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Show lEMLGLi MOVE GROWING REPORTS SHOW Several Cities Announce Men Will Wear Denim Until Clothing Tumbles KANSAS CITY, Mo April 1C The "Overall club" movement, Intended as a protest against the high prices of clothing, Is spreading rapidly throughout tho southwest. Dispatches said clubs had been formed in numerous places in Mis-Isouri, Mis-Isouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. The movement In Missouri began at Jefferson City whero statehouse officials of-ficials and employes are signing pledges to wear denim until clothing cloth-ing prices are reduced. Kansas City, Kansas, Sallna and Wichita all report large followers of the movement. The inaugural "outfit" of the Rev. Joseph Brogan, a mayor-elect of Emporia, Em-poria, Kan., and president-elect of the Emporia overalls club, will be overalls, according to his announcement. announce-ment. The Emporia club reports several sev-eral hundred members. j In announcing tho organization of an overalls club at Kansas university, Chancellor Frank Strong said ho would lead the membership among the young men in wearing overalls and that Mrs. Strong would set an example ex-ample for the young women of tho university by adopting the cottage apron as the approved garb for both home and street wear. The movement in Oklahoma Is of state wide proportions, Oklahoma City reports said. Dallas and Amarillo, Tex., and Pine Bluff and Hot Springs, Ark., were among tne towns in tnose states reporting re-porting the foundation of the clubs. LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 1G An "overall club" was formed in Louisville Louis-ville today by the Exchange club in an effort to- force down the cost of clothing. Eighty-,five members pledged pledg-ed their support to tho movement. It Isreported that women joined in tho movement by donning gingham drosses. A parade of members in overalls ov-eralls and ginghams Is planned for next week. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 16 The lowly overall today supplanted the "pinch back" in Birmingham. Rainy weather served to foctify the wavering intentions of those who had resolved to "see what the other fellow did" before they donned denim themselves. them-selves. As a result the pledge to put 'cm on today was universally kept. City commissioners functioned in denim; judges applied the law! in the same uniform; bankers, ,doctoi, lawyers law-yers and merchants wore their overalls over-alls with an assurance which i could only have been acquired after long practice before the mirror. Tho women had quietly "organized" at home. Towards noon maiy &P' pearcd in dresses of calico aw i"n ham and the variety of colorsve the (Continued on Pag3? Overall Club Move Growing Reports Show (Continued From Page 1) down-town section the appearance of a carnival. Retail clothiers have advertised "bargain sales" in men's wear and lower price marks were observed in some store windows. The cost of overalls over-alls Is six dollars, and there seems to bo an unlimited supply. "I would rather pay ?6 for my overalls than $60 for a suit," said Judge William E. Fort, of the circuit court. "This movement is no 'Joke. It will bring down the cost of clothing." |