CONDUCT AT DANCES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14069, 16 February 1939, Page 4

CONDUCT AT DANCES

THE OLD DAYS RECALLED. (Correspondence is welcomed on interesting subjects, bu\, we do not necessarily endorse the opinions of correspondents) (To the Editor). Sir, —1 notice by your paper that there was some talk at the Borough Council meeting about a fight that happened at the dance at the Foresters’ Hall on Saturday night. Now this is not the first time that sort of thing has happened at local dances, and it seems to be about time something was done about it. Young chaps go to dances and get “lit up/ and before they know where they are somebody starts a fight, often over nothing worth fighting about. In my young days, dances were much more orderly affairs, and I am sure we enjoyed ourselves just as much as the young sparks do nowadays with all their drinking and going on. Of course, the ladies had a greater influence then, and no decent girl w T ould dance with a man who had taken liquor. People say that times have changed. but if they are going to keep on changing that wav it will be a change for the worse, and the sooner we put a stop to it the better.

Many of us who have young children growing up don't like to think of them going out to places that are not going to be properly conducted, and no one, I am sure, would like to think of his son getting mixed up in a scrap at a dance, or of his daughter associating with that sort of young man. Why can’t we get back to the old days when we could enjoy a good evening s dancing without drinking or being rowdy ? I am no spoil-sport, but I think the line must be drawn somewhere, and if people can’t do it for themselves, it ought to be done by the authorities.—l am, etc., “OLD STAGER.”