The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-23
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly BY Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. c.


AS the job of converting our men,
machine, and tools to total war produc.
ton speeds up, orders from the War
Production Board every day cut out
more things consumers use. Here are
some of this weeks orders that will
mean sweeping changes in your daily
life, reports the Consumers Counsel
Division of the u. S. Department of
Agriculture.
The manufacture of practically all
household equipment using metals
needed for war will stop by the end
of May. No more iron or steel or
aluminium or other metals will go into
electrical appliances, washing ma
chimes, refrigeratorS, vacuum cleaners,
lawn mowers, and hundreds of other
household articles. Nor can a long list
of materials, including other metals
and scarce plastics, be used as substi
tutes for iron or steel.
The clothes women have now will
stay in style for the duration as a
result of another WPB order aimed at
conserving yard goods Skirts will stay
the same length, but such fashion
fancies as balloon sleeves, pleated
skirts and patch pockets of wool will
be out.
Householders were again urged to
buy next winters coal now to avoid
transportation shortages in the fall.
Plenty of screening made of steel
is still available to keep insects out
Of your home next summer, but copper
screening now in the hands of dealers
was frozen for use by the Army and
Navy to avoid the need to use more
copper make screens for them.
Sugar rationing definitely will go
ahead as scheduled,> in spite of stories
to the contrary, announced the War
Production Board and the Office of
Price Administration. In the mean
time, present sugar quotas for more
than 40 defense areas where population
jumped in the last year were upped,
to insure fair distribution of sugar
until the rationing begins.
And you'll have to 90 back to just
soap, water and sunlight to bleach
your clothes, becauses another WEB
order allows less chlorine to house
wives for laundry bleaching, less to
commercial laundries, too. Using too
much chlorine damages fabrics any
way, so your clothes will last longer
when you have to depend on good
washing and sunshine as whitenerS.
New Labels for Sheets and PillOWcaSes
Buying muslin sheets and pillow.
cases should be simpler from now on,
because when the Office of Price Ad-
miniStration recently set minimum
prices that manufacturers could charge
for bed linens, it set them on Il basis
of t types or grades of sheets, with
minimum standards for each type, re-
ports CONSUMERS Guide" publication
of the Consumers Counsel Division of
the L. $. Department of Agriculture.
Now each sheet or pillOwcaSe sold
by Il manufacturer must bear Il label
which tells the size and type of sheet
or case and states whether or not it's
Il second or SubStandard. Retailers
don't have to keep the labels on the
sheetswhen they offer them for sale
but smart consumers will ask retailers
to show them. and will learn what
each type means.
On all types: Salvage must be tape.
Plain hemS on sheets should total /
inches; on cases, > inches. Stitching
should be IA stitches per inch.
On The Air
What do price orders, prioriteS
freezing of supplies, mean to you as Il
consumer? What can you do to get
along without goods which are needed
for the war effort? How can you make
what YOU have last as long as pos
Sible? When you buy food and clothing,
money? If you need help with these
and other problems of wartime living,
tune in on NBC'c Consumer Time, Sat
urdays, at II 10 p, IN. Eastern War
Time. You'll hear authentic news and
advice from your Government on IA
tioning, supplies, conservation, buying.
Consumer Time is produced by the
Consumers Counsel Division of the
I. $. Department of Agriculture and
presented in cooperation with United
States Government agencies working
for the consumer It's on the air every
: Saturday at II 10 p. III. EWT, over
stations of the National Broadca sting
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