WHITE COLLAR BOLSHEVIKS
PRAISE THE DAILY SHAVE. MOSCOW, October 25. “Proletarian bon-ton” is. being preached by the official paper “Isvestia.” It states that the man who shaves every day and wears a clean cellar, carefully pressed trousers, and well-shined shoes is more chivalrous, less reluctant to give up his seat in a tramcar or help the aged and crippled across a street than is the uncouth, .sombre, and former “beau ideal” of Bolshevism. And what the “Isvestia” merely urges, M. Orghonikidze, the powerful Commissar for Heavy Industry, 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 morning.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 12
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