The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-08-02
WHERE THE EVIL
IS IN THE DANCE
4 Reply to "WHERE Is THE EVIL.
In The Grit-Adveeate July 26tL

like comedy to those who know the
evils of the dance down through CEN
turies. In the first place, why did
not the party who so lightly signs
themself "A Christian" sign their
name and come out from behind the
bushes? They claim to be q Chris
tian and yet in the article state that
they are on the Outside" For an
anonymous advocate of the dance to
sign the article "A Christian is lu-
dicrous to say the least.
The churches of Christ of this fair
land have never descended to the point
in Christianity where they have en-
dorsed the dance and the Scriptures
are absolutely against such practice.
Read Galatians 5:19-21, "Now the
work Of the flesh are manifest, which
are these; adultery. fornication, un-
cleanness, envying, murders, drunken
ness, REVELINGS and SUCH LIKE
As l have told you before, that
they which do such things shall not
inherit the Kingdom of God" These
revelings are put in the same category
as murder. Imagine the Lord and
Christ attending or defending the
dance; such thing is inconceivable.
The Bible reveals the horrors of the
dance. Look at the noble and virtu-
Gus Queen Vashti, when King Ahasu-
eras attempted to force her to dance
with and before his princes; she sur
rendered her throne rather than the
immodest display of her person or her
beauty-and she is held up in the BIZ
BILE as a model of queenly and virtu-
Gus womanhood.
View the other side of the question
in Salome as she dances with and be-
fore Herod, with transparent dress or
the dress of Eve and realize the mad,
voluptuous and impurely suggestive
gyrations Of this devotee of the dance
and its effect on Herod, poor fool, who
was willing to barter half of his king
dom for sight of this immoral dance.
Herod at the dance, Herod drunk, was
persuaded to do what Herod sober,
shrank in horror from doing, promis-
ing to murder John the Baptist and
the mother of Salome stood by sane
tioning the dance of death. Where
was the evil? Drinking and dancing
usually 90 together and are remnants
of ancient revelries.
Do you want to place our girls
where the whole tendency is to go
wrong morally? Throw your girl in
the sea and the tendency is to 20 down
and the trend is downward at the
dance. Culture and education do not
prevent it. At a dance recently in one
OF our splendid cities, wenty
young people were arrested as they
were playing leap-frog, bunny-hug
and grizzly bear during one of the
Christian? dances. We should pro-
tect, not expose our sons and daugh-
ters to-depraved excitement. The
Mayor of Cheyenne not long ago said:
1T is the most fertile breeding place
for immortality" The Mayor Of Min
neapolis recently said: "The dance
nall is detrimental to public morals. :"
Mayor of Richmond says: at is the
hunting ground of 'procurers.' y Now
Where is the Evil? The evil is the
ruination of the race and the catastro
phe OF Rome. Is the wild dance, the
guzzling booze, immoral movies to be-
come the staff of life? What tot
tering foundation upon which to build
a nation.
Personally l do not desire a daugh-
ter OF mine to be thrown among tam
go fiends or white slavers. Who will
protect her there? Will they, when
they hover over the dance as the yul
lures of hell? Will society protect
her! Would they treat your girl bet
ter than they have treated thousands
VINO have been ground under the iron
heel of their righteousness Their
purity may be overthrown. To the
usual dance crowd drinking is an
amusement just like the dance and to
mingle with that kind of conscience
is to be dimmed in character. The re-
suits of the dance, the position in the
dance, the movement in the dance, is
the same in high and ordinary socie-
w. In one city at fraternal order
dance, the wife of prominent physi-
clan danced on table, practically
nude; at dance recently in one Of
our beautiful cities, prominent gen.
tleman, spurred on by wine. dived into
a big pool with the gold fish, regard
less of his evening dress. In city
where | recently visited, the pupils of
the high school turned their banquet
INTO a dance. turning off all of the
lights and engaging in all of the lat
est hugs, trots, tango and jazz" |
would not want daughter of mine to
feel at home in such company. The
dance is an evil tree. Do you want
your children to eat the fruit there
from? In my opinion the dance is
the first step in the path of lost mod
esty and virtue. What blots, what
tragedies emanate from the dance
hall!
Do you want your daughter to be-
come the subject of the shaded con-
versation of certain male attendants
at most all dances? Stand around
the wall and listen to what they have
to say about your sister. wife or YOUR
sweetheart. If you would do this YOU
would toss your dance shoes into the
stove. One of the great troubles of
society right now is that the intimacy
permitted in the ballroom is carried
into private life. $500 wayward wo-
men were questioned as to the cause
OF their condition and five-eighths of
them stated that it started on the
dance room floor. Certainly there are
some good people who attend the