Show Home Front Pledge Campaign Opens Next Week Movement Created to Fight Inflation and Black Market in West Millard Drive Under Direction of Vera Hilton Price Panel M Member Starts Aug 23 Consumers and merchants of West Millard will unite In a movement movement movement move move- ment to fight inflation and stamp out black markets in the Home Front Pledge Campaign which opens here next week During the campaign e eve every v e r y housewife in inVest West Vest Millard will vili be asked to sign the following pledge To UTo do my part on the Home FrontI Front Front- I UI will pay no more than Top Legal Prices I I will Accept No Rationed Goods Without Giving Up Ration Stamps Beginning Monday Aug 23 the block leaders under the direction of Vera Hilton Price Panel member member member mem mem- ber will visit every home in West Millard in th the campaign to give to ever every housewife the opportunity sign the Home Front Pledge The campaign which is sponsored sponsor sponsor- ed by the local war price and ra rationing rationing rationing ra- ra board and other community groups is part of a national movement movement move- move ment nent on the part of consumers and merchants to control prices As the block leaders call at the various homes and present the Home Front Pledge for each housewife's housewife's house ise wife's signature they will wm explain the purposes of the campaign and vill will distribute copies of or the new community ceiling price lists just Issued for this area by the state office of the OPA The purposes of the pledge campaign campaign campaign cam cam- as stated on the pledge form orm are To uTo help distribute rationed goods fairly to help hold down the he cost of living to bring violations violations viola- viola ions to the attention of my war price irice and rationing board When the Home Front Pledge campaign was given Its initial test in n New Orleans recently food costs for or the ensuing month declined 5 per per percent cent said W. W C. C Cole chairman chairman chair- chair man nan of the local war price and ra- ra board Local merchants will welcome the he campaign for two reasons First because many of them are subject to unwarranted criticism on the he part of customers custom rs who fail fall to realize that certain price increases are justified by increasing costs and that most merchants are sellIng selling sell- sell ing ng their merchandise at prices at ator ator ator or below the legal ceilings established established by OPA Second because the honest lonest merchant realizes the campaign campaign cam- cam aign will protect him against the unfair competition of the chiseler and the black market operator Here In In InVest Vest West Millard our reail retail retail re- re tail ail merchants by and large are in full ull compliance with OPA regulations regulations regula- regula ions establishing price ceilings Block leaders are requesting the housewife to check prices carefully careful- careful ly y and if she finds she is being charged more than the ceiling price to call the matter to the attention attention at- at of the merchant Only if the he merchant refuses to comply with the ceiling price is the housewife housewife housewife house house- wife asked to make a report to the price panel of the local war var price and rationing board The price panel anel investigates the report and affords the merchant an opportunity it ty ity to present his side of the case Inadvertent nt and unlawful violations violations violations viola viola- usually are adjusted immedi immedi- Wilful violations ar are reported report report- ed to the OPA state price office |