Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — STATE NORMAL OVERALL CLUB [ARTICLE]

STATE NORMAL OVERALL CLUB

Starts Movement at New Albany

Students Also Threaten to Go Barefoot—3B on List. Terre Haute, April 15. —Students at the Indiana state normal school here are organizing an overall club, .similar to those recently formed in several southern cities, whose members pledge themselves to wear overalls until the cost of clothing has been reduced. The students say they will go barefoot in sumtaer as a protest against the high price of shoes, unless objection to this is made by W. W. Parsons, president of the school. The club started with a charter membership of 38.

New Albany, April' 15.—James B. Stewart, a business man and traveling salesman, appeared* in overalls in the streets here Wednesday. He announced that he had adopted the costume and proposes' to organize a local branch of the National Overall association to fight the high cost of clothing.