF This in the administr-
stion of the sacrament Of penance
Ca dinail O'Connell OF Boston. has
followed the Cardinal Vicar In as
comprehensive views. seeing in the
play. magazine. the ballroom"
evidence OF IAN ever increasing dis.
regard OF even the rudiments ~ com
mon deconcy of dress. OF department
az conversation. and az conduct
In recent sermon. rattle fully re
ported by tho New York sun he
says:
Little by li;t'e the bars have been
lowered. Letting out the few infiuenc.
IS which held society in restraint
and letting in very food OF folly.
Of insatiatc greed for amusement OF
any and every kind until what even
a few years ago would make a dec
ent woman blush to see in Others
has become so common that even de.
cent woman now accept rs a matter
OF fact for themselves and their dau.
ghters."
We need be neither prude nor
Puritan 20 see and TO ralize that
something in is passing in the heart
and the mind OF the woman today
which is leaving them hard and I'M
womanly and that year by year this
transformation goes on until, il /,
continues. there viii be nelth,-
home nor family. nor normal woman
nature left
III this is the new woman then
God spare us from any further devel.
opments Of an abnormal crea .ure.
&c .tainiy this is not the Catholic wo
man who is true to her faith and is
re, easily influenced by these mod.
ern fads OF a new paganism she
has her Standards and she stands by
them unchanged"
Many other Catholic bishops, in
anfwer to an appeal from the New
Y crk Times" join in vehement de
nunoiation. The letter OF Bishop
schrembs. OF Toledo. is charactoris-
tic:
In answer 20 your .eocnt commun
ioltion. permi me to say that the
amusements' OF people are. in a
measure. reflex of its morality.
Ing over The land today. and on its
crest IL has carried with Il the sug.
gestive fashions OF dress and the
nausea.ing revels and dances of the
brothel. D.ess and dance under
such conditions are destroying the
very sense OF womany reserve and
deoency They were horn of the
sensualism Of the brothel. and they
quito naturally beeet sensualism in
return"
Previous to these public denuncia-
lions By the Catholic Church. Rabbi
Wise. in Carnegie Hail. launched
philippe against dancing. In the
New YORK "Tribune's" report he is
represented as saying:
my objection TO so-called modern
dancing arises out OF the belief
shared by many that it is only
phase of the widespread social deter
ioTation which we see abou. us.
Nothing could be more serious to a
democracy than that general lower
ing Of standards. that widespread de-
basement of tone, the evidence of
which afe many and multiplying.
mot only does clean dancing seem
20 have passed. but even decent
walking is much too rare. One, is
nauseated by the spectacle of wo-
men walking in suggestive and vul-
gar fashion. There is much about
the manner and the matter of woman