The Arizona copper camp., 1919-10-04

any possible censure of church and
municipal authorities.
For the Improvement, where posi-.
BILE, of the standards of our profession
For the Encouragement of all efforts
to introduce jazz or other music that
lends to degrade or sensualize dane
Is.
For the encouragement of dancing
as an art, as a social accomplishment,
and as relaxation and exercise. We
consider dancing the poetry of motion
and 4 natural expression of the de-
lights of music"
One dancing master who was found
teaching little girl in his studio the
other day stopped long enough to de-
clare that dancing was as necessary
to child's education as arithmetic.
"You will find" he said, "that all the
great things in the world are done by
men and women who possess keen
sense of rhythm. In some it is born
and cannot be suppressed. In others
it is not, and it must be cultivated
Look at this pupil" He nodded toward
the little girl who was standing awk-
wardly on one foot and clutching
fold of her little white dress. "She is
stiff as poker, and l must labor over
her for hours to make her learn three
consecutive steps. What if she grows
up like that?"
view of the ensuing lesson showed
that the dancing master undoubtedly
spoke the truth. AS man is the only
animal born without the power to1
swim, so he seems to be the only ami
NAL born without the usual grace.
After this, the demands of the ma
tional academy of dancing even if it
cost q million dollars, did not sound
so wildly impractical.
No dance which is essentially vul-
gar can. live long, according to this
master of dancing, and as an illustra-
tion of this he points to the short life
of the turkey-trot. This dance was
an inevitable reaction to the long
years of rather stupid dances, in which
people did nothing but waltz and two
step. Dancing was indulged in by
scarcely anyone over 80 when the
turkey-trot hit the country seven
years ago and practically set the
whole continent in motion. From it
evolved the one-step and the foX-trot
which, being rhythmical without being
vulgar, are still with us. For three or
four years dancing was the most popu-
lar pastime known. Everybody learned
the new dances, from grandmother
down. Then there came period when
the attendance at the dancing academ'
les declined; people began to be
trifle bored and to have Indigestion
from so many tea and dinner dances,
and SO there came a luli. Just then,
moreover, the war became serious, ana
it was not without relief that society
damsels gave up dancing for war
work. But the cabarets and the phono-
graph companies, which had made
tremendous amount of money out ci
the dancing craze, were not inclined to
sit quietly by and see it die, so they
set about searching for something
new-any novelty-to keep it alive.
So came jazz. Jazz was purely ac-
cidental, the find of cabaret man
while visiting New Orleans. Accord
ing to one dancing masters story, this
man was walking through the poorer
Quarter of the city one evening when
the sound of curious music made him
come to stop and listen. From the
inside of a shabby little restaurant 1t
discordant and yet
rhythmical, so that he could scarcely
keen his feet still. He went inside
and found that the noise or music or
whatever it was, was being made by a
band of four negroes, known as Razz,S
band One played a barytone horn,
one a trombone, another cornet and
another an instrument made out OIL
the China berry tree, which he did not
recognize but later found to be com
mon throughout the south, where the
negroes make it themselves. lit isl
much like clarinet, but has one Pc
culiar handicap; it can be used only
when the sap is in the wood, so that
after few weeks it has TO be dis
carded and a new one found)
The cabaret man realized that he
had found what he was hunting for
something new. 1t was not long be-
fore Razzs band was playing in a
first-class New Orleans restaurant, anu
from there it rapidly made its way
to Chicago. In some way Mr.: ltazz'S
name became converted into Jazz,
and thus made its way all over the
world. However, a negro waiter WIZ