The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-25
WO0LGROWES ARE
LOYAL TO NATION
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS PLEDoINo
FEAlTY TO CONSTITUTION AND
WAR AGAINST REDS.
Protest Against Dumping Of Foreign
Woods Into American market and
Favor Legislation Aiding Elk.
pertinent Stations.

ing almost every phase Of the wool
producing industry and the election
Of officers to serve for the current
year. the National WOolgrOwers' as
ISOLATION brought to a close its fifty
fifth annual convention on january
p, following three-day session.
Frank ]. Hagenbarth Of Idaho and
Salt Lake, was reelected president;
M. ]. Powers of Flagstaff, Arizona,
was named western vice president;
Professor w. c. COffey Of the Univer-
sity of Illinois, was chosen as east
ern vice president. The executive com
mittee's selection of DIR. +. Il. Mar
SHALL assistant animal husbandman.
Washington, D. c., as secretary Of the
association, to succeed DR.. s. w. Nc
Clure, resigned after nine years Of
service, was announced by President
Hagenbarth and unanimously ap-
proved.
The convention throughout was
we'll attended and the various subjects
presented were generally and inten-
sively discussed, the officers prOnOunc-
ing 1t the most successful meeting
in the history of the organization.
cist Of Resolutions.
In brief, the resolutions passed OPP
pose the creation of parks or game
preserves at the expense Of grazing
areas; urge congress to appropriate
the funds requested for the work Of
the U. S. sheep experiment station;
petition for legislation to bar all aliens
from using the public domain; re-
quest additional funds for improving
range conditions in the national for
eSts; asks the forest service to pro-
vide spring range for cattle that will
not trespass upon the sheep ranges;
ask for compensation for men in for
est service, sufficient to secure COM
petent men; cOmmends the activities
of the federal government in arrest
ing and depOrting undesirable aliens,
and pledges the loyalty Of the assO-
citation in support of this work; pro-
tests against agitation against the
packers and the enactment of the So
called TX. 4 X. bills; stands for
league of nations and peace treaty
with reservations that will uphold the
American constitution; asks for a
western member Of the interstate COM
merce commission; protests against
the dumping" of foreign woods into
the American market; urges passage
of legislation requiring manufacture
ers of wooden cloth to mark the per
cent of virgin wool; condemns the
policy Of contracting wool in advance
of shearing and favors sale by con-
signment and on commission; urges
sheepmen to employ private trappers
to aid in determination of the coy
Otes; commends the attitude Of the
against affiliatiOn with promoters rec
Ommends that unullOtted lands in
western states be placed under charge
of the department of agriculture; re-
quests cooperation of the department
of agriculture In the Eat More Lamb"
campaign; recommends an educational
campaign to teach the Importance Of
the sheep industry; asks for addi
tiOnal government funds for the fight
against scabies; designates the Pacific
International Livestock show as the
official sheep show of the Organiza-
ton; extends thanks to western rail-
roads who gave low freight rates for
moving stock and carrying food in
times Of emergency; thanks the secre-
tary of agriculture, the secretary Of
the interior and their associates for
their endeavOrs and cooperation
thanks all who helped make the pro-
gram and the convention Il success.
Pleads for Virgin Wool.
| A strong plea for the enactment Of
such legislation as would force the
fabric manufacturers to so stamp their
product as to make known the per
cent Of virgin wool and the per cent
Of shoddy and other materials, was the
feature Of the closing session. This
address was delivered by Alexander
Walker of New York City, president
Of the National Sheep and Wool bu-
reau. Mr.. Walkers contention was
that sheepmen We're being defruuded
of their just returns from their pro-
duet because of the regular and per-
sistent use of shoddy in the munufac-
ure of ''all-wOOl" cloth; the public,
he said. being steadily and uniformly
deceived by the refusal of the cloth
makers to use the term virgin wool, "
which could have but one meaning
wool that had not heretofore been
used in the manufacture of cloth.