Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
SUGAR USERS MUST
Do ON THIRTY PER
CENT LESS IN AUGUST
DR., SouIe Announces That All
Regulations viii Be Even
More Strictly Enforced Dur
ing Next Month

Lines will be drawn still tighter in
the distribution of sugar during Au-
gust, it was announced Saturday by
ministrator for Georgia who stated
that the amount available next month
will be only seventy per cent of the
July allotment which was 100000.
To meet this decrease the following
will be among the principal steps
taken:
Dealers will not be permitted 20 make
any sales to retailers in excess of the
normal amount.
No certificates will be issued for
other than human consumption, except
to manufacturers of explosives and
drugs.
Individual purchasers will be requir-
ed to conform strictly with the two
and five-pound limit, subjectlng them
selves in case of violation of regula-
lions, to the cutting off of all further
sugar supply for the period of the war.
DIR. soule's Statement
The second % pounds for canning
purposes will be issued only on certi-
ficate from the food administration.
In addition Dr. Soule asserts that 1T
is unpatriotic TO serve at parties or at
other gatherings unnecessary collations
unless consisting of perishables or
other products unsuited for export
DR.. Soule's statement, putting the
new ruling into effect, follows:
mo certificates for sugar will be is
sued in August, for other than human
consumption, except to manufacturers
of explosives and for the manufacture
of drugs, and no interim certincates
will be issued to jobbers or wholesalers
at all. that class of trade having, py
this time, come into possession OF the
necessary certificates to re-supply their
stocks in the routine transaction OF
business with retailers.
"Retail dealers in every community
in Georgia are especially called upon
to give the closest attention to the SAFE
and distribution of sugar TO the IN
dividual purchaser and see to IT, that
the two-pound and five-pound limit Is
not abused or violated.
Regulations Violated
Gases have come to our attention OF
more or less serious abuse of the reSu-
lations on two and hVe-pound limit
sales. Retail merchants are urged to
ouirement that all purchasers for home
consumption are required to sign an
agreement that they have not purchased
elsewhere in the same day, and that
the amount about to be purchased Will
not exceed the allotment on the basis
OF three pounds per month per member
of the family.
1--WE have found that repeating has
been going on, and the warning is given
that these records of, the retail mer-
chants must be kept accurately and be
made available to the agents of the food
administration. 1t is the purpose OF
the administration to check up these
sales, and to that end the retailers are
requested to themselves keep a close
tab on sales made by them.
In cases where it is found, on check
ing, that repeating has been done in
violation, of the law, the individual
lays himself liable to an order cutting
off all further sugar supply for the pc
Iiod of the war.
THE certificates for canning purposes
must be more rigidly enforced The
regulation under which quantity sugar
may be obtained for home canning and
may be obtained on a certificate to be
supplied by the retail merchant, on
which is a declaration that the purcha s.
er has not exceeded the total allowance
of so pounds fer tie entire season. The
second 25 pounds may be obtained only
on a certificate to be issued by the food
administrator, and dealers are warned
to be particularly cautious of this rul-
ing. 1T is with the dealers to aid the
administered ton in the proper policing of
this rule"