The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-03

Washington, Jan. Government purchase and sale to consumers Of all sugar used in the United States and control of the amounts and kinds Of food to be served in public eating places, were advocated to meet the abnormal War co-aitions by Food Administrator Hoover today in tes- timony before the senate commission Investigating sugar He said addi- uonal authority conferring upon the food administration such powers should be enacted by congress.
 Food conservation came up only casually during an all-day examina ton of Mr. Hoover. but the admin . istrator revealed that results from 1 conservation plans formulated for ho- tels and restaurants had been disap l pointin- because of the deliberate failure of some to cooperate with the . administration Those who sought to | nelp had been forced 10 abandon their efforts, MT. Hoover said, in order to meet competition The witness be- deyed housewives generally were con formine to the conservation recon mondauous
 l Chairman Reed of the committee ! who had been the chief critic of the food administration in the senate. die not question Mr Hoover, Senator Lodge conducting the examination most of the day
 Later in the session, however. Sen. ator Reed and Mr. Hoover engaged in a rather heated discussion wher
 the witness asked to have admitted
 to the committee records the state ment on the sugar situation whicl Mir Hoover sought to sbm.t befor, the holidays and which later wa made public at the white house. Chairman Reed said he wanted t examine the statement over night am that the question of admitting it t the records would be determined late. { He added that he wanted to quesuo 2 the witness further on it Nr Hooye
 finally declared with an apparen
 show of heat that he did not car l 'whether it was introduced or not Mir. Hoover said the sugar suppl e for next year promised to be 20o,00 u tons short of the estimated demand u but it Was hoped to solve the short
 age by conservation and limitation
 of suppG mg 10 manuiacurin- O { non essential toodsWus While h. 1 though it ment be necessary 10 linn
 it the per capita consumption To thre. ] pounds a month, the witness said h,
 did not consider the principle of linn
 itation of personal consumption be.
 cause it tended 10 cause disconten
 among tHe people
 In ursing government purchase o
 sugar, Mir. Hoover explained to the
 committee that through that method
 alone could refiners be paid an equ-
 table price His plan he said, is fo.
 the government to purchase from heel
 factories at different prices based on
 the cost of production. buy cane sugars at prices on the sam basis pool the result and sell to tue con sumer at one price
 The witness denied that the Cuban price had been fixed by a committee formed of refines at prices advan- tageous to them The prices. he said, were fixed by the state department aud the International Sugar Company had nothing to do with it The Cuban government wanted 525 cents a pound, be said
 Much was said today of economic souumcss of price fixing
 Senator Lodge cited authorities ta show that it had failed and read some Of Hooyar's testimony at the hearue ou the food bin in which he was quoted as saving price fixing had been 8 failure in England The w'tno explained that when he so testified Eneland did not control commod lies on which it attempted fix prices He argued that price fix ing of government controlled com modtas N8s adyn-ahio to meet m. o1r1sf.f..l..,.