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Show NUDISTS WILL END PARADES The Dukhobors of Western Canada Can-ada will henceforth refrain from staging nudist parades in protest against the efforts of the Canadian Canad-ian government to compel them to send their children to school. It seems that the Dukhobors, a Russian sect, which settled on homestead lands in Saskatchewan on a communal basis some decades dec-ades ago, were against public education ed-ucation and unresponsive to persuasion. per-suasion. When the government hailed parents into court and begat be-gat to impose fines the Dukhobors adopted the novel device of staging stag-ing naked parades through shocked shock-ed villages. The police tried to break up the procession by throwing throw-ing itch powder on the demonstrators demon-strators and jailing their leaders. They took up the challenge by burning down schoolhouses, town halls and police stations. Now, happily for Canada, the matter seems to be settled with he recent decision of the Dukhobors, Dukho-bors, in convention, to send their children to the public schools. |