[What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr]@TWC D-Link bookWhat eight million women want CHAPTER VIII 22/25
The dance-hall proprietor who encourages or even tolerates "tough" dancing, or who admits to the floor "White Slavers," procurers, or persons of open immorality, will be liable to forfeiture of his license. The committee has done more than try to reform existing dance halls.
It has taken steps to establish, in neighborhoods where evil resorts abound, attractive dance halls, where a decent standard of conduct is combined with all the best features of the evil places--good floors, lively music, bright lights.
Two corporations have been organized for the maintenance, in various parts of the city, of model dance halls, and one hall has already been opened.
The patrons of the model dance hall do not know that it is a social experiment paid for by a committee of women.
It is run exactly like any public dancing place, only in an orderly fashion. Every extension of use of public places, schools, parks, piers, as recreation places for young people between fifteen and twenty is encouraged and supported by the committee.
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