PROTECTING THE CONSUMER
Protecting the Consumer Federal Trade Commission on Guard Against False and Unfair Advertising, Other Business Practices COMPLAINTS charging the use of tottery methods in connection with the sale...
...The respondent also agrees to cease representing that clinical investigation has shown that either garlic or parsley will cause a lowering of blood pressure, or relieve headaches, dizziness or similar symptoms resulting from functional high blood pressure...
...One assortment allegedly is composed cf a faster of paris toy and 30 bags of alted peanuts of uniform size, jhapc ind quality, each bag containing a lumber tab...
...Los Angeles, and Armand S. Weill Co., Inc., Buffalo, an advertising agency, have entered into :-tipuIations with the Federal Trade ommission in which they agree to cease certain representations...
...It is alleged ' hat a purchaser failing to punch one the specified numbers receives rjthing but the privilege of punching he board and that the prizes thus are distributed wholly by lot or chance...
...Under the commission order, the respondent is directed to cease and desi'.t from Its misleading representations...
...The person punching the number corresponding to that concealed under a seal on the board receives the radio, and persons punching certain, other numbers receive for five cents a tin of peanuts worth more than that amount, wholly by lot or chance, according to the complaint...
...of California, Los Angeles, in the sale of medicinal herb tea known as "Cento Tea," formerly designated "Aesculapius Tea," agree to cease representing that such product or Its particular formula has been used for centuries or any period of time greater than is a fact: that the preparation or any of its ingredients is valuable in treating gall, liver or kidney ailments or in preventing or dissolving kidney stones or gallstones: that the product is a competent and reliable agent for relief of symptoms associated with gall, liver or kidney ailments, or possesses healing or analgesic properties, and other similar representations...
...35 South Franklin St., Chicago, are dealers in radios, watches and other merchandise...
...chocolates, all without extra cost and entirely by lot or chance, according to the complaint...
...MEDICAL TEA CO...
...agrees to cease representing that "Raz-Mah," is sold by all druggists, and that by use of the preparation asthma sufferers will be almost instantly relieved from wheezy, difficult breathing...
...Recipients of certain specified numbers are entitled to receive boats of < andy and the buyer of the last punch - n the board draws a suitcase, accord-ng to the complaint...
...coughs due to bronchial Irritation will be quickly relieved, and bronchial irritations will be prevented from developing into asthma...
...N." J, G. & F. Sales Company...
...and that the price of each bag is determined, and the toy is distributed, wholly by lot or chance...
...Commission findings are that, contrary to actual accomplishment, the concern represented that it would make employment available with good pay to students completing its courses, and that it advertised its offer of training as being made only to a limited number of students in any territory, and to persons having special qualifications or training, when in fact all students who could pay the price were accepted...
...hay fever sufferers will get speedy relief from sneezing, Itching and excessive watery secretions in the nose and eyes...
...and will discontinue featuring the words "Mocha" and "Java" in any way which has a tendency to convey the belief to purchasers that a blend of these coffees with other types of coffee is a pure blend of wholly "Mocha and Java" as such term is construed by the trade and consuming public...
...THE Federal Trade commission has accepted from McCollum Laboratories, inc., Gardena, Calif., a stipulation in which it agrees to discontinue certain representations in the sale of food supplements and medicinal preparations designated "Isodent," "Isomar...
...Chicago, and Thomas Brothers and V. C. Allen Candy Co...
...a food product, provides a source of many of the more important nutritional factors, or that such factors are frequently missing in the average daily menu...
...alions in promoting the sale of the •. espondents* merchandise wholly by ci or chance...
...of California, Inc., and Otto Wise, an individual trading as Medical Tea Co...
...that the medicinal preparation "Isodent," is a balanced dentifrice or restores natural color to the teeth, builds firmness of the gum tissues, attacks acid mouth germs or reduces tartar: that "Isomar" is a balanced gland food or combines the most valuable organic minerals from land or sea vegetation, and that "Iso-veg...
...that its every ingredient possesses therapeutic value, and that :ts hypericum content stimulates the ppetite...
...Economy Sales Co., Inc., Jersey City, J., and Samuel Knight, alias ;.smuel Nitke...
...Further practices which the respondent agrees to discontinue are the passing off of an inferior blend of coffee as "Mocha and Java" and the naming, in its sales promotional representations or on brands or otherwise, of the minor factors of a blended coffee without first naming also in equally conspicuous type the major factors, all in their order of predominance by bulk: for example, "Santos, Colombian...
...One of them allegedly con-ists of various containers, candy and ¦¦\ suitcase, together with a punch ¦oard from which customers buy dil-:erent prices...
...The respondent, according to findings, also represented that classes including shop training on Diesel engines and machinery to be installed in its buildings would be held in various cities other than Newark...
...Medical Tea Co...
...The commission further found that students of average ability who intelligently pursued the respondent's courses would need other training to qualify as Diesel engineers, expert operators or skilled workmen on Diesel engines...
...that its ingredients are carried to the affected parts...
...both of Portend, Ore...
...Ore, 13 uleged to distribute candy and salted icanut assortments so arranged as 0 involve use of a lottery...
...THE Federal Trade commission has ordered the New York Diesel Institution, Inc., Newark, N. J., to discontinue certain misleading representations in the sale of courses of study concerning Diesel engines and other trade subjects, conducted wholly or partly by correspondence...
...Among the representations which the respondent agrees to discontinue are: that any of these products supplies the average diet the mineral or vegetable elements in which such diet is deficient...
...Such products, the stipulation points out, are neither composed in part of nor finished with silver, as implied by use of the trade designation...
...Silverglo.'' OLD DUTCH MILLS...
...Portland...
...Isoveg " Isolax," Kelp Tablets," "Breakfast Granules," "Alfalfa Tea and Tablets' and "Garlic-Parsley McCollum Tablets...
...It is alleged that the respondents ilso offer to conduct carnivals and lances for such organization, awaiting prizes to purchasers of tickets or these events who hold tickets ontaining certain specified numbers ir to the purchaser of the last ticket r. a book...
...Breakfast Granules" as an aid of digestion...
...MISREPRESENTATION in the sale of marble and granite tombstones and monuments Is alleged in a Federal Trade commission complaint issued against Asa L. Woolen, trading as United States Marble and Granite Co., Oneco, Fla...
...Chester E. Thomas, tradinp as Thomas Brcthers...
...The respondent stipulates that it will cease employing the words "Mocha and Java" in advertising matter, on containers or in salesmen's presentations, as descriptive of its "Old Dutch" brand of coffee or other product of similar composition...
...Mocha and 'Java...
...The respondent further stipulates that it will cease advertising "Kelp Tablets" as being rich in vital minerals or such minerals as being necessary to body nutriment...
...Holders of . ertain designated numbers, however, receive additional bars and the purchaser making the last punch receives the box of...
...individually and as an officer, distributors of luggage, jewelry :id other merchandise, allegedly dls-vibute various lottery plans including . push card plan for use in cor.nec-¦;on with clubs and fraternal organi...
...They are alleged to sell certain assortments, one of which con'-ains several tins cf peanuts and a radio, together with a punch board the numbers on which are effectively concealed and sell for 5 cents each...
...Protecting the Consumer Federal Trade Commission on Guard Against False and Unfair Advertising, Other Business Practices COMPLAINTS charging the use of tottery methods in connection with the sale of merchandise ¦ o ultimate consumers were issued by he Federal Trade commission against '. Iconomy Sales Company, Inc., Jersey ¦ ::ty...
...THE Federal Trade commission has accepted from Enterprise Aluminum Co., Massillon, Ohio, manufacturer of aluminum kitchen utensils, a stipulation to discontinue certain representations in the sale of its products...
...In his advertising matter the respondent allegedly represented that his memorials will stand the ravages of time forever: that they are the world's best genuine marble or granite monuments which will always retain their original brightness, and that, through his "gold bond guarantee" purchasers are assured of these lasting qualities and are protected In case the respondent's representations as to durability are not proved to be true The complaint alleges that the respondent's representations are misleading and deceptive in that his products will not last forever and retain the other qualities advertised, and that the so-called "gold bond guarantee" in no wise protects purchasers as it Is not supported by any fund set aside by the respondent or anyone rise foi uring fulfillment of its terms...
...of California Inc...
...Each purchaser it is alleged ecives a bar of candy...
...New York, engaged in the roasting, blending, sale and distribution of coffee, has entered into a stipulation with the Federal trade commission in which it agrees to discontinue certain practices in connection with the interstate sale of its product...
...Another assortment, it is alleged, •onsists of a box of chocolates and .everal bars of candy of uniform :ze and shape, together with a push ard...
...N. J., under competent instructors, when in fact no such training was offered except at Newark...
...is alleged to distribute to dealers assortments of merchandise so arranged as to involve use of a lottery...
...Under its stipulation, the respondent agrees to cease employing the word "Silverglo" or terms of similar import to describe its aluminum products and to discontinue using any like designation containing the word "Silver" with a tendency to create the impression that the durability or value of such articles is enhanced or affected by silver metal contained therein...
...Portland, Oreg...
...The respondents aLso agree to discontinue advertising that this preparation is not a laxative...
...Armand S. Weill Co., Inc., Buffalo, r. advertising agency, in connection ,-ith its dissemination of advertisements for "Raz-Mah," a drug, on beialf of Templetons, Inc., Buffalo...
...LiUiam M. Granger, L. H. Murray, and Clara and Adolf Feitler, trading as G. and F. Sales Company...
...W. C. Allen Candy Co., Inc...
...It is alleged that purchasers pay 1 to 5 cents a bag, according to the number drawn: that the buyer of the last package of peanuts receives the toy...
...Alfalfa Tea and Tablets" as aiding nature in providing a source of natural alkaline nutriment, as being a valuable internal supplement to creams or powders, or as increasing liquid secretion, and "Garlic-Parsley McCollum Tablets" as being capable of reducing high blood pressure...
...The stipulation points out that the blend of "Mocha" coffee grown in the Yemen district of Arabia, and "Java" coffee grown in the Lsland of Java, has been favorably known throughout the world for many years...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
