The Holbrook news., 1921-04-08
WANT SHODDY WOOL
 CLOTHING MARKED PLAIN

EThough the original Truth in Fab
 ric bill, which was designed to compel
 textile manufacturers to stamp theil
 clothing with it's content of virgin
 wool and of shoddy, ceased to exist when the last congress adjourned; l
 wish to assure the friends and foes of
 the measure that it's advocates have
 only just begun to fight"
 This statement was made today by
 Howard E. Green, secretary of the
 National Sheep and Wool Bureau of
 America, No. 23 East Jackson boule- yard, Chicago. The bureau has been
 acting as the leader of the truth in fabric campaign. MT. Greene con- tinued:
 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.
 'It is scarcely 15 months since the, original Truth in Fabric bill was in troduced into congress. Aided by their knowledge of the pure food law, the people of the nation were prepared to understand the need of the compul sorry labelling of cloth and this ac- counts for the hold which the truth in fabric issue has already secured.
 "On the eve of it's re-introduction, the Truth in Fabric bill has the in- dorsement of at least 250 organiza- tions, many of them national in. scope, with memberships aggregating mil lions. They include practically every farm and stock organization in the land, dozens of chambers of com merce, civic, social, labor and wo- mems 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 bill, are before a dozen state legislatures.
 "The big job which the truth in fabric campaigners had before them 15 months ago was to knock out of the popular vocabulary the fraudulent term 'all wool and to replace it by the new term virgin wool All wool means either new wool or it means shoddy-old rags, re-worked in some cases as often as eight times. No buyer can tell which it means at any specified time. Virgin wool means wool straight from the sheep's back and nothing else. The substitution of terms has been achieved to a remark able degree, largely through the gener- ous aid of the newspapers and period icals.
 "The demand for virgin wool gar ments is already having marked eff feet in textile manufacturing circles; even though the textile manufacturers are still mainly antagonistic and are fighting tooth and nail to slave 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 legisla- tion either in congress or in the state legislatures. You, though only a few thousand and strong, to conserve your own selfish financial interests, are op- posing the interests of the nations 11O,OOO,O0O clothing -wearers. But these millions are becoming wide awake to the fact that, for 20 years, you have defrauded them by fausely designating your cloth and their pro- tests will increase until they compel the labelling of cloth"