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111C31 c uj-r?uiu .jiivu**___tc___________■ -■ ■9 ■DlvC’USlNG BEAUTY CONTESTS'■MW“idit*iyn-w In ot n-of !* he *. 1 y■ i£..sntir-;Be■sI .r.50*ndce*nt,to-thesf^ §‘ ' t! •at;^ • ortOMin*Ict-ot-uss#t!eryiu,at--theem.lit?l .meenandthek-1. •4 au*% i .•hil-i • •• ift«•• at-. I leh* .aid. tentactstfttelltst It* t 0{ jur-®FJr • ■ i •»ytobee*|i1 j -'- r iwilttoritatai . *■*.t: ll;tneel. i■ ■The Summit HERALD is sufficiently 00 record for its Kcatslan attitude—Bpauty is truth, truth beauty,”• • • % ~-to.be understood when it takes up the cudgels against the boauty contests ijQ.Uiis State, as is.% ’ * *The flotsam and jetsam that has washed up on our shores* is, perhaps, to he expected from eo long a codst line, fitit the pictures that h^vo gone out to the world from New Jersey of one-piece bathing beauties is not a matter of distinction to ,vs. /Tbe First Presbyterian Church of Haddon Heights has the credit of being first to move out on tht3 mat-tar, In a letter to the New Jersey Synod of the Presbyterian Church, this week holding Its annual session at Atlantic City, the scene of thecrime/'Thifl letter dccried the exhibition■ ^ jpf young women in tha ^scantiest ot garment*? on the beach at the New Jersey waterlog place, donounc-inr it as an affront to the morals of: the country,” .■ It is to b£ H rejpettcd 'that the firs t impulse . of the . Synod was to slip-from-under by refering the matter to the Presbytery of West Jersey— passing the buck they coll it’ In lay circles, ,,i l. % . iBut '■ there were enough sons of thefamous pulplt-thunderei’3 ©f thisbtaunch, old faith present to rise up with bathing rebuke and demand a facing of the complaint; and ^he letter from Haddofc is therefore en to lied MO b rigr the. rosol uti 6ns. -of the Moral Welfare Board of r the Synod, enlarged , beyond Atlantic City, to tlie ftipliUion of* dll resorts of the state, ''anywhere else/f •/. .. • •;.-■* .If there is to be:. public’ opinion 6n SU£b matters as1 this it may very properlyVawatce in the church, if the $1Ur cfc is V to he illi ve to dangers in ; :mor^0, j-;- isen^itiye to then mqril regard, ■/.'•./;.Sometimes it seems • as if a re-iriid^8cenlt;«f of: the 7 sturdy; irnefa r who ban god the Bibles of the past century and hurled anathemas of firei ’ • : l • % • • • • i • . . i jand brimtone across the;, pulpits of Ha :: early churches, , against.what fceetfi now to : ti$; a v cry mesk and Orderly and.'God-fearing’ generation, of wprshippers^ ^night he* a; hafcpy occurrence in. an age $o relaxed in moral muscles; as : the one in which. /F* find: onrseires, after the dioin-Ugratitte influences of a world-war*;: “ Wu* is: h^ii? in^ ore senses than Teoumseh: Sheirtnaid| ^ dA IS; ni Ind. It j et* . loose th e IdVer / instincts 5 :p of 3iuminky.;v. Thei f instincts inay /have bee n there before and may be ete rnal in niankind \ - ' but there is all the differeftce between a , menagerie of Wi ld beasts caged beh ind control I itig bSkTB arid a; n^ehAgeTrie free to roam ihft ■ ; streets y i^d ibeachos-T^'sBeking-whom th ey ma^ ’ devou rn a^ 'the otd-tlme religion uicd; to -teil ub toWe vel’eom^*thlt;j real tiiess • of our ; ago :• We wei come tiii droppin g-4way;; ;.;op itib^ = • • shjairihyii^iisics 'tbtj!;idove^d;:{'^;ji^re circumspect fffltjer^tionsj■0^;tli4‘:o greet ,tb j?-1 : isj :• look-instoDtupoiv;i^^itji ■';/ i.:;: •: V-.•.when -.we;-.-say.,;:;: that, v;we are •8011 v ^th^^rfe/'fine; A di s-*^pr^iatipiisp without |^nyv-ic^ila»tip^ \3jj^ ■ .and: tfrijgt jri att : /sou I:::p . • • _A . tt 1.. ' • 3 . ■ *y • r .*[ '--.v- • % ‘ t - ’.j. r-•Lstitttion yow b monta unwUej Leglaltttitro ad yoyp duty. Cert with the bailie v\ brought them tthe premises liaThe. Leiisla mine whether terprteaj are toSo Jong as the through adequmerit and prlt; means iU dCAlrlt; them: oh you ati it done offieieu Amoim the datlons. ma3e Wood were the Adoption ofvcrston ; of tinBank into ateventual OBtafrl radio sta^on a catio4 with thlt; the frcciiiency c recommend a.d make no apprr for in the hiu: revenues for tl:THT5ES■ i ^he connect!houging has nc lie mind.Thirty or ft the far-sccrs predict a time lack wood eve it. make eny ii We laughed ai and limitless wanting r.nyth we wont our But tho ti nfttlonal goyiii sibiiitieS' and i depiirtment tlt; wood lands of our wood also of our wcoiin try*s seen: Now with ttmore1 knd J mewe aee the isupply ' ot tlm ; Now we hfig forest fire, ev tree, has a be portonce tban fore,'' ’The conserv the need of pi J:ree removed continent; tht ate necessity conservation lt;belnr borne ii iandvWe can lt;late, ,Iiluny warni the air. In ocounsel i for j bid fair to 1 and inattentiv But It ie itup iapd11‘ ;j ,+- -m v- r\ v-* -i;ogst ^orrtajaf her/; place/•;!$•': iijilt;gsnga% ? ‘ITill■ 'iT.- • }I*.-r- n.* j•LI.M•ri- • i . i
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Summit Herald
Summit, New Jersey, US
Tue, Oct 23, 1923
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