The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-22
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. C.

Counsel Division, A. A. A.
| Washington, d. c.
How Many Egge to Dozen
A good egg, points out the CON-
SUMERS' GUIDE, official publication
of the Consumers Counsel Division Of
the Department of Agriculture, should
mean more to exacting consumers than
just fresh egg. A good egg, for the
money, should also mean that the egg
is a certain size. One dozen peewee
eggs, for example, amount in egg
nourishment to hardly more than 9
large eggs. Yet consumers, who
would be up in arms if someone tried
to palm off nine eggs on them as
dozen, accept the food equivalent of
9-egg dozens without murmur.
Consumers can avoid being short
egged, however, by buying U. S.
Graded eggs. Each egg grade also in
dicates the size of the eggs. Thus
dozen "Extra Large" eggs weighs 26
ounces or more, dozen Large" eggs
weighs "a ounces, a dozen Medium"
eggs weighs 22 ounces, a dozen
"Small" eggs weighs 19 ounces, and a
dozen "Peewee" eggs weighs 18
ounces.
Where graded eggs are unavailable,
weigh the dozen of eggs you buy to see
how much egg you are actually get
ting.
Prescription for Housewives Back
Housemaid's knee is less important
in these days Of vacuum cleaners, car
pet sweepers, and gadgets than house
wife's back. Housewives, the CON-
SUMERS' GUIDE says, should look at
their working heights the first time
. they have the bent-over, cramped feel
ing that is the first symptom of this
ailment.
Sinks for the average housewife, the
GUIDE states, should have bottoms
80 inches from the floor, and should be
either or 6 inches deep. For work
at the drainboard of this model sink,
the average housewife needs stool
26 inches high with foot rest IA
inches from the floor. Working tables,
where average wives stand up to work,
should be from 80 to 33 inches high;
sit-down tables, on the other hand
should be "a inches high. The COM
panion chair for this sit-down table
should be 16 inches high and have a
seat at least ID inches wide.
Lightning Rods for Financial
ThunderstOrms
When lightning strikes man he is
struck and that is that. But when
financial lightning strikes a family
and the members of the family begin
making the rounds trying to borrow
money, and then later begin to make
the rounds of the treadmill trying to
pay it back, their troubles have only
begun.
In credit unions, however, consumers
have kind of financial lightning rod
to protect them from the dangers of
financial lightning. Credit unions are
baby banks to provide credit to per-
sons of small means. Since they are
banks they are subject to State and
+ Federal banking laws. Forty-one
States, the District of Columbia and
the Federal Government now have
credit union laws under which char
tiers are issued for credit unions.
Consumers have the option of organ
izing their credit unions either under
Federal or State charters. Credit
unions operating under Federal laws
are supervised by the Farm Credit
Administration.
Under it's regulations membership in
a credit union is restricted to persons
having a common bond of occupation
or association. Any persons having
this common bond may organize a
union. Controlled by the members, the
credit union admits approved appli-
cants for membership on the payment
of 25-cent entrance fee and a first
instalment on a share of stock in the
union.
Payments on the stock, which is sold
in SIS units, may be made in install
ments of as little as Is cents a pay
day. These payments provide fund
from which members of the credit
union may borrow money for useful or
provident purposes, at interest rates
lower than those prevailing for SIM
liar loans from pawnbrokers or loan
CoIlpdHicS.
BY credit unions consumers are en-
couraged to make regular savings at
the same time they create for them
selves a resource for low cost credit.
Sour, and Sweet, Grape Season
\ Sour grapes, and sweet grapes, too,
jfor that matter, are most plentiful in
September and October, and that
means they are within the reach of
almost all consumers then. When buy
ing grapes consumers should insist on
plumpness and high color. Frost
which leaves grapes tasting fiat when
it nips them, gives warning to con-
sumers by two signs, dull appear
ance and sickness. Decayed berries
can be told by looking into the con-
tainer to see if it is leaky and stained.
If it is, steer clear of those grapes.