The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-03
Bishop Cailor Comes to Aid
 of Flappers
By Mildred Morris

New York, March 3+Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, head of the Protestant Episcopal church of America, today, took up the cudgel for the flapper. In an interview he declared the modern girl is not so bad as painted, speaking both literally and figuratively.
 As for the modern woman-ac- cording to Bishop Gailor, women had reformers ''het up" over the things they did to their faces and the way they wore their skirts even in the days when Methusaleh was a boy.
 Has Not Changed.
 Woman is a new mystery every day." said the Bishop. But she has not changed through the centuries. The woman of today is no different from the woman of our grandmthers' day or from the woman who lived be- fore Christianity.
 Read Matthew Arnold's trans1a- tion of the Fourth Idyll of Theocritus, who lived 400 years before Christ. You find there two women conVers- ing while they dress for concert. They talk dress and discuss ways to humor and wheedle their husbands exactly in the same way as women do today.
 "No," continued the Bishop. women are the same as they ever
 
 you can't lay down general rules for their conduct.
 Speaking of the fapper, the Church leader said:
 ''It is silly to charge mere kids with deep, dark imm oral en otions and mo- tives. There is nothing wicked about a girl who bobs her hair. If she wants to do it why shouldn't she Perhaps, It is more becoming to her than long hair. You do marvel at the amount of int e-i,-Ics fo often wonder how some of them open their mouths without cracking their faces.
 Never Worries.
 But I never worry about the foi- bles of the young. Girls rouge and wear short skirts because ii is the fashion. People are like sheep about are particularly soft. When I was in college it was a fad for a time for the boys to wear nustaches and we his off and we all followed suit.
 eff it were the fashion to go around with shoes unlaced all the girls would be doing it," he continued.
 "Our young people of today are as good as young people ever were."
 Bishop Gailor arranged the present day. system of education, declaring ulititarianfsm one of the troubles" ''A1en are less educated than they were twenty years ago." he said y, men whose spelling shocks me.
 t1l1tarfanism-that's the trouble. There's too much specialization in ed ucation now-a-days- Boys are edu- they are to follow and do not get the education that gives a. man cul- ture and breadth of vision.
 Systematic Age
 That's because we live in an age of syste ematiZation. We are systeniz- ing evereythfng. Efficiency, efficiency -as if human being were machines Human beings are not machines and you can't make them machines.
 We are living on our nerves in America" Bishop Gailor continued: ''In no country of the world do people 20 in for amusement with such fero- city we do here in America. We have been living on our nerves for years.
 notion of Get There,'' Look at the young people who pour every morning into the factories and office buildings of this great city. They are all inbued with the make good spirit We hear too much of the make good spirit-it encourages materialism.
 ''s,alfishness is the greatest evil in the world and here in America the great fetish is individual success. But we should not wear long faces and declare the world is going to the devil
 ''The world is not any worse now than it used to be. Its morals are not degenerating In fact people are growing better. Why, look how the neople of America and contriubting to the relief of the starving ones in other parts of ths world. They give and give and do it cheerfu1ly.
 War To Blame.
 "yVe couldn't come out of four years or war without feeling upset. The whole world is nervous and restless but there's no danger of its going to ruin.
 II always plead with the Christians O ftoday to air more tolerance, more charity in judging their fellow men And what we need today is less sel- fishmens and more tolerance"
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