The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-09-09
new MEASURE
HELP WOOL
PROBLEM
Manufacturers are Shipping
Rags" From Germany;
Wool Being Stored.

Chicago, Sept 2.-That there are
more than 100000 900 pounds of vir-
gin new wool in the worlds store
houses, or soon will be, awaiting man
ufacture. that the textile mills Of the |
United States used 113,000,000 fewer |
pounds of virgin wool last year than
/ in 1918 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 the National Sheen and
Wool Bureau of America, whose head
quarters is at No. % East Jackson
boulevard
Todays conference was the most i'm
portant annual meeting in the history
of the bureau. The National Sheep
and Wool Bureau of America is an or
ganization of firms and organizations
interested in the sheep and wool m
dustry in every part OF the United
States For a year it as been engaged
in getting the people of the country 10
gether behind the FrencGCapper
Truth in Fabric bill, which was let III
the hands of the interstate and for
eign commerce committees If BOTH
branches Of congress at adjournment
tile manufacturers to stamp every
yard of their cloth entering interstate
commerce with its content of virgin
wool and of wool substitutes, the chlef
| of which 81 shoddy-old rags, rework-
ed in some cases as often as elght
times. Textile manufacturers con-
slider the measure as revolutionary as
the pure food law, which was fought
:, by the interests for twenty-six years
A "If the French-Capper Truth II
Fabric bill is not passed quickly so as
S to open the eyes of the public TO the
face that the textile manufacturer
are meeting their demand Tor vlrgli
:, wool with reworked rags said by
d ron Wilson, secretary of the Wyomil;
: Wool Growers association, one OF tn
! best informed wool men west OF IN
2 Mississippi river, there Will soon d
n no wool grown in the United States I
supply their demand and no sheep 10
food purposes either. Sheep men car
not continue to grow sheep. il the teS
tile manufacturers will not buy thei
wool at a. living profit"
IN His remarks were strongly secoilde
by J. +. Walker, president OF In
r. Fleece Wool States association, an
~ chairman of the wool committee OF II
=, American Farm Bureau federatlo
a. He continued:
=. .I doubt if the manufacturers a.
10 10 allowing the people OF the Onlt'
~ ~, States three pounds of virgin wool l"
IN = capita this year They need twel
y pounds per capita. / remember
no -, Short time age visiting certain WOO
~, en- mill There wasn't a pound OF VI
gin wool on the premises d
-, shoddy. They were turning out wo'
-. en- blankets of straight shoddy, whi
= shoulIl not have retailed for mo
- ~ than S15 pair. When | returned
,o :, Chicago. | found these blankets SELL
- lo at the leading department store !
s, S45 pair A competitor had a 81"
'n ial sale of the blankets for S39.oo
pair" =
George NJ. WILDER. executive co
~ mitteeman of the Ohio Sheep d
ns Wool Growers association. gave II
u his cninion that thu sheep industry
~ ~ America could only be saved by
uo , producers and the consumers Sett'
~ together He said:
'pe "The people want virgin wool cl'
and they receive reworked rag ci'
from he textile manufacturers IN
stead. The textile manufacturers
,rk make more money by using reworl
in rags in their all wool cloth than Il
he could by buying virgin wool from
oad sheen men at a fair price and us
ion that | saw an announcement
icit other day that steamer had arr
i with LEO tons of rags from Antw
and 525 bales of rags and cucl