Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-10-17

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French people may have their mea-
ger ration of one pound of sugar per
person per month.
Prices Tentatively Fixed.
In regard to prices, attention is
called to the fact that by agreement
the price a beet and Hawaiian sugar
has been fixed at seven and quar-
ter cents a pound, Atlantic and Pacific
seaboard basis, under which the max
imum retail price at interior points
should be eight and quarter cents,
while by an agreement with the cane
refiners AID Cuban producers the
price of cane sugar has been held
down so that it should reach tho con-
sumer at about nine cents pound.
The administration notes that ii
still Is waiting reply to its appeal to
Louisiana producers to join in the
agreement.
"There will be n temporary short
age in the supply of sugar to the area
north of savannah and east of Pitts
burgh," the food administration state
ment said, during the latter part Of
October and the month OF November,
pending the arrival in the market of
new sugar The beet sugar factories
in the western states are rapidly
coming into action. and, together with
the Hawaiian production will be able
In a short time to take care OF the su'
gar supply in the area west of the
territory referred to.
Relief i'm November.
"As the production of beet and Ha-
waiian sugar increases the areas sup
piled from this source will gradually
extend eastward, and beet sugar
should reach the Atlantic seaboard by
the end of November. The rapidity
with which this sugar invasion from
the west can take place will be largely
controlled by the economies shown in
the consumption of sugar by the peo-
pie in the western area, and the food
administration makes a special ap-
peal to them that they should rigor-
ously reduce the consumption of SUI
gar. more especially of candy and
sweet drinks, in order that the north
eastern states may be supplied at the
earliest possible moment.
practically all Of the cane sugar
In the hands of the refiners and the
producers has been distributed to the
jobbers and retailers at the prices
maintained during the last two
months, or upon a basis that should
reach the consumer in the neighbor-
hood of nine cents per pound. There
fore, if by virtue of the shortage in
the eastern states, the price of sugar
should increase, 1t is only proof that
| 1t has been increased at the hands
of the handling trades--not at the
| hands of either the producer or the
refiner. The food administration asks
the public not to pay more for sugar
during the present shortage than II
has been paying during the last thir-
| ty days. When the supply of beet
sugar reaches the Atlantic seaboard
it should he available upon less ba-
sis then the cane prices above men,
| toned.
Careful Distribution Needed.
Furthermore the food administra'
ton requests that all jobbers In the
west as well as in the east. should
distribute their sugar with care
amongs the retailers in much reduced
quantities, and that the retailers in
turn, should refuse to sell but a very
limited quantity to any one customer.
We also trust that jobbers will refuse
to sell sugar to any retailer who ad-
vances the price.
| "a remedial contribution can be
made If the American people will al
once reduce their consumption OF
candy and sweet drinks. Many house
holders of the country have respond
ed to the appeals for voluntary reduc-
ton and unless we can secure wider
| and immediate reduction of the sugar
consumption in candy, ice cream and
sweet drinks, 1t will be necessary mex
year to curtail the supplies of these
| Industries, as has been done all over