New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
n. 26.-President

preddent, who took the
 1eOe of giving the state-
 1fed for a senate commit
 press through the commit
 1bNe Information.
 DreC0dented action on the
 Rresident, 1t is predicted.
 tho ire of Senator Reed
 Alk those members of the
 committee who thus far
 4 to give MT. Hoover a
 o1orA adjourning over the
 TT .h0hdays the committee an-
 6ARt <; MT. Hoover would be
 lASer. The food administrator
 IT counsel have maintained that
 nfW hearing was promised them
 lA committee and that it was un-
 nf them to permit the impression keed by antagonistic witnesses, par MiArly Claus A. Spreckeis, to go t0Ad that the food administration AN been q party to what has been kefnaed a sugar corner" sss " Keeps Price of Sugar Down.
 Mir. Hoover's statement attributes tA9 sugar shortage hero to the heavy anpvement, of sugar from the Western 1Iomisphere to Europe, and asserts kha4 without the fixing of prices by EERTeAment sugar would have been sell E5ng for 25 or 30 cents a pound, md 1n0FQ than $2OO,0O0,000 probably w0uld have been profiteered from the aAmerican people by this time. -Ac- tcording to the statement, the Allies sbAfore the war took only S0O,OOO tons nnnually from the Western Hemis- phere. This year they have taken M .4V0. 900 tons. a" .''4. f Since the food administration was fnrsatsd in August the United States eh4B exporteds to the Allies 11O,356 Hong of refined sugar and Cuba has hilappOd to \ Europe 246,133 tons of |sr1w product. This, it is declared, is Aust the amount of the shortage in Al1G Un3teA States. Even with these lpmontA It l. pointed out, consump- xaOA In 3N91And has been reduced 's1 lweAt xpus pounds year for each 1a ANA In France to fourteen sa,0Nnds, aGainst consumption in erica of fifty-five pounds. The shortage. the Food Administra- AOs declares. will continue during next NAr, as 1t Is the duty of the United GAte1 to continue to feed the Allies. Next year." he nays, "our supplies FIJI be short 260,000 to 30O.0O0 tons klaless the Allies go to Java for sup tltes. This amounts to an economy Of about 10 per cent. on our part. If Rthe Allies arc forced to go to Java 1t Ttill roQuire an extra amount of ship otAg which if used to transport troops Nklll move 150. 900 or 200, ,OOO American R1pldiers to France"
 Deuies Hoardinx Sugar.
 Charges that the Food Administra- ton has permitted sugar stocks to re- < nfSAA AvA nA arc denied, as are statements that su- gar was left in Cuba while an effort was made to beat down Cuban prices There are no sugar stocks in this country" it is declared, which are not in course of distribution
 A1 10 the fixing of sugar prices, the Do00 VI mtniHtrator has this to say: N N eYAob waesno other way under the " 4O revent prOfiteering except by nfnly agreement, as the food bill EaoA no power to fix prices. These SA01nementS have of necessity been adOS with the old manufacturers, in- GlAding the sugar trust. Independent N nE4 are represented by 8 major M committee whose duty 1t Is
 the imported sugar between
 kAbly. This committee has no
 EIne power; 1t has solely to do x tribut4On. The independent Ets who have been lighting the a9 Tor years could be depended on tpAW1tch any unfair action"
 The statement recounts the Food Administration's efforts to reduce con- sumption to avert the shortage which was foreseen in the Summer, and con- tinues
 The reduction has shown in the necroase in candy sales, etc, but, on the other hand, & similar campaign 1Df the preservation of fruit has tn-
 Ded consumption in that direction but will reduce consumption later on. Taking into consideration snll factors, 1t Is not certain that there iho been any increase in actual con- annption. and, considering the in- creased canning use, there may have been . decrease" t-
 14r. Hoover emphatical1y denies sCAarres that George M. Rolph, head Of the Food Administrations suga' division, endeavored to benefit the California refinery of which he Is head through the arrangement of the Gu ba price.