The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-27
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly By Consumer
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. C.

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Four Cities Try New Plan to Move
Foods to Needy
Birmingham, Alabama, is the latest
city to try out the new "food stamp"
plan for getting better diets to needy
families and, by moving surpluses of
the farms, to get better incomes to
farmers.
Three other cities already operating
the "food stamp" plan are Rochester,
N. Y, Dayton, o., and Seattle, Wash.
Food stamps apply magnet to the
end Of the traffic lines Of commerce,
pulling surpluses off the farm, and
drawing them through regular distri-
button channels to ultimate consumers.
The way it works is this: Families
certified for public aid are given the
chance to get free blue-colored stamps,
good for the purchase of surplus
foods, in return for purchasing orange
colored stamps which will purchase
anything a grocery store sells to take
out of the store except tobacco and
liquors.
For each dollars worth of orange
colored stamps families buy, they are
given so cents worth of blue-colored
stamps. The only requirement made
is that the family buy a minimum of
orange stamps amounting to 81 per
person per week. These stamps, to-
gether with the free gift of blue
stamps, give the families purchasing
power at the grocery store of $1.50
a week.
Grocers receiving stamps in pay
ment for foods purchased at their
stores turn them in to their banks or
wholesalers who act as agents for re-
tailers in getting money from the Fed
eral Treasury. Federal funds for re-
deeming the blue stamps come from
part Of the tariff duties collected from
imports.
Families supported by direct relief
with no cash income are not required
to purchase orange stamps in order to
get the free blue stamps. They receive
an outright gift of blue stamps.
Because this is new way of try
ing to Danish the contradiction of farm
surpluses and hungry city people, the
Federal Surplus Commodities Corpor-
ation-operating its extending the
plan slowly. Not until it has been
given a chance to show up its weak
nesses as we'll as it's usefulness will it
be made more general throughout the
country. Meantime, in other places
over the country the FSCC continues
to distribute surplus farm products
through regular relief channels.
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"FOOt"- Notes on Cotton
Cotton is due for honors in women's
hosiery.
Bureau of Home Economics experts,
after year Of research, have sue
ceeded in making hosiery from cot
ton that is full-fashioned, sheer, and
as well-wearing as any stockings on
the market today.
Acting at the request of Congress,
the experts have been working to find
a new market for Americas cotton
surplus and at the same time to give
American women a new type of
hosiery.
While tests are not yet complete,
the stockings that have been made, fit
as well as any other type of hosiery.
Only mercerized cotton is used, which,
in addition to giving the stockings a
luster, is stronger than plain cotton
yarn, and absorbs perspiration better
than ordinary yarns. The stockings
have been made in various types of
weights and designs-plain knit for
service weight, some more sheer, and
some in fancy mesh designs to meet
the demands of present-day styles.
It's not the job of the Home Econ
omics researchers to see that their
new type Of stockings get marketed.
That's up to enterprising manufactur-
ers and merchants.
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Lines for Hot Weather Drinks
Take your choice of kinds of lines
when you buy this tropical fruit for
hot weather drinks.
Persian lines (also known as the
Tahiti lime) or the Key lines (also
known as the Mexican lime) look diff
ferent and are different.
The Persian lime is the larger of
the two, and contains more juice than
the smaller Key lime. Most Persian
lines are seedless. Good ones with
flavor and juiciness have smooth and
glossy rind, thin skins, and a fine
grained and very juicy pulp.
Key lines have tarter flavor than
the Persian variety. They outrank
other citrus fruits in acid content.
Lines, like all citrus fruits, are
for Vitamin C. Good
ones should be firm, not soft or
'mushy'. Texture should be smooth,
although discoloration on the skin may
pull prices down without affecting
quality. Don't buy those that have de-
cay, bad color on the inside, broken
skins, bad bruises, or skins that have
turned hard and dry.
Use lines just as you use lemons
for flavor and taste.