Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-25
MORE THAN ONE
RED MENACE IN
UNITED STATES
New Order of Golden Fleece
Composed of Red-Haired
Women.
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

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veal concerning your character and abn-
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The question is sharply raised by the
news of a banquet which was held this
year by an unique organization in the
University Of Nebraska. It is known as
the Order Of the Golden Fleece, and its
membership is composed entirely OF
young women whose hair belongs to one
! Of the many shades vulgarly described
as red. According to authoritative re-
ports the members are classified on the
club rolls under the following color
headings: Squash, carrot. pumpkin, or
ange. brick, scarlet, hamingo, maroon.
copper, auburn, henna, mahogany, ma
genta, sorrel. strawberry, roam, russell,
! cerise, carnatiOn, salmon, shrimp pink
and pink. Lemon, ginger, insipid brown
and chemicals Of all kinds are barred.
Prizes are awarded at the annual events
for the bright flame Of color, the great
est quantity Of hair and that Of the most
beautiful shade.
This organization - interesting and
perhaps alarming to the general public
| as an example Of one more kind OF class
feeling. 1t is we'll known that class feel
ing and the tendency to organize on a
! class basis are on the increase. We
now have associations not only on cap
itaI and labor, but also mothers leagues.
/ parents eagues. consumers league
writer's leagues. There are leagues based
upon every possible role which one may
play in life whether in business, poll
/ tics. society. marriage or sport; but
heretofore. so far as we can learn by
/ exhaustive research, there has been no
\ effort to organize on a basis Of physical
| characteristics. If a few Jolly Fat Mems
Climbs be pyceDted
! ORGANIZATION HAS
I ALARMING POSSIBILITIES.
This tendency TO organize on a basis
Of hair color therefore, is a thing OF
great and alarming possibilities, espe-
cially if red-headed women take the lead
in the matter. Imagine if you can an
instruction Of the international order
Of red headed women.
And this organizing Of red headed
women into clubs will undoubtedly in
tensify what you might call the hair
class feeling. The Order Of the Golden
Fleece viii no doubt make a pretty
thorough study Of all the data bearing
upon red headedness and each member
viii come away from its gathering with
a clearer notion of the special destiny
which her flaming top has prescribed for
her.
There seems long to have been a sort
I of general agreement that red headed
persons have peculiar characteristics. 1t
is generally believed, for example, that
they have hot tempers and strong>emo-
lions generally. In the last century a
smile in common use was easy as
making love to a red headed girl" Since
the rise of the Nietzsche Shaw Menchen
school Of philosophy. which holds that
woman is a dangerous predatory animal
bent in hunting man down and making
a slave Of him, this has been generally
revised to read dangerous as making
love to a red headed girl
Whatever basis this s.. ing may have
in the experience of man, it is ample evil
dence of a general popular feeling that
red eadedness is a quality of the mind
and temperament as we'll as of the hair.
For some reason there is no similar
popular idea about other hair colors, but
scientific research shows that hair is
great revealer of character in an indi-
rect way. That is, it shows what race
nredominates in the makeup of the indi-
vidual. and therefore what racial traits
hhe may be expected to have.
This, it appears is less true of the red
headed than Of either blondes or bru-
NOTES. Red heade6ness occurs in both
blonde and brunette races, as a sort Of
sport-color. II does seem to be generally
associated with certain emotional and
nervous characteristics, but these are pc
cuIiar to the reds of all races. That they
are by no means necessarily disadvan-
tageous is shown by the great number Of
successful red-h headed men and the we'll
known popularity of red headed women.
But black hair or blonde hair is dis
tinctly indicative Of race. and IT is only
by such physical characteristics that race
may be detected these days. Race now
conforms TO national boundaries very
little. 1t would be easy to find an Irish
man and a German who were of exactly
the same racial type, and two Irishmen
who were as different raciany as an
Italian and a Swede.
CHARACTERISTICS
OF HAIR AND RACES.
There are three principal races in Eu-
rope, according to the anthropOlOgists-
the Alpine and the Mediterranean The
the Nordic. the Alpine and the Mediter-
ranean The Nordics are the tall blonde
men with long heads native to the north,
as for example the typical Prussian or
Norwegian. The Alpines are short stocky
race with brown hair and flat heads
inhabiting east central Europe, as for ex-
ample a typical Swiss peasant. The
Mediterraneans are a short, dark. long
headed race, inhabiting the south of Eu-
rope. as for example a Typical italian.
In addition TO these there are many other
races in smaller numbers, such as the
Old Black Breed in Ireland and the
ancient Iberian race in Spain, but these
have had relatively little influence on the
mass of European and American popuIa-
ton. The other three races are badly
mixed up all tnrough central and west
ern Europe and in TIE United States.
! Hair color is significant as showing
whether Nordic or Mediterranean blooo
predOminates in the individual It does
not reveal the presence of Alpine blood
so readily for the Alpine stock usually
show brown hair Of an intermediate and
| indeterminate shade. The shape of the
head would be more valuable in detecting
| that particular strain.
The Nordic and the Mediterranean
stocks have different qualities. accord
ing to the anthropOlgists The Nordics
are noted for their combstiveness, their