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Show AMUSEMENT THEME OF STAKE BOARDS Committees Discuss Dress and Kecrea-tion Kecrea-tion r.oblems at Ogden Conference. Special to The Tribune. OGDEX. Jan. 2v The arr.usenter.t com-nuttevs com-nuttevs of tae BoxelJer. Weber. Nortii j Weber. Ocden and Davis stakes of the Mormon church met at th.e Weber academy acad-emy this evening- and spent considerable time in the discussion of motion pictures, dress and dances. Apostle Stephen L. Richards of Salt 1 Ia.ke, head of the amusement committee . of the general board, expressed the be-I be-I lief that commercial motion pictures i should be sho.wrt to the young- people in i the various ward;:, thus keeping- them ! out o f b a ..1 c o rr i ra n y . ! ! President John Watson of the Webe stake did rot take kindly to the proposi- t lion of dictating to the people how "they i should dress . " j "You cannot tell people not to wear silk stockings, high. -top shoes, or short j dresses,"" he dec hired. " "They will dress as they choose, anyhow." M. C Wood of tiie Ogden stake was of the opinion that dances should be orened i and closed with prayer, as it would" have a jood moral effect upon die young peo- pie. Ernest R. McKay of the North Weber stake favored the use of more common ' sense and said that if parents would first get the interest of their children aroused in proper amusements, dances and dress the problem would be practical! v solved lis: ht there. The recort made from Davis stake showed that conditions there were satis- : factory to the church authorities. j |