Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-07-18
SUGAR HOARDERS
AIDES OF KAISER,
SAYS Mr.. HEINZ
Hot Shot For SIackeTs Who
Seek to Protect Themselves
When Famine MenaCeS.
SUGAR CRISIS IS REACHED
We Must Cut to one-haIf Of Normal
Use IL Actual Exhaustion of Stock
Is to Be Avoided.

voc " SNStuai GNHauotiSH VI StoSN
Is to Be Avoided.
THE sugar hoarder in the private
family is not only Stacker, but is
actually helping the kaiser to win the
war;" is the emphatic declaration of
Howard Heinz, Federal Food Admin
istrator for Pennsylvania.
Everyone knows there is short
age of sugar." he said, "yet the selfish
and thoughtless are shopping around,
trying to avoid the Food Administra-
tion's regulations and advice. No red
blooded American, knowing the facts,
can be guilty of going contrary to Mr..
Hoover's voluntary rationing system.
public opinion must stop laxness
on the part of anyone. Sugar is an
important food; it is essential to
health, b if each individual in this
country thinks that their little bit
of saving amounts to nothing, and
continues to use it at normal rate,
this country will have sugar famine
inside of sixty days.
ht ihth VI ihtioilihB thC 3
gum trade, the confectioner, the soft
drink manufacturer, and all others
who have been given only a small per-
centage of their present rate of con-
sumption, will not make up the great
deficit that we are facing. 1t will
take the savings of every individual
family to the amount of so per cent
Of their normal consumption.
Hotels and restaurants are limit
ed to three pounds per person for
every ninety meals served, which is
a little more than one-half ounce per
ration they will soon be without sugar.
Country Has Had Warning.
every effort has been made by
Mr.. Hoover in Washington, and the
Pennsylvania Administration, for
weeks past, by means of newspaper
warnings and circulars to the trade,
to call the attention of the public
to the seriousness of the situation.
The recent ruling regarding sugar
certificates was one of the first dras-
tic results of the shortage It now
seems apparent thu certificates alone
will not produce the full results.
1.-THE situation is sQuarely up to the
consumer. Unless every housewife
conserves her sugar supply and ad-
heres rigidly to the rule Of not more
than 3 pounds per person per month,
there will not be enough sugar to meet
the demands for canning and preserv-
ing when the height of the season is
reached. In other words, unless the
people bring themselves to a wartime
ration during July there will be no
sugar for them in August.
"More than this; not only must we,
for the sake of our national health
and safety, take care of the fruits
and vegetables this summer for the
coming years supply, but we must
save sNgar for our boys in the trench
es, and as far as possible exc out the
scanty supply of our allies.
"There are substitutes for bread,
for beef, and for other necessities,
but there are no substitutes for
sugar.
Ship Shortage Serious.
every available ship belonging to
the United States and the Allied Gov
ernments has been utilized for months
in rushing our troops to France, and
keeping them supplied with food and
ammunition. Ships that ordinarily
would be engaged In the sugar trade
have been commandeered for war
service. AZ a result, we are short
over one-half our normal sugar supply.
"The whole purpose Of the Admins
tration now is to protect the house.
wife and thus enable her to take care
of the fresh fruit and vegetables and
by canning and preserving secure a
supply for the ensuing year.
Manufacturers using sugar have
had their supplies cut away down I;
but they use only % per oent of the
total, the other 80 per cent are the
household consumers.
'In view of these facts the man or
woman who will hoard sugar now, or
refuse to conserve 1t, is not only a
Stacker, but an Spen and devoted aid
to the Hun. The people of Pennsyl-
vania who have been asking for an
opportunity to do something for our
country now have their opportunity.
The question is squarely before them.
'Will you get down to a wartime
ration, or will you refuse to consurve
your supply and thus rob not only the
boys in the trenches, the suffering one
among our Allies, but permit vast
quantities of fruit and vegetables to
go to waste which should be saved?
"a person who uses more than the
voluntary sugar ration set by Mr..
Hoover is an enemy of society. The
people Of Pennsylvania who are anxi-
GUS to serve their country in this
crisis and who conscientiously con-
serve their sugar must be protected
against the Stacker who refuses to do
So The latter individual comes dt