Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-09
REFORM IN DRESS OF
PUPILS IS ADVOCATED
PLAN SUITS BOARD
School Board WrestIes With
Contagious Diseases and
Other Matters

Action was taken at the meeting of
the school board last night authorizing
the clerk to apply the funds derived
from taxes now coming in, amounting
to several thousand dollars already re.
ceived, to the liquidation of loans Sc.
CURED at the local banks to meet sal
arg payrolls and other past expenses.
The clerk reported that a loan for $12,-
900 from the local banks had been re-
Gently negotiated for immediate use in
meeting the salary payroll, etc., which
action was ratified by the board.
A communication was read from the
state health officer relative to the fail
urc to effect immediate quarantine of
contagious diseases. The fact was
brought out that children with humps
and German measles were sent away
from school but were not quarantined
at their homes, the city health officer
no5 being able to promptly handle all
the cases as they developed. rlnai ac-
tion on the matter was deferred to the
next meeting, the clerk being instruct
ell to meantime ascertain from the STATE
healh officer if the school physician
could not be made a deputy health Of
fieer with power to quarantine in cases
Of contagious disease.
A Question of DreGs.
The Salem Woman's Club was repre-
sented at the meeting by a committee
which presented a set of resolutions re-
gardinG the question of dress among the
girls CT the high school, especially of
the senior and junior classes. The reso.
buttons pointed out that members of the
two upper classes had carried their fas-
%tidiousness to extravaganza under the
~unregulated custom now prevailing; that
uniformity of dress had been found
practicable and conducive of demo
cratic relations among students; that
high heeled shoes, silk hose, low necked
gowns, ETC., were unsuitable for school
wear both from the standpoint of health
and Of economy. A uniform style of cos
tune was suggested to be made up OF
white cotton goods for summer and navy
wooden goods for winter. The RESOLUTIONS
met with the unanimous approval OF
the board, the matter being left to be
taken up with the students through
Int1f IedcutIS III dh 0IIOAt " oOOuAO
their willing cooperation.
On the representation made by a com
mittee from the Richmond school which
appeared before the board with a state.
ment of the impossible condition of the
road neal the school building in win
ten time, the board voted 10 appropriate
$75 o assist the abutting property own
efs in graveling the section of road II
front and near the school.
Student Bodies Meeting.
Resolutions were passed by the board
prohibiting all student body meetings
before 8 p. M, the matter being brought
up by a member of the board, MAJ 0.
BIZ en-, who declared that he had at
tended meetings of the student body
when it seemed the deliberate intent
to p~rolong the meeting to the full
length Of a period and thus shorten the
length of the study and recitation per
iod. Mr.. PnrAn stated that it was cost
ing the board $40 to SIS dollars an
hour to maintain the school and that
the time was too valuable to be wasted
with speeches and logrolling tactics by
speakers at the student body meet
ings. The board did not wish to dispense
with the meetings and the speech max.
ing but was of the opinion that the
same should be made more on the stud
own time than ON the regular
school hours, setting 8 O'Clock as the