The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-02-08
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited by
o-French Stu.
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTS
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced
b Seventy Per Cent. Of Normal,
Java Stocks Unavailable,

er, United States food administrator,
declared the other day.
He pointed out that sugar was SELL
ing for II cents a pound last August
and that 1t would have advanced to 20
cents q pound, with the world short
age a. q stimulus. had not the food
administration secured the co-opera-
ton Of the refiners and Wholesalers
and nxed a sugar price that today On.
ables housewives to buy sugar at from
6h to 9 cents q pound.
"Every / cent raise in sugar from
September / to January l means $751;
100000 to the American consumer"
Mr.. Hoover said. plumbers Of gen
tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed Of $500 900 this year II we
had not taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
B5 cents q pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 20 per e of it's normal sup
ply. Before the war the average an
nual household consumption here wal
IS pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war IL
"a pounds, and in France each person
Is allotted a little over one pound a
month.
I'm August the French government
found Itself unable to maintain even
this ration" MI. Hoover declared.
IAN appeal was made to America.
France needed 100000 tons. We
agreed to fill this demand and up to
December had shipped S5,426 tons. In
The meantime an appeal was made to
the American public to reduce it's sug-
ar consumption, and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
with SO per cent. Of normal supply.
This has been generally followed, al
though such regulations were volun-
lary, as the food administration had
no authority to impose them"
Domestic Price is 82 to Q Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take a profit Of no
more than so cents a hundred-half a
rent a pOund-On sugar. BY reason of
food administration regulations, bind
Ing refiners and Wholesalers, the re-
taller is dble today to buy sugar at
from 8 to 81 cents a pound. This
enables him to sell to the housewife at
81 to 8 cents a pound.
There have been some violations Of
the sugar rulings. Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales of sugar from 10 to
20 cents per pound have been reported
md followed up vigorously and stop.
ped and Is evidence itself Of the prices
Mt which consumers would have been
mulct had we not interviewed. We have
forfeited wholesalers licenses IN az.
gravated cases, and we have issued
warnings to first offenders in a great
many instances through our local ad.
ministratOrs."
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be all.
ed to normal very Dor If ships could
be sent to Java, where 25O,0OO tons Of
sugar is waiting for shipment. But
the shipping situation is so acute that
the nation cannot spare the eleven
ships needed to transport this sugar.
It would take the boats one year to
haul 25o,OOO tons. In the same time
they could be used for transporting
gOO,O 900 soldiers to France.
The food administration believes
that the American public will diminish
It's sugar consumption by 10 or Is per
cent. when it Is made clear that such
sugar saving is a patriotic act and
when It II understood that there are
plenty Of sw%eeteners available to take
the place Of sugar. such a. honey OF
corr syrup.
Why Shortage Exists.
The three great sugar producing cen.
tiers Of the world r Germany, the
West and East Indies. German sugar
10, of course, used at home. The East
Indian sugar Is unavailable because oa
the ship shortage.
While U boats made big inroads On
the worlds shipping, France and Italy
ceased to be self sustaining in sugar
manufacture. England in the mean.
time was cut off from German sugar
400, 900 tons a year-because Of the
war, The result has been that the al
lied nations have been forced to turn
to America and the West Indies TO,
their sugar.