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Show Wool Outlook Bright, Bureau Head Reports Material Remains Quality Fabric for Human Needs For the sheep ranchers and the farmers who maintain small flocks, W. F. FitzGerald, president of the Wool bureau, had a good word when he predicted markets for wool are bound to increase. Speaking before the National Association As-sociation of Wool Manufacturers at their annual meeting in New York, he said: "Barring a national catastrophe, markets for wool, and indeed for all textiles of established service values, is bound to increase. The reasons are fundamental and are to be found in even a casual study of our increasing population, our expanding birth rate, the total I Mst' - " x I if L a, " , t '"V ' ' 4 lr.Tifitf I Newly-scoured virgin wool Is turned to hasten drying. There will be a greater demand for this ' fiber, spokesmen for the wool producing Industry predict. number of people employed and the constantly increasing standards of living of large segments of our population." FitzGerald went on to point out that an acceptable substitute for wool has not been developed. Wool Is still the quality fiber which is best suited for a wide variety of human needs and we are convinced the public shares that opinion, he added. The Wool bureau is a service organization or-ganization established by wool-growers wool-growers of Australia, New Zealand, Zea-land, South Africa and America. |