Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08

! tn learn of the diSpleaSure of the ma
jority at first hand, let him 90 in
steadfastly for long hair.
Cromwell started something. wears
ago, when his Roundheads set hair
| dressing fashion. The spread of that
nothing less than marvellous.
We of America are so used tn Close
| cropped hair. now even among orr
womenfolk, that unless we stop to think
of it we fail to realize the universe Iitv
of the short hair cut.
| Artists and actors, through some oucer
dispensation, are permitted the luxury
of being different in this respect. Mavbe
it Is tradition, no doubt that is it; what
ever it Is, If we know that man Is A
member Of either one of those profess
SionS, we permit him to do as he pleases
| in this regard.
All the rest of us. however, must have
i our hair cut just so If we want to please
everybody else. This pleasure will he
shown in the usual negative wav. by
| lack of comment.
Be plumber, however, or a writer. a
bricklayer or a stock broker, and dare
to enter the lists with flowing locks
Then you will see what it means to
be different!
Most of US spend nine-tenths of our
| time irving as hard as we can tn he
like everybody else we know. ~
Systematically, until it almost an
pears an instinct, we realize that COM
ment on differences will be adverse.
All Of US can please each other only
by rejecting each other, as in mirrors,
so that Tom Jones sees something of
the great Jones in Bill Smith, and Bill
Smith, in his turn, sees only the gra-
ciouS reflection of one Smith in Jones.
Those great exemplars of humanity
the men who have dared to think tleil
own thoughts, live in their own way
and always and everywhere be them
selves, have taught us nothing.
We would much rather meet the
appreciation of Timothy Hay, whose
approval amounts to nothing, than bS
righteouSly satisfied with ourselye:
because we are living, acting, thinking
talking as befitS this unique person
ourself.
We are mortgaged to others, and vel
| think we are free. Our time is giver
up to resembling the mob, when the
will Of the herd is VIGOROUSLY tickle.
Women, for instance, find that nov
that men know they have legs they
can go back to wearing long skirti
again; but no sooner do they do SO
tLAdli CVcEy-IIldU-dnQ-JaCk on TIT
streets begins staring at them. The
very men who cried "Shame!" tn.
loudest over short skirts are the frs
TO below against the long ones.
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To be as individual as possible ought
to be the goal of every person, SO Ions
as he achieves his end without violating
public decency or harming any man.
Ought to be, we affirm, because onl,
by means Of the individualists has thu
great bulk OF mankind been moved on.
ward and upward to better things,
Without the great and glorious n1er
and women who have dared to be them.
selves. the rest Of us still would b,
gnawing bones in caves.
Think of the men who dared q
cream OF anything first, to be tn,
initiators, the leaders! They wer,
dreamers all. but the bravest. and. II
the final analysis, the most practica
of men.
Most human beings look alike. dres,
alike, think alike. one may well believe
because they lack the courage to b,
otherwise. Peace hath her victories. NJ
less than war, and one may be brave or
the street as well as on the battlefield