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POSER UP To BARRIERS
Ethics of Honing Customers
Razor an Old Problem.
PR0P0UNDED ONCE MORE
To Put Edge on Steel Means to Lose
So Many SLAVES.
HONESTY BEST POLICY? MAYBE
No One Stands Up When Asked Who
Strops Such Tools "On
the Level"

NEW YORK. August BIS it honor
able and compatible with the ethics of our
profession for member to receive an
patrons razor and then fail to put upon
put upon the same razor for his own use
in his place of business
This burning public question was dis
cussed to exhaustion yesterday at the
closing session of the New York State
Association of Master BARRIERS, which for
the last two days has been in convention
at Groll's Hall, 53d street, near Sd ave-
nue..
Adam Lamb Of Rockaway Beach. pro-
pounded the question to his fellow-bar-
bers. 1t leaked out at the meeting that
for more than 1000 years the question has
hung In allegiance, unanswered because
unasked waiting for strong man to
arise who should drag it before the people.
How Barber Lamb Put It.
Lambs question scarcely came in the
scholarly form in which 1t was subse-
quently spread upon the minutes. He
said:
What I want to know is: Does a
guy get a square deal when 1 take his
can't shave even a dead man with 1t. or
do | get square deal when put good
edge on IT, and then ! lose that guy Q
custom because he stays in his house
and shaves himself?
AS Lamb closed the chairman went as
white as chalk. A member far down the
hall arose and asked that Lamb be made
to explain his motion.
Sure I'll explain cried Lamb. AT
my place on Rockaway Beach 1 used to
Ioi~ thot
but was no use at all in the barber BUSH
ness. His name was Herr Professor
There were three customers that used
to get shaved at my place regular their
names were Jack Kinzie. AL Meisel and
Big Frank One day l went to Belmont
Park and the professor sharpened up their
three razors for them, and l lost their
custom. The next day those three Gus
toners that l used to have gave me the
laugh and all got was 70 cents. l sack
ed the professor for it, and for sacklng
him Big Frank spread 1t all over the
beach that / was no sport.
Honesty Is Suggested.
The chairman of the meeting looked
Adam Lamb squarely in the eye. 1t was
a solemn and impressive moment. There
wasn't a barber present that dared LOOK
another barber in the face Then the
chairman asked coldly:
"Why shouldn't you put an honest eose
on a customers razor when You take MS
money!"
Lamb laughed a scornful laugh. Then,
like a stag at bay. he barked:
Let every guy in this room that strops
a customers razor on the level stand up
This association can't make me the soa..
orickwitted member from Canajo-
harie saved the situation by moving a
recess. which was carried. AS the con-
vention will adjourn for year this mora
ing Mr.. Lamb will probably have TO walt
that long for an answer to ms question:
were thrown at him from many quarters
as he left the meeting hall he was nos
afraid to go home last night to Rockaway
Beach in the dark.