Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-20
OELEGAT 7 ES
ARE SPLIT
ON FACE
POWDER
Social Morality, Americana
aztion, Dress, Prohibition
and Other Problems Dis
cussed in w. c. T. L. Con-
VentiOn.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20 The
forty-eighth annual meeting of the
National Woman's Temperance Un-
ion is in full swing and the future
program of activity of the great or
ganizaton is gradually being worked
out by the 1900 delegates who repre-
sent the 500,0 900 members of the white
ribbon league.
Americanization of the foreign born
and the mobilization Of children to
work for prohibition, women's dress
and various social and health matters
is occupying the time ard attention of
the convention
Although firmly united on ore OBJ
ject-keeping The United States dry
and making the world dry in 10 years
the leaders here are not unit on
everything.
For instance, take face powder.
every well groomed woman uses
a little powder. 1t all depends how it
is applied. A little to take off the
shine Mrs. Florence Richards, Ohio
state president, talking.
Now listen to DR. p. S. Bordeau-
Sisco, Baltimore, superintendent of
the department of health:
Cosmetics rui nthe skin and the
young woman of today is shamelessly
employing unnatural methods to IN
crease tie charm of her skin and only
accomplishing it's ruin.
"The girl who takes out her beauty
kit in a cafe or theater or other public
place and with unashamed intensity
-, 10, ~, tho icrH,, hr.I1 Sh-
ing dab of powder here, smearing a
bit of paint there, passes a lip stick
over her mouth, touching up her eye
brow-regardless of the staring men
all about-this girl is modern ano-
mally' and how nice mothers can tol-
crate such behavior Z beyond by un-
derstanding.
"Private use of cosmetics is just
as bad for the skin as brazen public
beauty doctoring - it is just better
form, that's all.
Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich. director of child welfare,
urged the right of every child to be
we'll born, educated, protected from
child labor, morally safeguarded and
spiritually trained. :,
The chameleon gown was introduced
in the convention 1t is expected tc
cause quite a sensation.
1t changes not only its colors but
it's five in one-an afternoon gown,
an evening gown, a street dress ad
two variations of long and short
sleeves. :.
DR.. Valeria N. Parker director of
the department of social morality,
told of efforts to safeguard childhood
in the homes. The greatest obstacle to
promotion of social morality, she said,
is public apathy. In each state mem
bers of the W.C.T.U. she said, should
work for laws requiring teaching OF
personal and community hygiene, m
cluding sex hygiene. in every school,
in the seventh, eighth or ninth grade,
and in every normal school, or teach
ers' training class
Lectures on sex hygiene and kindred
subjects by competent speakers, IN
industrial plants and other places,
should be encouraged. DR.. Parker con
tinued. Efforts should be made to get
every body and girl in the community
into some sort of organized gfouD
with a program of activities that VIII
build physical, intellectual and spirit
ual character.
Enforcement of the prohibition law
rests in the hands of foreigners Mrs,
Culla ]. Vayhinger, head of the Amer
icanization department, declared in ad-
dressing the group Conference.
"If the foreigners are ignorant or
decide to defy the law they can be
usad->v Americans who defy the law,
and thus defeat it's ends throughout
the country" she said. "If foreigners
are taught the necessity for law en-
forcement, prohibition will become
much more effective than now.
The problem of social morality can
never be solved until a solution for