The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
THE OVERALL FAD.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Ihere Is
simpler and equally effective way that
is more sensible than the overall idea
4 If you feel called on TO enter the cam
Ipaign against the cost of wearing ap-
parel, get out your old clothes DOM
gorge the overall market SO that the
man vino builds your home, digs your
bitches, sweeps your streets, saws
your wood, hauls your coal, delivers
your milk, and SO on, will have TO pay
two or three prices for one suit oil Diue
denims. . If you don oyerans
to betoken your protest against nign
prices, you should work like real
wearer of overalls and further combat
high prices by increasing productlon-
1T is slack production that is doing
the most damage, proppiEg prices the
highest. The man who wears denim
Just for the sake OF Saying ne is
wearing it, and not for the sake OF
doing hard work, merely makes laugh
ing stock of himself. Especially II
he has closet full Of old clothes,
and chances are he has.
Muscatine Journal: America has
taken up the overall" craze IN the
typical American way. 1t proposes
to make a fad of it, and fads always
become expensive While the pur-
pose of the movement is to bring
down the price of clothing, 1t mas al
ready brought forth a protest from la
Dor circles. The man who is forced
to wear overalls at his work Will not
take kindly to the increase in price
which VIII result from this greatly in
creased demand for this raiment-
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
man who invented the overall theory
is not going to be acclaimed the solv-
er of all our mundane troubles. Inc
man who will invent theory By which
the club rooms and pool halls can De
ernptied during the working hours OF
the day will go much further on the
way to success and glory.
Burlington Gazette: 1he Gazette
agrees with Mr.. Doughty of the
Schramn & Schmieg company, that
the indiscriminate wearing OF over
alIs with the ostensible object of cut
ting down the high price of more con-
venional clothing is a passing fad. In
the first place, but small proportion
of the people can be interested IN this
matter But there are enough OF them
to create an excess demand Tor the
dungarees which will cause an IN
crease in the price to workmen who
find it necessary to wear overalls, thus
adding to the cost of living and defeat
ing the object OF the crusade at the
outset.
philadelphia Public Ledge: Those
who propose to cure the "high cost
OF living" by wearing overalls are
"pikers.'' They can only pin-pick
the enemy that way.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: II seems
that everything that comes UP OF late,
must be carried to ridiculous ex-
tremes. AS if the jazz craze had pos
se5sed the nation for years. The last
thing is wearing overalls as protest
q gainst the high cost of living. NOW,
the idea was not bad. 1t might have
created an impression. 1t might
have called attention to the fact that
the public was aroused 1t might
have been taken as warning. But
Immediately it had to degenerate into
a fad. And the only result was that
when everybody began wearing over
ais, the price of the garments was
kited 200 to 500 per cent. And the
people who do not need overalls
brought about something that works
added hardship to those who wear
oyeralls. And they did not benefit
but the profiteers whom thes
were supposed to be fighting.
Davenport Democrat: The silliest
fad that we have seen suggested for
a long time is that of wearing over
al1s in order to reduce the price of
other clothes. Overalls are made to
work in, and anyone who wants to
work in them is privileged to. But
TO wear them to parade in is not only
to make oneself conspicuous and lu-
dicrous, but to contribute quite GER
tainly to the high costs of the day.
Nothing is more likely than that the
average overall faddist would hang up
a perfectly good pair OF overalls be-
fore they had seen half dozen days ,
wear, and never wear them again. /
The result would simply be that over
alls would become scarce and high, to
the loss of the man who needs them,
while the good clothes of the man
who didn't need them would be no
cheaper.
Davenport Times The protest Of !
the Steffen Overall company, against
the movement to substitute overalls
for business clothing, which appeared