The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-02-02

panles tell you with your local health
department.
While the law may not require it,
milk companies may offer you milk of
varying richness. For instance, you
may find two kinds of milk, both meet
ing the sanitary requirements of Grade
A, but one containing per cent but
terfat and the other 81 per cent.
Consumers who want a higher-than
average butterfat content must expect
to pay for it because it costs more to
produce such milk, but frequently the
difference in price is much greater
than the difference in cost.
For consumers whose milk budgets
are small, skim milk is an excellent
nutritional buy. AS all nutritionists
know, skim milk contains almost ev-
erything there is in whole milk except
fat. 1t has calcium and phosphorus, is
high in bodybuilding protein, is rich
in Vitamin G. Of course, it lacks but
terfat and is not as good a source of
Vitamin A as whole milk. One quart
Of fluid skim milk plus l Il ounces of
butter, however, will give you all the
food values in a quart Of whole milk
When You Serve Carrots or Spinach
Throwing away the water in which
you cook your carrots and spinach is
almost the same as throwing away
the precious vitamins contained in
these vegetables. That's what scien-
lists working in the laboratories of the
Bureau Of Home Economics in the De-
partment Of Agriculture have found.
First rule is not to overlook carrots
and spinach. Second rule is not to
throw away the water they were
cooked in if you want to get the full
benefit of Vitamin B (thiamin, some
times called the appetite vitamin")
found in them.
Third rule is not to add baking soda
- even pinch - to any vegetable
cooking in water. The soda might
make the vegetables look green, but
it destroys nutritional value and often
spoils the taste of the vegetables.
Helping To Enforce Consumer Laws
When a member of the New York
Federation of Women's Clubs recently
found department store selling a ray
on coat as "silk," she didn't let the
matter drop; instead, she told the Fed
eral Trade Commission about the mis-
labelling, and the law enforcement
agency went into action. Now rayon
must be disclosed on the label. All of
which points to a good consumer
moral
Trade union auXiliaries, women's
clubs, and similar organizations can
hell enforce consumer laws by setting
up carefully chosen committees to
study consumer legislation. Jobs for
such a committee might be to educate
the membership in the ways in which
the legislation protects them, to re-
ceive and carefully analyze reports on
suspected violations of consumer pro-
lection laws, and to pass along to
proper enforcement agencies verified
records of any instances where the
committee believes the laws have not
been observed
AS a starter the committee could do
these things: Write the Consumers
Cousel, Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration, Washington, d. c., and
ask for descriptions of the new Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act, and of the
work of the Federal Trade Commits
sion in regulating false advertising
and other unfair trade practices. Also,
ask the Food and Drug Administration
and the Federal Trade Commission for
reports of actions taken by them on
law violations.
(2)-Secure from State officials
copies of consumer protection laws
operating in their State, and find out
from their local weights and measures
sometimes called "City Seal
cry how their city's weights and
measures are regulated.
(3)-Hold Consumer classes" for
members of their organizations and in !
form them how these laws operate in
their protection
(D-Ask the members to report
consumer law violations to |
the committee. The committee should
check the complaints very carefully
and before taking any action. Many
times it will find that complaints can
be rectifed by calling them to the at
.ention of the merchant responsible. If
that fails, however, the committee may
send full details of the suspected vio-
ations to the proper enforcement |
agency.