The Devils Lake world., 1922-01-25

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
high and holy resolves when they
heard "The Wedding March" Or
Promise Me at their wedding. In the
spiritual realm, too, music plays it's
part and many man has found his
way to the Cross made clearer and
easier by the sweet singing of Gods
Music. So many young souls tonight
are having scared upon the retina OF
their memories the picture Of lost
virtue and stolen honor and the music
that accompanies that picture is this
demnable unspeakable jazz.
Referring to jazz moving pictures,
Mr.. Case said the pictures he had seen
here had been clean, with few ex-
ceptions. He quoted from Archie Bell
dramatic critic of the Cleveland Sun
day-News Leader who said in review
ing certain play:
''4ll put it in an ice shaker, cool it
and serve it so mildly that all the
tang may be lost. So remember that
it's all coated with frost-as COM
pared with the real thing. 1t shall
be as gentle as expurgation, fumiga-
ftion and typewriter formaldehyde
can make it. And yet, warn you
if you have weak heart, if you faint
easily, OF if you feel when you see
pretty blondined actress wearing
a peek-a-boo waist, stop at this line!
Don't read farther at the peril of your
conscience and good health, because
l mean to attempt to tell briefly the
story of Pierre Louys, "Aphrodite--
!----" DR.. Straton, the great New
York preacher speaking of the same
spectacle says:
Nothing was left to the imagina-
tion. Every appeal was to the sem
suos and the fleshly. /. It was night
mare of nude men and women, with
bare legged negro men, in addition to,
white men, squirming in and out and
rubbing against the practically naked
white girls. 1t was an orgy Of SEN
suality and shame, with men and wo-
men, in condition of almost complete
undress, hugging each other, and slob-
bering over each other and rolling on
couches with each other, and dane
ing in feignod drunken revelry to-
gether."
i Why do I bring this in. Because
it is typical Of the "jazz picture" Of
today. They say it is art. It is the
J. DEVILS art. Just the same art that
he used centuries ago in that Grove
of Aphrodite" which is depicted in
that play and which ruined one CT the
greatest civilizations the world has
ever known.
Last of all l would speak of the
"jazz'' life in what should he the
homes Of our people. There is all to.
; little home life today. Father is
driven night and day to make enough
money to keep things moving. Driver
is the right word. Mother is society
! crazy. Dance tonight. Bridge to-
! morrow afternoon. The calm anc
quiet that characterizes the true home
is very rare. We must be "doine
]. something" How often do people
:: just sit down and "visit." That has
: gone cut of style entirely. People
, have forgotten how it is done. Tha
; is why some Of you entertain so1n'
: of your friends for dinner after churcl
' Sunday morning you cannot think O
: anything to do in the afternoon. S.
2 you get out deck Of cards and hav'
j. a little "game," Do not look arount
e at some one else. l know some O.
l you right here who are doing tina
/ : sort of thing and you know that it i
> not right God commanded you t,
. make the rest day he has ordained
: for you HOLY and you are not doins
it.
n, "Feace, peace, there is no peace
t were the words of an inspired writer
t l might parapharse it, Crest, Quie;
j there is no rest or quiet. What i
:. the result--NERVES. What is tn
e result-Breakdown. What is the re
e sult-chldren who are nervous wreck
e the day they are born. Do noe tax
v n1y word for this. Just ask an
i doctor in Devils Lake if I am no
d right. Why, it is this inner Urg
Of lashed nerves that is benin
e this cigarette smoking among tn
l. women Of this city. 1t is what is bac
d of lot Of this drinking. One mothe
!, speaking about this very thing. Sh
g told me that her son; young marie
/: man who is not a booze fighter ha
o 70 turn down five different invitation
l. 10 shave drink with me" eithe
v Christmas or New Years. And ever
/. invitation came from a matron i
" 8 highly respectable home anon
= the upper crust" Of this city. On
n woman afteiward apologized to I'll
,r. young mans mother and said: "wh,
in. had no idea that --- did M
A drink, l am so sorry l offered hi
~. anything. am ashamed" She ha
" "a right to be ashamed Now / as
to you. What is the next generation g.
:,.. To bo