BAN ON RAZORS WANTED

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3438, 3 March 1932, Page 6

BAN ON RAZORS WANTED

TOO MANY SELF-SHAVERS. In the police-ridden States of Central and Eastern Europe, economic stood, and it is quite usual for perprinciples are often vaguely undersons engaged in various occupations to assume that by prohibition of this or'that which might deprive them of business, their situation can be improved at- the expense of the public. It has been left to the Association of Barbers of Yugo-Slavia to put forward the most extreme demand of this nature.

The barbers declared that, owing to the general economic crisis, the number of their customers were constantly decreasing and that the number of self-shavers was steadily increasing. After altruistically pointing out the danger to those suicidally inclined, and to the possible victims of possible murderers, was the easy way in which anyone who wished one could walk into a shop and buy a razor, the barbers called on the State to restrict the possession of common or safety razors to persons in possession of a permit to carry arms. If this were granted by the Government, the resolution added, the- barbers would bind themselves to let their apprentices shave unemployed men and to cut their and their wives' hair free of charge.