Jackson County IL Archives News.....CARBONDALE MINISTERS CONDEMN PUBLIC DANCES; WAS UPON JAZZ December 14, 1921
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Murphysboro Daily Independent December 14, 1921

    "Around the dance room hangs the incarnate fiends of either sex who make
friends of unsuspecting youth and lure it to hell."  The Carbondale ministers
say so.  In an attack on the "public dance", which their attack carefully
specifies, the ministry of Carbondale in resolutions which spare nobody have
launched a fight on the dance hall.  America and Carbondale with it have jazzed
until they jazz in their sleep, and Carbondale ministers feel that it is time to
wake up and behave.  "When the time comes that guards must be placed at the door
of the dance hall to keep out those drunk on "mule" it is time for us to do
something, a minister said.  The Ministerial Association points to the refusal
of the Normal to give its building for dancing.  Co-operation of schools, clubs
and lodges is asked to stamp out the evil menacing in Carbondale.  The private
dance is not mentioned.  The resolution is signed by Revs. E. B. LANDIS, U. S.
JOHNSON, W. P. McVEY, and Loren E. PAGE.


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