The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-17
TYLER REQUESTS
SUGAR PLEDGES
New Jersey Food Administrator
Asks HousehoIders to Limit
Supply to 2-Pound Ration.

Inc Dig drive 10 save sugar ii w"
Jersey is under way. 1t was launched
by William S. Tyler, Federal Food Adj
ministrator for the State, and he is
asking every man, woman and child to
help him put 1t over. He is asking the
people to get along on two pounds per
person per month from now until the
next sugar CROP is received, which will
be late in the fall.
New Jersey residents are as patriot
ic as those of any other state, and Mr..
Tyler believes they will do their bit In
the sugar conservation campaign, just
as they nave done their bit In other
campaigns which were designed to win
the war.
The biggest aid the American people
can give to our soldiers fighting abroad
right now is to save sugar that our sol
diers and the soldiers and peoples OF
the European countries Joined with us
will have some sugar.
We are asked to get along on a
household allowance of two pounds
per person per month. That is for use
in our tea, coffee, pies, buildings,
cereals and in cooking.
We can do it II other peoples can.
England does it, her allowance being
two pounds, the same as ours. France
does 1t, her allowance being q pound
and a half. Italy does it, her allow
a,ao H,;nr ann mound (Thnn" she gets
IT'D
Plenty for Canning.
1t isn't going to be a hardship for us
to live on two pounds per person per
month in our household requirements.
But there is canning and preserving to
be done, and New Jersey is a big can
ming and preserving state.
Well, there will be an extra allow
ance of twenty-five pounds ~per,family,
or more If it is required, for canning
purposes. State Food Administrator
Tyler says can all you can, but can.
And can so as to save sugar.
Can without sugar, or a with little
sugar or can with other s~weeteners,
such as syrups, maple products and
honey. You can can without sugar
and sweeten the preserves with sugar
when you eat them in winter, when
sugar will be more plentiful.
The reason there is a shortage of
sugar is that the crops have been
smaller this year than expected. There
is a shortage of ships to carry sugar
from the producing countries to the
consuming countries. The ships are
being used to transport soldiers to Eu-
rope to drive the Kaiser's armies back
into Germany. And they are doing it
too. Furthermore, the German adj
n which was started in March,
overrun the beet sugar country in
France, and the Germans destroyed
French sugar refineries. We are re-
gaining some of that land, but the
crops and factories are gone.
Rules for the Grocers.
The policy of Food Administrator
Tyler is to save the New Jersey fruit
crop and conserve u sugar supply.
He has asked you to sign a pledge
to your grocer when you apply for
your sugar. The grocer will sell you
two pounds at a time, and during the
month he will sell you a total of two
pounds for each member of your fam
lily.
Or he can sell you your entire
months supply, based on two pounds
for each person in your family if he
desires to. This is optional with him.
He will have two pledges. There
will be provision On the pledges for
your name, address, the mount of
your purchase, the date and the num-
Der of persons in your family.
You will pledge yourself and your
household to limit your uses of sugar
Except for canning and preserving to
two pounds per person per month You
also pledge that neither you o any
member of your household will buy
any other sugar Except for canning or
p2aserving) or otherwise seek to OBJ
tain possession of any sugar during
the months period.
This is very simple, very easy and
very honorable. And it will be very
effective in beating the Kaiser.
When you want sugar for canning
apply TO your local food administrator
for a certificate, and when he fills it
out present it to your grocer for your
purchase.
To the grocer who sells sugar for
canning the Food Administration will
%replenish his stock when he turns into
the State Food Administrator the GER
tificates he received from he customer.
Sugar Certificates.
Every time a person wants to make
a purchase of twenty-five pounds of
sugar for canning or preserving he
must get a certificate.
Grocers must sell only to regular
customers. They are depended upon
to help accomplish a fair distribution
of sugar among their customers and
must limit their sales in each case ac-
~cordingly. They must keep the lists
of customers names and amounts of