Evening star., 1927-10-29
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

An editorial statistician announces
that 3,400 tons of hair have been lifted
from the heads of American women,
and that today 14,000,000 women go
around with bobbed hair.
Those figures are significant. Hair
has always been significant. 1t some
times makes the difference between
life and death, when we have hair
breadth escapes" 1t takes about $50
hairbreadths to make an inch. Hair
marks the distinction between human
and ornithological species, for man
has been defined as ''the only two
legged unfeathered BEAST Ergo, the
only hairy biped.
In a recent interview with Thomas
Morgan, a Rome correspondent. Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini, dictator of
Italy, thus expressed himself on the
subject of beard:
81 am administers. Fascism is
anti-whiskers. Whiskers are sign
of decadence. Glance at the busts
Of the great Roman emperors and
you will find them all clean shaven.
When the decline of Roman glory be-
true of all periods. The Renaissanc
was a beardless period. Whiskers
were the rule in the decadent regime.
which Fascism replaced with youth OF
clean-shaven faces. The beard Is Ori-
entail, the smooth face Occidental.
The first instance on record or
hairbreath escape Is that OF David.
son-in-law of King Saul, husband OF
Michel. Saul became Jealous of the
SLAYER of Goliath, and declared that
he would kill David. Thereupon, like
a good wife, Michel took a log and put
it to bed, with a goatskin over the
head-the first known wig-and when
Sauls men arrived she pointed to the
bevigged stick Of wood as her David,
thus giving the real David time to
flee. How many husbands since then
have been mere sticks, with or without
wigs?
A wig saved David's life; long
natural hair was the undoing OF his
son, Absalom. Natural hair has had
more to do with the fate of men than
wigs, for was not the hairy hand OF
Esau the clue which dim-eyed Father
Abraham trusted? Was not the long
hair Of Samson the secret of his
strength? Was not the equally long
hair of Lady Godiva all that saved her
bushes?
cipation and new thought it is to
is a greater relief than the solving of
any vexatious problem of housekeep-
ing or gossip.
Before the writer at this moment
lies little pamphlet of 80 pages. with
n price mark of 50. 1t is entitled
Man, Mind and Hair" 1t traces the
development of the savage beast
through evolution, and on page II it
says:
I'VE have reached the time where
they are losing their hair.
First, they lose their hair upon
the nose and ears and close around
the ears. Next they lose their hair
around the eyes, then down toward
the cheek bones, then upon their FORE
head, and finally their temples. This
is the rotation in which our fore
fathers lost their hair.
"What caused them to lose their
hair?
Through the development of the
thinking ability man became master
of this earth, the water, above and
below, and the air. What do we un-
derstand by the thinking ability?
Napoleon. who wrote his name into
history. did so through the develop
ment Of his thinking ability.
John D. Rockefeller, one of the
worlds foremost business geniuses,
made his remarkable success through
the development of his thinking ability
to wonderful flame.
"It was through the develop
ment of the thinking ability, or intelli-
gence, that man became the master of
this earth, the water below and the
air. 1t was by utilizing the thinking
ability that man lost the hair on the
upper part of his face, his ears and
close around. and, by utilizing his
thinking ability to a vet greater ex-
tent. man loses the hair on the top
of his head.
"How can the utilizing of the think
ing ability cause the hair to fall out?
Pulses. We have pulses all over our
face. head and body"
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler be-
walls the alleged fact that Americans
have lost the art of thinking. Hair.
That's all, doctor! Too many college
foot ball players, Too many musi-
clans! Too much mattress stuffing
and too few BARRIERS. It's up to the
colleges to clip, shave, and so learn
to think.
What a lot of hard thinking the
women must have exercised to cause
loss of 3,400 tons of hair! The infer
ence is obvious-the less hair the
more thinking ability. All the
wise psA are baldheaded and
beardlesS. America leads the world
in brains and prosperity; hence the
best American men have no hair on
the face or skull. If any man COM
promises by retaining mustache he
takes a chance and may lose his pre- |
eminence. So the women, compro-
missing w;ts total badness, have their