Something Simple

OPA felt that at last it was about to give the nation's grocers and housewives something really & truly simple. Date of the gift is Feb. 27, but last week, well in advance, OPA was proudly explaining about its new change-making food tokens. The fiber tokens (see cut) will be red for meats and fats, blue for processed foods. Each token will be worth one ration point. All red and blue food stamps will be worth ten points, no matter what the figures already printed on them. Stamps will remain valid for twelve weeks instead of the current four. Use of the tokens will mean no more brown stamps.

OPA's Food Rationer Walter Straub figures that the tokens will save shopkeepers an annual $35 million worth of time otherwise spent sorting stamps. The American taxpayer, he judges, will save $1.5 million every time a new ration book is not issued.

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