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Show WEARING- OVERALLS. Down in Arkansas and Alabama, and north in Kansas, and east in Massachusetts, they arc organizing "overall clubs" as a protest i" against the high cost of clothing. Friday the dignified judges of the supreme court of Alabama appeared in denim and in Emporia, Kan sas, the mayor-elect has donned overalls. This movement, if persisted in ninety days, will bring a loud cry from the manufacturers of $60 and $S5 suits. A month ago the women of San Francisco pledged themselves not ' to use butter or eggs while the price was abnormally high and in 30 days they cut the price of those articles of food by 50 per cent. Two months of war economy, faithfully adhered to throughout the country, would do more to reduce the high cost of living than all the investigating committees and legal restrictions that the government govern-ment might invoke. |