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Show oo 01RLS WEARING FLIRT BADGES Shifter Pin, Dress and Shuffle Shuf-fle Discovered by Investigator NEW YORK, March 21 "Flirtation "Flirta-tion badges." inviting advances from j oung folk Of tho opposite sex, are ' part of the bait used by the So' lc-ty of Shifters In its ' membership campaign cam-paign among working girls. Miss Gor-llrudo Gor-llrudo Robmaon-Smlth of the Vacation association, discovered toduy. She denounced the apparently headless head-less flapper organization Thursday because be-cause Its fee collections were prevent -ling working girls from laying aside j money -for vacation trips. Her discoveries of today, however, caused her to redouble her efforts 'against the "shifter" n the ground ''that it waa a menace to morality. Tho shifters, us originated amonl I high school flappers, at first, wai '.merely a high Hass 'stinging" game, iMiae rtoblnson-Birdth aaid. prospective members, who Joined, were requested to pay a foe to the Inl- 1 1 ! t or ; ifrr'-e to present the Initiate with a pair of silk stockings or some BH Bl HJ fladged members and advised to "g" IH people and .get yout HBJ money back.'' Tho emblem then was a paper clip but now there is a shifter dress, a HJ 'shifter badge and even a peculiar shuf- Ba fie know. the shifter walk. B PRO! n S BRUIND IT J Miss Robinson-Smith said she ha I BBa Us mufacturlng firm w h IBJ i-Mi'-s the ...hitler pin, or BBJ budge. fl B "The iirospectlve member of Hp I shifters Is mode to believe he or sb- H B ;u-.'.v' d to Join a universal secret so- I I clety to promote cordiality, particular- B fl ly between that -sexes." Miss Robinson- r fl Smith :ald Pt fl "The society badge serves as an n . fl vltatlon to flirtation and lntima. 1 i that self-respecting girls ordinarily f. Would resent " I |