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Show There is no shoddy in soldier cloth. Statements have been made that the uniforms of American soldiers have been cheapened. The facts are that they have been made far better and stronger by eliminating the prewar standard of 25 per cent cotton and substituting sub-stituting therefor a fabric composed of strictly all virgin wool, thereby strengthening the tensile strength of the cloth and, by the elimination of the 25 per cent of cotton adding at least that much warmth to the fabrics. The 25 per cent of cotton of the prewar standard was done away with at the instance of the committee on supplies acting conjointly with the Quartermaster Quartermas-ter Department by and with the advice of the officers of the national associations associa-tions of woolen and worsted manufactures. manufac-tures. Ventura Press. |