Judge — April 10, 1920 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Sinrun Peoput The “ALL THE WRETCHED, Suuxsxep tar BoroiG wirit a STEEPLE FoR THE VULGAR DaNcING Foor” Wicked W orld By Warr Nason Illustration by HEN arrives the time for sleeping 1 the sinful day is sped, Lam oft so busy weeping I forget For I cannot look serenely on this to go to bed dismal vale of woe: meanly, F have fantods in my toc Every time I look around me Tam stricken to the quick for the sins I see confound me, make my snow-white spirit sick life is lived so basely, Folks are going to perdition, fast as they can scoot along; going down to deep demnition, caroling a joyride song Oh, I see young people dancing. frolicking on buoyant limbs to the fiddle music prancing. when they should be singing hymns. "Tis a sport no man shuld mention in the harmless name of fun: dancing is the punk invention of the well-known Evil One. As I watch them in their revel, treading on each other's corns, Lean plainly see the devil with his dark red hoofs and horns; and he nd his words are words of guile; whispers to the dancers and their motions are his answers, and he leaves them with a smile. The Old Harry gathers his’n, where the merry dancers be; dancing is youths to the prison and the awful gallows-trec Captain Kidd was one day swinging, from the scaffold, in the dusk; he whose heels were ene time flinging to the strains of “Money Musk.” All the wretched, sinful people whose dark deeds L most deplore, shunned the building with a steeple for the vulgar dancing floor Oh, 1 see the young folks strayi g widely from the moral Raven Barton law, while a tinnorn tiddler’s playing tunes like “Turkey in Un Straw”; which is why I sit here weeping like a grandson of : san, when I should be upstairs sleeping for the clock is striking one Young men to the moving pictures journey with their din pled dears, heedless of the moral strictures of the sages and the Some cheap film in which a German has his head pushe+ pleases more than some great sermon by an Charlie Chaplin’s crazed maneuver gives the seers. down his spine eminent divine young folks more delight than a lecture by a Hoover on a long cold winter night. And a picture of a speeder burning high priced gasoline, pleases more than would 3 leader in a Forum magazine Oh, the movies lead to sorrow, to a fate too dire to tell; anc these youths, on some tomorrow, will be cast into a cell; and they'll draw a fine with trimming, to their infinite surprise; which explains the constant brimming of the briny from my eyes I am ever urging, pleading, saying to the errant clerks, “You were better home a-reading old John Bunyan and his works.”” But they laugh at my besceching, and they answer, one 1, “If you're bound to do some preaching, you should gi hire a hall.” In my bed I should be sleeping, sleeping like a pair but my midnight watch I’m keeping, grievirzo’er my n sins. of twii