Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-08-14
HOLD UP SUGAR
CERTIFICATES
None Will Be Issued by State Food
Administration for August,
it is Announced
JULY ISSUE COVERS THE MONTH
Administrator Brooks Secures Con-
cession from Washington and
Hopes to Secure Home Canning
Supply.

Federal Food Administrator Frank
II. Brooks, tonight issued a statement
on the sugar situation in Vermont
following a conference with othclals
in Washington from which he has
lust returned and which resulted IN
his obtaining important concessions
in the way of substantially IN
creased sugar allotment to the state.
Mr.. Brooks says that there will be
10 certificates issued from his office
for August inasmuch as certificates
issued for July give the state its
proper amount for 80 days. He is
now working out plan of redistribu-
ton of the sugar already in the state
so that he will be able to take care
of places where shortage, on the
two pounds a month per capita, ex-
lists, by Withdrawing supplies from
communities where more sugar than
is actually needed is on hand.
Although making no promises, Mr..
Brooks, in his statement, shows that
he is still hopeful that some way will
be found to provide sugar for can
ming, and while this plan is being
perfected he asks Vermonters to
make their best effort to can without
sugar. which is entirely practical.
With the coming Of September new
certificates will be issued, unless the
situation takes an entirely unexpec-
ted turn. By November or December,
and certainly by January the sugar
situation should be materially re-
lieved, for the beet sugar crop in the
west and the cane crop from Cuba
will give relief. Mr. Brooks state
ment, in which he urges Vermonters
to demonstrate again their real and
applied patriotism in meeting the
sugar crisis is as follows:
Your Food Administrator, in mat
tiers that touch every last household
in Vermont, such as the present
sugar situation, does not believe in
holding aloof with facts that under
lie such conditions.
Sugar certificates for the manu-
facturers, dealers, hotels and restaur
ants, etc. have not been issued in
general for August for the following
reasons:
First, there were issued in July
to these people enough certificates to
cover their needs for July and Aug
ust. In this way the needs of the
public were also provided for
Second, Washington allotted Yer
mont for July sugar on the basis Of
three pounds and for August two
pounds per capita.
THE total certificates issued for
July were for an amount slightly in
excess of the requirements on the
above basis. 1t does not take long to
understand that certificates, there
fore, were already out before August
to cover the needs Of the public for
August.
Now Vermont cannot eat it's sugar
and have it still on hand, or to be
issued in certificates. No more GER
tidcates should be issued at ALL but
Washington is liberal with us and
has allotted a limited amount to use
in districts where there may be nc
sugar Furthermore, in districts
where there is an oversupply OF
sugar, an honest attempt will be
made to so redistribute it that no
community will be long without
s.Egar. This all requires patience,
good will, and patriotism. These
three attributes will put the thing
across for August. For September
we expect to issue new certificates
that will be based on rulings from
Washington. For the present we
must get along without any new is
sue of certificates, and depend upon
redistribution under the form of spe-
cial permits. l ask the hearty support
Of the public in this program, and
Will undertake to be absolutely i'm
partial and fair in preventing any
hardship or injustice.
1T is absolutely necessary that
there be the most rigid economy in
the use of sugar. Some families have
saved sugar for canning even on the
two pound basis. They are to be
most wOrthily praised and their ex-
ample emuIated. Others can do so.
4 little later if it can be consistently
q re, some plan may be worked out
tn provide some sugar for canning,
! It is at ali possible to do So IN
tG2 meantime, try, and try again,
a-I try hard the formula that has
len found successful for preserving
fruits without the use of sugar.
Why is all this necessary? This
j. a question being asked probably as
much, if not more, than any other
today.
First! Because we are at war and
fer the next two or three months
particularly our Government is rush
ing, as never before supplies to our
aT1ny and allied interests in increas-
ingly large amounts. These supplies
must go. No one doubts that But
how can they go without affecting
the supply Of some of our necessities
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