Arizona sentinel., 1918-02-14
AMERICAN SUGAR
 SENT ID FRANCE
American Price RigidIy Regulated by United States Food
 Administration.
CONSUMERS HERE PAY ec.
Sugar Cost 35 Gents a Pound During Civil War-Refiners' Profits
 Now Curtaiied.

Sugar is selling today throughout
 America at from 81h to cents a
 pound to the consumer, even though
 there is a world shortage which has
 reduced this nations sugar allotment
 to 70 per cent. of normal.
 | Through the efforts of the United | States food administration the sugar
 market has been regulated as far as l the producer, refiner and wholesaler | is concerned. The food administration l has To power to regulate retail prices I except by public opinion. Even though | more than 95,000 tons of sugar have ] been shipped to France in the last | four months the retail grOcer's sugar l price is around to S15 cents. He | should sell this sugar at S1a to 9 | cents the food administration believes, ! and asks the American housewife to l pay no more than this amount. Last August when the food admin istration was organized the price of sugar rose suddenly to 1 cents a pound During the Civil War sugar cost the consumer B cents pound By regulation of the sugar market and reducing the price to S13 and 9 cents and keeping it from advancing to 20 cents the food administration has say ed the American public at least $1SO.- 100000 in four months. according to a statement made by Herbert Hoover he other day
 ''It is our stern duty to feed the al lies, to maintain their health and strength at any cost to ourselves. Mr. Hoover declared. "There 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.
 eff we send the ships to Java z for 25o,OOo tons of sugar next year
 we will have, necessitated the en1-
 pIoyment of eleven extra ships for
 one year. These ships-if used in
 transporting troops-WouId take
 15o 900 to 100000 men to France"
 Reason for World Sho rtage
 As Mir Hoover pointed out, the United States Canada and England were sugar importing countries before he war, while France and Italy were very nearly self supporting. The main sources of the worlds sugar supply was Germany and neighbOring powers, 7he West Indies and the East Indies
 German sugar is no longer available, .,s it is used entirely in Germany, which also absOrbs sugar of surround ing countries.
 England can no longer buy 100000
 ong tons of sugar each year from ;ermany The French sugar prOduc-
 ion has dropped from 750.OO0 to 21O. OO tons The Italian production has .+allen from 2100O0 tons to 75,O00 tons. Thus three countries were thrown
 ipon East and West Indian sources For 1.925,OO tons annually to maintain
 heir normal consumption.
 Because of the worlds shipping .-hortage the allied nations started craving on the West Indies for sugar; East Indian sugar took three times he number of ships, since the dis ance was three times as great Sud eenly the west was called on to fur 1ish. and did furnish 1,420,0O0 tons of sugar to Europe when 300,000 tons a year was the pre-war demand. The .fllies had drawn from Java 100000 tons before the shipping situation be came acute.
 Tn spite of these shipments Mir Hoover stated the other day, "the English government in August reduced the household sugar ration to basis of 24 pounds per annum per capita. And in September the French govern ment reduced their household ration to 13 2-10 pounds year, or bit over 1 pound of sugar a month. Even this meagre ration could not be filled by the French government it was found early in the fall. America was then asked for 100000 tons of sugar and succeeded in sending S5,OOO tons by December l. The French request was granted because the American house hold consumption was then at least 55 pounds per person, and it was consid- cred the duty of maintaining the French morale made our course clear"
 Today the sugar situation may
 be summarized by stating that if
 America will reduce it's sugar con
 sumption 10 to IS per cent. this
 nation will be able to send 100000
 more soldiers to France.
 Sugar today sells at seabOard re fineries at S7.25 d hundred pounds | The wholesale grocer has agreed to | limit his profit to 9 cents a hundred | plus freight, and the retail grocer is | supposed to take no more than 90 cents | :, hundred pounds profit This regu- Iation was made by the food admins ! !ratfOn, which now asks the housewife | 70 reduce sugar consumption as much ! as possible. using other sweetenera, and %!so refnindS her that she should pay no more than cents a pound for