Arizona republican., 1921-04-04

the generous aid of the newspapers and periodicals.
 The demand for virgin wool gar ments is already having marked ef- feet in textile manufacturing circles' even though the textile manufactur- CTS 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 leader Of the truth in fabric movement, gives this warning: Until national truth in fabric law is enacted there will be no let up in the fight for such legis- lation, either in congress or in the state legislature"
 That neither an embargo nor a tar if would prove an effective protec- ton for American sheep husbandry without the compulsory labelling of "ail wool" cloth through the enact ment of the French -Capper bill, was the declaration made by Alexander Walker, president of the bureau. in the following statement:
 Our wool growers have to Tear menace even greater than that of for eign wool. It is unidentified shoddy, which is sold as virgin (new1 wool under cover of the terms, all wool and pure wool. While reworked rags are permitted to be sold unidentified as virgin wool. an embargo Or tariff to keep out foreign wool can no more protect our wool growers than can fence to keep out foxes protect flock of chickens, while a colony of weasels are permitted within their inclosure.
 The French Capper truth in fabric bill purposes to force all foreign and domestic fabric manufacturers to stamp their cloth entering our inter state commerce with its content of virgin wool and of shoddy. The un- identified use of shoddy turns the wool growers natural market over to the rag pickers. No industry whose product may be counterfeited unhin- ] dered can long survive. We have no | industry more important than sheep | husbandry. To permit it to be wiped out and to force the United states 1 to depend on foreign countries Tor ner wool supply would both entail an 1 enormous economic loss and place us i in a position of grave peril in time l of war.
 without the use of shoddy, three ! times the amount of virgin wool tha1 | is produced annually would be re- | ouired for the manufacture of tho | cloth that is turned out as all wool.
 or pure wool from year to year. Yet
 though the world produces only 2 lililo Ol tHt Nh fOot PNA
 that it actually needs, even what II
 produced is not used, being crowded ! out by shoddy.
 without the protection that woule be afforded by truth in fabric law
 a tariff on wool cloth would tend t'
 cause foreign fabric manufacturers tt use an increasing amount of shodd. to compensate them for the duty the. would have to pay to get their clott to our markets This, in turn, woulS 1 tend to cause our fabric manufac turers to use an increas sing amour
 of shoddy to enable them to mee
 foreign competition.
 Huge quantities of virgin wool ar lying in the worlds storehouses wait
 ing to be dumped into the Unite
 States. The rate of exchange an our ability to pay place a high pre-
 mium on the dumping here of tn , worlds surplus wool. Further, woo can be produced abroad for a thir
 Of the cost of production here. Eve l though it would cause some tncon venience to manufactur an others, an embargo on wool would b
 justified by the aid it would affor | toward preserving our sheep industr,
 An embargo or emergency tariff r certainly needed to prevent tn r dumping of foreign wool on our mar ] ket until a permanent tariff, ade quate to protect our wool grower I is operative"