Mohave County miner., 1918-02-02
American Price Rigidly Regulated by United States Food
 Administration.
CONSUMERS HERE PAY Sc.
Sugar Cost 35 Gents a Pound During Civil War-Refiners' Profits
 Now curtailed.

reduced this nations sugar allotment to 70 per cent. of normal.
 Through the efforts of the United States food administration the sugar market has been regulated as far as the producer, refiner and wholesaler is concerned. The food administration has ho power to regulate retail prices except by public opinion. Even though more than S5,OC0 tons of sugar have been shipped to France in the last four months the retail grOcer's sugar price is around to 81k cents. He should sell this sugar at sA to g cents, the food administration believes, and asks the American housewife to pay no more than this amount.
 Last August when the foed admin istration was organized the price of sugar rose suddenly to Il cents a pound. During the Civil War sugar cost the consumer 35 cents a pound. By regulation of the sugar market and reducing the price to S1a and 9 cents and keeping it from advancing to 20 cents the food administration has sav- ed the American public at least $780, 100000 in four months, according to a statement made by Herbert Hoover the other day.
 "It is our. stern duty to feed the al- lies, to maintain their health and strength at any cost to ourselves" MT. Hoover declared. There has not been, nor will be as we see it, enough sugar for even their present meagre and depressing ration unless they send ships to remote markets for 1t. If we in our greed and gluttony force them either to further. reduce their ration or to send these ships we will have done damage to our abilities to win this war.
 "If we send the ships to Java for 250, ,Oo0 tons of sugar next year we will have neeessitated the eH1- pIeyment of eleven extra ships for
 one year. These ships-if used in | transporting treops-would take
 15o 900 to 2oO, 900 men to France"
 Reason for World Shortage. As MT. Hoover pointed out, the United States, Canada and England were sugar importing countries before the war, while France and Italy were very nearly self supporting. The main sources of the worlds sugar supply was Germany and neighboring powers, the West Indies and the East Indies.
 German sugar Is no longer aVailableA as it is used entirely in Germany, which also absorbs sugar of surround ing countries.
 England can no longer buy 100000 long tons of sugar each year from Germany. The French sugar produc- ton has dropped from 750,OOO to 210- 900 tons. The Italian production has fallen from 210,0O0 tons to 75000 tons. Thus three countries were thrown upon East and West Indian sources for 1,925,0 tons annually to maintain their normal consumption.
 1 Because of the worlds shipping shortage the allied nations started drawing on the West Indies for sugar; | East Indian sugar took three times the number of ships, since the dis tance was three times as great Sud | denly the west was called on to fur | nish and did furnish 1,420,OOO tons of sugar to Europe when 3OOOO0 tons a i year was the pre-war demand. The i allies had drawn from Java 100000 tons before the shipping situation be- came acute.
 "In spite of these shipments" MT. Hoover stated the other day, "the | English government in August reduced ! the household sugar ration to a basis | of 24 pounds per annum per capita. | And in September the French govern | ment reduced their household ration | to 13 2-10 pounds year, or a bit over ] 1 pound of sugar month. Even this meagre ration could not be filled by the French government it was found i early in the fall America was then | asked for 100000 tons of sugar and | succeeded in sending S5,000 tons by l December 1. The French request was ! granted because the American house. | hold consumption was then at least 5 i pounds per person, and 1t was consid- cred the duty of maintaining the ! French morale made our course clear" ooay the sugar situation may be summarized by stating that if America will reduce It's sugar con-
 sumption 10 to IS per cent. thIs
 nation will be able to send POO, 900
 more soldiers to France.
 Sugar today sells at seaboard re- hneries at S7.25 a hundred pounGa. The wholesale grocer has agreed to limit his profit to 25 cents a hundred plus freight, and the retail grocer is supposed to take no more than 50 cents hundred pounds profit. This regu- lation was made by the food admins tration, which now asks the housewife to reduce sugar consumption as much as possible, using other sweeteners, and also reminds her that she should pay no more than cents a pound for sugar.
 Control of Cane Refiners' Profits.
 Immediately upon the establish ment of the food administration" Nr. 1