Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-17
SAVE SUGAR
IS REQUEST OF
MR.. HOOVER
Food Controller Says Public
Should Not Pay a Higher
Price.
But There is a Scarcity in
Sweets and No Relief in
Sight for Weeks.

Washington, Oct. 17.-Eastern
states face.aa sugar shortage, with
no prospect of relief before late in
November, when the new Hawaiian
statement last night ~forecasting the
shortage, the food administration
again appealed to the American peo-
pie to cut down their consumption of
candy and sweet drinks, and at the
same time warned that retailers al
ready had received their stocks at
prices recently agreed on, and the
temporary scarcity in the east than
it has been paying during the past 80
days.
The shortage is due, the administra-
ton says, to the failure of the public
outside a few loyal homes. to reduce
consumption, and the unusual exports
to France, so the French may have
one pound of sugar per person per
month.
Price Per Pound.
Attention is called to the fact that
by agreement the price of beet and
Hawaiian sugar has been fixed at
z 1-2 cents a pound, Atlantic and Pa
cific seaboard basis, under which the
points should be 8 1-2 cents, while
by an agreement with the cane refin-
ers and Cuban producers the price
of cane sugar has been held down so
it should reach the u at about
8 ccnts a pound.
The administration notes chat it
still is waiting a reply to it's appeal to
agreement.
There will be a temporary short
age il. the supply Of sugar 10 the
area north of Savannah and east Of
Pittsburgh" the food administrations
statement said. during the latter part
Of October and the month Of Novem-
Der, pending the arrival in the mar
ket of new sugar. The beet sugar fac
tories in the western states are rap
with the Hawaiian production will be
able in a short time to take care of
the sugar supply in n west of the
territory referred to.
Relief by Late November.
"As the production of beet and Ha-
waiian sugar increases, the area 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 "a take place will be large
ly controlled by the economies shown
in the consumption Of sugar by the
people in the western area, and the
food administration makes a special
appeal to them that they should rig
orously reduce the consumption of
sugar, more especially of candy and
sweet drinks. in order that the north
western 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 TOY been distributed to
the jobbers and retailers at the prices
maintained during the last two
months, or upon a basis that should
reach the in the neighbor-
hood Of 9 cents a pound. Therefore, If
by virtue of the shortage in the east
ern states the prices Of sugar should
increase it is only proof that it 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 it has been pay
ing during the last thirty days.
when the supplies of beet sugar
reaches the Atlantic seaboard it should
be available on a less basis than cane
sugar.
Furthermore, the food administra-
ton requests that all jobbers in the
west as well as IN the east should dis
tribute their sugar with care amongst
the retailers, in much reduced quanti-
ties, and that the retailers, in turn,
should refuse to sell but a very limit
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