The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-15
TRUTH-|N-FABR|C'
GETS MORE SUPPORT
MEASURE INTRODUCED BY CON-
GRESHAM FRENCH AND SEN
ATOR CAPPER POPULAR.

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Washington (Special) The French
Capper th-in-Fabric bill, which
proposes to compel fabric manufac-
turers to stamp their cloth with its
contents of virgin wool and of shoddy,
received the support of practically
every important farm and stock or
ganization Of America while under
consideration by the Interstate Com
merce Committee of the Senate.
Among the witnesses also were rep
resentatives 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
enactment of the measure. Follow
ing the hearings, statement was
prepared for presentation to Presi-
dent Harding, briefly explaining the
issue. This was signed by represen-
tatives Of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, the National Grange, the
National Board of Farm Organiza-
tfons, the National Sheep and Wnnl
Bureau of America the international
Association of Dyers and Cleaners,
the National Association of Merchant
Tailors Of America, the Wyoming
Wool Growers Association, the Ohio
Sheep and Wool Growers Association,
the South Dakota Sheep and Wool
Growers Association, the Davenport
Qowa) Women's Club, the Tri-State
Wool Growers Association, the
Washington County (Pa.) Farm
Bureau, the Washington County Po-
mona Grange, the Washington County
Wool Growers Association, the
American Delaine Record Association,
the New York State Federation of
County Sheep Growers Cooperative
Associations, Inc, the Chicago Liter |
ary Score, the American Ramboullet
Association, the Union County (Ohio) I
Wool Growers Association and the .
Maryland Sheep Growers Associa-
ton. The names of upwards of $50
other organizations which have en-
dorsed the bill were appended. The /
statement read:
"Your attention is invited to the
fact that virgin wool is counterfeited
by substitutes in cloth and clothes.
Counterfeiting is in all cases an in
tolerable wrong and in direct opposi-
tion to the policy of our Government
TO prevent fraud and deception. The
wrong and the menace that result
from counterfeiting, for the reason
hat the counterfeiting of virgin wool
,akes advantage of the peoples mis-
of the terms, all wool
and pure WOOL which the people be-
ieve can mean only virgin wool; but
which may include all grades of sub
'titutes, even the most inferior. The
.ounterfeiting of virgin wool by sub
;titutes not only inflicts grievous
wrong upon the consuming public
ind deprives the distributors and con-
umers Of wool fabrics of their right
% know the exact contents of their
but will, if continued, in
,vitably destroy sheep husbandry, an
essential industry Three things are
in order to right the
wrong which results from substitutes
virgin wool:
l. The compulsory stamping of
WOOL cloth.
2. The compulsory Identification
f substitutes.
8. The designation in precise and
terms of both substi-
utes and virgin wool. The French
,apper Truth-in- Fabric bill, known In
he Senate as S. 799 and, in the House
f. Representatives, as H. r. 64, makes
compulsory to stamp wool cloth, to
1entify substitutes and to designate
9th substitutes and virgin wool in
recise and unmistakable terms and
7ould put stop to substitutes coun-
virgin wool. You are, !
therefore,, earnestly requested by the
rganizations and representatives /,
those signatures are here appended
0 exercise every proper influence
yithin your power to accomplish I
peedy enactment of the French I
'apper Truth-in-Fabric bi1l.''