Long Hair

It is customary that the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the M. E. Church, from time to time, take stock of the moral and spiritual assets of the U. S., issue official evaluations thereof.

It is customary that these evaluations be sober, businesslike.

Last week a report was issued. Soberly it noted the splendid progress of its child, Prohibition. Soberly it analyzed "the new corruption of novel and magazine fiction . . . perverted literature ... of an appalling character." Soberly it marked the "degradation of the American theatre" and the "conscienceless theatrical manager." Soberly it warned of "sport perversion, characterized by brutality or gambling."

Then, recalling that all these evils have their defenders, the report became at last rhetorical:

"We should not forget that there is a group calling itself intelligentsia which is conducting considerable war on everything typically American, which includes ordinary morality and decency. These people may be intelligentsia but it is strange that they do not even know when the time has arrived for a haircut--these men are enemies to the country and Americans should regard them as such."