WHITE COLLARS

Evening Star, Issue 21905, 17 December 1934, Page 13

WHITE COLLARS

ENCOURAGED BY SOVIET DAILY SHAVE PRAISED. MOSCOW, December 3. “Proletarian bon-ton ” is being preached by the official paper ‘lsvcstia. It states that the man who shaves every day and wears a clean coliaT, carefully pressed trousers, and wellshined shoes is most chivalrous, less reluctant to give up his seat m a tram car or help the aged and crippled across a street than is the _ uncouth, sombre, and former “ beau ideal ot Bolshevism. And what ‘ Isvestia ’ merely urges, M. Orghonikidze, the powerful Commissar for Heavy Industries, commands. He refused to receive one of the highest chiefs of Siberian industry because the latter —to show his zeal—had come straight from the trans-Siberian express to his Commissar’s ante-chamber without shaving. Another official who came there in a dirty, frayed collar—once a sign of a pure Leninist heart—was also sent about his business. So that its officials will not need to queue up for a shave, a Commissariat for Heavy Industry has now taken over one of the best barber’s shops, hitherto reserved for foreigners. Dirty appearance is no longer accepted in high places as proof of highmindedness, or that one works too hard to wash and shave in a morniug.