Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-17 | Page 15 | Women Should Cover Knees, Catholic Leaguers Say in Meet

Women Should Coyer Cover Knees Catholic Cath Catholic lic Leaguers Say in Meet SALEM Ore July 17 17 AP AP-A AP A resolution n In Urging women to wear dresses of or sufficient IC length 1 th to cover their knees es when hen sItti sitting as aswell as when shen standing was adopted last nl night ht by the Catholic Women's so society so so- clety in its l here hOr 1 Birth control and ind the the new new freedom free flee dam dom for oin women omen n were Cl d deat with in in other resolutions the thc id l tl n of r these delegates to the society and rind t to the C Catholic thoUc Central Yer heard Addresses ss-e ss deploring the alleged ged Imn od sty 0 of present fashions in dress dres and the practice p of ot birth control The Thc res resolution on fen feminine inh e skirts trend on the part of ot girls and women who by displaying too much of or their thel physical form have become a source 0 of or temptation temptation tion to all men men young young and old The birth control resolution assorted as asserted as- as s- s sorted th that t the dominant motive behind the movement Is js not th the tho economic consideration but the tho de desire desire de- de sire to lo shirk the responsibilities of ot large larse families families' and the desire of or many m mothers thel's Id I'd escape tho the sacrifices demanded of ot th them m. m t Still another resolution declared anything th that t destroyed womans woman's real leal duty and Christian prerogative prerogative n- n tive Is deplored and looked upon as retarding rather than advancing nd the tIle ca cause causo so of oC s social progress Hit HI and run ruU marriages and di- di were wele d denounced In an n address ad- ad dress by th the th Rev G eg ry Roblo of ot Portland Ore as a cancer nc r to o society so clety in every ery la land lad d and especially l here re Libertinism and license are th the underlying causes of ot this shocking and demoralizing cond condition ho ho said The rhe Rev Mr Roble further asserted tb that t the i Immodesty st sty of oC dress of ot women omen was a constant moral danger to the tho Innocence of or young youn men