Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-01-31
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited by
$4,000, ,000-French Stu
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTS.
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced
70 Seventy Per Cent. Of Normal.
Java Stocks Unavailable.

sugar cO0trOl nus SHSCU luc Ainok'
lean public s1sO,OOoOOO. Herbert Hoov'
er, United States food administrator,
declared the other day.
He pointed out that sugar was sell.
ing for IL cents Il pound last August
and that it would have advanced to 20
cents q pound, with the world short
age as a stimulus. had not the food
administration secured the co-opera-
ton of the renners and wholesalers
and nxed a sugar price that today en-
ables housewives to buy sugar at from
8h to 8 cents q pound.
"Every / cent raise in sugar from
September to January means $751;
00O, 600 to the American consumer"
Mr.. Hoover said. "Numbers of gen.
usnea will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed Of $ls0.OO0.O00 this year II We
had not taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hsovsr called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
36 osats . pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
TsAay the American public has been
allotted 70 per cent Of Its normal sup.
-piy. Before the war the average an.
isal houseAsld consumption here was
66 pounds q person. In England the
annual consumption during the war 10
"a DsundA and In France each person
h allotted Q little over one pound q
nAnth.
sIQ August the French government
found itsslf unable to maintain even
this ration," Mr.. Hoover declared.
"An appeal was made to America.
France needed 100000 tons. We
agreed to all this demand and up to
December had shipped IS, ,426 tons. In
the meantime an appeal was made to
the American public to reduce Its sus-
ar consumption. and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
sonfsetionary and sweet drinks trade
with 80 per cent Of normal supply.
This has been generally followed, al
though such regulations were volun-
tary. a. the food administration had
no authority to impose them"
Domestic Price y sIa to . Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take profit Of NO
more than 30 cents hundred-half q
csst q pound-on sugan BY reason of
food administration regulations, bind
ing reflners and wholesalers, the re-
taller 10 abs today to buy sugar at
from 8 to 81 cents q pound. This
enables him to sell to the housewife at
sh to o cents q pound.
There have been some violations Of
the sugar rulings. Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales Of sugar from 1e to
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop
ped and IL evidence itself Of the prices
at which consumers would have been
mulct had We not intsrvened. We have
forfeited wholesalers' licenses In az
gravatsd cases, and We have issued;
warnings to first offenders in q great
many instances through our local ad-
ministrators."
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could bs nll-
ed to normal very soon II ships could.
be sent to Java, where 100000 tons Of
sugar is waiting for shipment. But;
the shipping situation IL 20 acute that
the nation cannot spare the eleven
ships needed to transport this sugar
It would take the boats one year to-
haul 25O,O00 tons. In the same time
they could be used for transporting
1000 soldiers to France.
The food administration believes
that the American public will diminish
its sugar consumption by 10 or 15 per
cent. when 1t Is made clear that such
sugar saving Is a patriotic act and
when 1t is understood that there are
plenty of sweetepers available to take
the place of sugar, such as honey or
corn syrup.
Why Shortage Exists.
The three great sugar producing cen7
tiers of the world are Germany, the
West and East Indies. German sugar
Ii, of course. used at home. Tho East
Indian sugar 10 unavailable because Of
the ship shortage.
While U boats made big inroads on
the worlds shipping, France and Italy
ceased to b self sustaining in sugar
manufacture. England In the mean.
time was cut on from German sugar
l, 400. 900 tons q year-becauss Of the
war. The result has been that the al
lied nations have bsen forced - turn