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Show High Cost Of Graduation Keeps Many From School Scores of young girls are notrj graduated in the west's public schools because they can't afford the present mode in costumes, and the attendant expenses of the ceremonies. cere-monies. That's the charge of Mrs. T. H. Eckcrson, chairman of the Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher federation in Los Angeles. Mrs. Eckerson suggests that each high school lay in a supply of standardized cap-and-gown costumes, cos-tumes, lend them to graduating students at a small rental. The rental would cover cleaning and repairs. "If public schools are to be saved as an insignia of American domoc- ! racv. there must be a downward revision in commencement day extravagance." ex-travagance." she asserts. "With standardized costumes, I owned and lent by the schools', there would be fewer heart-breaks f among poor students. f "At graduation exercises there woud be no sad contrasts, as there ' are today. "As things are, we see the daughters daugh-ters of rich parents in costly silks, while the daughters of poor people, " unable to keep up with the pace set ' by others, forego graduation rather than appear in humbler garments. 7t |