The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-17
YOUR DOLLAR
SILK, NYLON AND Isle
STOCKINGS
BY CONSUMERS UNION


If your stockings regularly wear out
in the heel or toe, 1t may pay you
to switch to nylon, says C. u. But
Iif you get runs ahead of holes, nylon
will offer only slight Improvement
over silk, and at a high price as
compared with most silk stockings.
NyIon'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 U. S. government specifica-
lions are as yet too poorly fitting and
too high priced to meet the silk and
Inylon competition.
In Gus tests, SO women wore silk,
nylon and Isle hose on successive
days, until the hose wore out. Cues
tionnaires were filled out daily. Re-
suits are summarized in Gu. Reports
for July.
LAUNDRY SOAP
No one brand of laundry soap is
lIhclJ W IcinOfC I'LL ldSltI OF more
thoroughly than other brands, Con-
sumers Union found in recent tests
on A brands of soap, reported in the
July Gu. Reports. The most adver-
tised pure brands, Lux, Ivory Flakes
and Ivory Snow, cost around soc 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
his by using a soap with a tetra-
sodium pyrophosphate or sodium met
phosphate builder Qike Coop Cen
sral Purpose or OxydoD. The builder
combines with the minerals in the
water and prevents them from form
ng soap curds in the clothes. If your
water is very hard, you need an adj
litional water sOftener.
For use in hard water, a soap con-
aiming the builders named above is
,heaper and more efficient than pure
oap.
labor IN THE SOAP INDUSTRY
Three companies make 4/5 of all
Dap manufactured in the u S. OF
hese, Lever Bros. operates under a
ontract with the Soap, Glycerine and
edible Oil Workers (AFL); Colgate
'almolive-Peet has two plants operat-
ng under contract with the United
'oap & Glycerine Workers (CIO), /
While two more plants appear to be
Proctor & Gamble, big d
est of the three, has only one plant q
nder union contract (AFL).
CANNED TOMATOES
Only two of sc brands rate Grade I
| under government standards, Gu.
avs in the July Reports. Most of !.
he nationality distributed brands
ested were found to be Grade B,
ew were Grade C and 10 brands rated !.
5 SuDSlduudIu tlOO lOW III SOllu ~ .
lato content, but good for soups or
auces, if the price is low enough. :
It's foolish to insist on Grade A !.
)matoes for tomato soup. It's equal
7 foolish to pay a high price for to-
latoes which are low in quality. But
ow are you to know the quality? :,
Tntil all brands are graded by the :
overnment, about the best you can
o is to rely on reports of consumer
ssting agencies.
One interesting fact was the low
uality of samples of Cresca and SAM :
lrium canned tomatoes-most expen-
We brands tested. Both were sub !,
9,