Show MINGTO 4 v 11 BRITISH WANT TO GIVE US RAZOR BLADES STEP STEP RIGHT UP G GENTS By RODNEY DUTCHER N NEA EA Service Writer WASHINGTON Jan J u A 19 14 Alarce large larse British firm Is undertaking to drive manufacturers of Amen Ameri American can safety razor blades into Into some other business Nine Kine mUll million on sample blades will willbe willbe be distributed In la the tb United States Stales within the next few months It promises Tho The first of them ha have 1 begun to arrivo amon among favored ore fa l prospects Such Stich a tremendous distribution of free trea samples sample l seems unprecedented unprecedented dented As a matter of o fact tact as you will see there hero are one on or two strIngs tied to It The Th British company obviously ob realizes that th nObody is satisfied with the th blade ho o now uses So It Is bombarding business businessmen businessmen businessmen men through the mulls malls from Eng Eng- Enc and and with samples of what It I exI ex- ex exacts x I acts to give us Incontestable su- su su 1 In this line of business I the In world worM and which which I jt t claims renders present day present makes obsolete If It they thy arent aren't pretty good rood they to be as the tb price pric Is I About wice that ot or Americas America's present ra favorites The Tho charming charm In of o the tho British advertising man is 1 writ writ- writ writ-en ten Len all al over the propaganda which some have hive received In advance for he expressed purpose of o allowing to lo let et our friends In on the c Cr r t of or this great crat gr at boon Lair Lait fall the Bril li m mak r k-r I r adv n rt d the tho fr Cr r imply lade In U this s country The ad nd must have drawn a snicker from the ordinary shaver It promised a nice bright bricht new blade to every boy and girl boy girl boy and man rath nth nth-er who er-who who would write and a stamped self addressed enve envelope lope and six additional cents worth of stamps A cent 15 razor razorblade razorblade blade for only a stamp of a dime Think of it Maybe Mayb nobody paid much at- at attention at attention Anyway In its latest sI advertising the British firm Arm offers a new scheme under which the sample blade blad will be b even eyen ven cheap cheap- cheaper cheaper er cr The plan known as our collet- collet live requisition scheme allows a responsible person la ll your office of ce ceto to collect names of ot all aU those thos those de de- desiring tiring d-tiring siring razor blades to collect a 6 cents from each f one ono and then mall mail names and antI money to th the factory nt at Sheffield The 6 cen cents cents s of course Is for mailing milling expenses We take taka t ke the liberty liberty J writes the millionaIre chairman of the company to your correspondent of asking you to designate some some- someone tome one one In la your concern to collect names etc tc of ot Interested persons and to send us a cheque or money mOlley order for the total amount col col- collected collected We thank you ion In advance for tor placing this matter In competent bands Thus far there her Is no report or of ofa ofa I II a greet great rush on the tb part of the proletariat to form Its razor blade clubs All progressive Americans will use those thos blades In 1927 the ballyhoo of ot the th British manufacturers says They even en throw In a heavy dose dese of ot sex appeal Two large lare pages paces of girl cirl makers blade In the mass and separate pictures of IS 18 of the prettiest smiling their best to qualify as a types of ot happy luppy ra- ra ra razor zor blade workers at our works In Sheffield If It the blades S M aa lIS keenS keen S as some Borne of the th gIrls eirls seem to be this British may real real- really really ly break into the th American mar mar- market market market ket ket |