Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-18
North Dakota's Greatest
Classified Section
By the Baked
PrOfiteers Will Not Hurt
Us Any, Says HOOUer

" 80 -..-a-5-g. tes-A| .r.s.l 4. "-
This was to be financed by all the
r%efirers in this country in common.
and they were to get raw sugar in
proportion to their refining capacity.
The allied sugar was financed by their
governments. We had to secure vol
uEtary action of our reiners to do h
worx done by governments abroad.
"Also by voluntary agreement 1t
was arranged their profit for refining
the sugar should be $3.50 per hundred
pounds instead Of $1.s7 they had m
SIS, 100000 a year.
license wholesalers, limited the price
so that the got sugar at
81 cents to 10 cents per pound, and
beyond this, by buying the Cuban
sugar, We assured a steady price
through the year.
What we did had nothing to do
with a sugar shortage. On the con
shipments to neutrals and by requisi-
ton. we actually increased the supply
for America. The shortage in the
eastern cities was caused by the allies
drawing sugar from Cuba and the
United States instead Of Germany sas
before the war.
THE story of wheat and -four il
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now is to point out that congress fixed
the price Of 1918 wheat at So per
bushel as against an average Of 81
cents for the FIVE years preceding the
war and that when we took hold dour
was selling at $l7.10 per barrel and
going up. BY an independent COM
mission it was determined that a fair
price for wheat was $500 per bushel.
BY licensing the millers and fixing
their profit and carrying this principle
along in dealing with the wholesaler
we have cut flour down to $40 a
barrel at the mill door and reduced
the price of bread.
There were times last year when
the bread situation was more serious
than people realized. New York city
once had only &c hours supply Of
flour. Philadelphia only a weeks
supply.
by speeding up production and
shipping the stock we were able to
overcome these serious shortages. The
prices of many other goods wholesale
have been reduced by improving the
handling conditions.
But nov I would rather talk to
the people Of this country about
the immediate and serious future.
Great Britain. France and Italy. which
are holding the line while we make
ready, need our food. On December
L We A1dO SAPOlLOu " IA1Clll OtcIy
ounce of wheat and flour we could
spare, based upon our normal con-
sumption.
IF we don't save for them they
will not have sufficient bread for July
when the 1913 harvest supply comes
in.
I'm France they have cut the ration
of bread down to ounces a day.
That means five thin slices of war
bread.
$50 that every time an American
man, woman or child d%ispenses with
eating wheat bread or cake. just that
much is made available for some
French soldier holding a trench in
zero weather or for some brave
tions factory. 1t is just as direct an
action as if an American woma were
literally to hand a slice of bread to a
French citizen.
IF we do not cut down our wheat
consumption during the ext six
months, we will have failed h allies
and our own cause in n of the most
critical periods of the whole war. We
must save 100, 900, 900 bushels of
wheat
"By good fortune we have a bumper
crop of corn in this country-over
three billion bushels Of it. That is
80 bushels per capita and ordinarily
we uO IOL COISuulS Ouc OuS11c1 per
capita. Americans are used to corn
meal products. If they will substitute
corn bread for wheat bread. they will
win this great o battle we are
waging with Germany. Europe has
not h mechanical equipment to pre-
pare corn and corn bread, although
they now use 80 per ent in the wheat
bread. Besides, the people Ia not
been educated to eating corn products.
I'm addition to urging consumption
of corn, 1 would like to see the people
eat more potatoes. Americans should
remember that SO tar potatoes have
enabled Germany to Withstand a
world in arms. We can pit American
potatoes against German potatoes. To
the many who have written asking
what they can do to help win the war,
II can give no more urgent message
than this:
Save wheat, meat, fat and sugar
for the allies for the next six months.
They are threatened on h western
front by the troops the kaiser is able
to withdraw from the Russian sectors.
They should also not be threatened
with a dearth Of food. It is our job
to see that they are o SO threat
lened."