Show SHOCKING STATUES MUST WEAR TROUSERS CHICAGO May 22 Chicago Chicago students are In a panic as the result of at the proposition proposition proposition prop prop- to put Iut trousers on all statues In Inthe inthe the he city in and out of at the art museum They are wondering whether or or r not the police pollee purity squad will act upon the suggestion of City Attorney Thomas L L. L Anderson of at St St. Louis Mo Only a court order will wUl make us put trousers rousers on the statues Is the deft of the museum directors The AThe ordinance under which proprietors of the slot machines have re recently recently recently re- re been fined for tor Improper pictures pictures makes no discriminations and andt It t is no more right for improper statues to o be displayed in the art museum than for tor or similar forms Corms of ot art to be shown Inthe in inthe the he places down dawn town one citizen says I 1 looked over the pictures and they seemed to be all right But those statues statue They need clothing If It the statues In the St. St Louis Museum Museum Museum Mu Mu- seum of Art are as bad as some of the pictures pictures on display In o I do not lame blame Attorney Anderson fur making a I protest said Alexander McDonald McDon- McDon aid ild who has charge of the police purity squad which is banishing objectionable pictures from the penny arcades and the theand I 6 and cent 10 theaters It may be that some of the statues in St. St Louis need a suit of ot clothes but however however however how how- ever bad they may be they are art and cannot be compared to th the pictures I am fighting which are not art at all but plain vice Halsey C. C Ives director of the St St. Louis Art museum absolutely refuses to purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase either pants for Apollo or skirts for Venus until ordered to do so by the courts These statues have been on exhibition in St. St Louis for Cor thirty years says this former Chicagoan and they have never yet brought a blush to the cheek of any woman so far tar as I know The collection is now being moved from the old buildIng building building build build- ing to the new and it Is possible that a afew afew few tew leaves have been broken off air |