The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-02-07
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profted IN
$4,000 ,000-Freneh Stu.
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTS
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduosx
10 Seventy Per Cent. Of Normal
Java Stocks Unavailable

Sugar control has saved the Amsn
lean public $3.50, ZOO, 900, Herbert Hoov.
er, United States food adminlstrato,
declared the other day.
He pointed out that sugar was SEN
Ing for IL cents pound last Augun
and that II would have advanced to n
cents a pound, with the world short.
age as a stimulus, had not the food
administration secured the co-opers.
ton of the refiners and wholesaler
and fixed a sugar price that today en-.
ables housewives to buy sugar at from
6h to 8 cents a pound.
EVERY / cent raise In sugar from
September / to January | means s1a.
100000 to the American consumers
Mr. Hoover said. plumbers of gen.
tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed of $1S0.000,0 900 this year II We
had not taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
80 cents a pound during the Civil War
France Got Our suqir.
Today the American public has been
allotted 70 per cent. of its normal SUD
ply. Before the war the average an
nual household consumption here was
65 pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war Il
"a pounds, and In France each person
L. al
month
"In August the French government
found itself unable to maintain even
this ration" Mr.. Hoover declared
AN appeal was made to America
France needed 100000 tons. We
agreed to I'LL this demand and up to
December had shipped S5.426 tons. In
the meantime an appeal was made to
the American public to reduce Its sug
ar consumption. and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
with 80 per cent. Of normal supply.
This has been generally followed, a.
though such regulations were volun-
tary, as the food administration had
no authority to impose them"
Domestic Price 10 ga to Q centa
Retail grocers throughout the coun.
try are supposed to take profit Of no
more than so cents a hundred-half
cent a pound-on sugar. BY reason Of
food administration regulations, bind.
Ing refners and wholesalers, the re.
taller is able today to buy sugar at
from to 81 cents a pound. This
enables him to sell to the housewife at
81 to 8 cents q pound
There have been some violations Of
the sugar rulings. Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales Of sugar from IS to
10 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop
ped and is evidence itself of the prices
at which consumers would have been
mulct had we not interviewed. We have
forfeited wholesalers licenses In %.
gravated cases, and we have issued
warnings to first offenders in q great
mahy instances through our local ad-
illustrators"
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be hL
ed to normal very soon II ships could
be sent to Java. where 25O, 900 tons Of
sugar Is waiting for shipment. But
the shipping situation Is so acute that
the nation cannot spare the clever
ships needed to transport this sugar
It would take the boats one year 70
haul 250,000 tons. In the same time
they could be used for Transporting
100000 soldiers to France.
The food administration believes
that the American public will diminish
Its sugar consumption by 10 or 10 per
cent. when 1t Ia made clear that suca
sugar saving Is a patriotic act anu
when 1t Is understood that there ars
plenty of sweeteners available to taSe
the place of sugar. such as honey
corn syrup.
Why Shortage Exists.
The three great sugar producing cen
tiers of the world are Germany, inc
West and East Indies. German sugar
is, of course, used at home. The Eas
Indian sugar is unavailable because
the ship shortage
While U boats made big inroads gu
the worlds shipping, France and l'ap
ceased to be self sustaining in susa'
manufacture England in the mean
time was cut Off from German sugar
100000 tons a year-because OF 'n'
war. The result has been that the a.
lied nations have been forced to turn
to America and the West Indies !"
their sugar.