The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-17
Alabama Wool Growers
 Ask "7ruth m Fabric Bill
Will Urge Legislature to Require Sellers of Cloth Mark Product With Percentage of Wool Contained.
 Beeler Tells Objects of Legislation

that the Alabama Wool and Sheep Growers association are asking the legislature to pass so that it will help the wool growers of the state to market their raw wool to a bet ter advantage, so that the consump- ton will be greater and, at the same time. give the consumer and the buy ing public fair chance to get what they buy and pay for.
 Doesn't this sound reasonable, that when 8 man goes in to buy suit of colthes he Is entitled to have the goods marked what they really are, and not have to put up his unreliable judgment against willy dealer whose business it is to sell his goods, which he has bought at a bargain sale. but Is selling as first-class goods?
 Mir. Consuming Public! Is 1t not reasonable that you be protected when you go to your merchant and buy: that you should have an even break for your money. instead of having the manufacturer stack the cards on you before the merchant even gets crack at you?
 Advantage to Merchant
 MT. Merchant, you will certainly see that by having your goods prop erly marked, so that the buyer can come to you in confidence, you will have a much better trade, and that such method will eliminate the willy and crooked merchant from your competition. There is no question but that this Is matter of vital im- portance to every one concerned, and especially the consuming public. who have the bills to pay and who have the service of the article to look for ward to.
 It Is fact that there Is only about Si0 worth of raw wool, at 50 cents a pound in the grease, used In the making of enough wool cloth to make sn sS0 suit of clothes. Now when you do not even get that real wool, where Is the profit in such deal7
 This Is not a fancy, for please re- member the 100000 club women in the state of Ohio who started this Truth in Fabric" several years ago, and the outcome of 1t is the French Caprer Truth in Fabric" bill now before the United States legislature waiting for passage. and 1t Is of vital interest for every citizen that has to buy clothes. and especially those who wish to buy wooden clothes, that this federal Legislation is passed and made a law.
 There is, aud will be, a great deal of opposition in case we pass the present bill in the next legislature of Alabama, for the manufacturers as- sociations, or some of them, are really powerful in politics, and they are fighting for their lives in an effort to keep this same French Capper bill from ultimate passage. They fought just as hard when the pure food laws were up for passage, and they have fought about every thing that has been brought about to enlighten the public on every sub ject since time started, so it is net fatal for the old clothes dealers to have to discard their practices and put virgin wool into cloths that are being sold for virgin wool. Such names as "all wool" pure wool" and other similar names, count for notn- ing according to national investi- gations that have been going on in tie tangle between the National Wool and Sheep bureau and certain cloth manufacturing associations, and in the fight over the French -Capper biii. They can take any old garbage can clothes and make them over into cloth and call them pure wool or any thing else they want to. and 1t Is not supposed to have any real meaning in law, but the buying public think when it is so advertised as 'all wool, 1t must certainly be fact. lssrs1
 Hence, it is up to the public, to make it compulsory for all makers Of cloth to mark the percentage of wool in all wool-containing cloths.