Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
ONE SPOONFUL OF
SUGAR PER MEAL
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such earnest cooperation been af-
forded by all those interested in
getting sugar to the consumer. Since
this has not materialized Harris
burgers forget the fact that the
sugar supply is low.
All commercial users and hand
lers of sugar are divided into five
classes, for each of which stringent
and binding regulations are laid
down. These classes are:
A. Manufacturers of. candy, soft
drinks, chewing gum, chocolate,
cocoa, tobacco, flavoring extracts, in
vert sugar, syrup, sweet pickles,
wines, etc, and operators of soda
fountains.
b. Commercial Gamers of fruits,
vegetables or milk, makers of glycer-
1nesor explosives and manufacturers
using sugar for medical purposes
Z. Hotels, restaurants, clubs, din
ing cars, steamships, hospitals, pub
Tic institutions and all other public
eating places in which term are in
cluded all boarding houses which
take care of twenty-five or more
persons.
d. Bakers and cracker manufac-
turers of ak k1nds.
e. Retail stores and others SELL
ing for direct consumption.
Stocks Must BE Declared
All persons in each of these class
es must, on or before July Is, make
statement, upon a form provided
by the state food administrators,
showing all sugar they hold or have
IN transit on July /. Failure to make
statements on or before July Is will
deprive such user or handler of the
right to buy additional sugar during
the balance of the year 1918 and
possibly, under some circumstances,
Tor the remaining period of the war.
The fact that a user or handler has
sugar on hand sufficient to meet his
present requirements not only does
not relieve him from this obligation.
but failure to make the statement
lays him liable to the penalties for
hoarding under the law.
All sugar in excess of three
months supply at the rate of con-
sumption allowed to each concern
will be taken over by the food ad-
ministrator and redistributed at
once. Any sugar in excess of thirty
days needs must be held subject to
the food administrators order for
distribution if necessary.
ANY attempt to accumulate sugar
between now and July l will be in
terpreted as boarding, which is
punishable by fine and imprison-
ment.
Supply on so Per Cent. Basis
sugar reports by persons in Group
must show also how much sugar
they used in July, August and Sep
tember, 1917. They will get GER
tificates based on so per cent. of such
average use. Ice cream manufac-
turers will get rs per cent, except
SOFA fountain operators who make
their own ice cream; they will re-
eelVe only so per cent. A certifi-
cate will be issued separately for
each months purchases.
commercial Gamers (Group RI
VIII receive certificates for neces-
sary requirements, but must not re-
sell (under penalty of forfeiting IL
cense for the duration of the war;
except by permission of the food adj
ministrator.
In Group C GALL public eating
places) sugar will be allowed on the
basis of three pounds for each nine
ty meals served.
Bakers will get sugar certificates
Tor 10 per cent. of the average
amount they used in July. August
and September, 1917, or 70 per cent.
OF that used in June, 1918.
retail stores will receive for their
July purchases certificates based ON
the average of sugar sold in the
months of April, May and June.
1913. Retailers must not sell to anv
one except householders, except up-
on certificates, and must not Soil
more than two pounds at once to
any one in the city or five pounds to
any one in the country districts
Persons buying sugar for canning
ana preserving must agree to return
an sugar bought for that purpose
and not so used.
Hotels and restaurants which do
not observe other food regulations
may lose their sugar supply.
1t will be noted that bakers. who
heretofore did not need Certificates
to buy sugar, must have them now
\ All retailers must post COPIES of
the new sugar orders, as they affect
the householder, in their stores.
The reasons for the extreme
shortage of sugar as set forth nv
the food administration were as fol-
lows: Increased needs of the ARMY
and Navy for transportation faciIi.
ties, which has reduced the number
or ships carrying sugar from Hawaii
and the West Indies; smaller crons
than were expected in several I'M
portant Sugar producing areas out
side this country; shortage. in Louis
lana cane sugar supply; shortage in
domestic beet sugar crop: destruc-
ton of beet sugar factories in France
and n NJ s.s.z zIrG..