The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-03-04
BISHOP
DEFENDS
FLAPPER
Modern Girl Is Not NeaT
So Bad as She is Painted
Says Divine.
BY MILDRED MORRIS

fsrArF CORRESPONDENT /. N. sERvIcEl
NEW YORK. March bishop
Thomas Y. Gaylor head of the Protest
ant Episcopal church of America. today
took up the cudgei for the aapper
In an interview he declared the mod
ern girl is not so bad she is painted
speaking both literally and hsura-
lively.
As for the modern woman
According to Bishop Gaylor women
had reformers bet up over the things
they did TO their faces and they wore
their skirts short even in the days
when Me.huseleh was a boy.
Woman is new mystery every
day" said the bishop.
But she has nor changed through
the centuries The woman OF today is
no different from the woman OF our
grandmother's day or from the woman
who lived before Christianity.
Read Matthew Arnold's translation
OF the Fourth Idyll of Theacritus, who
lived 800 years before Christ You find
there the women conversing while they
dress for a concert They talk dress
and discuss ways to numor and
wheedIe their husbands exactly In the
same way as women do today. They
=
No." continued the bishop, women
are the same as they ever were. You
cant change them and you can't lay
down general rules for their conduct"
Speaking of the fapper, the church
leader said:
1T is silly TO charge mere kids with
deep dark immoral emotions and mo-
tives. There is nothing wicked about
a girl who hobs 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
paint you SEQ on girls faces. Why, I
often wonder how some OF them open
their moushs without cracking their
faces.
But L never worry about the foiblos
Of the young. Girls rouge and wear
short skirts because IT is the fashion
People are like sheep about following
fashions. Young people are particular
ly so. When l was in college It was
q fad for a time for the boys to wear
mustaches and we all wore them. Then
come ono cut his Off and we all fol-
j lowed suit.
'If 1t were tho fashion 20 60 around
with shoes unlaced. all the girls would
be doing IT.
| Our young people of today are as
good as young people ever were"
| Bishop Gaylor criticized the present
day system of education, declaring that
utilitarianism was one of the "trou-
bles" with America.
Men are less educated than they
were 20 years ago" he said. why ]
get letters from big business n1er
whose spelling shocks me.
'Utilitarianism--tha tho trouble
There's too much specialization in ed
ucation nowadays. Mere boys are ed.
ucsted only for the special profession.
they arc to follow and don't get the
education that gives man culture
and breadth of vision.
That's because we live in an age 81
! decentralization. We are systemizinc
everything. Efficiency. efflciency-as Il
human beings were machines Human
beings are not machines and you cam
make them machines.
I'VE are living on our nerves n
America" Bishop Gaylor continued
go In for amusement with such feroc.
ity as we do here IN America We hav,
been living on our nerves for years.
America is obsessed with the no
ton of get there Look at the younf
people who pour out every mornine
Into the factories and office building,
OF this great city. They are all inbuet
with the make good spirit. We hea,
too much OF the make good spirit
II encourages m6terialismr