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Show .... ,. - , " ke Man Who Made America Clean-Shaven ' p Finds Vast Area of Beard Still Uncti To f - II . - ho Jt takM a world tour these days to'natle King C. Glllttte, safety rasor .ptonear, to indulge his hobby tor map making. Not that Gillette it a geographer. He laa't more Interested than the arerace traveler in the contours of the countries be visits. But he Is Interested in physiognomies and in the opportunity to make the "maps" of all mankind conform to the sleek, clean-shaven lines presented by the modern American safety-razored safety-razored countenance. A cable from Gillette, received by friends 1b Boston on Jan. 5 his seventy-fiftli birthday Informed them that he was celebrating the anniversary in far-away Singapore and that there, as elsewhere In his oriental travels, he found the field for future clean shaves most promising. prom-ising. Most Americans, of course, are familiar with the pictures of Gil-leite Gil-leite as shown upon the ever-preeent ever-preeent packages of his razor blades That picture, however, shows the Gillette of almost three decades ago But aside from eray hairs in the familiar black mustache mus-tache and a more modern note in neckties, the Gillette of today is not greatly changed from the Gillette a) whose likeness millions of men gaze each morning when slipping in a new blade for the day's shave. Egypt. India and Malaysia have provided the mid-winter hunting hunt-ing ground for this year's quest of new beards to conquer. And to associates as-sociates back in Boston, Gillette has reported vast and untamed areas of whiskers ripe for the cutting. Back of Gillette's penchant for travel and for remaking the facial "maps" of the world is a belief that the countries in which travel is traditionally difficult and dangerous are those in which whiskers still run wild. The surest method of insuring in-suring safety to the visitor, he contends, con-tends, is to bring the natives out from behind their bearded barricades. barri-cades. Hw to do this, however, has I w K-vfUr) r - m. ,! 15 vsr f t tsf - iVM . X V Jn I V4V1 If W ' - ; . :ry u ; v i s Kind C.Gillette, J tVfw a as all shavers know him ' 1 . ed . . , f sin " Q'Hette.asheistodayj s " V 'V 1 V 'JjX JtJ i Mrs - r-r- . tV i f 4. V I ' Can - t - ' -J H j i . -Jv i Rus v ' a r - i Bon t ' wfeaii-x '6uK: Ple8 1 GlllfittS. Mrs fill lf,. find Pn.nrlQ in ram CHi ,rt- r.u heretofore been a puzzling question. But Gillette has the answer. "Safety," he says, ""begets safety." The safety razor, therefore, which cannot conveniently be convt-'.ted into an implement for carving, lib submits, solves the problem. As an index to how thoroughly this doctrine of "safety" is mow!' i down barbariRn beards, Gillette f b , eclved as a birthday message prej cablegram Informing him that 2 p. to Jan. l, 1930, a total of 5.31S," char P76 blades had beon turned out f M his Tactory, But still lie ed Poul new beards to conquer! Iv; slste Fl( and |