The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-09-26
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, D. C.
What Helps The Worker Helps Tht

DOOSUoU W lle S1OO ISNtl, lIle NAHUM
would spend billion dollars more a
year for food, declared Milo Perkins
Director of Marketing Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, in a recent
speech to the Minneapolis Central La
Dor Union.
Farmers would have spent then
part of that money to buy city goods
and great many of the unemployed
would have gone to work." Mr.. Perk
ins said.
The real reason that farmers and
factory workers have not gotter
closer together in the past is because
both of them have had to get along or
too little.
They'll never get as close as they
should be as long as 80 million people
have to live in families whose average
income is only 500 month. The cit!
family might want to see farm pros,
perity, but there's so little in the
family budget for food that it must
be bought as cheaply as possible.
The farm family might want tC
see city prosperity, but crops are sell,
ing for considerably less than they die
in 1929, and there's so little in the
family budget for city goods that the!
must be bought as cheaply as possible
even if it means low wages for oul
factories.
Start School Lunch Program In YOm
Community
Six million school children in the
country will be healthier and happier
at the end of this school year if the
grown-ups in their communities worl
for a school lunch program.
The Surplus Marketing Administra-
tion plans to have that many places
set every school day Of the year tt
bring hot healthful lunches to under
nourished children in all 48 States
in the District Of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
It's all wrong to have too much fooC
and weak children growing up almost
within eyeshot Of each other. That
why Congress told the Department o.
Agriculture to go ahead and spen'
some money buying food surpluse
and getting them to people who neet
them.
The Department Of Agriculture buys
the surplus foods and ships them t.
State authorities who parcel them ou'
to local communities. Any school tha'
makes an application can get surplus
foods for free school lunches if there
are undernourished children in tho
school. gg
Sometimes these foods must be
supplemented to make a balanced
nourishing diet. The community mus
arrange to start the program and keeI
it going. That takes the cooperation
of both local government bodies ant
civic bodies, like trade unions, o.
women's clubs, or fraternal groups
Last year this program brought 10t
million pounds of surplus foods alone
to youngsters in 1000 schools in tho
country.
The underfed and malnourishet
children in your town or city can get
their share of these foods if you WorE
for lunch program. A letter is al
that is needed to start the wheels roll
ing. Write the Director of Schoo
Lunches, Surplus Marketing Admins
tration, Department of Agriculture
Washington, ID. c., for information
concerning Federal participation il
the plan. Then drop a card to Con.
sumers' Counsel Division, Department
of Agriculture, Washington, ID. c., fol
free bulletin on how to get a free
lunch plan organized Simply ask fol
the bulletin on school lunches.
On The Air
Harriet Elliott, Consumer Commits
sioner of the National Defense Advis,
ory Commission, will be heard in the
regular broadcast Of Consumer Time
Saturday morning, September 2S, a
II a. M, Eastern Standard Time.
Miss Elliott, one Of the Nations out.
standing consumer representatives
will take part in the radio dramatiza.
tion of the Forthcoming special issue
of CONSUMERS GUIDE, entitled
GOOD and Defense"
The special issue will point out the
needs for adequate diets and food sup
plies for the As million Americans
"below the safety line" 1t will show
how solution of this problem is one
of the most important objectives Of
the national defense program.
High-lighting the broadcast will be
excerpts from the special issue describ.
ing the situation as it exists today
and what measures are being taken tC
improve the diets and health Of all
Americans. Listeners-in will be told
how they can get free copies of the
issue.
Consumer Time" is a regular sus-
tanning program of the red network
of the National BroadcaSting Com
pany. 1t is broadcast every week un-
der the joint sponsorship Of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs, and
the Consumers Counsel Division of
the Department Of Agriculture.
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