The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-03-13
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IIPS-HINTS-HELPS
Keeping Ahead Of the Times
J. by MARY MOORE 4
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Molasses is one Of the richest food
sources Of iron, much more so than
the iron in spinach, oatmeal, eggs,
raisinS, oysters, mutton and lettuce.
Iron in molasses is from 50 to 81 per
cent available for use by the body.
So for that rundown feeling that pale
look, eat molasses. Use it on your
favorite desert, in your milk, on bread,
or just take tablespoonful every
night before retiring. It's an excellent
pick and one of the easiest tonics
to take.
Almost $3.50 of the cod liver oil
used in this country has been inn
ported from sources which have been
closed by war, but other fish oils such
as halibut, swordfsh, sable-fish, man.
haden, sardne, shark, tuna and salmon
are rich in one or more of the neces-
sary vitamins, and synthetic vitamn
d can also be produced by irradiation
Of ergosterols and cholesterols.
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"China Shall Rise Again" new
book by Madame Chang kai-shek,
(Harpers) tells precisely what has
happened to China in three years of
undeclared war, and what China in
tends to do in the next three years.
This is an Illuminating book written
at odd moments between crucial con-
ferences, field trips with her dis
tingushed husband during air raids.
1t is a book to stir the sternest and
bitter indictment of the democracies.
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GLAMOUR
Whatever they may be for the
wearer, womens hats are serious
problem in the making. Feminine
headgear developed in recent years
has been knocking the interests Of
millinery manufacturers and workers
into the proverbial cooked hat. 1t is
difficult for employers to make a go
of their business and employees to
make living.
Realizing the industry was sick and
growing worse the millinery manufac
turers and workers petitioned Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins in 1888 to in
vestigate causes and effects and the
problems found to be undermining
the industry in ~ major millinery
manufacturing centers covered by the
study are: conditions due to general
social and economic conditions, such
as Dame Fashions whims, seasonal
ups and downs and the ever vital ques-
tion Of prices of hats. Then there is
the problem of poor business methods
| in factories excessive competition
among firms and the oversupply Of
workers. Since forces with the in
dustry are responsible for the troubles,
these can be corrected only by in
dividual and joint action of employ
ers' and workers groups.
In 1889 millinery manufacture COM
prised 1850 firms which employed an
average of $4,000 workers. There is
serious oversupply of workers, al
most twice the number required in
the busy seasons. In 1887 there were
only "a busy weeks with IA definitely
slack ones. That same year about
| lCO firms went out Of business and
many more suffered losses. The grow
ing demand for cheap hats, necessi-
tating low wholesale prices and a very
small profit to the manufacturer-as
little as three cents per hat on the
cheapest hats-makes for unsound
economic conditions in the industry.
Excessive competition undermines the
interests Of both manufacturers and
workers.
The report states that mot until
firms do business Of over S1CO,CCO
year does the amount available for
firm members exceed materially the
earnings of their full-time better-paid
employees. Only then are the returns
large enough to pay the employers
for their services as executives, buy
ers, sellers, etc"