Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-16
especially is such as to condemn it
by their speech. TO overlook the

especially is such as 10 III
by their speech. To overlook the
sensual appeal is to shut ones eyes
and speak out of ignorance. 1t
seems strange 10 see the lights out
lining buildings. and stalrWays
barred and locked. and watchmcn
busy every hour of the night. and
separate Fairgrounds and dividing
lines to separate boys and girls.
and vet once or twice a week cr
month the boys and girls line up
and instructors have to urge them
to oct partners "to oct them start
ed The boy with the most nerve
has to lead: sometimes he's drag
ged out by a teacher: threats have
been used. and very frequently
boys have said to me "secms like
at first I'm ashamed to do it."
1t is to he noted that those in
situations which 90 not have dane
inc have the highest moral tone
and attract the bulk of the real
students of the race increasingly
Christian Indian parents are ask
mo what schools allow dancing
and are not sendino then children
there. But" someone says, they
need to be taught grace" May
be, but it is a microscopic grace
that one finds in schools allowing
dancing. But says another.
they will face it when they go ont
from school and get into society
and he much embarrassed because
they do not know how to conduct
themselves" Well that may be
grant it--let US be consistent and
issue cigars once a week to the
older boys and educate their tastes
SO they will get used to the situa-
tion when they 90 ont and not fall
into the use of the vile cigarette.
The schools are training centers
preparing these children for life's
battle, places where real work
must be done to train young minds.
Then why take the easy course
when the work of getting up pro-
grams, games, charades. etc.
will stimulate en- joyment, without
reaction. Dancing is the common
EN- oyment. from the lowest type
of man to the so-called most civil
ived,--a common appetite makes
a common demand, and the com
mon demand is the line of least
resistance.
Go out on the reservations after
school restraint is gone, or follow
the Indian boy and GIRL away from
the school and see the effect of
having learned to dance. Where
do the boys and girls 90 who have
learned to dance and wanted to
dance every night, and looked for
ward to each night when dancing
was allowed? They 90 where they
can dance and crafty their desires.
no deterrent enters becauie
teachers taught them and did it
themselves, and so excess follows
restraint. Space will not permit,
nor will a published article allow
my telling here how many of those
who learned to dance while ut
school havehad many tragic les
sons after school, but you can find
that it all started back there in a
bowery, where the young men got
some drink and lewd white wo-
men came, and where Indian girls
sold their womenhood to licentious
diseased relics of white settlements
who thought an Indian girl was
Just "a sqnaw with a few trim
MINIS"
But someone says, that is
altogether too strong--it isn't
that bad" All / can say is, "Have
you lived on an Indian reservation
for Aears or visited once Have
you seen the social opportunities
of the returned student? Have
you had young men confess to you
that the only way they got nerve
to embrace a lewd white woman
was to get partly drunk Have
you had young men to tell you of
nnfaitkful wives led wrong by a
! white fellow with money! Have
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