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Show "TEACHING iWYERS BUYING" Adelaide A. Baylor, chief of the home economics education service of the Office of Education, stresses the need for more instruction in-struction in wfhat she terms "consumership". In an article entitled en-titled "Teaching- Buyers Buying'," she declares that it 4s as' im-liortant im-liortant for the millions of housewives of the country to know some, of the technique of buying and renting houses, determining the relative value of the gas and electricity and have some appreciation ap-preciation of the various insurance policies available for different purpore, as it is for them; to know how to cook a meal or repair a garment. Other subjects which Miss Baylor believes the home courses should emphasize are the nutritive and economic values of foods, the advantages pro and con of package versus bulk buying, a knowledge of the texture of goods that go to make up the family wardrobe, etc., so as to make the food and clothing dollar go as far as possible. This kind of training not only adds an immense amount of information in-formation to one's common sense background but brightens and quickens the mind for a proper evaluation of other serious phases of life situations. It is regarded as fundamentally applicable for the young in all social strata, but it is likely that its values will be more apparent under present economic conditions, now that reduced re-duced incomes increase the problems of the head of the family. n |