The Nevada County picayune., 1922-06-29

ciety balls. church and college uahce>, in way that they should at leas have a marriage license before step ping oh Il ballroom floor and if they did have q marriage license there would be no excuse and no need for performing these acts in public.
 Th.- form If dancing i> a menace to the morals of or young people II is a menace to our nation. And I would say if f were impossible to conduct dancing without sanctionins this form, then We should abolish all dancing
 But vaut 10 point out to you. that in the face of a world gone crazy over jazz music and indecent dancing in the face of the.r adoption by dane ing teachers everywhere and by the social world. against the advice and judgment of my friends who told me il would be impossible for me 10 sue eeed. I built up q little two hy four tutions of it's kind in the country sim business into ene If the greatest insti refusing to allow these immoral dances ply ny insisting on keeping il clean and to he performed in my establishment. Tn other words I am selling good goods and am confident my policy Is ap- preciated by the thousands Of boys and girls who ratronize my place
 have referred To iazz music sever al times in the course of this talk and now I want to say that it i> the mos detrimental factor with which We have 10 contend in keeping dancing clean l In support of this statement. let mo read an interview with Dr. Frank Morton from q Madison. Wis paper
 It. is headined. Claims Whiskey lag is Faded by Jazz. IL continues
 Music iS more Intoxicating than whiskey.
 This reassurance was given the in habitants of the great American desert Saturday night by Dr Frank F. Nor ton. acoustic engineer for the Amer ican Steel and Wire Company and na- tfonally known musical scientist
 ,Jazz-musical bolshevism-has the same dsorganizing effect on the nerve system as moonshine Ticker" declared Morton. hut good music hath the power to stimulate intoxieate or Soothe the mind"
 Dr Morton opened a grand piano.
 Relax your muscles he instructed.
 A chord of soothing harmony was struck. The listener instinctively closed his eyes Another note-the Dominant Seventh-arose and with it feeling of tenseness and anticipation,
 Now cried Dr Morton. and he broke into the melody of the Hindoo incantation of the Far East
 '-The uncanny notes of the voodooist strain produced queer, swimming sensation in the listeners head nerves were atingle and there was ere ated a curious intoxicating feeling
 pr Morton brought the incantation 10 close with hang-he struck the soothing harmony of the Common Chord and the charm was broken
 pr Morton explained:
 The effect Of rhythmic repetition k to drive it's votaries to extremes of i talor or depravity or rapture that the strongest liquor would not inspire
 In this connection I want to relate a demonstration we had in my ballroom few weeks ago Dr Morton and Mrs Marx oberndorfer, chairman of the music committee of the General Fed eration of WomenS Clubs. asked me if I could devise some way of showing the effect of jazz music on dancers and after considerable thought, I hit on the following experiment. l. WAS earried out on a Wednesday evening -a class uighs-when our crowd was comparatively small and the greater number just learning to dance
 Ftf~f wan you 10 bear in m nd that our patrons are accustomed to >tr'et supervision hy q corps Of trained and etttcien' floor men who have in ~fruerioh> to remove objectionable dancers from The floor and authority te cause persistent offenders to be elected from the hsli-that jazz music k unknown iu mr establishment and that indecent positions are prohibited