The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, ID. G.
BUY SHOES THAT FIT

BUY your shoes by comfortable mt,
not size. Shoe sizes have no exact
meaning today because uniform
standards for sizing are not in gen.
eral use.
Your feet may measure certain
size on the retailers measuring in
struments and still be uncomfortable
in shoes marked that size. You can
fit your feet with shoes of several
sizes, but only one will fit. That's be-
cause lasts-the wooden forms over
which shoes are made-may be
marked with the same size but differ
considerably in their shape and di
mensions.
When a salesman tells you that
you need different last, he refers to
this difference in shape and dimen-
sions.
There are over 100 different size
combinations for mems and women's
shoes. Many stores cannot afford to
carry in stock all these supplies in
all the different styles you wish to
choose from, so shop around before
you buy and pick your shoes on the
basis Of how they feel on your feet,
if you want shoe comfort.
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THROUGH THE CELLOPHANE
Have you ever bought sliced bacon,
packaged in cellophane with the
wrapper striped red so that the bacon
looked meaty and richly streaked
with lean? Then have you gone home
and pulled off the wrapper to dis
cover that the product was not as
lean as you had expected?
If you have had such an expert
ence, then red letter day for you
will be October l, 1941.
On that day new set Of regula'
tions will outlaw this practice for al
meat products entering interstate
commerce. The new regulations have
been promulgated by the Secretary
of Agriculture under authority of the
Federal Meat Inspection Act.
Other practices which are strictly
not cricket have also been ruled out
of bounds, such as the use of tintet
cellophane wrappers on hams ant
other smoked meats which might give
people the impression that the produc
is more richly favored and appetiz
ingly smoked than it is.
Safeguards which have been re
quired by the federal meat inspection
service remain in force; meat ant
meat products intended for interstate
or export shipment must continue t.
be federally inspected; labels OF
meat products must be approved b.
the meat inspection service; labe
statements and pictures must con
form to federal standards of truth
fulness; cereal in sausage and simila
products must be declared on tn
label.
The new rules, generally stated, re
quire that meat or meat food prod
ucts containing two or more IN
gradients must list the ingredients Of
label in the order of their predomi
nance. If there's more water in tn
, sausage than cereal, then water goe
ahead of cereal.
The regulations do not make it an
!; less necessary for consumers to US
their wits when they go shopping
Label statements can mean nothin
to consumers if they don't read ther
and act on them.
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ON THE AIR
, Consumer Time, radio series pre-
duced by the Consumers Counsel i
the U. S. Department Of Agriculture
and presented in cooperation with dc
J Tense and non-defense agencies of tn
United States Government workln
for consumers, brings you each wee
the information you should have t
make intelligent purchases.
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