Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-16
OLD OFFICERS
REELECTED BY
LAUNDRY MEN
Hear Textile Talk on Closing
Day of Montana
Convention.

By unanimous vote the officers of
the State Laundrymens association in
annual convention here Monday and
| Tuesday. were reelected to office for
the ensuing year. They are Ernest
| Smith. Billings, president: Carl G..
| Nissler, Butte. vice president: George
, Dahler, Great Falls. secretary: Dan
". Hogan. Lewistown. treasurer; and
W. y. Harris, Deer Lodge. sergeant
at arms.
A feature of the afternoon session.
which ended the convention. was a dis
cussion of textiles by Miss Clara
! Pennington Of Aberdeen, S. D.. where
! she is an instructor in the home eco
pomics department of the high school:
| She suggested the Standardization OF
textiles as a means of giving a square
deal to the producer. the consumer
and the luandryman, whom, she said,
is often the loser in handling materials
of inferior quality.
Miss Pennington traced the history
of textiles from the time when
clothing first began to play a part in
the development of the human race,
which she snid was shortly after the
problem Of feeding it became the ques-
history Of textile development has
passed through four stages: the family
stage, the guild, the domestic and the
factory. The textile industry of today
is of such magnitude that it is one
of the largest in the world and en-
ploys more than a million persons in
the United States alone. Mss Elem
irgton stated.
knowledge Is Necessary
The first step in under standing the
structure of textiles lies in a knowl-
edge of fibers, the basic element, and
their source, the speaker explained.
Sh described wool. cotton, silk and
linen fiber and described their diff
ferent qualities. To make it valuable
as Il textile it is necessary that it
should possess strength. pliability.
porcusness and be available in barge
quantities. Sanitation. conductivity.
dyeing qualities, weight. shrinkase and
strength are the elements to be CON
sidered in the manufacture of textiles
and in comparing their relative values.
The adiltcration of fabrics, Miss
Pennington declared, is necessary in
asmuch as the available supply of the
fiber materials. wool particularly, are
not to be had in sufficiently large
quantities to supply the demand.
Ways in which q buyer may de-
termine the quality of the fabric that
he is purchasing were explained by
Miss Pennington. This is done by
knowing the weaves that are used and
in many cases in an expert knowl-
edge of the feel Of the fiber. The
microscope as a mean of determining
material is invaluable to the person
who wishes to base her choice on a
certain knowledge of quality. The
use of tin solution in silk may be de-
termined by burning and the use of
dressing in cotton materials is easily
determinable by the iodine test for
starch.
That the Standardization Of textiles
would be of the greatest value to the
consumer is Miss Flemington's opin-
ion. She said that it is better economy
20 purchase good material and wear IT
longer than to purchase poor and have
that textile problems largely concern
laundrymen. she urged that all present
1t the convention consider backing up
a movement for this Standardization.
Talk Interstate Body
The discussion of an interstate as
ISOLATION to include Washington, Ore
gon. Utah, Montana and Idaho. intro
duced by II. w. Armstrong of Salt
Lake. was discussed at length by the
convention. While many favored it.
Ernest Smith. state president. and
W. NJ. Collins president of the ma
tional association, held that an or
ganization of the kind would tend to
weaken the state organization, which
is in need of all its strength. 1t was
agreed that Dan W. Hogan of Lewis
town, who will attend the Washington
state convention next month, discuss
the question with representatives of
the other states concerned. Action on
the matter will be delayed pending his
report.
The next meeting of the convention
will be at Lewistown.
At the morning meeting the national
president. w. NJ. Collins of San Fran
cisco, discussed the National Associa-
ton Laundry institute conducted at
Joliet, III. Two %laundries there are
engaged in working out all the prob
lens that are referred to them by
association members. lie gave an
opinion on the value OF the cost
systems that are sent to the associa-
ton members. who may be Just
starting in business. These. he said.
are of great value in that it enables
the laundry man to run his business
with a knowledge of what it is going
"a cost him.
Laundry equipment was the sub
ject of a technical discussion by Carl
Nissler Of Butte.
Howard l.. Wilson of the Cascade
laundry Of Des Moines, Ia, acted as
efficiency expert of the meeting.
answering questions and solving the
difficulties of many of the laundry
man procarf