Billy Defends $ 1 Haircut
But Deplores $1.26 Trim
^: by Billy Arthur .
a had a woe speech- prepared,
*»< the barters didn’t invite me
a-BfebtMfWp' BUjir convention, There
Jew, here I come to you defends
mg the Jgt haircuts, * because 2
iwok at the thought of paying
BIAS for theuo- . ^ .
The art of bartering is ancient
t»»d essentially hunted. Other anfc
nabls nufy vie with or - surpass us
in some of the pursuits' of Ufe.
H»S rabbit and the mole are our
masters in aH that rentes to
end tunnels. Our note ere no
match for the spider’s web, and
our engineering shill is poor be
side that of the honey bee and
athei beaver, Bat to men alone be
longs the art of battiering. *
t and |u dnd tombs show
k^c by todc, those dia-.
deans of hair, the pride of* Bevot
tan men and women.
The barber toas a slave and
usuaBy a.Greek, because the wit
of the Greek was preferred to
the more solemn charaoteristis of
■other nationalities. AM I have
• read that it was in Greece itself
that the bartoering profession first
: acquired a reputation for live
liness, talkativeness, and inquisi
tiveness that has stuck to Its
members in all climates and in all
ages.
Men of the same calling are
H’ioften sHrangely alike; thus tbe
barbers of today and those of
“Arabian Nights” are identical.
What if one barber wears a white
cape and another a turban? For
“•Barbers have to know some
thing besides how to cut bair,”
I , was told recently by one. “We
Have to keep up with everything
because every customer starts
curing the minute he hits in the
chair. H the customer Bods that
file barber is trot well-posted on
everything, he’ll take his shaggy
luir elsewhere.”
And in Chapel Hill, where I re
side, they are weU-posted, In fact
there are specialiste. We have
barbers who evidently have made
a study of sports, who can tell you
what’s wrong with the Dodgers,
irow a basketball game should
been played, and what the
prospects are. There are
'ho are just, as astute on
poliey and domestic poli
tics, gardening and income takes.
They are specialists. Several of
the regular customers wait for
particular barbers, no matter how
many people are ahead of them,
just because they like to hear the
cised a rough dictatorship over
the aching jaw of Us affljcted
neighbors. Thus, the barber was
a person more important than en
tertaining. But- as civilization pro
gressed, the barber-surgeon lost
the more lucrative of his callings.
/rtien he started sellihg rhto
ocereos narrow and ostrich grease
to hold' the hair in place. Bat
drug stores1 soon stole that source
of revenue. , • o
So, what's a poor barber to do
these days? He can no loiter prac
tice medicine. Indoor plupibing
has taken bathe out of the barber
shop. Double edge blades and re
volving machinery now do. the
shaving. Crew cuts lower the
number of trips a man makes to
■the barber shop. And newspapers,
radio and television have reduced
the barber’s value as a news dis
pensing medium.
[ About aH he haa left to support
his family with is the halt trim.
He’s got to get *1 for that But
$U»? Never! If he insists, men
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