Show Taking Pay Is T Termed Not Nice Uy fly KEV 1 yen Sen ice S CATTLE EATTLE June Mayor Maor Mayor Bertha Knight Landes New England conscience and the Iho casy easy and ways WIlS ways of tho the west are arc locked In a 0 bitter battle here only a few tew days das after otter the city's new woman mayor took office Three hundred 1 and forty wom worn en scorned corned are on tho the new mayors mayor's trail breathing revenge They are professional proCessional dance hall ball entertainers Mrs Ira Mr Landes an ants to abolish them Its Ita not a 0 nice system Is the mayors mayor's explanation Nice retorts Miss 1 Billie Dillie Keyes girls leader In bitter bIller ear sar- sarcasm sar sarcasm Say Say If It we wo ared dared to dance like the highbrows highbrow ill lA Id Mrs 1 Landes society set wed we'd land in Jail pron pron- pronto pron- pron pronto pronto to And It IC we dared to dress like some ome of ot the women Mrs Landes associates with wed we'd be barred from Crom the tho floor MOST AUK AIU 1 In Seattle Seattie ns as in mot most Pacific coast cities clUes professional dancers make good tood livings at dance danco hall halls They are aro closely supervised super by city mothers mother From until midnight they are arc not allowed to leave leavo the halls hails Liquor and drunken men inca are nr rigorously ex cx cx clu ed At midnight each girl girlIs girlis girlIs Is placed by the th city mother molher on duty at the hall Into a 0 taxi taxi- taxicab taxi cab cab the door Is locked and she Is taken home at the tb balls ball's ball cx- cx ex expense pense More than SOper 0 SO per cent of ot Se- Se Seattle's Se Seattle's attles attle's dancers are married most of at them ar are supporting children At i Ii cents a dance Gance they make between 40 40 and 60 0 60 a week The Tho girls belon belong to the Dane Dance Hall Entertainers association af affiliated with the th A V F I of L L RESENT TERM They are sore enough because Mrs landl Landes I andes wants to to destroy lr their but jobs Jobs but what makes them madder still sUII Is the tho th manner In which she refers refer to them as i 11 Hec constant r this WAy they SQ say has lies hurt their repute repute- reputations reputations What does Mrs Landes expect us to do asks Miss Mis Keye Keyes Keyes Of Ot course course we can ran go to work In stores lores or as theatre at ushers ushers 1320 a week the minimum wage But Dut bow how can a girl go straight on that And Anti now that thaI weve we've been sneered at Its It's doubly hard for tor us to get any kind of ofa ofa a 0 job o ob b WHAT WIL ABOUT JOGS JOBS Is 15 01 Mrs rs Landes going to pro pro- provide pro provide vide Ide Jobs jabs for tor us us or look after aCler our children 1 Sure they're straight says the Irish COt cop the mayors mayor's office which the lh girls storm lIh prote t every ery day They dont don't have to be crooked They make good money and make It honest honest- honestly honestly ly What Mrs Irs Landes wants to do doIs dois doIs Is pass an ordinance forbiddIng forbiddIng- the girl girls to 10 ln ll lIe men to dance It If she succeeds the girls girl say that'll mean the tho end Of o f their pro pro- profession pro profession Western Vestern men are I and gallant and A asking a strange girl 10 dnn dance well lance e well It just Ju l Isn't done dont don't its care Its It's not Vell Well I care nice Is Mrs Landes retort And the stern and ond rockbound New England conscience Is meet meet- meetIng meeting meeting ing Its itz first tell tel 00 00 |