Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-05
CLOTHES FOR WOMEN
AS WELL AS BALLOTS,
SLOGAN OF TEACHERS
Education Association Delegates,
Shocked by Fashions in New
York, Start Crusade
on Immodesty
WOULD GRANT SUFFRAGE

NEW YORK July 5.-The "big drive'
of the suffragists In the National Education
Association convention is under way today,
but the fight for "women's rights" Is over
shadowed by protest against 'womcn's
wrongs"
Down with displays of silken hose
Down with rice powder all over the nose ~
That is the battlecry heard in every nook
of the McAlpin and the Waldorf Astoria
where the teachers have gathered.
Two days in New York have thoroughly
disguised the visiting schoolteachers with
the much hose, few clothes" styles of
New York and they feel that the little high
school girls of the United States must be
saved from these fashions. Suffrage and
modesty in dress will be urged on the con-
vention.
KANSAN LEADS FIGHT.
Dir. Anna Shaw will speak tomorrow
night and will have some pertinent things
to say about feminine vogues. Mrs Cora
c. Lewis, of Kansas, Is leading the fight
for modesty and suffrage. Since the women
control the vote of the convention II seems
certain that the Resolution Committee will
report Friday in favor of national suffrage
and the plank will embody protest against
immodesty in the garb of women.
Rural school teachers feel that city school
boys spend too much time in athletics and
the dansants. The back.to-the.soil movement
is the only salvation of the country, they
say. llenCe tnc department OF ABTlCul-
trural Education, under the leadership of
w. +. Luseck, of the University of Mime.
sota Is urging a resolution to make com.
pulsory agriculture for students in city
high schoolY
WOOD URGES TRAINING
Today Major General Leonord Wood
wound up the fight for military training in
the schools with an address to the physical
training seltion The committee on military
f,,t,,s
report tomorrow.
Next to the suffrage and dress quqestlon
the problem of defective children occupied
the greatest interest today Sectional meet
ings to discuss training of detectives were
held.
The unanimous nomination of Robert ].
Alley, president of the University Of Maine,
for president of the association, is expected
when the nominating committee makes its
report late this afternon.
A plan for revolt against machine"
school systems and for one that would teach
boys and girls how to work was made by
John NJ. Mills, superintendent of schools OF
Ogden. Utah.
"A sentiment should be developed in
every community" he said, that n boy
who is graduated from high school and
does not know how TO make living should
consider himself not only uneducated, but
disgraced. Every child should be taught
to work at home. The school machine pro-
vides that all pupils, both boys and girls.
of motor type and student type, subnormal
and over-bright, march in locSstep fashion
through 12 years Of school to graduation.
Democracy says: Smash the machine"
The library section of the convention
heard appeals for comprehensive library
auxiliaries from Charles Hughes Johnson,
OF the University of Illinois.
THE school library" he declared. must
In every respect take its place with the
school laboratory. the school shop and the
school gymnasium and playground"
Arthur NJ Wolfson, principal of the Julia
Richman School, New York, said library
students there were receiving a preliminary
course in Journalism, making up newspapers
themselves and writing news stories"