“BUNNY HUGS”

Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 14

“BUNNY HUGS”

DANCING AND GAMBLING EFFECT ON COMMUNITY. Gambling and dancing were attacked as social evils at the Litbgow Christian Endeavor rally (says a Sydney paper). “These things are eating into the heart of the community,” declared Rev. F. H. Gowan, president-elect of the Christian Endeavor Convention, He lived in the vicinity of a tin-hare course, he said, and it was appalling to see the demoralising effect these races bad on the lives of the people, especially youngsters. Investigations had shown Unit earnest children in Sunday schools were selling programmes _ at these meetings and putting their shillings on dogs. At the same convention Rev. Knox Read, superintendent Methodist minister, said that, in all bis experience, when dancing came into a. person’s life interest in Christian work went out. He had no objection personally to national dancing, such as the Highland fling, but the suggestivencss to be seen in most public dance balls would make any decent-minded person object to the dancing of the present day. Biblical dances were solo dances, ami not the biimi.v lings indulged in by people of opposite sexes at the present time. Ho could not see where dancing of that sort could possibly enter into church life.