The Topeka state journal., 1919-03-01
Senate Gets Its Whiskers Tan
: gled Over SchOch Plan.
Noon Adjournment All That
/. Cleared the Muddle.
WOULD APPRENTICE BARRIERS
No More Bleeding Chins for
: Victimized Customers.
Fear That Bill Would Make
Shrubbery Popular.

Z The Kansas senate got all tangled
bp in its whiskers today when it had
under consideration the Schoch bill
providing for the apprenticing of bar
bers and practically wiping out the
barber college graduates who pose as
master mechanics in the manipulation
of the tools with which whiskers are
harvested.
Senator Thompson. of Hutchinson,
was in the chair and the senate was
IN a committee of the whole when the
Schoch bill came up. Among other
provisions the measure would make
Necessary for a tonsorial artist to serve
An apprenticeship of three years be-
Tore being allowed to enjoy all the
privileges of his profession. 1t also
would require that all apprentices be
Compelled to work under "boss bar
hers" during their three years and
that cards ba displayed before their
ehairs warning the public that they
were apprentices.
= Senator Whitney raised the point
that the passage of the bill would
make whiskers popular in many small
Kansas towns He said that in many
towns it is hard to keep BARRIERS of
Any kind and that If apprentices were
never allowed to open up and get
their practice on persons who had to
have attention given their whiskers,
BARRIERS at all.
Senator Plumb said he saw no more
reason why the state should pass a
law providing for the apprenticing of
BARRIERS than for the passage of law
providing for the apprenticing of farm
hands.
Hit at Barber Colleges.
Senator Coleman undertook to ex-
plain the purposes of the bill and
asserted that it was intended to put
nIIf n
and was not particularly intended to
favor the BARRIERS union.
! Senator Price suggeste that If the
upper house of the legislature really
wanted to pass some good tonsorlal
legislation it would pass a law re-
peaIing all laws governing the barber
business, and hardly had he regained
his seat when Senator Malone made
motion that the abdomen and all
the lower extremities of the Schoch
bill be amputated and that the bill
be made to repeal a half dozen sec
fions of the general statutes under
which the state barber board operates
1t was apparent to all that the
barber and all barber laws were hang
ing by a thread. Senator Coleman n
who can always be found on the op-
posite side of the fence from Senator
Malone, made frantic efforts to save
the barber board. He made substi-
tute motion for the substitute melton
offered by the senator from Rollins. A
point of order was raised and the
chair sustained the point. Coleman
then made other motions to re-refer,
TO re-commit and to re- everything
that could be done to save the bill.
Malone invoked the rules and it was
only a short time until the senate,
as stated above, was all tangled up in
It's whiskers. The chair appealed to
Senator Price, who referred the ap-
peal to Senator Malone and Senator
Metcalf, and Reading Clerk ramsey
attempted to straighten out the mud
die.
The One Towel Service.
Senator McClain GRATED over the
bill and told of the advantages of the
Barber board and its disadvantages.
Senator Pomeroy told how the barber
shops have improved during the last
ten years and pictured the slashed and
hleeding faces that he had seen come
from them before the barber board
came into existence. He also told OF
the old practice that prevailed when
one towel was made to do service for
sfweek on hundreds of faces and of
the skin diseases that BARRIERS for
I1erly spread. He also referred to the
TACT that in the old >'s great many
.harbers took a great delight in giving
.cold" shaves.
,stsSenator Wilson asked him if the inn
pEovement in conditions was not due
more to the state board of health than
the state barber board and Senator
Paulen followed with plea for mercy
mat the barber board might at least
be given chance to be heard before
Being legislated out of existence.
Noon came and the senate still
floundered around in the tangled
NEhiskers with oratory flowing like
weak lather and contentious over the
tnles piling up like straw behind a
tbreshing machine.
-@Things began to look hopeless, but
senator Price gained the floor again
and moved that the committee be dis
solved and the senators take a recess
IN order to have some refreshments
This idea seemed not to have occurred
to- the enthralled and entangled sena-
tors, but when their attention was
called to it, they agreed it was the
4hing to do and Senator Nighswonger
hecame so enthusiast over it that he
tf{ed to adjourn before the committee
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