The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-09-22
THE DANCING AND THE
JUXTO-POSITION
By DR.. M. A. Majors


1t matters not what others think
about it, dancing is some form of
social degradation. That it has its
extenuating and mitigating circum-
stances but while it is offered as a
social exercise and thriller for the
blues it has opened the door to many
maraudi9g hell for the youth of all Of
the races.
Dancing draws upon our finer
human fabric like music in its soulful
vibrations throughout our physical
bodies. Alluring bride, it promises and
almost exhorts in its pleasant glorious
deception. 1t attacks the frailest fab
ric Of the moral structure in the human
frame. Its seductive charm at one
fell sweep knocks all Of the better life
ferce out of hearts and sets up. in the
weakened human spirit a cheap imita-
ton that is as dangerous as hell itself
Prancing to music invites the elastic
ity and activity Of our muscles. This
to all intents and purposes has only
to do with our physical well-being
but when its seductive charm would
like huge octopus wrap its hundreds
Of ugly legs around the innocent and
pure it has snatched from our hands
the glory Of our human life.
There is no right under heaven ex-
cept the marriage certificate whereby
one man may with his arms encircle
the waist Of any woman on a dance
floor We very well understand the
trend of the present day. and we are
careful not to mistake the social white
wash brush that is so greatly needed
ever and anon. We seem to be in the
throes OF some kind Of social havoc,
and its so strange that warnings of
moral danger are not heard from every
pulpit in the land Dancing is the
weakest excuse the young man can
make to the girl he has designs upon.
If he can take her to the dance hall,
after a while he will ask her to the
cabaret, the midnight supper, and di
rectly ahead to the buffet fat This
is likely to happen in a great many
cases, but not in all. We have studied
people who dance and people who do
not dance. and our observation as
sures US that the moral vitality OF
those who do not dance is consider
ably stronger than those who do
dance.
There is a beginning to every ones
downfall Thousands OF people know
that at first the thing seems harmless,
feels joyful. and III many ways just
its tile situation for the time until
one day the girls heart begins to sor-
row over vain regrets, and then sad
and melancholy life.
The most terrifying aspect is the
ugly embrace, often the fearful en-
brace Of some internal scoundrel.
whose heart and mind is never set
upon any righteous rule, and whose
acts place him below the considera-
ton 81 respectable women Dancing
Is III invention Of the devil 1t gives
the man Or woman the freedom OF in
sinuating what manner of deviltry they
nurture in their hearts, and often they
carry this hell bent ideal to its dam
nable conclusion BY accepting the
ugly saturnalia Of the devil. II we are
to have virtue enshrined around the.
hearthstone then we are to resist with
all our might the instrumnts that
Satan has invented for the destruction
of our youth. If we are to have noble
young fellowship in the dignihed bear
ings and leanings toward forcible
character structure we must begin to
preach against this whirlpool Of sin
and iniquity that is about to engulf
this race Of ours. The niethers and