The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-02-08
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Ppofited by
$4,000, 0OO-French Stu
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD At 9 CENTS.
This NatIen's Sugar Supply Reduced
- Seventy Per Cent. Of Normal
Joua 0Goosu Unavailable.

Sugar control has saved the Amer
ican public $50. 900 900. Herbert Hoov'
Or, UAited States food administrator
declared the other day.
| He pointed out that sugar was sell
| ing for IL cents a pound last August
and that IL would have advanced to 70
cents a pound, with the world short
age a. q stimulus, had not the food
administrat ton secured the co-opefa-
lion OF the refners and wholesalers
and fixed a sugar price that today en-
ables housewives to buy sugar At from
81 TO o cents a pound.
Every 1 cent raise In sugar from
September I to January 1 means &1S.-
Oo0. 600 to the American consumer,
Mr. Hoover said Numbers of gen
tlsmen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed OF $50, 900 900 this year IL we
had rot taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention 10 the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
IS cents q pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 10 per cent. OF its normal sup
ply. Before the war the average an
nual household consumption here was
So pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war Is
"a pounds. and in France each person
Is allotted a little over one pound q
month
I'm August the French government
IN
this ration" Mr.. Hoover declared.
AN appeal was made TO America.
France needed 100000 tons We
agreed TO fill this demand and up TO
December had shipped 50, 426 tons. In
the meantime an appeal was made TO
the American public TO reduce its sug-
ar consumption. and requests were
made to distributors 10 supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
with 50 per cent Of normal supply.
This has been generally followed. al
though such regulations were volun-
tary. an the food administration had
no authority TO impose them"
Domestic Price Is az to 9 Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take q profit OF no
cent q pound-on sugar. BY reason Of
food administration regulations bind
Ing refners and wholesalers, the re-
taller is able today TO buy sugar at
from s to S1a cent? a pound. This
enables him to sell TO the housewife at
81 to 8 cents q pound.
There have been some violations of
the sugar rulings. Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales Of sugar from 16 To
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop
Ped and - evidence itself of the prices
ut which consumers would have been
mulct had we not interviewed. We have
forfeited wholesalers licenses I'm ag-
gravated cases, and we have issued
warnings to first offenders In a great
many instances through our local ad-
ministratorx"
Eject on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be I'LL
ed to normal very soon II ships could
be sent to Java, where go 900 tons OF
saSaR - waiting for shipment. But
the aA1ppfng situation Is so acute that
tie nation cannot spare the eleven
oh4p0 needed to transport this sugar.
II would take the boats one year TO
haul $50, 600 tons. In the same time |
they could be used for transporting |
zoo, 900 soldiers TO France.
H. food administration believes
that the American public will diminish |
Its sugar consumption by 10 or Is per |
cent. when II Is made clear that such /
sugar saving Is patriotic act and
when II 10 understood that there are
plenty Of sweeteners available to take
the place Of sugar. such as honey or
corn syrup.
Why Shortage ExistA
The three great sugar producing cen
boso Of tie world are Germany. the
West and East Indies. German sugar
ID, of coarse, used at home. The East
Indian sugar Ii unavailable becau Of
the ship shortage.
While q boats made big inrOads on
the worlds shipping. France and Italy
ceased TO be self sustaining in sugar
England In the mean
time was cut OF from German sugar
| 400, 900 tons a year-becaus use Of the
var The result has been that the al
led nations have been forced to turn
10 America and the West Indies for
heir sugar.