The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-21
BUNNY HUG, ANIMAL
DANCES MUST STOP,
SAYS WATERMAN

THE bunny hug and the animal
dance must co." declared Joseph Wal
termann, chairman of the ordinance
committee in the regular meeting city
council Monday evening. These
dances which are working corruption
among the young people of the city
should be regulated and the ordinance
We have introduced will restrict them
to the proper bounds"
Councilman Waterman referred to
the ordinance which was brought up
for the first time at the council meet
ing Monday evening. 1t provides that
all dance halls must be licensed, that
all public dances must have special
permit issued before they are allowed
and that any dance to which admission
is gained by the payment of a fee
shall be considered public dance.
Rules of Ordinance.
Ten dollars is the minimum fee pro
vided for the license to be issued dance
hall proprietors. No minor under 1t
years of age shall be allowed at
dance without a parent or guardian
and no dance hall shall be kept opeI
after midnight. A fine of $50 or II
days Imprisonment or both is provid
Cu DIS DunlSuu1OAI lOI ally bAOAoIAOA VI
the ordinance.
Vulgar and suggestive dancing Il
strictly taboo, according to the word
ing of the measure, which was giver
first reading at the meeting. Police
of the city have the power to order
any dance hall vacated where in theil
Judgment such action is necessary.
Referred to Committee.
pandin0 fh1 final IF the 0F
dinance it was referred to the ordin
ance committee for action or sugges
tions that might be presented.
That dance halls are leading tn
/. young people of the city to their de
struction, and that parents are refus
ing to allow their children to atten'
dances because of the lax enforcement
of regulations were charges made b.
Mr. Waterman. Many more younj
people will attend the dancing If it |
put on a strictly moral basis" he said
Bus Fight Ended
The long agitated question OF bu
line for Richmond came up for discus
sion at the meeting. An ordinance
providing a franchise for the Thoma
J. Faye bus concern was tabled in
definitely on the motion of councilman
Oscar Williams Just previous to thi
action the report of special invests
CATION committee which had looke'
into the matter had been read Tn
report was unfavorable to the Blu
proposition.
G. X. Jeffries, general manager o
the T. H. |. and E. lines, was an inter
ested spectator at the council meeting
The report of the special invest
eating committee was based on FIND
ings in the city of Saginaw, Mich
where buses have been tried out TO
several years Additional wear an
tear on the streets, and an upkeep c
% cents per mile for the bus lines a
compared with 10 cents per mile 70
street cars were points cited by ther
as favorable to the old plan.
Report Accepted
The committee, consisting of Cour
cilmen Waterman, Bonn, Salzarul
and Stegman recommended that Ricf
mond stay with the street cars, excep
in the case OBJ buses used to feed tn
street car lines. The report was az
cepted by the council without con
ment.
Street cars standing at Eighth an
Main streets, and the need for a l!
minute schedule on the west side wer
points on which Mr.. Jeffries was que
STONED by individual councilmen. M
i Jeffries promised to have surve
made on the west side with a view