YOUR MONEY'S WORTH

Sheridan, Mary

YOUR MONEYS WORTH By MARY SHERIDAN BUSINESS, says Business Week in what is probably the safest prediction possible about the year, will boom in 1951, but it won't be pleasant, because of...

...Increased authority of the FDA, Voorhis insisted, won't be enough unless it is "coupled with a broadening and stiffening of the present labeling requirements along the lines pioneered and practiced by the cooperatives...
...YOUR MONEYS WORTH By MARY SHERIDAN BUSINESS, says Business Week in what is probably the safest prediction possible about the year, will boom in 1951, but it won't be pleasant, because of regulation piled on regulation...
...in my own experience Idaho white pine was the cheapest wood available...
...The second is Landscape Your Grounds [or Better Living by Joseph S. Elfner (Special Circular 15), issued by the University of Wisconsin Extension Service, College of Agriculture, Madison 6, Wis...
...Voorhis promptly objected on the grounds that this would label Triple Rich bread a "specialty" product apart from the white bread 95% of the public wants...
...An illustrated 35-page report on the effectiveness of winterized and mud-snow tires has recently been published by the National Safety Council, 425 Michigan Ave., Chicago 11, Ill...
...He urged adoption of the co-ops' "open formula" plan, under which labels clearly identify the ingredients in co-op foods, livestock feed, fertilizer, and chemical insecticides...
...After driving tests the Council concluded that "steel tire chains of the reinforced type are far superior to the best of special winter tires tested on snow and ice and show a consistent improvement over conventional natural tires...
...use shopping lists to limit over-buying...
...The makers of Dolcin, apparently planning legal action against the Digest, say that advertising claims "have been limited to the analgesic properties of its products and that it has at all times kept its advertising fair, accurate and conservative...
...Our wood blocks measure 10 by 11 by 2. Since they were made of rough, scrubby lumber, a clear finish was abandoned for paint (rust-red...
...The cost of two sets of shelves, nine 3-foot shelves in each set and a total of 40 blocks, including lumber, paint, and sealer, came to 20-odd dollars...
...One of the few facts in the confusion of the moment is that, so far, voluntary price agreements have failed...
...Never more timely, there are practical budgeting suggestions adaptable to almost any family in The Family Dollar (Extension Pamphlet 173), free from Bulletin Room, University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service, University Farm, St...
...Memphis, Tenn...
...Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Detroit 31, Mich...
...make some allowance for "spending as you please...
...And Donald Montgomery, the United Auto Workers Washington representative, said that a specialty label on Triple Rich bread would make consumers think it "a health food for people with special ailments...
...No one dares to predict the amount of cutbacks in consumer goods, but the expert estimates range from 25-40...
...22 on the 11th floor of the Mart in Chicago . . . To keep snow from sticking to the shovel, rub the shovel with a heavy wax or paraffin, or brush on melted paraffin with an old paint brush . . . Pork, along with veal breast, continues to be one of the better buys in meat...
...Evening Gardening The first seed catalog arrived in a snowstorm, and it's as irresistible as a good mystery story...
...For consumers, every field looks muddy...
...Walker points out that FTC, charging Dolcin with false and misleading advertising, named aspirin "the only therapeutically active component of Dolcin...
...While I have some doubts about balance where single blocks are used on shelves more than 45 inches long, anything less than that is solid enough, especially if you push books or magazines or whatever back against the wall—"a well-known principle in physics," a friend told me...
...Briefly, this is the background: last summer the FDA proposed national standards for bread which put a top limit of 3% soy flour and 1 1/2% wheat germ for white bread...
...What is involved," said Voorhis, "is the pressure of the white flour milling interests which want the staff of life to consist of white flour, air, water, and as little else as possible...
...For consumers, the implication of Walker's article is clear: buy common aspirin instead...
...In contrast to 1950, when families spent their money on durables like houses, cars, household equipment, and furniture, 1951 will be a year of lower supplies of durable items...
...After the first roar of the co-ops against the FDA's low ceiling proposal on what constitutes a loaf of white bread, the FDA issaed a 16-page mimeographed explanation of its proposals which said, among other things, that the taste and color of a loaf of bread are changed when soy flour content exceeds 3...
...One of the main arguments of the co-ops is that their bread—which has been successful despite a slightly higher price—is nutritionally superior to "enriched" bread produced by commercial bakers...
...a car is best controlled on ice by leaving the clutch engaged and pumping the brake...
...Philadelphia 32, Pa...
...Rapidly expanding use of chemicals and substitutes in everyday food products, reports the committee, is "alarming" and "has raised a serious problem as far as the public health is concerned...
...San Francisco, Calif...
...A Department of Agriculture nutritionist recommends baking ham at 250 degrees (25-30 minutes per pound for ham warmed to room temperature and 35-40 minutes per pound if it's moved from refrigerator to oven) for least shrinkage and best taste...
...What is further involved is the pressure of the producers of advertised brands of white bread who do not wish to print on the wrapper the meager quantities of nutritious ingredients like milk, soy flour, and wheat germ, which their products contain, because if they did they would not be able to meet the competition of honestly labeled products, despite their huge expenditures for advertising time and space...
...James J. De-laney, New York Democrat, has held hearings on a proposed amendment to the FDA Act that would require FDA approval of chemicals and synthetics for human safety before they are used in food products...
...Here are some of the better known seed houses whose catalogs you may want to send for if you aren't on mailing lists: Vaughan's, 10 W. Randolph St., Chicago, 111...
...The Delaney committee wants a six-months extension of hearings...
...The FDA added that soy flour used in larger quantities could "by proper labeling" be sold in interstate commerce...
...Walker's expose in a magazine of the Digest's circulation is particularly salutary because of the limited effect to date of federal efforts to clamp down on the pillmakers...
...Consumers may make more, but every phase of living will cost more...
...The wood blocks occurred to me after rejecting glass bricks because of expense and natural bricks because of possibly excessive weight in floor-to-ceiling shelves...
...that Dolcin spends more than $1,500,000 a year for advertising...
...I used two coats of the latter, sanding before, during, and after, and finishing with a thin coat of paste wax...
...I can't name the principle, but pushing weight to the back of the shelves provides sturdy pinning...
...Appearing before the committee, Jerry Voorhis, again on the alert for consumers, recommended that the Food and Drug Administration be required to maintain minimum quality standards for food products, testing all chemical substitutes before they reach consumers in food...
...all except Norito, Romind, and Citru-Mix have had complaints brought against them by the Federal Trade Commission...
...For end props between the shelves, you can use glass or natural bricks or, as 1 diet, have wood "bricks" cut the width of the boards and the height you want...
...Among the suggestions are: a financial plan, to be successful, must fit your family and not the one next door...
...Clive McCay, Cornell nutritionist, which contains 6% soy flour, 2% wheat germ, and 8% milk solids from being sold in interstate commerce as "white" bread...
...They have avoided us like the plague," said Victor A. Kleinfeld, the committee's chief counsel...
...He contends that enrichment programs have removed 20-odd vital wheat elements and restored only four...
...Speaking strictly as an amateur member of the flower gardening league, one of the most helpful articles I've seen on annuals (including selection, planting dates, heights, and volume) appears in the January issue of Flower Grower...
...Inexpensive Book Shelves One solution to needed shelf space for books or magazines or toys is to have a lumber company cut boards the size you want...
...Imdrin is not allowed to go through the mails...
...Riverside, Calif...
...One of the toughest problems of all is food, where prices keep rising, despite official assurances of a 1951 abundance of meat, fresh produce, margarine, and milk...
...Following this, FDA Commissioner Paul Dunbar proposed hearings on a "high protein" bread...
...shipments of Dolcin, Imdrin, Pruvo, Sural, and Citru-Mix have been seized by the Food and Drug Administration...
...The drugs—dressed-up painkillers with high price tags—named by Walker include Dolcin, Imdrin, Sural, Pruvo, C.S.A...
...rising temperature or sunshine on ice can increase skid dangers as much as 130...
...make repairs as soon as the need is apparent...
...Meanwhile, another battle involving labels and the Food and Drug Administration is going on...
...Taxes will be up, for everyone, and anyone who seriously doubts the need for an effective excess profits tax might keep an eye out for the 1950 profits figures soon to be released...
...There is some indication that proposed bread standards may be shelved as they were in the last war, but the fur is still flying...
...The Cooperative League immediate-ly argued, and has continued to argue, that this "ceiling" would outlaw the "Triple Rich" bread made from a formula developed by Dr...
...There has been a general reluctance on the part of food industries to testify...
...Farmer Seed & Nursery Co., 58 N. 5th St., Fairbault, Minn...
...47 Barclay St., New York City...
...25 cents...
...Pertinent Pamphlets Along with seed catalogs, two informative, illustrated booklets on improving your home grounds make pleasant reading on winter evenings...
...that FTC objected to Dolcin's ad claim as a reliable treatment for "growing pains" because of confusion with rheumatic fever ("The prolonged administration of Dolcin to persons having rheumatic fever may result in serious hemorrhage and death...
...One is The Home Landscape by Harold O. Perkins (Bulletin 421), published by the Connecticut Agricultural Extension Service, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn...
...But these actions have had little attention paid to them in the press, and meanwhile the drug makers proceed on the unfortunately successful theory of more and louder advertising...
...So far it has heard testimony mainly from university and government food and chemical experts...
...that, I submit, is a bargain for the times...
...keep expense records...
...Tablets, Nor-ito, Artex, Romind, Terits, and Citru-Mix...
...Planning vegetable and flower gardens on paper during winter evenings is fun, and while a little dreaming may go into these leisurely adventures, there's a good chance ideas will have jelled by the time the planting season arrives...
...Peter Henderson & Co., Henderson Bldg., 35 Cortlandt St., New York 7, N. Y. Joseph Harris Co., Moreton Farm, Rochester 11, N. Y. W. Atlee Burpee Co., Clinton, la...
...Those Million-Dollar Aspirins' C. Lester Walker offers a public service as well as careful research in his article, "Those Million-Dollar Aspirins" (Reader's Digest for January), a blistering exposure of so-called "wonder" drugs which claim to end the pains of arthritis and rheumatism—and which are composed mainly of aspirin or some equally common painkiller...
...Overtones of the last time are with us: gray and black markets in metals and cars...
...Production will be up, with an expansion of basic industries, and more planes, tanks, and guns...
...check supplies before re-stocking...
...Notes J. D. Ratcliff, in an article on the antihistamines in the January Woman's Home Companion, says the cold pills are going through a period of "doubt and cynicism" but concludes they are the "most hopeful approach yet" to ending the discomforts of the common cold . . . Our advertising volume in 1950 exceeded $5,000,000,000, a new record high . . . The 1951 Good Design exhibit of furniture and household items, sponsored jointly by the Museum of Modern Art and the Merchandise Mart, will be open to the public after Jan...
...Paul 1, Minn...
...Finish the boards as you please, with paint, shellac, varnish, or sealer...
...Standards for Bread While the result still hangs in doubt, the fighting campaign of coops, labor unions, and consumer groups against the Food and Drug Administration's proposed white bread standards is refreshing evidence that aroused consumers can, if they care enough, jostle a complacent public agency and disturb what otherwise might have been a routine decision in favor of the commercial bakers, affecting anyone who buys white bread...
...Jerry Voorhis, Co-op League executive secretary, has been the spearhead of the consumer fight against the baking interests...
...This bread is now sold by co-ops and some regular stores and is used by hospitals, public institutions, and some New York schools, reaching a total of 500,000 consumers...
...Both are free...
...Chemicals in Foods For six months a House subcommittee headed by Rep...

Vol. 15 • February 1951 • No. 2


 
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