CLAIMS OF THE BALD

Southland Times, Issue 18969, 2 November 1920, Page 2

CLAIMS OF THE BALD

U.S. CLUB'S PROPAGANDA. Members of the Bald Head Club of America have striven for fifteen years to convince the hairy world that the lustre of the hairless head is a brilliancy of spirit and mind rather than the flesh alone, but with indifferent success, and in order to carry on their propaganda more efficiently the club has become incorporated. From their headquarters in Hartford. Connect icul, comes the announcement that the officials will not be satisfied until a bald-headed man can travel on any public highway without fe.ar’of cries of "Go up, thou baldhead.' 1 The aims of the organisation as set forth in the application for incorporation to the Secretary of State convergt upon the purpose of dignifying the bald head, and compelling a realisation of its true worth. The club hopes to foster a sentiment, of fraternity among those “whose domes of thought protrude through and tower above the foliage that merely affords shade and adornment,” and to inculcate in others the self-evident truth that hair is not essential to make a man either happy or handsome. It expresses a keen objection to the popular theory that the pompadour is the open sesame to popularity or preference. As to trustworthiness, raven locks or auburn tresses count for naught, because, as the Secretary of State is indignantly asked, “What shall it profit a man if he have (he ringlets of a Grecian, god and no credit at the butcher’s shop?”