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Show Dense Thicket Saves Wearer Of Peon Pants Plain American Youths at Portland Port-land School Employ Direct Action on Fellow Students PORTI-AN'r. tire, Oct. 2T. Civil war has broken out In the student body of Jefferson high school here. The rssus lelli la the advent of peon pants. A fvw boy students hitherto noted for thetr sartorial leadership blossomed forth In the laced buttoned and saah surmounted nether garments. They were rewarded with glnnix-a plainly registering admiration from the feminine fem-inine side st assembly, but their Joy In this triumph was somewhat dainpnd i by a studied cool news on the part of masculine fellow students. The strain which followed waev ! Roy students met and revolved that plain American trousers were good .enough for sny Jefferson student and that Mexican pants should be taboo. Nevertheless, two more youths appeared ap-peared wearing them. One was seised fi.reibly, carried Into a neighboring thicket and str.pped of what he wore below the wals'lme. If stayed right where he was until a kindly darkness had overtaken him. The other was overpowered In a hallway of the school, pinioned and thrown. Ail the pearl buttons which adorned his pants from the knes down were cut sway and the fanry lacings were riddled. An Antipeon pants society was or- . ganlsed. I |