Felix Cherniavsky - Censorship, Dance, and Morality

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Felix Cherniavsky - Censorship, Dance, and Morality

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Temple Bethel o chand Modern Dances , CALL THEM DEMORALIZING NY Timer 5/1/14 PS وز . c honest , Ravi Tr Samuel Scholmarbon Templath - 1 , Firth Avenue and taceans Jews Praiso even onthet ald : ** I am no authority on dancink . Any Iance can be danced : vulgarly , and on urch for Discount- The other hand , Ercefully . and without jury to moruix . The dances which em to be most popular . in so far as they make for vulgarity . form posure of the person for the symbolizing of and for the fontering of nusty.ate , of course , to ha con DEMORALIZING demned . Certainly the rage which seems to have taken hol4 of rople so that mma.of them dance at luncheon , as I understand , it need not be n . 1 , prefu . deal for sano view of life .. to inorn ! ooplo 07 All Walks of Life Seemibility , and to the performance , of duty . co Hove Abandoned their com . * The whole dance madness is A phase mon.Senac , Dr. , Eqton Says . of the extreme frivolity : and I might may , almost cynicism on the part of certain elementa in modern life . I would not na snity this phase , I reactied this morning a message of optimism , and 1 y Protestant and Jewish pastors balleve we are ascribing too much im In chia elty emprened approval yester- rortance to a discussion of the evila day of the atutudo of the Roman Cath In the national life and too little to the kood in all directions . In business , in olte Church in discountenancins the tan- moral purity , in the actual accomplish o and similar dances after they had - meanis of social reform . rend in the ' Sunday Magazine of Ti ** The nation , I believe . Is tremendously Soment , pure , and beneficent , Let us om . Not Yonk Times and in its cable sec bagine the food things in life , and le tron articles describing the popularity om hot ' dwell so much on the passink which these dances have acquired in vita . I believe these dances will die out this country and Europe . ' manner than people ornect , but I can mongratulate the Catholic Church that The rioy . Dr. Charles A. Eaton ; pastor as sufficient authority by command of the Madison Arenye Baptist Church , from 108 head to put a stop to such , epeaking of the widespread return to dance . But everything costs a pren . I not in a position to order my peopl . the dance as a form of amusement , sald : etog dancins certain dances , but I * It is a craze , a form of nervous de . vanreached arainst this peculiar way pracy . It has been stitnulated , first , ople enjoying themselves , Inasmuch as 1. Is understood that the Rabbinica ) Association , will take up second , by commerciallsn . People of all probly the dance craze for considera walks of life seem to have adulted Hon and artion at th next meeting , the Hov , Jouanh Silverman , rabbl of Temple their common senne , their more of self- agu - E1 , Fifth Avenue and Forty - third possession , and in many cases their Street , War anked for his optiloni He . morala . Intead of using the dance as a modest and beautiful means of recrea * . I can spenk only personally and not for my congregation . Then , personally , tion , it has degenerated into a sort of I will say that I am in sympathy wit : civilizersnake dance . ' the action of the Catholic Church in * I don't know what the parents of condemning and opposing the present day hysterical forms of dancing . Sight our country are thinking about . They has been entirely lost of dancing as a throw their children to the crocoddles means of recreation and innocent pas e the Indian mothers used to do , but tinte . The madness that now exists for eartain obferttonable dance is due to the former without any religious mo- the fact that the famones and harm . tivo . They are consumed by an Itoh Jeunessol pollte dancins have lost their for social advance , and they think the attraction and some Indéfinable , subtle , and carnal fascination has been injecie ? only way to get into society is to dance Tho present condition is a result of spiritual degeneracy . It in turn to the cause of worse degeneracy . It is ADVERTISEMENT , time for the Church , the home , and the Press to use every exitimata menn these degrading They are nothing more or less than Bensrallty set to music . Since the tendency to hold Dancing Dr. Christian F. Reisner , pastor of sterdam Avenue and outh Street , and and hourly necessity in every com craca Methodist Episcopal Church , Am- parties . has become almost a daily that the Church must enter into com petition with modern dances , and slve munity , the sale of Allen's Foot the people the " thrills " for which the Ease , the antiseptic powder to be human hains yearns Instinctively . shaken into the shoes , has reached the high - water mark , so the Drug gists report . Very few women or men seem to care to Tango or get Dancing Exercise unless they are nsured the freedom from aching feet that Allen's Foot - Ease always rives . Sold Everywhere 25c . Trial packago FREE . Address A. S. Olmsted , LeRoy , N. Y. mango THE JOY OF DANCING EXERCISE passase ( illepoble ) omethed .

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