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Show Women Claim Modern Dress Cause I Of Immorality Wave in Schools! I Bj MARGl III I DONS i l.I.V IiKs SiOXNSSBi Iowa. Sensible dress for ill women from the cradle to the grave. A nation-wide campaign to thi I tld was advocated l Mis T f'arkln Scott, of Relny. Md.. at tho Service Star 1a:-Klon 1a:-Klon convention, held In lea Moines, In September. This campaign will be a sure cure,", says Mrs Scott, "for much of the Immoral Im-moral wave sweeping this country." Her suggestion was provoked by a resolution introduced at I ho convention conven-tion favoring a uniform standard duress for high school girls. The resolution Is to ba revised to favor st naihle dre.-f-Ing for all women, according to Mrs.' Scott's .suggestion. I A UROG r i Mil l (N. Why stop In the schtiolroom ?" Mrs. Scott asked; "why not go Into the hall rOffl where your school girl danoai and has her parties. I olJei t strenuously to a girl appearing at ,i dance in two yards of narrow chiffoi. In the evening This sort of clothing together With soft lights, music and dancing have a very had moral effect on our young men. 1 advocate sensible sen-sible dressing foi- all women from the cradle lo the grave " Mrs. A. W. Kunkhauser, of Kvans- j vllle. Ind., remarked.: I "Before paealns a resolution about hlgli school girls' dres.-.es e shoiml get after the grandmothers who wear, knee-length dressi s ami ear-puffs." Mrs. George VV. Saw kins, of Toledo, 'hlo. suggested that Ihe Service Star Legion endorse rnodeai clothing for all women, oung and old. Many of the mother.- endorsed the high school uniform uni-form dress plan as a boon to harassed womanhood. Others declared It an imposition and Insisted every mother had a right to dress her daughti r ..- he saw fit. MOTID its DRESS S B IDLY In the opinion of Mrs J. A. Hlanch-' Hi M f I " Vj4a- I ard of Dfa Moines, it might be ftl matter of personal rights, hut the question .f high school girls' clothing cloth-ing and lis effect on the growing boy had fO be Considered. She declared her mmi had cited Instances of girls appearing In class In nearly backless "Mothers." she said, "dress as bad- J |