“IRRELIGIOUS AND INDECENT.”

Shannon News, 10 November 1925, Page 4

“IRRELIGIOUS AND INDECENT.”

CELEBRATING ARMISTICE BY DANCING. LONDON, 'Oct. 21. Confessing that lie may be dreadfully old-fashioned, the Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard, Vicar of St. Martin in the Field, and Honorary Chaplain to the King, in a letter to “The Times,” says he is shocked to find that the Albert Hall will be again the scene of a great Victory Ball on Armistice night. “Dancing is frequently a fitting form of commemorating a glad event,” he says, “but, a vast fancy dross ball, as'a tribute to the great deliverance which followed the unspeakable agony of 1914-18, seems to me to he not so much irreligious as indecent.” He declares that all such ill-con-ceived celebrations, whether in hotels, restaurants, or elsewhere, should be discouraged, and a real effort made to retain for Armistice Day its setting of solemn reverence and gratitude.