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Show oo MILITARY UNIFORM TO BE DIGNIFIED Washington, Oct .'.'.--The war department de-partment has given Its approval ;o the first draft of a lew designed to uphold the dignity and honor of the military uniform of the United States, in all of the states and territories and in the Insular possessions The measure meas-ure forbids discrimination In any public pub-lic place against any officer or enlisted en-listed men wearing the uniform of tho army, navy or marine corps and llke- wise prohibits any person not duly authorized from wearing the uniform or any part of it Offenders could be prosecuted in any United States court This measure, which will be submit-ted submit-ted to the next congress, with the approval ap-proval of Secretary (Jyrrlson, is the outgrowth of a movement started more than three yean ago by Mrs. Russell M MacLcnnan ot this oily Aroused when three enlisted men of the marine corps were expelled from a local theatre. Mrs. MacLennan voiced voic-ed her protest and was at first lnstru mental In obtaining the passage by congress of a measure protecting the uniform and its wearers in the Dis- irict of Columbia, tho territories nnd Insular possessions. Realizing that tho work of putting a law through each of the 8tat- leg islatures would be slow and arduous Mrs MacLennan besought President Wilson and Secretaries (iarrison and Daniels, to aid In the enactment of a federal statute. |