South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-08
Progress Club Likely to Take
Formal Action When Report
on Dress Reform is Made
Saturday.

How many housekeepers in South
Bend have taken the cotton movement
seriously? How many have harked
back to the calico days-to the days
OF ginghams and prints, for the sake
Of aiding the country?
II there have been but few thus far,
the number promises to increase in
the near future, for the club women
or the city. at the instigation of the
state Federation, are about TO endorse
the movement.
Publicity has aroused a great deal
OF enthusiasm among the women, for
they feel that this is a movement in
which their participation is necessary
10 success, for the women are the
money spenders Of the land, and the
cotton users too.
The Progress club will probably
take some action in the matter at it's
general meeting Saturday when the
reports of the biennial Will be given,
as arrangements had already been
made for a report by Miss Addie van
Den Bosch on the sessions of the ma
uOnal committee on dress reform.
Favor American Goods.
THE national federation said Mrs
Victor Jones, president OF the Prog
ress club, sounded the note in favor
of American made goods at the BIZ
ennial in June, just before the war
and it's ssults in this country were
fOreseen, so the back to cotton
movement viii merely give added inn
petus among club women, to a larger
movement already started in favor of
all American products.
Il think there is no doubt now that
American women Will discard the Gus
tom of importing clothes and other
things from the old country merely
for the sake of fashion or beauty and
will take up the more patriotic sup
port of home industries. The idea is
certainly practical or / do not believe
the women would have taken it up at
all.
The matter will probably be
brought before the Progress club Sat
urday afternoon as we are To have
reports on the dress reform move
ment, which is of course now involved
with cotton movement"
Thinks Movement Fine.
81 think the movement is a fine
thing" said Mrs. Richard Elbel "Ex-
travagance in dress is certainly out of
place just now and if simplicity is de-
sired, what could be more simple or
practicable than cotton. But not only
is it more simple, it is also more san
itary. 1t used to be that parents
dressed their daughters in cotton
frOcks winter and summer until they
were pretty well grown. The cotton
movement Will nc doubt induce not
only a return to this custom but Will
extend il into the high school in which
there has been much talk of dress re-
FORM
At the state conference of the In
diana Daughters of the American Rev
OlutiOn to be held next week in Fort
Wayne. the endorsement of the move
ment will be urged by the state re-
gent. Mrs. Caleb :. Denny of Indian
apOiis. ''I am strongly in favor of the
movement Mrs. Denny is quoted as
saying, and Will do my share of buy
ing and wearing cotton goods. / do
not think anything is prettier and
when il will help out our southern
sisters. why not?"
Mrs. Hatch Favors Move.
Mrs. +. NJ. Hatch, regent of the
South Bend chapter of the ID. A r..
who will attend the conference at Fort
Wayne next week, is heartily in favor
Of the movement. 1T is fitting, 1
think" said Mrs. Hatch, that women
should embrace any movement in
which a question of patriotism is con-
cerned, especially a movement which
is so eminently practicable.
Not only is extravaganza in dress
out of place just now, but | believe
the movement Will result in great ben
develop great possibilities for the cot
ton grower and the manufacturer of
cotton goods With increased trade