BEAUTY COMPETITIONS
MORAL RISK FOR .SORDID
ENDS.
ARCHBISHOP'S WARNING
(United Press Association. — Copyright.) BRISBANE, 14th March. In a letter read in the Roman Catholic churches on Sunday, Archbishop Duhig utters a solemn warning against beauty competitions. He declares that they require emphatic and prompt action on tho part of tho Church. lie denounces them as the exploitation of girls' physical.hoauty for tho purpose of increasing tho circulation of newspapers and advertising town and business houses, causing an •immense amount of harm to simple home-Hfe and the community, and tho high moral standard of womanhood. Tho Archbishop declared it is high time tho Government and tho municipalities provided adequate protection against tho moral dangers and sordid ends of theso unseemly competitions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1927, Page 9
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120BEAUTY COMPETITIONS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1927, Page 9
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