Evening star., 1923-05-08
MORE KNOWLEDGE
OF HOSIERY NEEDED
Public Should Know How to
Tell Poor Grades, Makers
Declare.
BY j. c. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May s.-The way to
stimulate sales of stockings is to state
the truth about them. according to the
policy adopted by the National Associa-
tion of Hosiery and Underwear Manu-
facturers. The association today is pre-
pairing campaign of education BY
which it hopes to interest every woman
in America.
This campaign is directed, incident
ally. against peddlers and house-to-
house canvasers and will consist prima-
rily in making clear the different types
of hosiery and the differences between
them. The differentiation between full
fashioned and other types of hosiery
will be made plain, as will the spurious
tests made by INSCRIPTIONS dealers.
John Mccullough, an executive of the
association, said today: When the WON
en- of America are educated as to the
technical difference which exists be
tween full-fashioned hosiery, which is
knit to conform to the limb and seam
less hose which are tubular stockings
not knit to the shape of limb, but which
are knitted and then ironed out TO con-
form. they will avoid buying poor stock
ings.
Better knowledge Needed.
This will be of advantage not only
TO full-fashioned manufacturers, but
TO reputable makers of other types,
because no condition fitted with am
higuity and doubt such as exists to-
day in the hosiery business can con-
tnue to be economically satisfactory
TO either producers or distributors.
Statesmen whose only object is TO
sell as many stockings as possible
have used misleading terms and by
ridiculous so-called tests of strength
and quality have kept American
women from looking for qualities in
the goods purchased. which really
count"
one of these tests" nail file is
rubbed along the stocking to show
the fiber is SO strong II will not rip
The file is drawn with the grain and
twist of the silk and encounters no
resistance which would cause the
stocking to rip. Another test, he
POINTED out, was for statesmen to
wiring and pull the stocking TO show
its resistance. Always, however, they
put the strain in the direction in
greatest strength and under such
conditions any fabric would show q
high breaking strain.
Another question on which education
is needed" Mccullough added, lis what
constitutes silk. A silk stocking cannot
be anything else than a stocking the
whole of which is entirely of the best of
silk produced by silk worms. That is
what the word silk means when a
manufacturer puts it on his label and
that is what the public expects to get
and what 1t has perfect right to ex-
pect.''
Cotton Cloth Demand SaGSinS.
exists today throughout the New Eng
land cotton manufacturing centers.
There has been falling of in demand
for goods and drop in prices in SYM
pathy with the recent wage increases.
With the exception of mills at Fall
River. which have gone on four-day-
a-week schedule, there has been no de-
crease in actual manufacturing opera
tions.
Nearly all plants, however, are run
ming on back orders and when these are
filled they will have to cut down output
unless the demand improves. Produc-
ton at the present time is in excess of
business. Mills are pretty well
covered on raw cotton for the summer
months and show little inclination to
increase stocks of the staple at present
Big Building Plans Held Up.
The announcement that Columbia Uni
versity would hold in abeyance it's
SIC 100000 building program because of
excessive costs of construction, was
echoed in the check to other large oper-
ations in the south and middle west. 1t
was regarded as significant here in
view Of this trend that the stone cutters,
Carvers and polishers, who struck for
an advance of 81 to s11 a day. have re-
turned to work agreeing to submit their
demands to arbitration.
State Banks Change System.
FORT WORTH. May S.-The nu-
merous failures of state banks in the
last two years and the subsequent
strain on the surviving institutions of
this character have led many state
banks in this section to surrender
their state charters and enter the
bank system. This move
ment is expected to culminate in more
stringent state banking laws.
SIS 900 for improvements.
KANSAS CITY. May S.-The Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad, re-
Gently taken out of receiverShip and
reorganized, will spend $15,500,000
this year on improvements. new
equipment and betterments. accord
ing to officials of the company today.
Biggest Insurance Policy.
PHILADELPHIA. May S.-What is
said to be the largest blanket insur-
apce policy ever issued has-been taken
out here by the police beneficial fund.
covering $500 members of the police
force to the extent of $4,000 each.
Savings Deposits Rum High.
ST. LOUIS, May S.-Savings de-
posits in thirty-f1ve banks located in
St Louis, Louisville. Little Rock and
Evansville today total $126.s3S,000 as
with $111. .475,00 a year ago.
The number of depositors has In
creased $4,000 in that time.
Copyright 1921