Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-04-22
Consumer Dope
BY WENDELL WHALEY
Chairman Spicer Unit Coop Committee

IF YOU'RE the gardening type, here are
L few tips from April's Consumer Reports
:. ten asparagus roots and three rhubarb
plants for each person in the family is the
right number to plant
Consumer Reports quotes; "The New York
housewife had to pay from 63csto 79c dozen
for eggs yesterday (Feb 81 although the
wholesale market was so glutted with sim
ply enormous er-supply that takers
could be found for eggs at 45c dozen there
was talk among the traders about the need OF
having the Government step in with support
prices to save the market"-(N Y Herald
Tribune)
Here's another quote Of interest, which
demonstrates the need for Co-Ops and for
uniform sizes of cans and packages for the
confused consumer "a growing tendency to-
wards further multiplication of can sizes ap-
parenty has many retailers worried Gro
GERS are too hard pressed to find adequate
space for the sizes and brands already being
offered, to look with kindliness upon their
further multiplication, This fact however, is
not enough to stop the trend AS long as pack
erS think that there is a competitive advantage
in using odd size containers, they will continue
to adopt them" Good Field Reporter)
Colston E. Warne, President of Consumers
Union, says:
Consumers want to hear less about tooth
paste and more about health care. We want
bigger campaigns against tuberculosis and less
yapping about haltosis We do not want to
consider ourselves the unhappy victims of So
ca disgrace, ostracsm, a hundred other all
ments of soul and body because we cannot
afford to rush to our corner druggist. And un-
less advertisers, publishers, and network
executives realize that our views are held by
millions of reasonably intelligent and articu-
late citizens, they will finland not in the
distant future-that their own instrument is
he e.
ment for the result"
Here's Gus late rteurnS from the Food a.
Drug front:
On February Q. 1948, charges were filed
against 800 cans of Delmonico Foods Inc,
tomato puree, said to contain decomposed to-
mato material. The cans were ordered de-
stroyed on April 16 l948
The FDA releases its Notices of Judg-
ment" quite late. as you will note from the
following, just released
On October 20. 1914, 36480 pounds of
Swift's Cheddar Cheese was ordered repro
cessed on the ground that it contained less
than the minimum of 500 milk fat Likewise
with 4,760 pounds of Kraft's Cheddar Cheese
that was condemned and released under bond
for conversion, on September 10, 1947,
The Breyer Ice Cream Co, of Plant City,
Fla, was fined $500 and S5 fines were imposed
on the company's general manager and plant
foreman, for shipping strawberry puree con-
tanning decompoSed strawberries to PennSyl-
vania in April and May, l946.
And so il goes on and on and on. Ac-
cidents do happen, but proper inspection, test
ing and grade labelling help to prevent large
number of mishaps Just another reason why
consumers should get into the consumer
operative movement. When they own the
stores and the canneres and processing plants,
their is less chance of this sort of thing The
reason is that when people are in business to
give service, rather than TO make profit
they 60 things differently, if you know what
we mean!