Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-21 | Page 6 | Pure Fabric Laws Are Urged in Speech to Wool Growers

"PIEffllCLIS! URGED IH SPEECH 13 WOOL GROWERS i I Pure fabric laws similar to the pure food laws, requiring specific labeling of the materials that make up the fabric, fab-ric, were advocated today by Alexander Alexan-der Walker, New York manufacturer, in an address before the National Wool Growers' convention in Salt Lake today to-day on (he subject "Substitutes for Wool.". Mr. Walker declared shoddy s used in the manufacture of clothing seven to eight times before it finally is made into roofing paper. Other speakers at today's sessions were A. G. Butterfield of Weiser. Idaho, Ida-ho, on the subject "Silage and Silo j Construction," and Dr. C. II- Gardner of Anaconda, Mont., on "Feeding and 'Lamb Sheds." ! The convention will come to a dose late today following a general discussion discus-sion among the delegates and election of officers for the ensuing year j Taking as a basis for his address a plea for a square deal for the wool i growers, Mr. Walker denounced the I J practice of fabric manufacturers in 1 "camouflaging under an all atoo! J name" fabrics that are a combination of virgin wool and shoddy." j ;j In buying a suit of clothes, the n cringe cr-inge man when he buys "all wool" suit! idoes so under the impression that he j Is buying a garment made entirely of.' virgin wool, whereas he is buying a j combination of virgin wool and shed-' Jdy. Mr. Walker pointed out. "Techni-J cally, the suit ;s all wool, since Shoddy; lis wool used time and time again," he; jsaid, "but the public buys under the' impression that it is all virgin wool."