The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01
new SUGAR RULES
GO INTO EFFECT TODAY
Three Pounds Per Person Per Month
Now Instead Of Two Pounds Is
the Allowance.

Louisville, October 31--The sugar
ration in Kentucky and the United
States as whole will be raised to-
morrow from two pounds per person
per month to three pounds per person
per month, according to an official an
nouncement made today by Federal
Food Administrator Fred NJ. Sackett.
Purchase of the family's monthly sup
ply at one time will also be permits
sible.
In an interview Mr. Sackett said the
the Food Administration kept in inti-
mate daily touch with food conditions
the world over, and in view of the
willingness with which the American
people shouldered the burdens of food
restriction, could be depended upon to
cooperate by lifting those burdens at
the earliest time practicable.
Asked to make statement from the
Food Administration in Washington
that the rapid manufacture of the new
beet sugar crop in the West and the
new Louisiana cane crop, together
with the freer railway transportation
conditions, the reductions we have
made in the consumption of sugar in
the manufacturing trades and the pa
triotic conservation of the people ev-
erywhere during the last four months,
enables us to increase the household
allowance of sugar to three pounds
per person per month beginning No
vember /. The same ratio will ap-
ply to public eating places, which will
receive their allotments on the basis
of three pounds for each ff%nety meals
served.
"This makes good our promise to
increase the household allowance of
sugar at the earliest which our sup
plies would justify and makes it pos
sible for the householder to use more
freely the apple, cranberry and grape
Juice products and fruits canned with
out sugar during the summer.
1.-THE regulations are also revised to
the extent that any person may pur-
chase his whole monthly allowance at
one time if he so desires; that is, any
family may purchase months sup
ply for the entire family at one time
from the retail trades.
1--WE regret that we could not give
more notice of this impending change,
but the temporary cessation Of the
cereal movement of the country, due
to stoppage of exports, to secure army
tonnage, has caused greater ability
for internal transportation than would
otherwise be the case, and we do not
feel that, with ability to make distrib-
ution, we have any right to hold up
supplies to the householders. We are
confident we can continue on this
basis for some months to come from
the supplies which we have In pros
pect as the Cuban crop promises en-
larged supplies and the prospects for
transportation in wooden ships are
good. With these conditions, we
should be able to maintain Allied sup
plies"
Raising of the sugar ration Will put
new burdens upon the Sugar Division
of the Food Administration in Ken
lucky, in that 1t will be necessary for
them to Immediately begin the dis
tribution of Sugar Certificates to re-
tailers and public eating places to en-
able them to buy the additional sugar
for November. Certificates on the
basis of two pounds per person per
month have already been sent out,
But fortunately, Mr.. Sackett said the
forces of Mr.. Escott, chairman of the
Sugar Division, are ready for any call
that may be made upon them, and in
fact began today, within half an hour
after the Washington telegram was
received, the work of additional dis
tribution.