Jazz – A Scourge, 1921
Unspeakable Jazz Must Go! It is worse than Saloon and Scarlet Vice, Testify Professional Dance Experts – Only a Few Cities are Curbing Evil.
EXPERTS tell in this article the nation-wide aspects of our jazz scourge. They say legal prohibition of all dancing may come.
 A reform movement has been started by cities and volunteer groups. A committee of women is helping to regulate in Chicago.
 It looks as if the common people are in reaction against “common behavior. Decency is regaining popularity among those who work for a living.
 Meanwhile the idle rich are getting ranker. There are few signs of reform in high places. The “worst case” was observed on the dancing floor of an expensive New York hotel.
 The high-society flapper is still going the limit. She drinks, swears, smokes, toddles and chatters stories that once belonged to the men’s smoke room.
 You can’t reform a society flapper. Maybe not. She is a law unto herself. Perhaps. ” It’s none of your business and the boys like it, she says. Is that so?
 “The boys are sick and disgusted,” says an observer, “except the degenerate cubs, and they are greatly in the minority. Kissing and petting have been made so vulgarly common that there is no thrill left in it. The boys have to be dragged to dances, in spite of the fact that corsets are parked in the check room.”
 Consider that.
 Rub the bloom off American womanhood and what is left? The status of the Eastern European female of the species, a bare-footed working animal—something a little lower than man.
 High society would better sign on the dotted line of the popular reform pledge.
 This civilization will not permit itself to be ditched by any minority, high or low.
Unspeakable Jazz continued here
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