The Nevada County picayune., 1922-06-29
WHAT \ DANCE HALL PROPRI- ETOR SAYS OF THE NEW
 DANCES

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 Chicago by ] Louis Guyon We pub fish if exactly as delivered without editing or ahridgement. hut with thls important explanation which should be considered when reading the adj dress that Mir. Guyou k the proprietor of Gayons CDance) Paradise. Chiea- go's largest public dance hall
 Gentlemen. have been asked to speak on the subject of Dancing and Morals.
 First. I want 10 assure you l appre- ciate the invitation you have given me. especially as if Is somewhat out of the ordinary for the proprietor of a dance hall te speak to a body of ministers. My only regret is that am not an orator. but l have gathered A few facts in my experience in con ducting bathrooms That l wil be glad to lay before you and that will. m my opinion. he of some value te you in arriving at an understanding of the dance situation as 1t exists today.
 At the outset want 10 say 10 yort that I am not a moral.st or reform ar But do believe in deeeney Ill all things. I believe in selling good goods If were selling shoes I would sell good shoes. If I were selling groceries I would sell good groceries. l happen to be selling amusement. so l am sell Ing good clean amusement l have faith in humanity and l believe most of the people wish 10 be decent most of the time l believe it Is aS easy to lead boys and girls to right ways ef thought and action as to wrong. But if we teach them to pick pockets, We can't blame them for picking pockets. If we teach them to gamble we can't blame them If they gamble. No more can we blame them for dancing in an indecent manner If we teach them in decent dances and set them the exam pie of indecency. The fault does not lie with the boys and girls, II lies with you and me and society because we allow condition of this kind to exist in our communities.
 Would you. or l. or society knowing ly permit someone to teach our sons and daughters to pick pockets and to gamble? Yet we permit them to be fed on abominahle jazz music. which ap- paals to their baser impulses, and taught the fox trot. the one step tod dle shimmy and other vicious dances which are nothing more or less than pelvic messages
 We are all men We know the natur- al desires of youth We know that sex hunger is the strongest impulse i'm planted in the human race. You can picture the effect on the boy or girl of eighteen or twenty. when this hun ger is keenest. when knowledge and eN- perience are lacking in the formation of judgment. of one of these dances which call for close abdominal contact and frequently bring the cheeks to- gether and intertwine the limbs. And vet We find thousands and thousands of boys and girls dancing thi> way every day who do not realize they arc doing anything eut of the way and whose fool parents look on cOmpla gently.
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 Dancing is the poetry of motion II is as natural for the human being to dance aS fl k for the sun to shine. People haye danced since the hegin ming of the world All of Us have no- tieed the child of two or three wears dancing to the muse furnished hy street musician Dancing itself is not wrong II is to it's abuse We must eh- feet II would be just aS logical to de nounee religion heeause crimes have been committed in it's name
 Some seven years ago when the dance teachers of Chicago adopted fhe tango and the whole country wen' wild over the so.called modern" dane ing and they were holding tango tea> at almost every Street crossing I haj the pleasure ef addressing numbee of ladies at Hull House among whom were Jane Addams Ms Joseph r Bowen. Miss Jessie Biuford. Ms Ger trude Howe RritfeH and others whose