The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-02
TRUTH-|N.FABR|C
B|LLl|S NOT DEAD
CONGRESSMAN FRENCH AND sen.
ATOR CAPPER PLAN TO RE-
INTRODUCE THE BILL

Chicago Especial to The Star-Mir-
ror) Though the original Truth In
Fabric bill, which was designed to
campel textile manufacturers TO
stamp their cloth with its content OF
virgin wool and of shoddy, ceased to
exist when the last congress adjourn
ed; | wish to assure the friends and
foes of the measure that it's advo-
Gates have only just begun to fight"
| This statement was made today by
| Howard E. Greene, secretary OF the
National Sheep and Wool Bureau Of
America, No. 23 East Jackson boule-
ward, Chicago. The bureau has been
acting as the leader of the Truth in
Fabric campaign Mr. Green contin
ued:
Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas,
and Representative Burton l.. French,
of Idaho, have made all arrangements
to re-introduce the Truth in Fabric
bill Immediately after congress as
sembles and both are determined to
use their utmost ability to force the
measure through before the session
ends.
1T is scarcely 15 months since the
original Truth in Fabric bill was in
troduced into congress. Aided ny
their knowledge of the Pure Food Law
the people of the nation were prepar-
ed to understand the need for the
compulsory labelling of cloth and this
accounts for the hold which the Truth
in Fabric issue has already secured.
ION the eve of it's re-introductiOn, !
the Truth in Fabric bill has the in
dorsement of at least $50 Organiza- |
tIons, many of them national in scope,
with memberships aggregatlng mil
lions. They include practically every /
farm and stock organization in the
land, dozens of chambers of COM
merce, civic, social, labor and Wom-
ems clubs and associations and, last
but not least, five state legislatures.
Wyoming, Americas greatest wool
state and the state which first passed
a Pure Food Law, has been the first
to pass Truth in Fabric law. This
goes into effect in June Similar
measures, based on the national pill,
are before dozen state legislatures.
''The big job which the Truth In
Fabric campaigners had before them
Is months ago was to knock out of
the popular vocabulary the fraudu-
lent term, all WOOL, and to replace
it by the new term, virgin WOOL All
wool means either new wool or 1t
means shOddy-old rags, re-worked
in some cases as often as times No
buyer can tell which it means at any
specific time. Virgin wool means
wool straight from the sleeps back
and nothing else. The substitution of :
terms has been achieved to a remark
able degree, largely through the gem
erous aid of the newspapers and peri
odicals
S'The demand for virgin wool gar
ments is already having marked eff
even though the textile manufactur- !
ers are still mainly antagonistic and
are fighting tooth and nail to stave ,
off Truth in Fabric legislation To ,
our foes, the National Sheep and
Wool Bureau of America, as the lead
ar of the Truth in Fabric movement,
gives this warning: until a national
Truth in Fabric law is enacted, there
will be no let-up in the fight for such
legislation either in congress or in
he state legislatures. You, though !,
only few thousand strong, to con- ,
serve your own selfish financial in
erests, are opposing the interests of {
he nations 11O,OO0,0O0 clothing
wearers. But these millions are be-
coming wide awake to the fact that,
or 20 years, you have defrauded them
)y falsely designating your cloth and
heir protests will increase until they
'ompel the labelling of cloth"