The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-18
YOUR DOLLAR
(BY Consumers Union)
Silk, Nyl0n and Lisle Stockings

out IN the heel or toe, 1t may pay you
to switch to nylon, says Gu. But if
you get runs ahead Of holes, nylons
will offer only very slight improve
ment over silk, and at high price
as compared with most silk stockings.
Nylon's resistance to wear is about
8 times that of sheer, good quality
silk stockings. But its resistance to
snags and runs is only little better
than silks.
The 81 Isle stockings Gotham makes
to L. S. government specifications are
as yet too poorly fitting and too high
priced to meet the silk and nylon COM
petition.
In GUS tests, 80 women wore silk,
nylon and lise hose on successive
days, until the hose wore out. Ques-
tionnaries were filed out daily Hose
which failed were mended and worn
again, if possible. Results are sum
married. in Gu Reports for July.
Laundry Soap
No one brand Of laundry soap is
likely to remove dirt faster or more
thoroughly than other brands, Con-
sumers Union found in recent tests,
according to report on Al brands Of
soap in the July Gu Reports. The
most advertised pure brands, Lux,
Ivory Flakes and Ivory Snow, cost
around 30c per pound of dry soap, but
equally good soaps can be bought at
half the price.
"Tattle-tale gray" is caused not by
poor soap, but by hard water The
minerals in hard water form hard-to-
rinse curds in combination with pure
soap. The harder the water, the more
soap you need to make a suds, and
the more "tattle-tale gray" in your
clothes. The only way to overcome it
is softening the water If your water
is only slightly hard you can do this
by using q soap with a tetrasodium
pyrophosphate or sodium metaphos-
phate builder tlike Coop General Pur-
pose or OxydoD. The builder combines
with the minerals in the water and
prevents them from forming soap
curds in the clothes. If your water is
very hard, you need an additional
water softener.
For use in hard water, a soap con-
tanning the builders named above is
cheaper and more efficient than pure
| soap.
Labor in the Soap Industry
Three companies make AS of al
soap manufactured in the United
States. Of these Lever Brothers op-
crates under a contract with the Soap
| Glycerine and Edible Oil Workers
| (AFL); Colgate-Palmolve- has
two plants operating under contract
with the United Soap and Glycerine
Workers (CIO), while two more
plants appear to be unorganized
Proctor and Gamble, biggest of the
three, has only one plant under union
contract (AFL).
Status Of other soap manufacturers
is as follows: kirkham & Son, com
pany union; Los Angeles Soap Co.
union contract (AFL); Pacific Coast
Borax Company, union contract
(AFL).
Minimum hourly rates reported tc
Gu range from 43-60c for women, 40
T3c, for men.
Canned Tomatoes
Only two of 66 brands Of tomatoes
rate Grade A under government
standards, Gu says in the July Re-
ports. Most of the nationally distri-
buted brands tested were found to be
Grade B, few We're Grade c, and Il
brands rated as substandard (too low
in solid tomato content, but good fol
soups or sauces, if the price is low
enough).
It's foolish to insist on Grade A to,
matoes for tomato soup. It's equally
foolish to pay high price for toma
toes which are low in quality. But
how are you to know the quality? Tn.
til all brands are graded by the gov.
ernment, about the best you can dc
is to rely on the reports of consumer
testing agencies.
One interesting fact brought tt
light by the test was the low quality
of samples Of Cresca and Sanitariun
canned tomatoes-the two most eXpen.
sive brands tested. Both were sub,
standard