The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-23
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. C.
Stamp Planning for Cotton

ClCy COitSuIIicTS are SOIiS w uc pu1 w
work for cotton producers and cotton
consumers.
Through the issuance of brown
stamps to eligible low-income families,
Department of Agriculture economists
hope to send thousands of Americas
ill-clothed into stores to take part in
while sale of cotton clothing and cot
ton goods of kind that no January
has ever seen.
If families with incomes of less than
$1,000 year bought as much cotton
goods as families with incomes from
$1,000 to $500 a year, the additional
purchasing power would add $153, ,O00,-
900 more to the income of the men and
women who man the cotton industry,
beginning with the farmer and includ
ing the factory workers, retail clerks,
and workers in the transportation in
dustries.
Cotton stamps, in 25-cent denomina-
tions, will be sold to families receiving
public assistance families on relief,
getting old-age pensions, blind pen
sions, mothers pensions, or families
Families who are eligible and who
want to take part-voluntarily-in the
plan will be permitted to purchase a
minimum amount of stamps every
three months. Then, for every dollars
worth of cotton stamps they buy, they
will get a dollars worth of cotton
free. If they want to purchase more
than the minimum amount of stamps
they may do so up to specified maxi
mum.
The most and least stamps a family
can buy depends upon its size. Thus
one and two-person families will be
able to buy $4 book of stamps every
three months for which they would pay
So, or a Sc book for So. The size of
the books goes up with the size of the
family.
These stamps will be good for the
purchase of any new garment or
household ar ic e made entirely of
American cotton in American facto-
ries. They may be spent in any store
selling cotton.
Retailers receiving the stmps will
cash them at their banks, with their
wholesalers, or at the Office of the Fed
eral Surplus Commodities Corporation
in their city.
The plan is now being tried out eX-
perimentally in Memphis, Tenn, be-
fore being put into effect more gen
orally. e-@
On Using Copper Utensils
Many times you hear the tale that
copper cooking utensils are poisonous,
will cause disease, or will bring you to
an early end.
All of these are fallacies.
Whether you have a chromium
plated skillet with copper underneath
or are using an all copper kettle OF
pan, there is no danger, according tC
scientists. In the case of the skillet
appearance of the copper base arounc
the edges should be no cause fol
throwing the pan away.
Simply be sure that copper utensils
are clean and bright when used fol
cooking, and there will be no danger
of poisoning.
But it is not advisable to allow foods
to stand in copper utensils once the
cooking is completed.
One final warning: Never use {
cooking pan on which verdigris-tht
blue or green substance you sometimes
see on old copper-has formed. This is
poisonous.
When You Buy Furniture
Decide whether you want solid woot
furniture, or veneer Tor plywoodD be
fore you buy.
Veneer and p ywo d furniture
which are practically the same--ar'
made by gluing layers of wood to
gether so the grain of each layer is
at right angles to the next. 1t is most
often used on table tops, drawer
fronts, doors, sides and end panels
drawer bottoms, and backings. 1t has
many advantages over solid wood.
First, it makes possible economical
buys in furniture Of beautiful desigr
since the manufacturer is able to use
less expensive wood in unseen parts
covering it over with thin layer OF
the valuable plywood strips.
Also, plywood is less likely to warE
than solid wood This is particularly
true of the thick wide plywood usec
for table and bureau tops.
1t is difficult for an amateur to tel
high quality plywood. But if the
patterns of the wood surfaces don't
match perfectly, you can be sure it is
a sign Of careless workmanship.
No matter what type of wood you
choose, look for well-made furniture
All good furniture should stand firm
ly on level floor, and should not wob
BILE. The underside of a chair should
be smooth, not splintery and unfin
ished. A coat Of varnish or other fin
ish on the underside keeps out mois
ture and prevents warping. There
should be corner blocks on the chair
and they should be screwed and gluec
in place, not nailed.
All furniture should be firmly fast
ened at the joints. Insist on doubl,
"dowels" (or wooden pegs) at eacl
joint. Furniture joined with one pes
or a steel peg is poorly made. Like
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