The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-17
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, D. C.
Do You Know Six People?

Do You Know Six People?
Do you know 6 people who would
like to have cracker-barrel discussions
about farmer-consumer problems
CONSUMERS GUIDE is ready to
help you plan and carry on these dis
cussions through the winter.
There's life and fun in such gab-
fest, if what's happening to America
is important to you. There's hope Tor
democracy if you and your friends
take time to thresh out these prob
lens. Ii living in democracy is
worth something to you, you will.
Pick the people who seem to have
the widest differences in point of view.
Try to pull together people who earn
their living in different ways; people
who work for wages; people who are
bosses; people who work on farms;
people who work at home.
Sit around the dining room table,
when you do your talking, so that any
body who wants to bang his point
home has something to bang on.
Remember good discussion comes
only from people who admit that the
next person is as decent a person, as
worth listening to, and as deserving
of his opinion, as the first. You'll have
fun if you keep the talk good-natured.
And remember, too, the reason for
Chewing the rag is not to make some
body else admit something he doesn't
believe. It's to help you clear up your
own thinking. If the next person be-
lieves what you say, that's one up. If
he doesn't, maybe you haven't put
your point across. Don't hold it
against him.
If you and 6 other people want to
plan, say or 7 evenings of cracker
barrel confabs next winter-once a
month, perhaps, from October to April
write the CONSUMERS GUIDE
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, d. c., for suggestions on how you
can hold such confabs and some ma
terial that will provoke lively ques-
tions. It's yours for the asking. Moth
ing in this material is designed to sell
you anything.
Get Your Vitamin ID
Vitamin scientists say you shouldn't
be buying Vitamin ID in soap or face
creams.
Vitamin ID is essential for babies
young children, and expectant and
nursing mothers" says the GUIDE
"Well-formed teeth and bones depend
on a good supply of the vitamin
Children who don't get enough Vita
min ID may develop rickets. 81,
Getting plenty of sunshine. is one
way of building UP supply Of Vita.
min D-often called the ssAtfshine
vitamin'. The human skin contains
'pro-Vitamin d. which turns to Vita
min d under direct exposure to the
sun for short periods every day.
Best food sources for the vitamin
are fish-liver oils, salmon and other
oily fish, egg yolk, and liver.
Because Vitamin ID is not present tC
any great extent in ordinary diets OF
children, nutrition specialists recon-
mend that in addition to plenty OF
sunshine, children up until the age OF
6 receive from one to 2 teaspoons o1
codliver oil or its equivalent daily to
insure good teeth and bones. A gooC
codliver oil states on its label that il
contains not less than S5 u. S. p
Omitted States Pharniacopeia) units OF
Vitamin ID per gram. Most cod-livel
oils are considerably higher in po
tency, and many low-priced oils meet
or exceed the standard. Other vitamr
products may also meet the standard
Dut mothers not familiar with vitamn
units should consult their family
physician if they want to be sure theil
children get an adequate supply.
Pasteurized VS.. Raw Milk
It's always safer to buy pasteurizct
milk rather than raw milk.
The milk experts in the Department
Of Agriculture, and in the United
States Public Health Service, say yol
can never be sure that milk is saf,
unless it has been properly pasteur
lied. Even certified raw milk, which
is as safe as any raw milk can be- may
carry dangerous germs. Every yeal
from 80 to so cpidemics are reported
of diseases carried by raw milk.
Pasteurization - properly done -
kills all the harmful bacteria in milk
Buying raw milk and then boiling il
as safety measure is all right wher
you can't buy milk already pasteur
lied. But many people don't like the
taste of boiled milk. Pasteurization
if done correctly, will not affect The
taste of milk
Remember that pasteurized milk ha!
just as much food value as raw milk
PastcuriZation is not substitute
for clean, sanitary dairies and farms
If you want to know how your mill
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