Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-11-20 | Page 13 | To Raise Clothing Standard

TO RAISE CLOTHING STANDARD When the National Consumers' Consumers league wins in its latest fight Mrs Smith likewise Mrs Jones may feel fee safe lafe in selecting from the nearest shop a a. conservative suit within her price limit and know it to be pure wool 11 If f it is so marked This will be the result of ot an educational educational campaign to teach the women o othe of f the country the vital principles of the production of their clothes a plan lan initiated Initiated initiated by the government to be assisted by tho National Consumers' Consumers league The medium Is expected to be lectures at women's clubs helped out by propaganda propaganda ganda of various sorts The league plans to discuss ways and means of handling the project through legislation in a a. meeting to be beheld beheld beheld held soon at Maysville Ky Such legIslation legislation leg leg- will have to do with the distribution distribution distri distri- of cloth and the proper marking of such goods as pure pure wool or shoddy The feeling is that dress goods should be marked as plainly as pure and adulterated foods are marked As it is s partly due to the fact that the American woman has been in former years accustomed to getting good material material material ma ma- as a matter of course she Is little able to protect herself under present conditions Shoddy Is und under r the ban for tor Interior inferior inferior Inte- Inte quality The league is I. of the belief belief belief be be- lief that conditions of or its manufacture are not altogether sanitary and this angle should be given intelligent airing airing air air- ing to protect the public a against bu buying buying buy buy- ing unhygienic material The National Consumers' Consumers league is joined in this investigation and educational educational educational campaign by the department of justice The department is reported to be preparing to give particular at attention attention attention at- at to the high cost planning to todo todo todo do away as much as possible with the overabundance of middlemen distributing ing garments and reaping extra benefit benefits benefits bene bene- fits fit C