YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
Sheridan, Mary
Your Money's Worth By MARY SHERIDAN WHEN A MAN accepts a position of public trust, we want to believe that he will rise to the best he can give. President Eisenhower's appointment of Alvin H. Cole...
...Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat, who compared Cole's selection to picking a fox to watch over a chicken house...
...The Wall Street Journal, happy about it all, commented that Administrator Cole is "now in a choice spot to exert influence toward easing the government out of the low-rent housing field...
...Carrot, Imperator...
...Now pending before a U.S...
...Little Marvel, and Lincoln, and, in leaf lettuce, to Oak-leaf and Salad Bowl...
...This excellent, illustrated circular offers the practical suggestions that came out of a year's study of home storage needs...
...One reason is the cost of prints and framing...
...As George J. Burger, an independent tire dealer and vice president of the National Federation of Independent Business, asked in opposing Howrey's confirmation, "Is it possible a gentleman going into this high position in the Federal Trade Commission can in reality serve two masters...
...Alsoph H. Corwin, head of the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins, agrees...
...try something you haven't tried before...
...All this, with less funds, and a Commission now dominated by Howrey and Lowell B. Mason, a publicity-seeking backslapper for the very private interests the FTC was established by Congress to hold in check...
...In another test, the Glasgow scientists put various kinds of chlorophyll at the bottom of large jars and let them vaporize for several days with smells like garlic, ether, and scent...
...Cole, whose appointment was sponsored by ex-GOP Chairman C. Wesley Roberts, has the dubious distinction of having one of the strongest anti-public housing records in Congress...
...Twenty Senators voted against his confirmation...
...All this increases the-pleasure of gardening...
...Tomato, Pritchard...
...As corporation counsel, Howrey for 20 years has represented big business—tire and rubber and sparkplug manufacturers—against the FTC...
...for carrots...
...This is dandy business for the alfalfa growers, and if it weren't for the question marks about the effects of commercial chlorophyll on the human system and the cost of the matter, the chlorophyll controversy might be dismissed as good clean fun...
...But quite aside from the Glasgow tests, two impartial U.S...
...Plant corn in short rows where it will not shade other plants...
...Beet, Perfected Detroit...
...For the first-time gardener, the first act recommended is a postcard to the State College of Agriculture or Agricultural Experiment Station for gardening bulletins...
...Cucumber, Early Surecrop Hybrid...
...most of them are free to state residents and contain a mine of information about vegetable gardening preparations, selection of seeds and plants, and planting times for various localities...
...Appeals Court is an appeal of the Big Four rubber companies challenging the FTC's decision on quantity discounts to big dealers in violation of the Robinson-Patman act...
...Its work has been expanded to include administration of the Robinson-Patman Act, the Wheeler-Lea Act, the Wool Products Act, the Trade Act, and the Fur Products Labeling - Act...
...free...
...British chlorophyll manufacturers, however, protested the report's results...
...Where to begin...
...The most recent storm over the effectiveness of chlorophyll broke with the report of Glasgow chemists, headed by Dr...
...Bush snap bean, Top-crop...
...Make a plan of the garden area before planting, putting the- small-growing plants together and the vine crops where they won't interfere with neighbors (avoid Uconn table squash, a bush variety which sounds good but is most erratic...
...Can he now cast off his role as private partisan and act in the public interest of the FTC, which he has fought for years...
...There's no doubt that's exactly what he'll try to do...
...two catalogs, one 10 and the other 25 cents...
...Sweetcorn, lochief Hybrid...
...Rake—a good rake and hoe and spade are all you need for a small home garden—smooth before planting...
...Plant short rows of radishes and lettuce, and make other plantings at two-weeks intervals...
...they claimed that the chlorophyll solutions were too weak and exposed to odorous substances for too short a time to be effective...
...The smells remained, and the scientists concluded that "chlorophyll when exposed in this way to an odor does not remove the odor from the air...
...In one test the chemists swallowed more than 25 times the number of chlorophyll tablets normally recommended and found there was no effect on armpit perspiration or the characteristic odor caused by eating asparagus...
...public for its acceptance of advertising claims made by chlorophyll firms...
...Its keynote is the use of sectional storage units with full-width doors instead of the conventional closet, with standardized construction of three depths and adjustable shelves...
...10 cents a copy...
...This year, instead of making "All-America" awards to outstanding new varieties of vegetables, the judges reviewed all winning vegetables of the last 20 years and voted 12 of them as leaders: Bush lima beans, Fordhook 242...
...How the process occurs is still about as murky as the effects of the current chlorophyll products—made mainly from alfalfa—on the human system...
...Summer squash, Early Prolific Straightneck...
...Keep a record, for the knowledge and fun of comparison next year, of the dates of planting and maturity and of the seed varieties used...
...Peas, radishes, spinach, onions, and lettuce can be planted as soon as the soil will crumble between the thumbs...
...Remember that herbs thrive on poor soil and that parsley should be soaked in water overnight before planting...
...Head lettuce, Great Lakes...
...Chlorophyll is the green coloring matter in plants which develops with exposure to light...
...However, the transformation into pills, pastes, and pellets has persuaded American consumers to waste millions of dollars at drugstore counters for products that mask but do not destroy odors...
...Here at home, the Chorophyll Industry Committee, a trade group, criticized details of the techniques used by the Glasgow scientists...
...business—an operation that has jumped from the 1915 figure of $200 million to nearly $7 billion...
...Leading the fight was Sen...
...For summer squash, I would choose Caserta as an all-around reliable...
...Perhaps they haven't heard the skeptical couplet in the British Lancer: The Goat that reeks on yonder hill Has browsed all day on Chlorophyll Time for Gardeners May is a mad month for gardeners, amateur or experienced, for all at once, as the bulbs bloom, there are yards to clean and vegetable and flower gardens to start...
...An open opponent of public housing, this lame duck Congressman will now head the government's housing agency...
...If there isn't time for this step, use a commercial fertilizer like 5-10-5 or 6-12-6 at the rate of two pounds for 100 square feet before plowing...
...Several with catalogs, fun to look at in themselves, are: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53d St., New York 19, N.Y...
...Spinach, America...
...This practice—selection of men with the backgrounds of Howrey and Cole—suggests an attempt to water and weaken the social gains of the last two decades not by repeal of legislation but by appointment of men who don't believe in the purposes of the agencies they direct...
...This service is usually available for a nominal sum of 25 or 50 cents...
...Associated American Artists, 711 Fifth Ave., New York 22, N.Y...
...Small Homes Council, Mumford House, Urbana, 111...
...Cabbage, Chieftain Savoy...
...Experiment a little, for that's half the fun of gardening...
...chemists have spoken up in recent months against the claims for commercial chlorophyll...
...free...
...Vegetable Varieties...
...For peas, not mentioned in the awards, honors go, in my opinion, to World's Record...
...Under-staffed and under-financed, the FTC now has a smaller staff than it had 35 years ago, when it had only half as many business concerns to watch over...
...The most common complaint of families who have bought houses without basements or attics is that they don't have enough storage space...
...That Green Stuff The gold rush of recent times is any product to which chlorophyll can be added, thus bringing to the American public something new, something green, and something so all-embracing that it claims to kill a person's breath, body odors, and unpleasant smells in the house or, in toothpaste form, to reduce cavities as well as sweeten the breath...
...Radish, Cherry Belle...
...Ten-dersweet or Nantes...
...The real kill is the multi-million dollar take the chlorophyll manufacturers get 'from gullible consumers who believe the advertising claims...
...John C. Brocklehurst, in the British Medical Journal, that their testing of chlorophyll against the odors of chopped onions, garlic, perspiration, foul gases, and skunks showed it to have no effectiveness as a deodorant...
...for tomatoes, Rutgers or Marglobe...
...If you haven't had a garden before on the soil available to you, scoop up a sample cupful or two from various sections and send it to the state university's soils department for an analysis of its needs...
...Or, can he hold two schools of thought on the application of the antitrust laws...
...for green snap beans, Tendergreen as well as Top-crop...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 28, N.Y...
...Editorially, the British Medical Journal chfded the U.S...
...Pertinent Pamphlets Household Storage Units...
...for sweetcorn, a local golden bantam hybrid or Seneca Chief, which Henry Beston places at the top...
...Last year an estimated 40,000 tons of high-grade alfalfa was used for making chlorophyll...
...President Eisenhower's appointment of Alvin H. Cole as Housing and Home Finance Administrator and Edward F. How-rey as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission—appointments confirmed by the Senate last month —brings to strategic public office men who are avowed enemies of the consumer and public interests they are now sworn to protect and defend...
...One of its tasks is the policing of the advertising of U.S...
...Howrey on the FTC It's more than a little ironic that Edward F. Howrey replaces John Carson, well known in the cooperative movement, on the Federal Trade Commission and, to top it, will be FTC chairman...
...Although many families have become bolder about expressing a love for color through brighter paints, wallpaper, and fabrics, many of us are rather timid about the pictures hung on the paints and wallpaper...
...Sam Granick of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research says that chlorophyll manufacturers "do not have a leg to stand on" in claiming that a pill taken by mouth can "deodorize...
...Howrey has represented Firestone in that case...
...As a Kansas Republican in the House, he fought the housing acts of 1949 and 1951, worked with the real estate lobby on housing issues, and advocated higher FHA and VA interest rates on housing loans...
...Almost unknown is the fact that good, moderately priced prints are available from most art museums...
...I favor short rows for all plantings, with at least 18 inches between rows, for easy cultivation...
...That is a guide with which I disagree considerably...
Vol. 17 • May 1953 • No. 5
