The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-11-06

ing house, OF which one gets no ink
| ling when living in hotel and eat
ing in restaurants. You can always
go to a restaurant and order a meal
and get 1t.
I have heard many visiting Amer
leans who lived in France in that |
| way pooh-pooh the idea that there |
was food shortage in the country.
II those same persons had to search !
the markets before they had their
meals they would have gained very !
different idea of the food situation.
Sugar offers an excellent concrete
example. In a restaurant you are
fairly certain Of sugar for your cof-
fee. Three Jumps to person is |
the rule. Formerly the sugar was
put on the table in bowl and you |
helped yourself. Now the ration is |
served to each person separately. |
Still, you are fairly sure Of your su-
gar in a restaurant.
But IL you are keeping house, you |
find that you must have sugar |
card" permitting you to buy a stip- |
ulated amount Of sugar in a month |
The allowance is one and a half
pounds Of sugar a month IL three |
meals a day are taken at home, one |
pound IL two meals are taken at |
home, and one-half pound IL only
one meal is taken at home. This
means for the person who takes his |
three meals day at home IS pounds |
of sugar a year. The annual sugar
consumption per person in America
is just IS pounds.
| You would not be likely to find
this out If you were living in res
taurants in France. but you find it
out very soon il you are keeling
house.
1t is soon learned, also, that the
sugar card does not mean that one
can demand a pound and a half of
sugar month, but only that one is
permitted to buy that much, pro-
vided dealer can be found who has
1t to sell. A dealer who has sugar
will not sell 1t to anyone who comes
in. He sells only to his own regular
customers.
| Butter 81 A Pound In Paris
We paid last winter in Paris IL
cents a piece for eggs and 50 a
pound for butter. and there was fire.
iquently neither butter nor eggs nor
milk to be had. Private families
were allowed to buy one eighth of
i a pound Of flour at time. The gro
GERS could not sell flour. only the
bakers. The flour mills could not
choose their own customers, nor
could the bakers and restaurants
choose the mills they would buy
from. Lists were made out, telling
each miller to whom he could sell.
This was in order that one section
should not be able to eat up the
stock of flour belonging to another
section. or one baker derive the GUS
toners of another, when all were
short.
Let me give you the official fig
ures on the wheat situation in
France, so that there can be no ques-
ton.
1t is estimated that there will be
a deficit of approximately 100000
tons of wheat in France over the
period from September 1, 1917. to
September /, 1918.
The normal annual consumption
of wheat in France is from 100000
to 100000 tons. France has always
been an importer Of wheat, her av-
! erage production for several years
before the war being 100000 tons,
or slightly less than the consump-
u ton. Since the beginning of the
y war her production has fallen off
radically. In 1914 it was 100000
3 tons; in 1915, 6,065.000 tons, and
|
in 1916, 5,S4O,0OO tons, while for
: this year the crop is estimated at
: 100000 tons. with a possibility of
9 rising to 100000 tons, leaving for
: the period from September, 1917, to
Q September, 1913, deficit of nearly
n 100000 tons, which must be made
up by imports.
Where can those imports come
from except from America? Italy
y by reason of her position in the Med
" iterranean takes the first toll from
the wheat of the Far East, while
England, of whom the Far Eastern
= wheat producing countries are col
onies, takes the remainder. France
y can get little from South Africa
Argentina has stopped the exporta