The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-01-30
AMERICAN. SUGAR
TO FRANCE. !.
herican Price RigidIy Regulates
by United States Food
Administration. !,
ksvMERs HERE PAY 90.
ar Cost IS Cents 4 Pound During
Civil War-Refiners' Profite
Now curtailed.


erica at from 8M to 9 cents
ind to the consumer, even though
Ne Is world shortage which has
need this nations sugar allotment
70 per cent. of normal.
through the efforts Of the United
les food administration the sugar
ket has been regulated us far al
producer, refiner anu wholesaler
|ncerned, The food administration
no power to regulate retail prices
BIT by public opinion. Even though
than $1,000 tons OF sugar have
shipped to France In the last
months the retail grocer's sugar
Is around 8 to 81 cents. He
mould sell this sugar at 81 to .
cents, the food administration believes.
and asks the American housewife to
nay no more than this amount.
Last August when the food admin.
istrati0n was organized the price OF
sugar rose suddenly to IL cents a
pound During the Civil War sugar
cost the consumer IS cents q pound.
BY regulation OF the sugar market and
reducing the price to S1h and 9 cents
ami keeping 1t from advancing to 20
cents the food administration has saw.
ed the American public at least $780,
100000 in four. months, according to
4 statement made by Herbert Hoover
the other day.
1T Is our stern duty to feed the al.
lies, to maintain their health and
strength at any cost to ourselves"
Mr.. Hoover declared. "Thefe 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 it. 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. sii'
az W.. send the. ships to Java
for csc, 1000 tons OF sugar next year
we will have necessitated the en-.
ploymsnt Of slsven extra shipa Tor
one, year These shlps-f used In !
transferring troops-would take !
b., $4,000 to 1000 men to>Franee."
Reason. for World Shortage.
As Mr.. 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,AO longer available,
as it is used entirely in Germany.
which also absorbs sugar Of surround
ing countries.
| England can no longer buy 1,4OO,0
long tons Of sugar each year from
Germany. The French sugar produc.
ton has dropped from 10000 to 21O,'
600 tons. The Italian production has
fallen from 100000 tons to $4,000 tons
Thus three countries were thrown
upon East and West Indian sources
for 1,925.OOO tons annually to maintain
their normal consumption.
Because Of the worlds shipping
shortage the allied nations started
drawing on the West Indies for sugar
East Indian sugar took three time!
the number of ships, since the dis
lance was three times as great. Sud
denly the west was called on to fur
nish and did furnish 100000 tons o
sugar to Europe when 100000 tons
year was the pre-war demand. TIL
allies had drawn from Java 100000
tons before the shipping situation be
came acute.
"In spite of these shipments" MI
Hoover stated the other day, 18th
English government In August reduces
the household sugar ration to basi
Of u pounds per annum per capits
And In September the French govern
ment reduced their household ratio
to IS 2-10 pounds year, or bit owe
pound Of sugar q month. Even thi
meagre ration could not be filled b
the French government It was foun
early in the fall. America was the
asked for 100000 tons Of sugar an
succeeded in sending $1,000 tons b
December 1. The French request wa
! granted because the American hous'
hold consumption was then at least .
pounds per person, and 1t was cOnsit
cred the duty Of maintaining tn
French morale made our course clear
II To-day the sugar sltuatlen may
II be summarized by stating that II
America will red0Ds its sugar con-
| sumption 10 . ~ per cent. this
II nation will b able . send 100000
II more se,disrs 70 France.
II Sugar today sells at seaboard \
Aneries at $7.25 q hundred pound
The wholesale grocer has agreed
limit his profit to IS cents hundrl
plus freight, and the retail grocer
supposed to take no more than SO cen
10 hundred pounds profit. This reg
iation was made by the food admin
tratlon, which now asks the housewi
to reduce sugar consumption as mu'
as possible, using other sweetenel
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