Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-15
FRENCH CAPPER
BILL IS GIVEN
STRONG SUPPORT
Proposed Measure Would
Compel Fabric ManufaC-
turerS to Stamp Their
Cloth Showing Contents.


washington, June IA. - The
French-Capper truth in fabric bill.
which proposes to compel fabric
manufacturers to stamp their cloth
with Its contents of virgin wool
and Of shoddy, received the sup
port of practically every important
farm and STOCK organization Of
America while under consideration
by the Interstate Commerce COM
mittee Of the senate. Among the
witnesses also were representatives
Of the merchant tailors and the
dyers and cleaners Of the nation.
Men and women in nearly every
walk of life were represented by
spokesmen, who urged the speedy
-actment of the measure.
Following the hearings, q state
ment was prepared for presenta-
ton to President Harding, briefly
explaining the issue. This was
signed by representatives Of the
American Farm Bureau Fedora
lion, the National Grange, the Ma
tional Board Of Farm organiza-
lions, the National Sheep and Wool
Bureau Of America, the Interna-
1Onal Association of Dyers and
Cleaners, the National Association
Of Merchant Tailors of America,
The Wyoming Wool Growers asso-
citation, the Ohio Sheep and Wool
Growers association, the South
Dakota Sheep and Wool Growers
association, tho Davenport Gowa)
Women's club, the Tri-State Wool
Growers association, the Washing-'
ton County (Pa.) Farm bureau,
he Washington County Pomona
Grange, the Washington County
Wool Growers association, the
American Delaine Record assocla-
ton, the New York State Fedora
ton of County sheep Growers Co.
operative associations, Inc, the
Chicago Literary Score, the Amer
can Rambouillet association, the
Union County (Ohio) Wool Grow
ers' association, and the Maryland
Sheep Growers association. The
names of upwards of 25O other Or
CARNATIONS which have endorsed
he bill were appended. The state
ment read:
your attention is invited to the
TACT that virgin wool is counter
tetted by substitutes in cloth and
clothes. COunterfeiting is in all
eases an intolerable wrong and in
9frect opposition to the policy OF
bur government to prevent fraud
and deception. The wrong and the
menace that result from counter
letting virgin wool are greater than
N the case Of other counterfeiting
FOR the reason that the counter |
letting of virgin wool takes advan-
!age of the peoples misunder-
standing of the terms, all wool |
and pure WOOL which the people |
believe can mean only virgin wool; |
but which may include all grades |
Of substitutes even the most in
'erior.
1.-THE counterfeiting Of virgin
wool by substitutes not only infliCts
yrievous wrong upon the consum-
Ing public and deprives the dis
ributors and consumers of wool I
'abrics of their right to know the !
exact contents of their purchases; |
put will, if continued, inevitably |
Destroy sheep husbandry, an es-
Jential industry. Three things are |
imperative in order to right the |
wrong which results from substi-
iutes' counterfeiting virgin wool; !
|. the compulsory stamping of |
wool cloth; 2. the compulsory |
Identification Of substitutes; 8. the !
designation in precise and unmis- |
taxable terms of both substitutes
md virgin wool.
1.-THE French-Capper truth in
'abric bill, known in the senate as
J. 100, and in the house of repre-
yentatives as II, r. 46, makes 1t
compulsory to stamp wool cloth,
10 identify substitutes and to des-
gnate both substitutes and virgin
rooI in precise and unmistakable
Ierms and would put stop to sub