BEAUTY COMPETITIONS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3587, 15 January 1927, Page 2

BEAUTY COMPETITIONS

“DEMORALISING EFFECT.

Sydney, Januury 6.

The beauty competitions which have been figuratively overwhelming Sydney and its suburbs for a long time have evoked the Wrath of the National Council of Women, and promoted it, at the instance in the first plaice of the Catholic Women’s Association, to take a definite stand against them.

The Queensland and Victorian National Councils of Women are acting in concert with the body in this State, in protests against these competitions. The attitude of the National Council, broadly, is that these competitions, and' the publicity to which the participants are subjected, are demoralising to young women, and tend to give them a false view of their responsibilities and of the qualities which they ought really to value.- If, it is remarked, girls would only reflect how unworthy these standards would appear if applied to .young men, they would hesitate before allowing themselves to be judged in such a way.

Whether people agree with the views of the National Council or not in this "matter, the fact remains that it is the mouthpiece in. New South Wales of fifty affiliated societies, with many thousands of members. Its protest therefore .can hardly be dismissed lightly.