The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-10-02
THE VERY LAST STRAW

Reforms and fads are going entirely
too far. Nowadays We can't get a
drink Of water unless We happen to
carry a dipper or a tin can about with
us, and We can't get our rations of
booze without sneaking around like
thieves in the night. We are warn
ed against kissing because of the pos
sibility of germ infection, and there
are inspectors around all the time to
see that the milkman Uses pure water.
Faddists are making a terrible noise
about women's clothes. or the lack of
them, and even went so far not long
ago as to pass a law limiting the
length of hatpins to four feet. A nan
is not now allowed to sleep under the
length of bedsheet he might prefer,
and the law even limits his splitting
area. After awhile 1t will be a mis-
deameanor for a man to get mad just
because the Chinese cook insists on
putting library paste over everything
served. The latest attempted invasion
of personal privilege and ~inalienable
right comes in the demand that the
time-honored roller towel be done
away with. 1t is said that the roller
towel, not ~infrequently used with
pleasure by some thirty or forty peo-
pie, offers probability of germ infec-
ton. This is the limit, and then some.
If a man cannot wipe his face where
ever and whenever he wants to, and
on whatever he wants to, he might as
well throw up the sponge and quit
business right now. AS for the old
roller towel, 1t has a glorious record
and a time-honored history. No man
can prove that 1t v e resulted in the
death Of anyone, and we deny the pos
sibility of anyone being able to name
a hospital filed with roller towel pa
tients. Anyone who has ever used a
roller towel knows that, instead of be-
ing filled with germs 1t Is absolutely
germ proof. A germ deposited on a
roller towel has as much chance Of
surviving long enough to crawl onto
another wiper as the %proverbal
ball has of wi~thstanding the heat of
that region from which no wicked man
has yet returned to make a report.
The roller towel that has consistent
usage has qualities so much stronger
than a germ, or a bunch of germs, that
leprosy has been cured by contact.
Small pox and erysipelas, which is
easily transformed by the family
towel, some OF the faddists say, easily
succumbs to the strength Of the roller
towel. Scientific dissection OF this old
friend Of the tired housewife, and
enemy OF the laundry trust, proves
that it is not only a germ destroyer
but a self-cleanser, so far as germs are
concerned. BY constantly presenting
a smooth, CLASSY surface. the germs.
once stricken unto death, can find no
sticking place. Get rid OF the family
towel, the good old roller towel. and
substitute the personal towel, merely
because dude doctors" and finicky
old maids with manicured nails talk
about germ infection? Perish the
thought! It's treason to suggest It!
II we give up to any more Of these
crazy fads, upstarts will pass q law
making it a crime to blow our coffee
when its too hot, and q hanging mat
ter to eat peas with a knife. We are
with those who would preserve their
inalienable rights and the old family
towel, the boarding house towel, the
towel that is bomb-proof, which hangs
on the wall.-Corvallis. Oregon, Gaz-