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ARTIFICIAL WOOL NEXT? ?
Tho -hoop grower has something:
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tii in the Baltimore Sun. Within ; (
another five years, he thinks, art.ifiv:ai
woo! may he as common in pur; '
textiles as artificial siik has become , \t??day.
Already it is being' produced 1
i. the United States, and consider-1 !
able quantities are being imported >
ftpin Italy, where the industry start- !i
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; "'This new 'wool* is a chemical i
product made from cellulose or wood
fiber, just as artificial silk. In fact,! o
mo-4. of the wool now being manu- ^
Tacturcd is a by-product of the arti- a
licial silk industry. The short or t
bookon 'silk? threads, are worked over, t'
Vkto finis new 'wool' yarn. The prod- i t
net is said to have the soft warm feel. p
fif iamb's wool, and in addition, has v
a lustrous quality which improves the; u
appearance of woolens in which this)
a tifieial fiber is used as a mixture, r
"According to officials of the de- t
parlmeht of commerce the price of i t
this artificial wool yarn will be be-/n
tween 50 rent- and -SI per pound, as f
compared with $2 per pound forreal t
wool yarn. 0
'Must what degree of competition
this new development may bring to It
American wt>oi-g.*ower:< cannot be fa
foretold at this early date At pros-1 J;
ent the artificial yarn seems to bejv
used mainly in mixing with the nat-! C
nral product. Unquestionably this r
practice will give greater impetus tort
the demand for truth in fabrics legis-j c
lation, desincd to require each piece j t
??f woolen cloth to he marked as $o? i
its exact composition. Senator Ar-.s
thur Capper's new truth-in-fabricsf
bill, by the way, impresses farm
leaders in Washington as being more (
practical and having a better chance
of enactment than any of the bills
of this type that have been pending r
in congress for the last twenty-odd c
years. i
"But restrictive laws will not help *
the wool grower much iflhe new fab- '
tic proves satisfactory to the pur- c
chaser. And of course the tariff on J
wool could be of no help whatever in j
meeting this new situation, unless it *
should turn out that this artificial 1
wool is of a type to replace merely *
the grades which we do not grow ex- 5
tensively in this country. 1
"The natural tendency is to under- J
estimate the u-ltimato effect of a new 1
development of this kind. Five years
ago few persons took the artificial
silk industry' seriously. Japan paid {
little attention to it for a time. Silk- <
; ^ worm farmers- felt perfectly certain J
that nothing could displace nature's 1
Method of making silk thead. Today jl
Japan herself rapidly is becoming a ;
latge user of artificial silk, now re-'
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:r hat
Your hat this Easter
may be large or small.
it really doesn't make
much difference, just
so that it is becoming. .
Of course, the snug littie
tailored styles are t
uiOf't comfortable for
street wear, but. the / \
clever new broad brimmet!
shajH-s for semi- t
dress wear are unusually
lovely this spring.
Of real Swiss hair, p- ?
trimmed simply with \
ribbon or elaborately \
with flowers, malines ?&
and lace. Of the fittest
Milan, often combined
with taffeta and trimmed
with feathers. ' '' *sTn
Here are numbers of w:th ev
charming models for the sea
your selection. The coi- sorv. 0
ors are black, navv.
and all the delicious no\< y
pastel colorings to pique :
hlend with the new ionable
is arc coming in large a 11
$1.75 to $(i.75 All
Materials in
They 11 Bloom ,
jj8g Print that it re
FffMa signs arc as varied and Iov<
jfffimj son. Cojor plays an impo
t 'rtjlijn! ;.ions. in bright cieai tones,
other striking patterns pi:
yS J J chine- -iO inches wide.
Jrf Take a look at all
Kj materials and all
** and prints in a ve
prices.
hristened 'rayon/
"in 1900 American rayon mills
urned out bii? X,000,000 pounds of
he product. The next year this figii\:
almost was doubled with a proluction
of 15,000,000 pounds, in
1)22 the output rose to 24,000,000
founds, and during 1925 we turned
>ut that amount from January to
uno. The full year's figures are not
ct available. In addition to this
irge production we have imported
nore than 5,000,000 pounds of
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"With the technical development
f the artificial fiber industry already
.'ell beyond the experimental stage,
ml with no essential difference in
he process necessary to produce art icial
wool rather than artificial silk,
here would seem to be reason to exted
rather rapid increase in fiber
fool prodoction, provided the prodict
satisfies the consumer's taste.
"If it is a rued that artificial wool
itUSt compete with a cheaper article
han is the case with artificial silk,
he answer is that artificial wool also
any be made at less cost than artiicial
silk Being a coarser fiber, it
akes less time and machinery to turn
iut a pound of the finished product.
"Our raw-wool production during
he last five years has averaged
round 265,000,000 pounds or roughv,
half that amount of scoured"clean
cool. We import around ."500,0.00,100
pounds (in 102-1 2-10,117,000
lounds) of raw wool. !t will he seen
hat wool is no small item in Amerian
agriculture. Its future concerns
wners of farm flocks, as well as the
noprietors of the large western
heep ranches."
DROUGHT DIDN'T RUIN US
7-onrord Tribune.
Farming interests in the state lost
nonev as the result, of la?=t war'?
IrougKt, but just the same- the crops
cere not failures by any means. Our
armcrs didn't get al! they might
lave gotten under more favorable
:onditions, but they made something
ust the same.
What happened in North Carolina
happened in other states. Taken as
? whole, there was little difference
between 1921 and 1925 crorps in the
outh. There was just t. 10 per cent
-eduction in farm output, despite the
Tact that the season was one of the
vorst in many years in the Southern
states.
North Carolina farmers dug $320,185,000
of agricultural wealth out
>f the soil in 192 4 and last year they
nanaged to grub out $318,661,100,
vhich is as urprisingly good shojving
for the vexations that were encoun:ered.
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The cotton crop of the south in
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV1
ps bloom
Glorious EAS
To Delight the
GLOVES and
ACCESSORIES ~
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attest of new Spring Gloves?
'cry detail pronouncing them
tson'.- most fascinating acces
f Suede and Silks, with new
cuffs, scalloped edges and
sewing. In the season's fashshades.
Reasonably Priced
the Bud
it Your Touch!
ial as Spring. The new deftly
as the flowers of the seartunt
pail in new eonihina-;
or in soft mezzo -colorings,
nt patterns. Art Moderate and
nted on fine quality crepe de
of our New Spring
the newest shades
:ry wide range of
point of bales produced, soared near
. an all-time record, being in excess, of i
15.000.nt)0 bales; hut. this huge proj
Auction ha.l the effect of no pressing! v
' prices and bringing the returns h1- t
most to the same level as v 192-1.
tl.-aius end u>aC.\'. both suffered 1
from jcisonal conditions, *vith the 1
1 result t^at considerabh losses wore :
! shown in these item?.
Texa- easily maintained its deader- !
j ship of the nation at large, as well 1
; as foe the south, although losing (
| ?125,000,000 from its 1024 returns. '
Missouri, North Carolina and Okla- *
; homa ranked eighth, ninth and tenth ,
| respectively in the national list, the (
first twoi ncrsasing their standing, 1
. but Oklahoma dropped five places, %
due to a $110,000,000 loss resulting (
from poor grain crops. A
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MARRIAGE RISKS
An elderly and a young member
of a certain club met in the smoking
i room.
"I hear, Mr. Jones/' said the for
mor, "that you are gbing to be married
shortly. 1 hope you will be
very happy.
"Oh. I don't see why not," replied
I the prospective bridegroom, cheerily. 1
| "I came through the war without a
| scratch, you know."
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Discovers New Hlement
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Dr. B. S- Hopkins, Professor
Inorganic Chemistry at Univer.
, of Illinois is ths first American
discover s basic element. He Hi
No. 61. Of the possible 92 t
ments. 27 have been discovered
I far.
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FOR EVERY SMAR1
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Never have styles been more fasci
noting: and neyei have our stock
been more complete with interest
i?e varieties. Vour soluttion is bar<
ticalij unlimited now in Morning
Afternoon and Evening: wear.
$5.75 to $16.50
OUR NATAL DAY j Th
itatesvilje Landmark. j wise
For 150 years, come next July Lj "
ve've been observing the fourth day
?f the month called July, or recogniz- 1
ng it rathyr, as the nation's natal
lay. Now comes a Princeton profes- n |
^or and tells us the nation wasn't,
jorn on that day at. all. The formal
resolution of congress, declaring our.
ndej>endence, was passed July 2. A
:opy of the declaration was ordered
) re pared on July lit and was formal-:
y signed on August 2. If we want'
o recognize the date of the passing
>f the resolution as the date of our'
nativity then we must move up to
July 2. If we would fix it on the j
late of the signing of the resolution,
when it became a fixed fact in so far I
IS it. cotilH ho fivpil hv
resolve and the affixing: of names, j
\ugust 2 is the date j
Xtovays somebody coming along j ]
and upsetting things after they were j
supposed to be fixed beyond perad- <
venture. The Princeton professor j
admits that on the 4th of July the*
people who were on the job of ere- |
atir.g a nation did agree to the final
draft of the publicity material, and
in so doing cut out "over 500 words *
of Jefferson's rhetorical finale." In
other words, the founders fixed on
the 1th as the eventful day because
it was on tndt date the great event
was formally proclaimed; and it
mght he added that there was additional
cause for celebrating that day j
in the fact that they had the cour- I
age to boil down something that Jcfferson
wrote. That was an act not
to be lightly regarded.
But being as we have coming along
for a century and a half under the
impression that the 4th day Gi July (
was the correct time to take a day oft
there! s no particular reason that can
be sighted just now why we shouldn't
continue that way. It's usage that
makes some things correct, and usage
has fixed the 1th as the date. Employes
of the state departments in
Raleicrh. who have been much eon
cerned about the observance of all
legal holidays, may find it necessary
as a matter of conscience, to observe
all three days?the 2nd and the 4th
of July and the 2nd of August.
Madrid, MaTch 24?John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., will be among the first
recipients of the Plus Ultra gold
medal, created by the Spanish government
to commemorate the flight
of Commander Ramon Franco from
Spain to Argentina. In addition to
presenting it to Commander Franco
And his crew, the medal is to be conferred
on all citizens of the world
who distinguish themselves in some
great feat or enterprise.
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MARCH 25. 192S
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Fashion Shop!
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Coats and Dresses
Spring chic is rever.led" in this
tion of new fashions for Misses
Distinctive, individual, they
he essentials of style.
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COATS OF THE HOUR
For Dress*. Street and Sport wear in all the new
shades plaids. Our variety is unusually large
p. and our prices are unusually low.
$9.75 to $22.50
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is is one year when it will be Carolina, say agricultural workers at
to diversify crops in North State College.
Gone Out Of
Business
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The Ground Hog, according to prophecy,
is out of business. Lets hope so and get our11
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reives Dusy trying to make up tor lost timeRemember
we have everything in seasonable
goods for your needs. Field Fence, Barb
Wire, Nails, Staples, Poultry Wire- Poultry
and Rabbit Fence. Special prices on the
line.
Also Lime, Cement, Builders Supplies, ^
Roofing, Stoves and Ranges, Harness and
everything you can think of almost in the
line, we have.
Next week is court week. Make our place
B00N? HARDWARE CO.
"The Friendly Store"