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Show of public function without breaking a law to do so. We are willing to do what we can to prevent this sort of ordinance in our city, state or nation and work toward har mony among all ages and im proving things that are a part of the freedom we have and ve hope that many others win do the same. George and Kathryn Black Open letter Reader takes issue with dance laws Recently the Springville City Council passed unanimously an ordinance pertaining to Public Pub-lic Dances. I feel this ordinance is not only discriminating but is in a sense saying the people in this area have no control over their families and need this type of law to control their children. Section C of the ordinance 5-3-3 states, "It shall be unlaw- Section F on dress standards. It reads, "It shall be unlawful for the proprietor or any other person in charge of a public dance or dance hall where minors min-ors under the age of eighteen years are admitted to allow any such person to enter or remain re-main in or about such public dance hall or public dance who is dressed in soiled or dirty clothes; or who is wearing as outer clothing shorts of any kind or tee-shirt; or who is wearing sandals or tennis shoes; or who is barefoot or in stocking feet; or who is dressed in such manner as to make any indecent or obscene exposure of his or her person." We agree very much to being dressed as to not be indecent or obscene, but who is to judge what dirty is. People have mnnv views on this and when wiiat un .y v" many views on this and when we asked the city attorney for the definition of a tee-shirt, sandals and tennis shoes pertaining per-taining to this section he could not give us a definite answer on any of these. The answer given was, "You know what we mean." I also asked why things like this are not brought to the public attention so the mayor and councilmen can hear the citizens views on things that pertain personally to so many of us. And I was told, "The council didn't have to do this and could pass anything they want." I think it is time we all took a good look at ourselves and our city and then decide if we want ordinances such as this to govern our lives. We certainly cer-tainly don't! We work with younger boys and girls all the time and we want to have the privilege of associating with and helping them at any type 5-3-3 states, "It shall be unlawful unlaw-ful for the proprietor or any other person in charge of a public dance or dance hall to which minors under the age of eighteen years are admitted to allow any person over the age of eighteen years to enter or remain in or about such public dance or dance hall for the purpose of dancing or otherwise other-wise associating socially with a minor in attendance at such dance or dance hall." Isn't this quite ridiculous ! How can this be a public dance if only a selected age group is admitted? How many seniors in high school are already 18 and will no longer be able to attend dances with their classmates? class-mates? Again, how many fellows fel-lows that are 19 and 20 are dating girls 17, and where will this put them when a dance is held? Probably in cars or traveling trav-eling out of town to a dance where both themselves and their dates will be welcome. There are many of us parents par-ents who have attended such ents who have attended such -dances and been able to see what they are like and enjoy them along with the teenagers. This ordinance will now stop parents from dropping in. And to say that it will be unlawful to associate socially with any minor is really going too far. To our knowledge we are supposed to live in a land of freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of choice, etc. Don't you think it is up to the person or in the case of a minor, the parents as to who they associate with. If we let this start by segregating segregat-ing ages to public dances, what will it be next. Movies, swimming, swim-ming, and etc. As free people we must learn from the time we are small to get along with others, face problems and to cope with the many other things that every day living brings. What we are taught in our home from the time we are born is what will judge how we get along in this world and the type and ages of people we associate with. If we have not taught our children child-ren what we feel is right by the time they are teenagers no law will control them either. Another part of the ordinance ordi-nance we do not agree with is |