The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-22
AMERICAN SUGAR
Sent TO FRANCE
American Price Rigidly Regulated
by United States Food
Administration.
CONSUMERS HERE PAY &c.
Sugar Cost IS Cents a Pound During
Civil War; efiners' Profits
Nov Curtaled.
CONSUMERS HERE PAY &c.

sugar is SeiiinS To-Day tnrOugnOu.
America at from S12 TO 8 cents Z
pound To the consumer, even though
here is world shortage which has
reduced this nations sugar allotmen
10 30 per cent of normal.
Through the efforts of The United
States food administration the sugal
market has been regulated as far Il
the producer. retiner and wholesale.
is concerned The food administration
has no power TO regulate retail price
except by public opinion. Even thou l.
more than $4,000 tons of sugar have
been shipped to France in the las
-four months The retail grocers su""
trire is around S 10 Sl2 cents. He
should sell his sugar at So to y
cents. tile food administration believes.
and asks the American housewife L.
nay no more than this amount.
Last August when the food admii
StI;tion was organiZed the price %.
sugar rose Suddenly 10 II cents
round. During hc Civil War Sug'
cost The consumer - cents n pouna
Ry REGULATION of the sugar market an
reducing the price to 81 and 9 cen
and Keeping il from advancing to
cents the food administration has So
cd tive American public at least $50
coo 900 in four months according {,
a statement made by Herbert lloovo
he nther day
1T is our stern duty TO feed the a.
lies. TO maintain their health an.
! STRENGTH AT any cost to ourselves
! Mr. Hoover declared There has no
| been. nor will be as we see 1t, enOug
sugar for even their present meagr
and depressing ration unless they sen
Shins to remote markets for it. II w
| in our greed and gluttony force thcl
/ either to further reduce their ratio
or to send these ships we will hay
| done damage to our abilities TO wi
this war.
"if we send the ships to Java
for 25O,0C0 tons Of sugar next year
we will have necessitated the en-
poyment of eleven extra ships for
one year These ships-if used in
transporting troops-Would take
$50 600 to ECO Geo men to France"
Il Reason for World Shortage,
AS Mr. Hoover pointed out, II
United States, Canada and Englar
were sugar importing countries hefol
the war, while France and Italy WEI
very nearly self supporting. The ma
sources Of the worlds sugar supp
was Germany and ncighhoring power
the West Indies and the East Indies
German sugar is no longer availahl
rs il is used entirely In German
which also absorbs sugar of surroun
ing countries.
England can no longer buy 1000
tong tons Of sugar each year fire.
4 Germany The French sugar prod'
I rion has dropped from 40 600 to n
coo tons The Italian production h
fallen from 2l00oO tons To 10000 ton
/ Thus three cOuu'ricS were throw
!. upon East and West Indian souro
for 80 00O tons annually to nlaint;
4 their normal consumption.
Because of the worlds Shippi
shortage the allied nations start
drawing on the West Indies for sugf
East Indian sugar took three tin
4 he number of ships. since the {
\ 'ancp WAS three times as great -
denly the west was called on to f
A riSh and did furnish | 400 GOO tons
I sugar 10 Europe when 3Oo00 ton:
( wear vas the pre-war demand.
I allies had drawn from Java 4OOi
4 tons before the shipping situation
4 came acute.
''In spite of these shipments"
Hoover stated the other day, "
I English government in August rcdu
tho household Sugar ration to a hf
I of 81 pounds per annum per cap
And in September the French COVE
mont reduced their household rat
- to IL 2-1O pounds n year, or bit o
i. mound of sugar q month. Even
mcarre ration could not be filed
the French government II was 70
early in the fall America was I
asked for 100 900 tons Of sugar
III succeeded in sending $1,000 tons
December |. The French request
granted because the American no
hold consumption was then at leas
. mounds per person. and II was con
IA crcd the duty Of maintaining
II French morale made our course Gle
II Today the sugar situation m;
be summarized by stating that
II America will reduce its sugar co
II sumption 10 to IS per cent. II
nation will be able to send 2OO,o
II more soldiers TO France.
II Sugar today sells at seaboard
II fincries at $725 hundred pou
H The wholesale grocer has agree
limit his profit to % cents hun
plus freight, and the retail groc'
supposed to take no more than 90 (
a hundred pounds profit. This ]
. lation was made by the food adm
- tration, which now asks the house
TO reduce sugar consumption as l
ans as possible, using other sweete
,+b and also reminds her that she 81
and pav no more than 8 cents poun
nal sugar