The Connecticut labor press., 1919-05-03
tests SHOW THAT SHOP GIRLS
HAVE BETTER TASTE In CLOTHES
THAN AMERICAN COLLEGE GIRLS
Twenty Shop Girls and Forty Girls Jackson College Chosen
Pick Dress-Coege
Highly Colored While Shop Girls Did Fail
to Pick Articles of the Quality.

A matter of education that appears
SO far to have been neglected by the
vigi1ant and active Federal Bureau of
Education is called to the serious at
tention of this country by despatch
from Boston where in the past so
many important educational ideas
have been developed and so many re-
forms undertaken.
Apparently trivial as the matter may
seem to the innocent bystander in COM
parison with the league of Nations or
the spread of Bo1shevism it is declared
to be the subject of heated contro-
girls" The question is thus briefly
stated by the Boston correspondent
Have shop girls better taste in dress
than college girls?
A Boston man, though, has under
taken to solve the problem, and his eff
fort, as might have been expected. has
increased the difficulty by merely add
ing to the discussion For now Presi-
dent Hermon c. Bumpus of Tufts Col
lege has made the test by having 40 girls
from Jackson College chose some femin-
inc article of dress. THE majority
chose highly colored and inferior mater
ial in preference to better quality and
more subdued and conservative colors."
Then another test was made when 20
shop girls were shown the same mater
,ials and told to choose what they them
selves would wear. mot one of them
failed to select the articles of the best
quality"
Then there was the usual result when
man attempts to mix in feminine affairs.
President Bumpus gave it up. These
are his words as quoted from the des-
patch:
Here is pathetic instance of where
college education fails to educate"
Miss Gertrude McNa1ly, of Wash
ington, secretary of the Women's Union
of the u. S. Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, Local los of the National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees, was elect
ed seventh vice-president of the Mary
land State and District Federation of
Labor, at the annual convention which
has just concluded its sessions at Iona
coming, Maryland Miss McNa1ly is
one of the general organizers of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal Employees.
Her election puts a second woman
member on the executive council of the
Maryland State Federation, Miss Anna
Neary, of Baltimore, who has for sew
eral years held the position of sixth
vice-president, having been reelected.
DCSIdCS ILLS 1SNOSAlI1OA1 VI Tic
thousands of women trade unionists
affiliated with the Maryland and District
Federation of Labor, the convention
adopted resolution calling for amend
ments to the workmen's Compensation
law of Maryland to reduce the period
before compensation for injury begins,
to increase the rate of such compensa-
ton, and to provide for woman mem
Der of the state commission which ad-
ministers the law. Another resolution
called upon Congress to provide ade-
quate funds for the maintenance and
expansion of the activities of the
Women In-Industry Service, the U. S.
Service, and the Working
Conditions Service of the y. S. Depart
ment of Labor.
The most important feature of the
program adopted by the convention was
the formation of statewide Political
League of the Federation of Labor,
similar to the organization under this