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SMITH GIRLS BOYCOTT SILK PANTIES IN ANTI-JAP PUSH

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NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Nov. 26--Over one hundred Smith College students have declared a boycott on Japanese goods, making silk stockings, undies, and handkerchiefs taboo on the campus.

Lisle and cotton fabrics are being substituted for silk. Lisle-net stockings are all the rage, especially since a boycotter revealed that "net is very stylish--even the Harvard and Amherst men approve."

By this "Boycott Japan" project, one of the promoters said, Smith girls are doing their part to help stop the massacre of the innocent Chinese people by the Japanese war loads.

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