BALD MAN’S HOLIDAY

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29240, 25 June 1960, Page 12

BALD MAN’S HOLIDAY

(Bv

WHIM WHAM)

The only powers the Shops and Off.ces Exemptio .1 Tribunal had were to decide whether applications tor exemption were in the public 'nterest, said the tribunal (Mr H J. Thompson, S.M.) in refusing an a ucKiand hairdressing firm permission to open on Saturday mornings, rhe hairdreswr saw he had many requests from hotel guests and « tn. If exerr T tio n were granted, others would want to follow, said Mr Thompson Too many people would be affected.—News item. Readers will need no telling how devoted I might say, dedicated! > I am to the Defence of our Way of Life, which I hold Superior any Other, and not to be sneered at or denigrated By envious Visitors, any more than by Malcontents within the Fold.

Therefore 1 rejoice that one of our ever-vigilant and wise Authorities has knocked back such a presumptuous, disloyal Request Sv a mer ® Barber’s Shop, for Permission to commercialise The Sacred Saturday, invoking (can you beat it?) the Public Interest.

The learned Tribunal, to whom those Hairdressers turned To decide on the Public Interest, made its solemn Duty a glad one. No such Interest existed, it ruled, in its Wisdom concerned Lest the Public (if tempted) might find after All that it HAD one.

So the Judgment goes forth. Thou shalt not have a Hair-cut or Trim On a Saturday. “Too many people would thus be affected”. Why, Others might follow and the Whole of Barberdom be plunged in some grim Bloody War of the Scissors if Claims like This, weren’t rejected!

So the Public (whose Interest is paramount, as we All know) Goes when it’s told to go and»comes when it’s told it may come. If it please your Worship, how long does the Law let me let my Hair grew? ... As the Scripture says, “the Sheep before the Shearers is dumb.” *