The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-04-29
NAKER0AD DRAG.
cling STYLISH
Make the use Of the Road Drag Fash.
ionsble Instead Of Compelling
Farmers by Law.
MASSES LED THROUGH FASHION
Business Men Of Some Towns are Try
ing the Fashion" Stunt With
Some Success.

1t Is curious how women, and mel
also. like to follow fashions Ii the
fashion leaders in Paris decree poke
bonnets, poke bonnets it is; II hoop
skirts, hoop skirts it must be, even II
the street cars are compelled to widen
the doors and spread out the seats,
If hobble skirts are the fashion. they
must lower the steps, or else the skirt
must be slit to give a little swing to
the limbs. If fashion DEGREES, as at
present. form.revealing clothes, then
woe to the makers Of women's skirts
and petticoats, who must either dis.
miss hands or close down altogether.
Men are not different from women
in this, however much they may de-
ride woman for her bondage to fash.
ion. If it becomes fashionable for
ShOrthorns to wear red hair eXclus-
lively. woe to the whites and roans.
If swirl becomes fashionable In Du-
roc Jersey pigs, away to the slaughter
house with every animal. however
good, whose hair turns the wrong way
on any part of the carcass. II black
with white points becomes fashion
able with Poland Chinas. away to the
slaughter house with even the ideal
pig. II the white is in the wrong place.
Why not. while poking fun at the
vanity of our fellow mortals, utilize
them for good things as we'll as things
doubtful or perhaps evil? Why not
make the Use of the road drag fash
ionable, instead of vainly endeavoring
to compel farmers by law to drag the
roads? Can't We see that people as a
whole will not go into anything with
zest and vim and In a whole-hearted
way. unless 1t is or is likely to become
fashionable? A man here and there
will even make sacrifices for thing
or movement that seems to him to
be right. but the masses have to be
led through fashion. Only make 1t
80 into 1t of their own accord.
The road drag is the best tool for
road maintenance that was ever In
vented. Its defect is that it is. too
cheap. too easily made, is not painted
is not good locker and is not sold at
a high price. If used right. however,
it will do more to fill UP ruts and
holes, allow the water to run off, and
let the wind and sun dry it off: and
will do it at less cost than any other
tool for road maintenance that was
ever invented. g.
Why not make it's use fashionable ?
That is just what the business men
of some towns are trying to do,P by
offering prizes and giving dinners and
thus giving the farmers a good time
while doing a good thing for both the
farmers and the townsmen. We hope
every town in the state Of Iowa. and
all over the corn belt states. will join
in this effort to make road dragging
fashionable, SO fashionable that the
man with an undragged road along
his farm will feel as foolish and con
spicuous as woman would feel to
day in a poke bonnet and hoop skirt
The schools should take it up. as
the Iowa highway commission sug
gests. The boys who have to write
essays at school are often at a loss tc
know what to write about Write
about the read drag. Tell how to
make one Make one yourself. De
scribe the road before and after drag
ging. If you have camera, take pic,
lures OF the road before and after