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Show Convicts in Olive Drab Uniforms. A protest against the wearing of the olive drab United States service uniform by prisoners of the Monroe State Reformatory at Monroe, Wash., has been made by Thomas N. Swale, commander of the Washington department de-partment of the American Legion, who with a committee of Legionnaires visited vis-ited that institution. Representatives of the bureau of War Risk Insurance and the federal board for Vocational Education Joined with the Legion members in the protest to the state officials. Shortage of funds and the low cost of the ' uniforms were responsible re-sponsible for their adoption as tli official prison garb, according to state officials. It is believed that the prison officials will adopt some other uniform uni-form for the convicts. |