Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-17
CONSUMPTION OF SWEETS IN
 NATION MUST
 BE CURTA|LED
Food Administration A n . nounces That C try's Use of Sugar Must Be Re duced to Prevent R e a l Famine.
(By Review Leased Wire.)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The Eas;- ern states face a sugar shortage with no prospect of relief before late in No vember when the new Hawaiian and western beet crops arrive. In state ment tonigh: forecasting the shortage, the food administration again appeal ed to the American people to cut down their consumption of candy and sweet drinks and al the same time gave warning that retailers already have 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 pay ing during the last 30 days.
 Public Is Blamed.
 The shortage is due, the administra- tion says, to the failure of the public outside of a few loyal homes to reduce consumption and the unusual exports 70 France in order that the French people may have their meager ration of one pound of sugar per person per month.
 Maximum Prices.
 In regard to prices attention is call ed to the fact that by agreement the price of beet and Hawiian sugar has been fixed al If cen,s a pound, At lantic and Pacific seaboard basis un- der which the maximum retail price at interior points should be eight and a quarter cents while by an agreement with cane sugar rehners and Cuban producers the price of can sugar has been held down so that it should reach the consumer at about g cents pound.
 The administration notes that it still is waiting a reply to it's appeal to the Louisiana producers to join in the agreement.
 Temporary Shortage.
 There will be temporary shortage in the supply of sugar to the area north of Savannah and east of Pitts burg" the food administration state ment said during the latter part of October and the month of November, pending the arrival in the market of in the western states are rapidly con- ing into action, and, together with the Hawiian production will be able in short time to take care of the sugar supply in the area west of the territory referred to.
 Economies Necessary.
 AS the production of beet and Ha- vivian sugar increases the areas sup piled from this 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 con sumption of sugar by the people in the west and the food administration makes a special appeal to them that they should vigorously reduce the con sumption of sugar, more especially of candy and sweet drinks, in order that the northeastern states may be sup piled at the earliest possible moment.
 Source Of Increases.
 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 cents per pound. Therefore, if by virtue of the shortage in the eastern states. the price 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 pub lie not to pay more for sugar during the present shortage than it has been paying the last 30 days. When the supply of beet sugar reaches the Allan tic seaboard. 1t should be available upon less basis than the cane prices above mentioned.
 Distribute With Care.
 Furthermore, the food administra- ton requests that all jobbers in the west as we'll 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 very limit ed quantity to any one customer. We also trust that jobbers will refuse to
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