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 Chicago, Sept. 4.-That there are more than 100000, ,0OO pounds of vir- gin (new) wool in the worlds store houses, or will soon be, awaiting man. ufacture, that the textile manufac- turers of the United States used 113,- 0,000 fewer pounds of virgin wool last year than in 1918 and that the drop will probably be greater this year were some of the statements which Alexander Walker made today in his annual address as president of the National Sheep and Wool Bureau of America, whose headquarters is at No. g East Jackson Boulevard.
 To-day'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 organizations and firms 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 Fabric bill, which was left in the hands of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committees of both houses of Con- gress at adjournment. If enacted, it would compel textile manufacturers to stamp every yard of their cloth entering interstate commerce with it's 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. Tex tile manufacturers consider the meas ure as revolutionary as the Pure Food Law, which was fought by the inter ests for twenty-six years.
 eff the French -Capper Trust in Fabric bill is not passed quickly, so as to open the eyes of the public to the fact that the textile manufactur- CTS are meeting their demands for vir- gin wool cloth with re-worked rags. there will soon be no wool grown in the United States to supply their de- mand and no sheep and mutton either. Sheep men cannot continue to grow sheep, if the textile manufacturers will not buy their wool at a living profit"
 This declaration was made by By ron Wilson, secretary of the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, one of the best informed wool growers west of the Mississippi. t. :.
 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 tion.
 q doubt if the manufacturers are allowing the people of the United States three pounds of virgin wool per capita this year," he said. M re- member a short time ago visiting a certain woolen mill. There wasn't 8 pound of virgin wool on the premises. They were turning out woolen blank cts of straight shoddy, which should not have retailed for more than $15 g pair. When got back here to Chi cago, I found those blankets selling as 'all wool in the leading high-class department store and the price mark on,them was $45 a pair. A competi- tor had sale of these blankets for $39.50." f.
 George M. Wilber, Executive Com mitteeman of the Ohio Sheep and Wool Growers Association, gave it as his opinion that the sheep and wool industry of America can only be saved by the producers and the consumers getting together.
 "The people want virgin wool cloth and the sheep men have the virgin wool" he said. "The textile manu- lecturers, in order to make greater profits, are giving the people re-work- ed rags in their 'all wool cloth in- stead of buying sheep mems wool. I saw an announcement the other day that steamer had arrived with 1,700 tons of rags from Antwerp and 525 bales of rags and cuttings from Ger many for the American Shoddy mills. wonder how our people would feel, if they knew they were being clothed in re-worked German rags"
 Alexander Walker, in his annual address, said that the unsold British Government Colonial woolens amount to 929,777 ,2SO pounds and the stored wool in this country, to 431 ,031, ,547 pounds. The British Government ex- perts estimate the 1920 wool clip at 2,700, 900 900 pounds. The clip in the United States alone amounts to about 265,0O0,000. These figures do not in clude reserve supplies in various parts of the world, such as South Africa and South America. Though wool is accomplishing, the world produces less, than one-third of the wool it needs annually. He estimated that the wool growers had lost $75, O,0OO in