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Show Dancing Masters in Conven-: Conven-: tion Decide They Are Wrong and Put Them Under Ban i (By lntern.itlon.il News Service) I NEW ' r : K" Dancing masters ! hailing from everywhere, from Pogo-iiisu Pogo-iiisu to Oshosh, n convention here d -elded that two things are neoessary fur 1 he Improvement of dancing In the1 l nifed States. ' Cut out the shimmy and Jazz I Cut out the -Methodist taboo on j dancing. I nceaslng war h'as been waged by th" National Asso'-lailon of lianelngj -Mnsers against the mc tag and buck Kenton T, Bott ff Dayton. Ohio d'e-clared d'e-clared that the struggle to silfl thls: type of ballroom dancing was a ptac-1 ptac-1 ileal Slice ss. Mr Bott orated against the short, J suggestive half steps, the neck hold. quivering shoUIden and movements Of the upper part of the l oi .11 H' n eral. He held forth with particular I vigur against Jazz niusle, wh. choppy, barbaric rhythms provoked immodest dancing. The association unanimously adopt-1 e.l a resolution urging the dropping of the han on dancing l the M iho-jd'st iho-jd'st church. Instances were related Iof men and women being expelled from the church because 1 1 1 . 1 This ban. it Was stated, would mean that circus and theatrical peoph and dancing Instructors would ! barred from membership In the church. Louis Kretlow. of Chicago, who i seventy-five yearn old and still duv -1 In:;, fold how classes had won the nppi al of churches of ever: denomination. denomi-nation. Mr. Kretlow harks back to, the time of the schottish, polka and j redowa. He said that dancing hud kept him spry. His wife, who is al-j mcst as old as he is, alsi d mres in the election rf j. Henry Sniythe as honorary member of the nssocin-j tion th' story of an Interesting romance ro-mance K unfolded. Smythe, a member of the Methodist 1 Church and the son of the Rev. J.! Henry Smythe, of Philadelphia, it 1 ,ssid, was engaged to a social!) proml nent young woman In New Y01 !: ! 1917. The eoupl? were 10 have been mar-: mar-: 1 led. when the young woman found thru the "book of dlsppllne" of the church banned daticlng and other amusements. She ,0. lined : , join the church. The engagement is said to have 6een broken off, and since that time Brnythe has engaged In an olfort to have the church repeal the ban against dam irv. His election as member of the Dan-ring Dan-ring Masters' association marked the rirst time the d'stihctlO.n has been pin en to anyone not an active dancing ini'-.er. 00 |