The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-21
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly By Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. C.
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT THE PRICE CEILINGS

Consumers Counsel Division of the [.
S. Department of Agriculture has
rounded them up.
What Price Ceilings Mean
@. What is price ceiling?
A. It's the top price that any seller
is permitted, by law, to charge you,
and that you as Il buyer, will have
to pay during the war.
Q. Does it mean one price for the
same article everywhere, or does each
person who is in the business of selling
something have his own ceiling price?
A. Every seller has his own ceiling
price. the highest price he charged
anyone in >your class of purchaser
last March That means if you were
getting Il discount. say, as Il nurse gets
discounts in Il drug store, you should
continue to get it.
@. Does a seller have to charge the
ceiling price?
A. No. He may charge you anything
under the ceiling but he must not
charge you one cent more.
Q. Is there one top price for all
| >lo'NIiSS, say, III 'iiV Hl'I'.
A. No. There is top price for each
type of stocking and each quality.
Q. Then the ceiling price of every
thing depends on where you buy and
what the same seller charged for the
same article last March?
A. Yes That's exactly the idea.
Which Ceiling Prices Will BE Posted?
g. How will YOU know what the
ceiling prices are?
A. Ceiling prices of "cOSt- -Of-living'
items will be posted right where you
buy, after May IS, 1912. They will be
nearly the goods on the shelf or coun-
ter or cOntainer or on the wall, or
marked right on the goods themselves
After July 1, 1912, you'll see ceiling
prices posted for services, too.
O. What are the cost-of-living
items?
A. They are the goods and services,
named by OPA, which are most i'm
portant to people in their daily living.
O. What will tine signs look like?
A. The mark will say: Ceiling Price
S. or Our Ceiling Price S..
1t can say anything else the store
keeper wants to say but at least this
must be on the sign.
Q. viii there be Il ceiling price post
ed on everything?
a. No, you'll find it only on the
st-of-livng items named in the price
order. ht
How Ceiling Prices Will Affect Our
Living Standards
Q. Will this order guarantee every
family Il better standard of living?
A. Look at it squarely. Now that we
are at war, we are not producing the
goods that will give everyone Il better
standard of living I'm fact, we're cut
ting down on everything we can. We're
not making many things because we
want factories to use materials TO make
war goods. It's hard to cut down our
standard of living, but it would be Il
lot worse if we didn't share what we
have. That's why we have ceiling
prices.
How Much Whitman II DO You Like?
Here's (make-believc) vitamin you
don't have 10 have. You can use as
much or as little or ii as you like and
no expert will shake Il finger at YOU.
Nitamin l. stands for vest, or flavor,
it YOU will. War is cutting off some
of the flavoringS YOU may like, but if
you have any ingenuity and an average
liking for variety, war is not going
To keep you from getting flavorsomc
foods.
Just because supplies of spices may
not be as bountiiul as in pcacctimr,
don't try to hoard amy Spices lose
their ZeSt if kept too long, advises
Consumers Guide, publication Of Con
sumrrS' Council Division of the L. 5.
Department of Agriculture
Here are some things consumers can
as possible:
Rule | store spices i'm II cool place,
away from the stove and tightly GOV
cred. Heat haStenS spice deterioration.
Rule .: Measure carefully, 90 easy
on the shaking. Don't use any more of II
tlaVorin@ than the recipe calls for.
Rule ,: See if YOU can't learn TO use
some domcSlically- herbs, like
: basil chiVcS, majoram, mint sage, par
slcy, to flavor your foods. If you have
Il knaCk for gardening, you might try
!, to grow your own in 4 kitchen herb
garden.
As another way to make your spices
20 farther, why not organize Il spice
pool with your neighborS? The cloves,
year by year on your pantry shelves,
: could ito -, ,. or maybe / times their
usual flavor duty if YOU do.