In the year 1906 the Young Men’s ChristianAssociation of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, rejected the application ofan actor for membership on the ground that one of his profession couldnot be a moral person. Viewing the action as a slur cast on the wholetheatrical profession, Mr. Henry E. Dixey, the well-known actor,offered to give one thousand dollars to charity if it could be shownthat actors, man for man, were not as good as ministers of the gospel.No champion of the cloth appearing to claim Mr. Dixey’s money onthat proposition, he went further and offered another thousand dollarsif there could not be found a minister in jail for every state in theUnion. This second challenge was likewise ignored by the clergy and theassociation which had provoked it, but Mr. Dixey made a few inquiriesas to the proportion of ministers to actors among convicts. Hisresearch, which was far short of being thorough, discovered 43ministers and 19 actors in jail. The investigation, so far as theministers were concerned, could have touched only the fringe of thematter, for in eight months of the year 1914 the publishers of thiswork counted more than seventy reported offenses of preachers for whichthey were or deserved to be imprisoned, and of course the countincluded only those cases reported in newspapers that reached theoffice through an agency which scans only the more important ones.There ha

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