The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-01-04
HOOVERIURGES
PURCHASING or
SUGAR By THE.
UNITED STATES.
Food Administrator Asserts That
By Buying and Selling To Con-
sumers Only Can Reflner and
User Be Protected
CONTROL or FOODS IN
EATING PLACES URGED
Abnormal Conditions Must Be
Net and To Do This There Is
Need Of Additional Legislation,
Senate Committee Told

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Purchase BY the government of
all Of the sugar that is to be used
in the United States and its sale
to the, consumer was advocated
by Herbert c. Hoover, food adj
administrator yesterday when he
was finally given the opportunity
which he has desired to testify
before the senate committee
which is Investigating the recent
shortage of sugar and the present
shortage of the coal supply.
CONTROL EATING PLACES
Hoover went even further in
his testimony before the commit
tee and advocated control of the
amounts and kinds Of foods that
may be served in public eating
places. He asserted that this was
absolutely essential to meet the
abnormal conditions by which the
country is confronted. To do this,
he pointed out, additional legis-
lation will be required and he
urged upon them. the necessity of
the enactment Of. such legislation
at am early date. a,-. ,
EQUABLE PRICES
In urging government pur-
chases Of all sugar needed for
domestic consumption, Hoover
said that through that method
alone could the rehners be paid
an equable price and that only
through such system could the
consumer be protected from ex-
tortionate demands. The price
made for the retailer could then
be enforced and the government
had an absolute check upon all
prices paid.
The food administrator also
presented strong arguments for
the control Of the kinds and guam
tities Of foods that hotels, restau-
rants and other eating places
might serve.
WELCOMES CHANCE
Opportunity to give something
Of his version Of the conduct of the
food administration in connection
with sugar affairs and to make ex-
plantations as to the occasion Of
the sugar shortage was yesterday
given to Herbert c. Hoover, the
food administrator, by the special
committee of the senate which is
Investigating the recent shortage
of sugar supplies and the present
coal shortage. ~
Hoover told the senate committee
what the sugar commissions had done
in their efforts to bring about settle
ment Of strikes in the Cuban cane
fields and sugar mills and of the efforts
exerted to clarity the labor situation
on the island, y"
Shortage warnings
Questioned, ION the effect which the
earlier warnings Of an impending short,
ages0f sugar had upon the sugar situa-
ton the food administrator said that
no believed that the warnings had not
had the effect of alarming the general
public and 80 bringing about a hoard
ing Of sugar as some Of the refners
had testified but that IL certainly had
the effect Of bringing raises In the
price Of refined sugar by the refineries.
To check this inclination on the part Of
the elhefs ~ boost prices, he said, the
food administration and the sugar
commissions working under it, had un.
dertaken the control of prices which
had reused the amnesty and the an.
iag0nism Of some Of the reRneries.
Hoover has felt that he has been de-
Iiberntely snubbed by the committee
and Il was N part for that reason that
ho appealed 70 the President for the
support which the administration has
given him in the controversy.