Show anti flirting law a failure the effort in virginia to provide by legislative enactment for the punish ment of boys flirting with school girls seems to have been unsuccessful about two years ago it a law was passed making it a misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by fine for any man to loiter about it a female school the president of a prominent richmond female eel col loge lege was the first to attempt a prosecution under the law later a similar attempt was made in one ot of the border cities to convict a young man mail of ogling egling the girls ills his coun counsel el however promptly gave notice that he would subpoena all of the lady teachers and many or of the girls and bring them into court as witnesses it nesses rather than subject thu ladles to this humiliation the principal abandoned the prosecution this line of defense indicates the futility of convicting flir flitters flirters under the law and it will be repealed chica chicago 0 o inter ocein ocean |