The Brinkley argus., 1918-06-28
CONTROL SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited bl $1sO,Ooo,o oo,oOO-French Situ-
 ation Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT g CENTS.
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced to Seventy Per Cent. of Normal.
 Java Stocks Unavailable.

Sugar control has saved the Amer ican public S1So,0Oo,0OO, Herbert Hoov CT, United States food administrator declared the other day.
 He pointed out that sugar was sell ing for Il cents a pound last Angus and that it would have advanced 10 2 cents 6 pound, with the world short age as a stimulus, had not the fooc administration secured the co-opera ton of the refners and wholesalers and fixed a sugar price that today en- ables housewives to buy sugar at from S1s to 9 cents pound.
 livery ] cent raise in sugar from September l to January 1 means SlS,- COG, GOO to the American consumer, " Mir. Hoover said. Numbers of gen tIemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar would have prevailed and the public robbed of s180,O00,000 this year if we had rot taken these actions" Later Mr. Hoover called attention to the fact that uncontrolled sugar advanced to #S5 cents a pound during the Civil War.
 
 Today the American public has been allotted 70 per cent of its normal sup ply, Before the war the average an nual household consumption here was 55 pounds 8 person. In England the annual consumption during the war is 24 pounds, and in France each person is allotted a little over one pound a month.
 "In August the French government found itself unable to maintain even this ration" Mir Hoover declared. "An 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 its sug- ar consumption, and requests were made to distributors to supply the confectionery and sweet drinks trade with 50 per cent. of normal supply. This has been generally followed, al- though such regulations were volun- tary, as the food administration had no authority to impose them"
 Domestic Price is sI2 to g Gents.
 Retail grocers throughout the coun- try are supposed to take profit of no more than 50 cents a hundred-half a cent pound-on sugar. By reason of food administration regulations, bind. ing refners and wholesalers, the re- lsaAler is able today to buy sugar at lkrcE s to 61a cents a pound. This enables him to sell to the housewife at ttk 1o cents pound.
 There have been some violations of sths sugar rulings. MT. Hoover said lsocently: Sales of sugar from 16 to 70 cents per pound have been reported land followed up vigorously and stop ped and is evidence itself of the prices at which consumers would have been mulct had we not interyened. 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 fll- ed to normal very soon If ships could be sent to Java, where 2500OO 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 th.s sugar. IT would take the boats one year to haul 21O090 tons. In the same time they could be used for transporting 100000 soldiers 10 France.
 The food administration believes that the American public will dim'nish it's sugar consumption by 10 or l5 per cent. when t is made clear that such sugar saving is patriotic act and when 1t is understood that there are plenty of sweeteners available to take the place of sugar, such as honey or corn syrup.
 Why Shortage Exists.
 The three great sugar producing cen ters of the world are Germany, the West and East Indies. German sugar IS, of course, used at home. The East Indian sugar Is unavailable because of the ship shortage.
 While L boats made big inroads on the worlds shipping, France and Italy ceased to be self sustaining in sugar manufacture. England in the mean tine was cut of from German sugar ] 100000 tons year-because of the war. The result has been that the al. lied nations have been forced to tcrr to America and the West Indies foI their sugar.
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