The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-07-21
OPPOSE EXTREME STYLE
MFRS. PALMER MAKES A TALh
ABOUT SCANT CLOTHING.
As President She Heads a Clno WHO"
Campaigns Against Too Much
EvTaosure of the Person.


ing new. excepting the details, in TINS
fight that is being brought 10 d cll'
max against styles in womens dress
The new details, according to MIS-
Austin NJ. Palmer, president of cluo
onnosed to present indecencies IN
dress STYLES. are merely extra dis
nIavs of bust and leg by low-cut waist
or thin overshirt and absence OF un-
derclothing.
Mrs Palmer is heart and soul with
the fight the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs made on present
dress STYLES at their recent conV'n-
dress styles at their recent conVen-
tion in Chicago. The only thing Mrs.
Palmer criticises about the Fedora
tion's fight was that they didn't fight
hard enough. Mrs. Palmer showed
how she felt in telling the best way
to fight them.
Social Ostracism.
All the man-made or women made
laws in the world, she believes
would not make a change. Women,
she declares, know best how to dis
cipline other women. Social ostra-
cism is the answer. ~'"
1.-THE clothes worn by many respect
able women today" said Mrs. Pal
mer, "are outrageously immodest,
outrageously indecent, outrageously
unsuitable. 1t is frequently impos-
sible to distinguish between fast
woman and virtuous woman-eX-
cent that the latter sometimes out
does the fast woman N ir.propriety
of her costume. Many decent Wo-
men do not recognize limits respe -
ed by the other kind, whose appear
ance is their stock in trade.
Never until this spring have /
seen such low-cut dresses in street
cars and on streets.
Modern man is certainly to be
pitied. Wherever he goes he finds
women exposing their bare flesh and
the lines of their bodies in a way
designed to attract masculine atten-
ton. Yet if he makes the slightest
response, if he even looks longer
than he ought to, he gets his face
slapped or is arrested as a white
SLAYER. If women do not want their
charms stared at they should keep
them better covered"
Roll of Honor.
There's a roll of honor-two OF
them, really, one on either side of
Headquarters, where are engraved the
Headquarters, where are engravd the
names of those unsung heroes who
have died Gin performance Of duty
while keeping the peace of New York.
This testimonial to the bravery of
New York's hero-police is a grand
thing. 1t is a fit tribute for a city
to pay to the memory of its police. 1t
is a fine thing for the widows and
orphans of these brave heroes to read
on this roll of honor the names OF
their loved ones. But the honor does
not pay rent nor buy food.
New York has police benefit fund
and pensions and death benefits are
paid from it, but it has been a woe
fully small and, sad to relate, much
mishandled fund. Police Commission
er Woods started a movement the
other day that should endear him to
the hearts of New York's 10000
policemen and in the hearts OF al
the others who will follow the pres
ent members.
Commissioner Woods is striving tc
raise a fund of $4,000 to be used
to furnish fixed income for every wild
ow and every orphan of any bluecoat
killed in performance of his duty
1t looks today as though this pei
project of Commissioner Woods tc
protect the bereaved ones of the po
licemen whose life is snuffed out by
an assassin or in the protecting OF
life and property would be a rea
success.
The police commissioner plans tt
raise the fund for upholding an ath
letic carnival under the auspices OF
the Police Honor Roll Relief Fund
at Brighton Beach. A score or more
of boxes for the carnival have al
ready been sold to wealthy New
Workers at $500 d box. Each patrol
man has bought one ticket, each ser
geant two. each lieutenant three, ant
the captains and inspectors five each