Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
SURVEY OF SUGAR
IS BEGUN AMONG
CITY CONSUMERS
Corn Product Being Used in
Restaurants in Lieu of
Cane Sugar

The Dauphin County Food Ad-
ministration this morning began
survey of the amount of sugar held
in stock by registered commercial
users of sugar. Registered users are
those who filed sugar statements for
sugar purchase certificates.
The survey being made is to de-
termine if sugar is being boarded by
retailers and users. The amount or
sugar sold in Pennsylvania last
month exceeded the monthly allow
1nce for the state, and the food ad-
ministration is attempting to de-
termine if householders have been
buying more than is justified under
the regulations of the food admins
tration. The survey will determine
if householders have been buying
more than their share, or II retall-
Crs and manufacturers have peeh
boarding.
The sugar reports are now oelns
mailed to the registered sugar users
and must be returned until Mon
day, August 5. After that it is
thought that the sugar purchase Ger
tificates for August will be issued to
the registered sugar consumers
again In the meantime the con-
sumers who sell and use sugar lor
manufacturing or public eating
houses may not purchase sugar
Using Corn Sugar
The sugar reports now being
mailed are to ascertain the total
Quantity on hand in store, total
quantity bought but not received
total quantity on certificates unused,
and the total of those three items;
total quantity represented by can
ming certificates since July l ana
now in possession, and the total
quantity of Sugar represented by
canning certificates filled since
July 1 and turned into admins
traitor.
Restaurants in the city which have
felt the sugar shortage since they
have been unable. to secure unllm-
tied amounts of sugar are raploly
adapting themselves to the use OF
substitutes. Corn sugar is one OF
the substitutes adopted in local
restaurant yesterday. The corn
sugar, maple sugar or grape sugar
may be purchased without sugar
purchase certificates. At the 1000
administration office it was said the
corn sugar now in use has greater
sweetening power than the ordinary
cane or beet sugar.
Charged With Hoarding
The food administrator is in COM
munication with the state food ad-
ministrator to determine whether
flne shall be imposed on James
Beck, 80 Chestnut street, Steelton.
for boarding sugar in excess of the
amount allowed him. A search of
his home revealed twenty-five
pounds which had been bought for
the purpose of canning and which
was never used for that purpose
The sugar was confiscated and fine
may be imposed in addition.
With the beginning tomorrow of
the ,lrastic regulations limiting pri-
Nate consumers to two pounds
monthly per person, the food ad-
watch to see that there is no hoard
ing.
How to Save Sugar
The exact amount which two
pounds of sugar per month will al
low each person weekly, daily and
= each meal was worked out to-
,ay by Miss Mary Ruth Fisher,
8 tte College Economics Extension
preventative for Dauphin county,
- that householders will not ex-
ed the amount they should adhere
if they wish to do their part in
the world struggle for democracy.
Two pounds per person month,
re said. means one cup week,
which is sixteen tablespoonfuls or
weight teaspoonfuls. This is
slightly more than two tablespoon
fuls of sugar each day or about six
tcaspoonfuls, allowing two spoonfuls
per meal. Worked down to this
Easis, the sugar allowance does not
> EN- so small after all.
Miss Fisher outlined several plans
TO be followed by householders in
order to limit themselves to their
allowance. She told of a family
which puts the weekly allowance of
each person in a separate holder,
and at the end of the week the per-
son who has saved the most sugar
receives Thrift Stamp from each
of the other members of the house.
hold. Another family puts the
weekly allowance on the table, and
if when Friday comes the members
have saved enough from their meals
for the baking of a cake, they are
rewarded with a cake for their saw
ing. Otherwise there is no baking
in that house for the week.