El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-18
CHECK
ON SUGAR SALES
Grocers Agree to Keep In
dividual Records, to Pre-
vent EYasions.

I A strict account Of the amounts Of
sugar sold TO all customers viii be
7 kept by the local retail grocers be-
ginning Thursday morning This was
] agreed upon by the grocers Wednes-
day night at their regular weekly
meeting at the chamber Of commerce
building. Charles n Bassett, district
food administrator. asked the gro
icers TO keep a strict account Of the
sales, saying. in part
Information has come TO the food
administration that few residents
I Of FL Paso are going from store TO
store making sugar purchases, two
pounds at a time. BY this means they
avoid the voluntary ration Of three
pounds per person per month, which
all patriotic and thoroughly Amerl-
can citizens are observing.
Knows Grocers VIII Cooperate.
From past experience I know that
the retail grocers are anxious and
willing 20 do all they can TO assist in
any action TO help win the war. For
that reason 7 am asking that all re-
tail grocers keep a strict account Of
all sugar sales, sell only to their old,
regular customers These records
may later be turned over TO the food
auministratiO and a committee ap-
pointed TO check the purchases Du-
pllcatOrs viii be asked 10 explain To
appeal directly TO the consumer guilty
OF making such purchases would be
useless and futile. To tell them that
the food administration is daily re-
celvinE advices that the sugar situa-
ton is critical would only speed up
their efforts TO get more than their
share"
Gamers Don't Need sugar.
Miss Lou E. Stallman, government
food expert and demonstration under
the United States department Of agri-
culture, who is here to conduct a two
weeks lecture course on preserving
and canning. under the auspices Of
the home economies department Of
the University Of Texas, attended the
meeting Wednesday night and told
the grocers that sugar was not an es-
sential in canning fruit
sugar is not an essential in the
canning and preserving Of fruits.
Miss Stallman said You can put up
fruit without sugar as well as you
can with 1t. The only reason sugar is
used is TO make the preserved article
more palatable- We are urged TO use
as little sugar as possible and we are
likewise urged to preserve and can
as much as possible.
There is every Indication that
there VIII be more sugar next winter,
and If we preserve our fruits and veg
etables without sugar at this time,
we eat the preserves and they VIII
be Just as good. and preserves canned
without sugar viii keep indefinitely"
Miss Stallman told the grocers to
tell their customers that fruits can
be preserved without the use Of sugar
and urged them to tell their customers
that she would be glad at any time TO
arrange for classes
Certificates by administrator.
Another ruling OF the food admin
istrarOr that was brought 70 the at
tention Of the grocers was the rul-
ing that certificates for % pounds Of
sugar. 10 be used by housewives in
preserving and canning. must be OBJ
tanned from the office OF the local ad-
Heretofore these GER
tificates have been issued from the
grocery store at the request OF the
customer and the sugar signed for,
The customer declaring that the
amount requested was for preserv-
Ing purposes and all unused portions
would be returned The grocers have