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Show oo UTAH MAY HAVE A SHOE LAW 1 Have you had the soles of z plr Oi shoes wear out almost in a day, so that in sloppy weather water worked through to your feet as though nothing noth-ing of a greater resisting power than I cloth encased your pedal extremities? If you have perhaps you have been I made to realize that all shoes are not made of leather. j Down in Louisiana the legislator, nearly all of whom must have had an experience with "pate" or "leather-board," "leather-board," passed a measure known as the pure shoe law which prevents the sale of boots and shoes aa of leather construction when other material i.; substituted, and now a bill, known as the Oldfleld measure, has been introduced in-troduced in congress to make nationwide nation-wide the Louisiana law, and, we un derstand, a similar bill is to be intro-1 intro-1 duced in the Utah legislature to protect pro-tect the people from being imposed on 111 by eastern manufacturers who resort to adulterations. We are informed there arc four substitutes sub-stitutes for leather, costing only one ' L fourth as much as the poore3t grades of leather, described as: Leatherboard is made of leather v. raps reduced to a pulp, then mixed I with glue in the form of a thick paste, i1 after which it is rolled Into sheets I und dried This material Is very hard, but it disintegrates like blot- ting paper upon becoming wet The j shoes adulterators u? It In the Beela of their shoes. Only the two bottom pieces of the heel are leather; Unrest Un-rest of the hoel Is of leat herho.i r 1 This material Is so skillfully COVr4 iwlth polish that neither the merchant nor the wearer can dcte t it until after af-ter the 9hoe is worn Fate is made of thin shavings of t;pnulne leather glued together. It looks and feels like solid leather bul it disintegrates quickly upon becoming becom-ing wet. Shoe adulterators use It for innersole9 and sometimes in heels, bul If the shoe Is worn in the mud and slush the ouifr sole will come loose and the shoe otherwise gives unsatisfactory unsat-isfactory service The so-called horn fiber counter is made of leather scrap and other waste material reduced to a pulp nnd mold ed into shape. It absorbs moisture easily and cannot take the place of solid leather for making substantial rnd durable counters By substituting horn tiber for leather the manufactur er can save 5 cents to 10 cents per pair on the counters alone Strawboard contains DO leather whatever. It is the cheapest kind of brown pasteboard made into thlc!-. sheets and is used by certain manu facturers In heels, counters and Inner soles. It is possible to us this material ma-terial In a shoe and so finish the shoe on the outside that it will sell for 13, or more, but a shoe so constructed will not give as good service as an all leather shoe sold at 50 cents to 75 cents a pair le6s. With the Louisiana law In force .n Utah, all shoes not made of genuine leather would be stamped accordingly according-ly Th law would not prevent the ' sale of any kind of shoe, but the adult terations would be pointed oui b tho markings oa the shoes |