Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — MAN AND STARCHED COLLARS [ARTICLE]

MAN AND STARCHED COLLARS

Movement to Abolish “Palladium of Respectability” Calls Forth a Strong Protest. The papers report that a league has been formed to "emancipate man from the starched collar.” Nonsense! Man does not need any such emancipation, except on some extra hot days in summer, and then he emancipates himself. There is more moral support, more re-enforcement of character, In a starched collar than can be had in any other form for the same money. The starched collar is the badge of European civilization. Asia never developed It. Neither did Africa. The Chinese have had civilization tor L.OOO years, but no starched collar. Where Is their civilization now? It has gone to the laundry. The Hindus are kind to animals and a thoughtful people, but they have never taken to starched collars. Where are they now? Trying to land lit British Columbia, trying to stay in South Africa and befog shooed away by collar wearers. The Persians are on the run. The Japanese, the liveliest people in Asia, when they accepted western civilization, accepted starched dollars Vith both hands. The American negroes wear the tallest and stiffest collars to be had. There'll hope for them. The starched collar is the palladium of respectability, It is the token of victory over self. Talk about abolishing it is both. Abolish trousers if necessary; nations have become great without them; but stick to the collar and stick to the'March. —Life.