Show WOOL WOOli GROWERS DEFRAUDED DY BY METHODS OF HANDLING CLIP and the government have been defrauded of of oC dollars through methods employed in band handling ling tho the 1918 wool clip according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to charges made by Milo 1110 D. D Campbell Coldwater Mich a a. member member member mem mem- ber of oC the national agricultural advisory advisory ad ad- committee The charges in brief are that the government needed the entire wool clip which amounted to about pounds that the w war r industries industries industries indus indus- tries board had much business on hand band and accordingly created a department department department de de- of ot the board known a as the wool division inviting In the big wool dealers to advise the war industries board how to do the job that the wool buy buyers rs and big dealers were made government agents and helped fix the prices which the government would pay that the wool was bought from the farmers in the grease at prices ranging from Approximately 65 to 67 cents per pound and sold to the government as scoured wool at prices ranging from to per pound that not a single pound of Wool sold in that way was actually scoured by the buyers or dealers and that this plan was put into effect In order to create a smoke barrage under cover of or which the buyers and dealers d could make their huge prof- prof Its If the public wants want to know how much m-ch It has been been mulcted by this gang gans- says Mr C Campbell just multiply multiply mul mul- ul- ul pounds of wool by bythe bythe bythe the number of oC cents per pound pound that that have been filched from the price that belonged to the farmers Ten cents a pound would mean There was no more flagrant at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt at down right swindling dur dur- during ing the war than this one It was conceived and executed by a series ot of incidents through which the farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers and the government were defrauded defrauded defrauded de de- of untold millions PatrIotIsm PatriotIsm Patriotism Patriot- Patriot Ism had no part In the drama nor does patriotism demand that silence or protection cover the actors who hold the ill-gotten ill gains N The first mistake was by the government government gov gov- Inviting in the Boston wool dealers to advise the war Industries board how to do the job The gang gangIs Is notoriously the greatest trust on onearth onearth onearth earth In the wool business The war Industries board had much business on hand and so it created a division of the board known as the wool di divIsion division division di- di vision and it was in this little corner that plans were made to fleece not alone the sheep but the farmers and the public generally From the time wool was sheared from rom the backs of the sheep until it reached the government nt 1 it was unwashed unwashed unwashed un un- washed and unsecured wool It was hever never anything but wool In the grease and always is so until it goes to the factory But in order that the big dealer might have a a. dark corner somewhere on the way between the farmer and the government he provided provided provided pro pro- vided a a. plan by which the local woo wool buyer buer should buy the wool of the farmers in the grease rease and by which the big Boston wool dealers would sell it to the government as scoured scour ed wool although every every pound of it was sold to the government in rn the grease Just as it was received from Cram the local wool buyer |