BEAUTY COMPETITION
VAT ICAX DENUNCIATION. (United Press Assoeiation—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 10.5 a.m.) R-c/ME, March 11. As a sequel to an advertisement in a local paper for girls to participate in a beauty Queen Competition in the Riviera, the Vatican organ “Odservatore Romano,” continuing its campaign against immorality, vigorously denounces such “pagan” contests, in which young girls exchange their purity and chastity for evanescent ridiculous sovereignty for a single day. Murder, suicide, hunger and death have been the fate of girls successful in such contests in various parts of the world, but the world hajs gone mad to such an extent that not even their terrible end lias influenced emulators or advertisers of contests. Even sacrilege is perpetrated in the fanatical description of those events, for newspapers sometimes compare the participant to a fourteenth centurymadonna.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1931, Page 4
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135BEAUTY COMPETITION Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1931, Page 4
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