The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-01-31
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited BY
$18O,OO0,OO0-French Stu
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD At 9 CENTS.
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced
- seventy Per Cent. Of Normal
Java stocks Unavailable.

Sugar control has saved, the Amer.
lean public $1So,OOO,OOO, Herbert Hoov.
i, United States food administrators,
declared the other Cay.
He pointed out that sugar was SELL
ing for ii cents a pound last August
and that It would have advanced to 20
cents q pound, with the world short
age az q stimulus, had not the food
administration secured the co-opsra-
tion Of the refiners and wholesalers
and fixed q sugar price that today en-
ables housewives to buy sugar at from
az to 8 cents a pound.
EVERY / cent raise in sugar from
September 1 to January l means $751;
100000 to the American consumer"
Mr.. Hoover said. plumbers Of gen
temen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed Of $18O,OOO,OOO this year Il we
had not taken these actions" Later
Nj. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
d. cents q pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
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 wal
IS pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war ia
"a pounds, and in France each person
o. allotted q little Over one pound q
month.
''In 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 Ia
December had shipped S5,426 tons. In
the meantime an appeal was made ia
tho American public to reduce ita sug.
AZ consumption, and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
con~fectionary and sweet drinks trade
with 30 Der cent. of normal supply.
This has been generally followed, IL
though such regulations were yolun'
larry, o. the food administration had
no authority to impose them"
Domestic Price 10 az t. . Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun.
nv + supposed to take a profit Of no
more than 80 cents Z hundred-half q
rent. pound-on sugar. BY reason Of
tood administration regulations bind,
Inc refners and wholesalers, the re.
taller IL able today to buy sugar at
from 8 to 81 cents q pound. This
enables him to sell to the housewife 1t
BM to 8 cents q pound.
There have been some violations Of
the sugar rulings. Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales Of sugar from is to
70 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop,
ped and IL evidence itself of the prices
ut 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 . great
many Instances through our local ad.
ministrators."
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be All.
ed to normal very soon IL ships could
be sent to Java. where 100000 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
100000 soldiers to France.
The food administration believes
that the American public will diminish
lts sugar consumption by 10 or 10 per
cent. when It IL made clear that such
sugar saving ID q patriotic act and
when It u understood that there are
plenty Of sweeteners available, to take
the place Of sugar, such a. honey o.
corn syrup.
Why shortage Exists.
The three great sugar producing cen
ters Of the world r Germany. the
West and East Indies. German sugar
u, Of course, used at homo. The East
indian sugar Is unavailable because 81
the ship shortage.
While u boats made big inroAds ca
he worlds shipping, France and Italy
ceased to be self sustaining In sugar
manufacture England In the mean.
time was cut on from German sugar
100000 tons a year-because OF tn
war. The result has been that the ~