GOOD NEWS ON RATION STAMPS
Sheridan, Mary
Sing a Song of Sixpence Good News On Ration Stamps By MARY SHERIDAN End Of Expiration Dates THE Office of Price Administration's latest announcement on red and blue stamps is wise on more than...
...A Victory Gardener's Handbook on Insects and Diseases (MP 525...
...when I recently turned in nine red tokens, the flabbergasted super-market clerk told me that was the first time she had had that many turned in by one person— and she works in a store whose daily customers are in the hundreds...
...Prof...
...McCollum added, "If we make a reasonably intelligent selection of foods, we don't need any synthetic vitamins...
...Use a tray or wheel table for meal preparation and clearing away...
...It's the University of Iowa's bulletin...
...Victor H. Lindlahr's advertising claims for his vitamin product, VBev, were so extravagant that the Federal Trade Commission issued a "cease and desist" order against him...
...Federal Weights and Measures inspectors report that wartime consumers are careless about these important check-ups...
...The FTC has ordered this pill's maker to stop advertising that it will insure good teeth, an alert mind, improve eyesight, relieve fatigue, reduce nervousness, or prevent earache, sinus trouble, or headaches...
...Sample of Lindlahr's ad oratory: "For such modern ailments as nerve tension, lack of energy, and sleeplessness due to just plain 'nerves,' VBev offers a safe drugless solution...
...Meanwhile, and more seriously, I hope that consumers who have been deluded into thinking that vitamin pills are a substitute .for three varied meals a day read the recent statement of Prof...
...I've read one fine pamphlet on more efficient housework...
...For consumers, unless purchases were well-planned, expiration day has too often meant hasty stocking up or even over-buying...
...Rehear Your Work Schedule to Wartime Demands (free from the Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. C.) In one section, recommended short cuts in working with food include these good ideas: Plan meals tentatively three days ahead...
...A farm housewife is my bet for the most overworked member of society...
...The Farm Garden (1673F...
...The descendants of the old patent medicine hawkers," said the Johns Hopkins man, "are trying to find a market for trainloads of synthetic vitamins on the same plane...
...Modern farms with electricity and running water have helped ease the farm wife's chores, but her working day is still packed...
...Nearly every general cookbook contains good fish recipes...
...Vitamins And Patent Medicine Hawkers I'm waiting to learn if some vitamin manufacturer tries to buy up Ernie Meyer's answer to an advertising man's dream, "Viking Vitamins, the Virile Vita-lizer for Victory...
...There is no longer any margin in hoarding them...
...She or he will probably be counting out stamps instead of watching the butcher weigh meat or the cashier add up the bill...
...Disease-Resistant Varieties for the Home Garden (203L...
...Growing Vegetables for Town and Country (MP 538...
...they are too busy worrying about their ration stamps...
...This should be effective in encouraging food buyers to turn in the one-point tokens...
...Retailers will be relieved of some of their clerical headaches and will benefit from more even buying...
...In one experiment, ironing a man's shirt on a 15-i'nch board and then ironing one on a 20-inch board, women found that by using the wider ironin<r boa'"d the shirt was moved 15 fewer times and the iron was moved 46 fewer times...
...Mary Rokahr, home management specialist of the Department of Agriculture's Extension Service, recently reported on important studies to help farm women —all housewives, for that matter—to do their work more quickly and easily...
...Department Of This And That If you're going to have a garden this year, you may want to send a postcard for one or more of these pamphlets, all of them free, from the Office of Information, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. C. Victory Gardens (MP 483...
...for the nation's 600,000 retailers, the day has meant heavy buying sprees and complicated bookkeeping...
...Store some canned goods in the kitchen...
...Since consumers will no longer have to gear their buying of meat and rationed canned goods to expiration dates, planning of food purchases will be easier...
...Under the new OPA ruling, red and blue stamps in War Ration Book Four are, like the discs, good indefinitely...
...Books like this, though, are a luxury...
...All over the country people have been hoarding their red and blue, particularly their red, ration tokens because they are good indefinitely...
...Hot Beds and Cold Frames (1743 F...
...The ironing experiment showed that the average ironing board is too narrow and it may eventually result in introducing into the American household a wider ironing board," said Miss Rokahr...
...Sing a Song of Sixpence Good News On Ration Stamps By MARY SHERIDAN End Of Expiration Dates THE Office of Price Administration's latest announcement on red and blue stamps is wise on more than one count...
...Assemble all supplies and pans before starting to cook...
...they no longer have any expiration dates...
...Consumers and retailers alike have up to now been inconvenienced by ration stamp expiration dates...
...E. V. McCollum of the Johns Hopkins Medical Center...
...Prepare food ahead while doing other work when practical...
...L. H. Barrows does an able job in her specialized cookbook, Sea Food Cookery (Barrows, $2), which starts off with some good background information on buying and cleaning fish and proceeds to a variety of recipes...
...Give family members a job at meal time...
...Claims for VBev were restrained compared to those for another vitamin product, Vi-Mins or Vita-Food...
...Incidentally, the next time you're at a meat counter or a grocery cash register, watch the person ahead of you...
Vol. 8 • April 1944 • No. 15
