The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-09-03
WOOL MEN ENDORSE
'TRUTH--|N--FABR|C.' =
BILL OF CONGRESSMAN FRENCH
WILL SAVE WOOL INDUSTRY
IF PASSED SOON.

Chicago-That there are more thai
4,000,000,000 pounds of virgin NEW
S wool in the worlds storehouses, OF
soon will be, awaiting manufacture
that the textile mills of the United
States used 113,000,000 fewer pounds
: of virgin wool last year than in 1915
, and that the drop will be greater this
year were some of the statements
which Alexander Walker made today
: in his annual address as president Of
j the National Sheep and Wool Bureau
of America, whose headquarters is al
No. % jackson Boulevard.
Today's conference was the most
important annual meeting in the his
tory of the Bureau. The National
Sheep and Wool Bureau of America
is an organization of firms and or
CARNATIONS interested in the sheep
and wool industry in every part of the
United States. For a year, it has
been engaged in getting the people of
the country together behind the
French Capper Truth-in-F bill,
which was left in the hands of the
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee of both branches of Con-
gress at adjournment. If enacted,
!
facturers to stamp every yard of their
doth entering interstate commerce
with its content Of virgin wool and of
wool substitutes, the chief of which
| is shoddy-old rags, re-worked in
some cases as often as eight times.
I Textile manufacturers consider the
measure as revolutionary as the Pure
Food law, which was fought by the
,rtaroc+e, for +,uav,tuciv uaorc
eff the French-Capper Truth-in-
Fabric bill is not passed quickly so
as to open the eyes of the public to
the fact that the textile manufac-
turers are meeting their demand for
virgin wool with re-worked rags"
said Byron Wilson, secretary of the
Wyoming Wool Growers Association,
one of the best informed wool men
west of the Mississippi rever, there |
will soon be no wool grown in the |
United States to supply their demand |
and no sheep for food purposes either.
Sheep men cannot continue to grow
sheep, if the textile manufacturers
will not buy their wool at living
profit"
His remarks were strongly second
ed by j. F. Walker, president of the
Fleece Wool States Association and
chairman of the Wool Committee of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. He continued:
II doubt if the manufacturers are
allowing the people of the United
States three pounds of virgin wool
per capita this year. They need
,welve pounds per capita. | remem-
DER a short time ago visiting certain
WOODEN mill. There wasn't pound |
# virgin wool on the premises
lothing but shoddy. They were turn
ng out wooden blankets of straight
hoddy, which should not have retail
ID for more than SIS pair. When
returned to Chicago, I found these
lankets selling at the leading depart
nent stores for $45 pear. A COM :
etitor had a special sale of the
lankets for $3.50 pair"
George M. WILDER, executive COM
nitteeman of the Ohio Sheep and
WOOL Growers Association, gave it as
is opinion that the sheep industry of
lmerica could only be saved by the
roducers and the consumers getting
,gether. He said:
1.-THE people want virgin wool cloth
nd they receive re-wOrked rag cloth |
.om the textile manufacturers in its /
cad. The textile manufacturers can
AXE more money by using re-work-
! rags in their all wool cloth than
ley could by buying virgin wool
ON the sheep men at fair price
Id using that. | saw an announce
ent the other day that a steamer
I'd arrived with 1,700 tons of rags
ON Antwerp and 425 bales of rags
ID cuttings from Germany for the |
merican shoddy mills. I wonder
w our people would feel, if they
lew that they were being clothed in
worked German rags ?"
President Walker said in his adj ]
ess that the unsold British Gov
lment's Colonial woods amount to
:, 777,280 pounds and the stored
'ol in this country, to All ,031 SAT
unds. These amounts are exclu- :
e Of the 1920 clip, which the British =
vernment experts estimate at RG
100000 pounds. The American n
ring clip has amounted to about rs
100000 pounds. These figures do III
!. include reserve supplies in varions N
IT'S fthe world, such as South rs
RIGA and South America. He point III
out that though wool is accumu- E[l
ing in the store houses, the world VS.
duces less than third Of the vir- kJEi
wool it needs annually. He esti- Sll
ted that the wool growers of the l956
tied States lost s75,000,000 in the NG
p of 25c pound in the price of ny
: wool early this summer. S1
III the officers and the members lG
he Executive Committee and Gov ny
ing Board of the Bureau were re- STl
elected at the meeting and j. R. UE
ward, president of the American hi4g
m Bureau Federation, was added S0
the list of Governors. The Off Q5
5 for the coming year are: Pres F14
It, Alexander Walker, Vice-pres- El
It of Strong, Hewat & Co., Inc, uE7
Z York City; Vica-president, F. S. eE s