The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1922, Page 18

+e wp trreerneres”: speaouer Prophet of Zion Demands Laws That Will Regulate Attire for Men and Women. Disobedience of Scripture Regulation, He Says, Will Bring the World to An- archy and Ruin. Such Departure From Convention, in His Opinion, Indicates Woman’sEnslavement, Not Her Freedom AT “aw Zion Ci Despite the fashions of the an’ s dress should cover her” has long been the sartorial law of , that American community where blue laws are a matter otf daily practice and not of theory. j ast few years, most of the female Zion- ites have gone about their sober wayS clad in long skirts, opaque shirt- waists, wrist-length sleeves, and collars not cut below the collarbone. In fact, the women themselves make and enforce the strictest ordinances regardng clothes. If there is any sign of backsliding, however, Wilbur Glenn Voliva, General Over: seer and successor to Alexander Dowie, is quick to detect it and equally quick to de- nounce it. that is too scanty or that apes the masculine. In the following statement, given exclusively to The Evening World, Voliva sums up spicily and severely his views on modern fashions and their pernicious effect. (New Ye Qoprrighs,, 1 re Evening World), v 'Prena P Con eh nynny CHICAGO, July 19 HIS whole matter of women i wearing men’s attire and par- ading scantily dreesed, as it af- fects the very existence of the home, the church, the State and the Na- tion, ig a very serious one and of Breat and far-reaching importance. The voice of the law of God the Al- mighty himself thundering @own through the aes in the follow- ing language: “THE WOMEN SHALL NOT WEAR THAT WHICH PER- TAINETH UNTO A MAN, NEITHER SHALL A MAN PUT ON A WOMAN'S GARMENT: FOR WHOSOEVER DOETH THESE THINGS IS AN ABOMI- NATION UNTO JEHOVAH THY GOD.""—Deuteronomy, xxii., 5. This law, so plainly stated, cannot comes. be disobeyed without the most serious consequences spiritually, and physically to the woman, and, in a marked measure, paychically disobedient By Wilbur Glenn Voliva. (By Telegraph to The Evening World.) to all with whom she comes in con- tact; and whenever the time comes that women, in sufficient numbers, flagrantly violate this law, then the home, the the State and the Nation will kin to decay, and im- morality, reaching after their very vitals, will noon bring about their complete destruction reh, Of the many ominous signs to-day plainly all of the speedy downfall of civilization and the plunge of the world back into bar- barism, ne is more significant than the adoption of male attire (breeches and so forth) by women and the utter abandonment of all sense of womanly modesty by women who parade them- selves everywhere, even invading the house of God so scantily clad as to paint the blush of shame on the cheeks of all decent and respectable men and women This abrupt departure from the high standards that obtained a few years ago, thin demon inspired custom, ts hailod by thoughtless, frivolous per- warning one and Recently, he has preached several sermons on the subject of feminine dress sons as the time of woman's deliver- ance, the time of her emancipation; but God knows, and every Christian man and woman knows, that It is the beginning of woman's enslavement, And that It means, for all who become victims to this diabolica) custom, in- evitable corruption and ultimate de- struction, A little more than a decade ago, such indecent exposures were the ex- ception, and to be found only in the red light districts of our large cities, where the devil and the demons heid high carnival, But in this day of widespread unbelief in God, tn the deity of Jesus Christ, in the Inspira- tion of the Bible—in other words, tn the oldfashioned, oldtime religion of our grandfathers and grandmothors— these brazen, shameless exhibitions are to be seen on the streets, in the stores, and, in fact, everywhere It is the truth. Tell me what you wear or how you dress and I will tell you what you are | THERE VERE FLAPPERS IN THE DAYS OF THE CRINOLINE All well-informed persons are ac quainted with the character usinlly denominated a ‘dude.’ His style of dress is a plain, unmistakable index to his character; in fact, the style of dress which he adopts reveals what he is spiritually, psychically physically. Sueh a monstrosity has no brains, but only a limited quantity of buckwheat batter slopping around In the pimple on which he wears his hat, and which he calls his head. le Is detested and loathed by every man and every weman, for he is neither the one nor the other. Among women you find the corre- and sponding character, known as the “flapper,” ©: the ‘female dude." T clothes- or, rather, the lack of clothes —which she adopts reveal to every man and woman that she is “dead in trespasses and in sins;"* that she has little or no intellect, that sho has no conception whatever of the fact ‘hat her body was created to be the temple of the Holy Spirit, She ts the victim of demons and her utter disregard of all things that go to make a womanty woman proves her to be a disgrace to her sex. 1 oan respect @ monkey so long NM WILBUR CG. VOLIVA WAY os Q J) THE FORERUNNER OF KNICKERBOCKERS - * A A & yn THE OUTDOOR TOGGERY OF TODAY «+ as he is content to remain as a monkey; but when I him dressed in men’s clothes, wearing a hat and carrying. a walking stick, the I lose all respect for him, "-:ause he is neither a man nor an nkey, My position in regard to women is the same. God created woman, to be a helpmeet for man, and in time Jesus the Christ selected her as the symbol of the church, So long as she -mains a woman and does not descend from the lofty ion in which God placed her, she is entitled to the highest re« spect; but when she dons man’s attire and apes man's ways and manners, then she is neither a man nor a weman, but only a monsirosity, and is not entitled to any respect or any consideration from any man or woman. Sh only deserving of the sever condemnation. There ought to be a Federal law, laws in every State in the Union, or- dinances In all cities villag' compelling all women to dress cently, modestly, to command the respect of Christlan man and woman, Women who will not voluntarily surrender to God and place themselves it and and in a manner every under His grace, ought to be placed under the law of the ‘The oft- repeated statement that you cannot make people good by law is a -ie of the devil. It is true, you cannot make peaple Christians by law, but you can make them obedient, and, outwardly at least, moral and respect- able. In First Timothy, the second chap- ter, verses nine and ten, we have the following instructions as to how Christian women should dress: “IN LIKE MANNER, THAT WOMEN ADORN THEMSELVES IN MODEST APPAREL, WITH SHAMEFACEDNESS AND S0- BRIETY: NOT WITH BRAIDED HAIR, AND GOLD OR PEARLS OR COSTLY RAIMENT: BUT (WHICH BECOMETH WOMEN PROFESSING GODLINESS) THROUGH GOOD WORKS.” land. Let him or her deny the following Statement who can: The world is fast plunging into widespread im- morality. In the minds and hearts of multitudes marriage is only a joke; () hence, the number of divorces are in- creasing at an alarming rate. But the masses will have nothing but tem logic of cold facts; therefore, they pay no attention to the word cof God, to the “sure word of prophecy” to the warnings that are sent forti. The last s@in years of the “times of the Gentiles’ {ts now casting its dark shadows over all the earth, and the subject of this article—the wear- ing of male attire by women and their brazen, shameless style of dress—is an ominous and sure sign of the near- ness of that period when again (as In the days immediately preceding Noah's flood, in the days immediately preceding the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah) hellish lust will reign supreme, and when the church, the State and the bé plunged into anarahy, home, Nation will the a