Arizona republican., 1917-10-17
EAST S()()N .bE SHORT
 IF SUGAR.
TRepubIican A. p. Leased wirel

WASHINGTON, oct 16.-The east ern states face a su9a. shortage with no prospect of relief before late in No
 vember when the nsN Hawaiian and
 western beet crops arrive. In a state
 ment tonight forecasting the shortage
 the food administration again appealed
 to the American people to cut down
 their consumption of candy and sweet drinks and at the same time gave
 warning that retailers already had re-
 ceived their stocks at prices recently
 agreed upon and the public should pay
 no more during the temporary short
 age in the east than it has been paying
 during the last thirty days.
 The shortage is due. the administra-
 tion says, to the failure of the public
 outside of q few loyal homes. to reduce
 consumption, and the unusual exports
 to France in order that the French
 people may have their meager ration
 of one pound of sugar per person per
 month.
 In regard to prices attention is called
 to the fact that by agreement the
 price of beet and Hawaiian sugar has
 been fixed at seven and quarter .ents a pound, Atlantic and Pacific seaboard basis under which the maxi
 mum retail price at interior points | SEOulU De tlSUl anu n quarter CtHtS,
 while by an agreement with the cane
 fefners and Cuban producers the
 price Of cane sugar has been held down so that it should reach the con
 sumner at about nine cents a pound.
 There will be d temporary shortage
 in the supply of sugar to the area
 north of Savannah and east of Pitts
 burg" the food administration state
 ment said. Daring the latter part
 Of October and the month of Novem-
 Der. pending the arrival in the market of new sugar. The beet sugar factories
 in the western states are rapidly com
 ing into action, and, together with the
 Hawaiian production will be able ill short time to take care of the sugar supply in the area west of the terri
 tory referred t..
 As the production of beet and
 Hawaiian sugar increases the areas supplied from tfds source will gradu- lilly extend eastward, and beet sugar should reach the Atlantic seaboard by the end of Novembe- The -apidIly with which this sugar invasion from the west can take place will be largely controlled by the economies sh Wn III the consumption of sugar hy the peo pie in the western area, and the food administration makes special appeal to them that they should vigorously reduce the consumption If sugar more especially of candy and sweet drinks, in order that the northeastern states may be supplied at the earliest possible moment
 Practically all of the cane sugar in 1 the hands Of the refiners and the pro- ducers has been distributed to the | jobbers and retailers al the prices maintained during the last two months, I or upon q basis that should reach the | consumer in the neighborhood of nine cents per pound. Therefore, if by | virtue of the shortage in the eastern 1 itaLes, the price of sugar should in .rease. it is only proof that it has been | increased at the hands of tne handling rades-not at the hands Of either the | )roducer or the refiner The food du- l ministration asks the public not to pay more for sugar during the present I shortage than # has been paying dur ng the last thirty uays Whe. the supply of beet sugar reaches thea At 1 iantic seaboard, it should be available upon a less basis than the cane prices | above mentioned.
 Furthermore the food admnistra | tion requests that all jobbers in the west as well as in the east. should dis | the retailers in much reduced quanti- l es and that the retailers, in turn, | should refuse to sell but very iinl,.@,. | (Continued on Page Two)