Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-04-06

They who are enthralled with its
power will find their place with him.
Speaking more specifically Mr..
Taylor continued his powerful adj
dress, and in so doing supported in
no uncertain manner and with unmis
taxable words the fight which the
ministry Of our city have waged in
their battle against that most Sc
ductive, debauching, sOuldestroying
invention OF hell, the modern dance.
The saloon with all its rottenness
id not have anything to compare
III destructiveness of decency with
the modern dance, only where it drew
to its aid the power of the dance,
which it so often did
The very names in their lewdness
are suggestive of evil. The tango"
from a word meaning touch" owes
its power of evil in the seductive,
debasing thrill of personal contact.
Also the bunny hug the turkey
trot" "the tickle-toe' and so on ad
nauseum.
1t is well known that $4,000 young
girls disappear every year from So
ciety, and their ranks are recruited
for the most part from the rural
districts through the agency of the
dance hall.
If prGdery shall hold up with mock
horror and assumed sanctity its le-
cherous hands, let il know that the
boy and girl of eight today know
more OF sexual matters than their
grandfathers did at seventy.
The moral standard of a God in
sulting, God rejecting world is the
cause for the conditions which pre-
vail, in giving to the hatitues of the
dance hall privileges which would not
be tolerated at any other times.
The husband who shot down the
man at his door who dared to speak
to his wife, holding her hand in his
and resting his other hand upon her
shoulder, and eXonerated by the jury
who tried him, would have been I'M
hesitatingly condemned to the cleo
trio chair or to state prison for life
for murder, had the fatal bullet been
fired a few hours previously on the
dance hall floor when, set to jazz,
the man who was shot down has gone
far beyond that act in lines of de-
cency.
In a certain city when in the in
terests of decency it was made a rul-
ing that the girls should wear their
corsets. they did so, but took them
eff. parked them, before entering
the dance hall because the boys
would call them "old ironsides."
When the dancing masters of Bel
GUM of other European countries are
forming associations for the suppress
sion OF the dance it is time for those
who are asleep to awake.
Worcester set a fine example in
forbidding the high school dances,
and in refusing to EMPLOY the teach
ers who attend the dance hall.
Wichita forbids those under eigh-
teen attending, also the darkening of
the hall (for what purpose?. R.nd
provides that the performance shall
be under strick police supervision.
A physician in a certain town on
tho Mississippi ascribe the birth of
nj ;5 illegitimate children 70 the re-
suits OF the opening night of a shore
lance pavilion.
In another city the matron of a
rescue home said that one-half of the
unfortunate young girls who came
there went wrong through the public
school dance.
The dance is the cause of more di-
vorces than any other agency.
"A petition was read and signed by
many, asking that the school board
abolish an institution productive of
so much evil, and that in it's stead
should be given proper recreational
/ exercises. II is TO be hoped that this
petition shall prevail and that the
voice of those who have a right TO
be heard shall be given audience.
/ Cards and other amusemen:s were
also. discussed.
The meetings Will continue through
the week, excepting Monday night,
and a cordial. invitation is extended
to all to notwithstanding.