YOUR MONEY'S WORTH

...No Rinse Surf (19 oz...

...The scientists assure us there is no nutritional difference between fortified oleo and butter, but for cooking or table use there is a difference...

...Paul Dunbar, FDA Commissioner, summed up this gap in FDA's authority when he said, "We are highly skeptical about these products doing the things they claim, but until you have controlled tests over long periods of time, you are not in a position to take evidence into court...

...This puts the burden of sensible use of credit on the individual, and the consumer is besieged daily by competition for his down payment on a car or refrigerator or vacuum cleaner...

...but no one seems to know...

...The second new paint is an odorless one, to be marketed by the Keyston Paint & Varnish Co., in primer, flat, and gloss varieties...

...The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association warned, in the Journal for Dec...

...criticism...

...Since the easing-up of credit controls, we have gone a little crazy on buying sprees and show no signs of prudent restraint...

...The FTC is investigating advertising claims...

...if people can afford butter, they'll buy it...

...Morris Fishbein, former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is one of the few who have emphasized that effectiveness of the drugs in treating colds has not been established...

...The public's buying mood, as in wartime, seemed to be that anything in limited supply, or that might be limited in the future, must be bought up in copious quantity, regardless of need...

...While not so detailed as America's Cook Book or Rombauer, The Fireside Cook Book is an all-around manual for use and enjoyment, and the sections on meat, hors d'-oeuvres, and frozen foods are particularly good...

...It is about nine inches long, of white baked enamel finish, and the price tag is $2.95...

...Magnagrip is a permanently magnetized strip of steel which is wonderful for keeping knives or scissors handy, and away from other kitchen oddenda and small fry, or it should appeal to men as a convenient tool-holding gadget in the workshop...

...At the same time he is firm in his opinions: good ingredients used carefully are thriftier in the long run than food bargains that end in the garbage can...

...Dr...

...1 from the Small Homes Council, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111...

...Frank Keefe, Wisconsin Republican, to give the FDA authority to pass on the effectiveness as well as the safety of new drugs before they hit the market assumes more importance with the unknowns about antihistamines...

...From 231 Cooks Outstanding among the recent crop of cookbooks is James A. Beard's The Fireside Cook Book (Simon and Schuster...

...Reserved for most business pages, way back, was the news that U. S. Steel's 1949 net income was the highest in 20 years...

...Just as revealing as that buying mood is the disturbing fact that most of the cars and appliances were bought on credit...

...Leonard S. Fosdick, a Northwestern University chemist, in the Journal of the American Dental Association...

...It is a waxy mass which has to be applied by a spray gun after heating...

...U. S. Steel's announcement that it would have to raise prices to meet the costs of pensions landed on most front pages...

...As long as butter is within reach of the housewife's purse, no good cook, in my opinion, is going to buy margarine, colored or fortified or not, instead of butter...

...the only "cardinal sin" in cookery is indifference...

...Mary Proctor is the trade name for two good new products which share the demerit of being overpriced...

...in fadeproof pastel colors as well as white sailcloth...

...Some dealers are reported to be selling new cars for as little as $40 a month, including insurance and interest...

...Some of the millions spent yearly in newspapers, magazine, and radio advertising to urge us to buy Pep' sodent or Ipana or Amurol or Amm-i-dent, are, since the appearance of the ammoniated dentifrices, increasingly slanted with claims of decreasing dental decay...

...Recommended because this practical cookbook will not remind you of Helen Hokinson's harried woman in the New Yorker cartoon, surrounded by pans, bowls, and general confusion, who greets her eveninghome husband with, "Oh dear, Harper's Bazaar keeps getting me in deeper and deeper...

...Incidentally, this is fine advertising fodder for the folding toothbrushes that office workers might be induced to carry with them...

...Fosdick concluded that the national habit of tooth brushing on retiring and arising is wrong and that the type of toothpaste used is less important than the brushing time...

...Colgate, in some murky advertising copy, is attempting to link the importance of after-meal brushing with its paste by mentioning such research and following it with the claim that "exhaustive research by eminent dental authorities proves how using Colgate Dental Cream helps stop tooth decay before it starts...

...Both the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration are biding their time before speaking up on the new drugs...

...Possibly it's old-fashioned habit, but I find it difficult to believe that unrinsed clothes or dishes can be as clean as rinsed...

...Incidentally, housewives in 16 states, including Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania, will still have to color margarine, because of state laws, even if the Federal legislation goes through...

...It's available (why didn't someone think of this before...

...We do hear words of caution about following directions, but no one wants to yell loudly about the dangers of antihistamines...

...an article in the Januarj Consumer Reports comment...

...This department has previously reported its enthusiasm for Tide as the best all-around detergent for dishes or clothes, and that stands...

...Par more important than the cleansing agent is the toothbrush and its proper use and the question of When...

...This watchful waiting of the FTC and FDA is open to criticism because of what can happen to consumers in the meantime...

...The therapeutic claims of the ammoniated products have still not been established, but...

...The plea of Rep...

...The promotional tie-up is occasionally cloying, but the recipes are fine and distinguished by their practicality, both of ingredients and of a homemaker's time...

...Those Cold Pills "What is there to lose...

...Care and Repair of the House is available for 50 cents (no stamps) from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C. • Anyone interested in well-designed, moderately-priced consumer products, from chairs to egg beaters, will find a timely survey of where to see everyday art in the winter issue of Everyday Art Quarterly, which costs 25 cents from the Walker Art Center, 1710 Lyndale Ave...

...The conclusion is almost inescapable that the FDA submitted to pressure by the drug manufacturers, too easily and without sufficient study of the evidence...

...Fosdick's advice makes sense, but it's rather difficult, physically and socially, for most people to carry out...

...S., Minneapolis 5, Minn...

...Hp^t" intelligent shoppers know, |$* main difference among ordinary |9stes 6 powders is abrasiveness...

...Kitchen Planning Standards is an excellent new circular on kitchen arrangement which may be of help in rearranging the kitchen you have or in planning one for the future...

...I remain more impressed by the emphasis of many dentists on a hard two-row brush like Lactona and correct brushing of teeth and gums, for the latter often cause more tooth loss than does decay...

...While those figures are too big for most of us to comprehend, their significance is their growth, week by week and month by month, in a period of high employment, when people with jobs should be-able to pay most of their bills as they go along...

...Dental decay can be cut in half, even up to 60%, just by brushing the teeth immediately after eating, reports Dr...

...Prospective house buyers may find it a useful guide for its advice on how to inspect a house and to detect signs of wear...

...And it is certainly the loveliest cookbook I've ever seen—a big, handsome print job, illustrated in color with clever, gay drawings that are a delight...

...On mortgage credit, all the indications are that Congress will make it easier to borrow money for home financing...

...As for No Rinse Surf, it is, to this laywoman, a detergent very much in Tide's class...

...The FDA is studying the effectiveness of the antihistamines...

...for general household use, I'll settle for Tide and two rinses...

...However, I'm not impressed by Tide's frenzied attempt to move into the no-rinse league while its current box directions call for two rinses...

...There was at least some doubt, d| which the FDA could hardly hav& been unaware, that these new antihistamine drugs were safe for uncontrolled, over-the-counter sale...

...it is packed with non-technical information on how to keep a house in good repair...

...10, 1949, "against the indiscriminate use of anti-histaminic substances...

...When Do You Brush Your Teeth...

...You feel reassured as well as tempted by the personal endorsements...

...This is available free until Mar...

...for 26 cents in chain stores) has boomed so successfully in initial sales in the Middle West that Procter 8 Gamble's Tide is now claiming that it too requires no rinsing...

...Constitutionally opposed to pills in general, I'll confess I took some secret satisfaction from consumer complaints of drowsy, drugged results from too much self-dosage...

...Butter Is Here To Stay That big, long drive to repeal the Federal excise taxes on oleomargarine finally succeeded in the Senate...

...maybe, if self-dosage is discriminating, they're all right...

...One is a paint without solvent called "Antropahl" which claims to produce a coat to last 15 years...

...This sounds a little too good to be true (or maybe, on second thought, not too desirable), but worth watching for...

...Let competition rage...

...How can you ignore the dirt that comes off in the rinse water...

...He blasts the current ads as "blatant...

...Your Money's Worth By MARY SHERIDAN ONE OF the most revealing stories of our national buying habits popped up during the steel strike, when a Milwaukee Journal survey revealed that local automobile and appliance (especially refrigerator and washing machine) dealers were doing a rushing business...

...It reminds us that experience is "insufficient to permit knowledge of whether they are harmless when used over long periods of time...

...Beard quite obviously knows what he is talking about and, unlike many chefs, doesn't talk down to his readers...

...Don't miss Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Vienna veal dish, both for the recipe and the pungent comment...

...There is a pleasant sort of ladies' aid flavor about The Time Reader's Book of Recipes (Dutton, $2.50), a collection of favorite recipes of 230 women readers of the newsmagazine...

...FDA's original go-ahead ufacturers to make the drugs able without prescription lias...

...Try it, though, for the fun of testing and to make up your own mind...

...Installment credit now outstanding is nearly 11 billion dollars, and total consumer credit is approaching 18 billions...

...seems to be the country's reaction to the antihistamine cold pills...

...Two new paints will be on the market soon...

...To Rinse Or No Not yet available nationally, Lever Bros...

...There is a mounting murmur from the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury, and some economic observers for curbing credit, but there is little or no chance that Congress in this pre-election year will restore the Reserve Board's powers to restrict installment buying...

...A completely revised household handbook has just been issued by the National Bureau of Standards which ought to serve as a practical stand-by for householders...

...throw-in and trade-in sales inducements are increasing— and so are re-possessions of cars and appliances from families who had to learn the expense of those "easy" payments the hard way...

...Meanwhile, until we know more about the antihistamines, it's a good idea to stick to the directions—or, like the FTC and FDA, wait and see...

...The pills are now available, without prescription, in dosages half those used in clinical experiments and prescriptions—which assumes, rather lightly, that people will follow directions carefully...

...Minor changes may be made in the House, but it is more likely than ever before that the levies will be removed by July 1. This partisan and provincial butter advocate is glad about the almost-concluded legislation, and I'm inclined to think the professional butter interests have been timidly apprehensive...

...One is an adjustable-height, extra-wide ironing board ($12.95), and the other is an ironing board cover ($3.95) sure to stay taut because of its dowel and spring underpinning...

...The public has rushed to buy the cold preventatives, whose trade names (Anahist, Inhiston, Coricidin, Kriptin, Neo-hetramine, Histalon, Resistab, Anta-mine) are even more outrageous than the ammoniated tooth products...

...Apparently the installment buyers felt only casual, if any, concern about meeting payments in the event of a prolonged steel strike and layoffs in many associated fields...

...After a two-year study of tooth decay among 946 students, Dr...