The Washington herald., 1918-06-23
SUGAR RATION
3 POUNDS PER
/. MONTH JULY 1
Threat of Famine Moves
Food Administration
to Restrict.
ALLIES TO GET SUPPLY
Line Between Essentials
and Non-Essentials-
Cuban Crop Short.

Drastic restrictions in the use Of
sugar are to be enforced by the Food
Administration, because Of a threaten
ed sugar famine.
Three pounds of sugar a month per
person is the ration which the Fed
eral Food Administration requests the
entire nation to observe after July l.
Restrictions on the use Of sugar by
manufacturers will also be drawn
much tighter by the new administra-
ton regulations. The Food Admins
tration expects. through these measy
ures, to avoid any serious scarcity
for home consumption. Lack of ship
ping, however, and a decrease in the
amount of sugar expected from Cuba
will make a shortage unavoidable.
The less essential manufactured pro-
ducts will be allowed only so per cent
of their normal sugar requirements.
At present, they are allowed 80 per
cent.
The demand fer, sugar conservation
is that the allied countries may have
a small ration per capita. In Italy
the price is $3.50 per hundred pounds.
or about thirty cents a pound, while
ths United States pays but $50 a
hundred at Wholesale. or eight and a
half or nine cents at retail.
l. Italy's Needs.
italy could have all the sugar she
needed IL she could have half that
which the United State suses in candy,
ice cream and confectionery of
other kinds. The bill is $4,000 tons
per year. The money represented by
this amount OF sugar would feed the
starving people of Belgium and
Northern France twice over.
The drastic rules of the Food Ad-
mimstration in force after July ! will
AFFECT the manufacture of ice cream.
II will no longer be considered so
essential as to justify the free use
OF sugar in its manufacture. After
July !, ice cream manufacturers will
receive only seventy-five per cent of
the amount of sugar used last ves r
Before the war England was the
largest consumer of sugar in the
market. She received her sugar
from Germany and Austria. That
source, Of course. is entirely cut off.
Italy supplied herself with sugar,
but now her food production is cut
down 30 per cent through loss of
territory and loss of man power.
France Fed Herself.
France also supplied herself with
sugar, but her producing power is
cut down two-thirds. All these de-
ficiencies must be supplied by Unit
ed States. There is at the pres-
ent time in the United States thirty
six pounds Of sugar a year per per
son. In France there is but eigh-
teen pounds per person. in England
twenty-six and in Italy but twelve,
In England the wholesale price
Is 1896 per hundred, or about l2c
a pound retail In France the price
Is $12.2s, wholesale, a hundred, or
15c a pound retail.
Soda Fountains Cut.
Soda fountains will be cut down
90 per cent. Ice cream made on
the premises will also come under
the so per cent limitations, as IL
would be difficult to differentiate
between the sugar used for ice
cream and that for soft drinks.
The Food Administration does diff
ferentiate. however, between the
preservation OF fruits for soda
fountains and the preservation of
fruits in the form of jam and can
ned goods. Manufacturers presery-
ing fruits for soda fountains will
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