Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-25
SUGAR CONTROL
 SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited by slsO,oO0,O0o-FrenCh Situ-
 alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT g CENTS
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced to Seventy Per Cent of Normal
 Java Stocks Unavailable.

Smear control has saved the Amers iean public SlSO.OOO.OOO Herbert Hoov- CT. United States food administrators. i 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 2O cents a pound. with the world short ore as stimulus. had not the food administration secured the co-opera- ion of the refners and wholesalers and fixed a sugar price that today en- ables housewives tO buy sugar a5 rom SIs to g cents pound.
 Every l cent raise in suSar from September to January means $iS'- OOOOOO to the American consumer Mir Hoover said. Numbers of gen usuen will tell you that 2O cent sugar woagd have prevailed and the public rohsed of SISO,OOO,OO0 this year Il we had not taken these actions. Later NIT. Hoover called attention 10 the Tact that uncontrolled sugar advanced to S5 cents a pound during the Civil War.
 France Got Our sugar. Today the American public has been allotted 70 Der cent. Of its normal sup ply. Before the war the average an- nual household consumption here was D pounds person. In England the ! annual consumption during the war IS ! 24 pounds, and in France each person is allotted little over one pound a | month.
 "In August the French government found iise,f unable 10 maintain even ] this ration" Mir Hoover declared. An appeal was made to America. ] France needed 1c0.C0O tons. We agreed to i'll this demand and up @ il December had shipped SJ,426 tons h the meantime an appeal was made to | the American public to reduce it's Sus- ar consumption. and requests were made to distributors 10 supply the | confectionery and sweet drinks trade :. with 50 per cent. of normal supply. This has been generally followed. al- T though such regulations were VOiun- tar, as the food administration had nc authority to impose them."
 Domestic Price Is az to g Gents.
 Retail grocers throughout the coan- try are supposed to take a profit Of no more than @ cents a hundred-half a cent 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 s to SiA cents a pound. This enables him to sell 10 the housewife aC Sik to Q cents a pound.
 There have been some violations Of the sugar rulings. Mir. Hoover said recently: "Sales of sugar from l6 tO 20 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 inter- ened. We have forfeited wholesalers licel,-eS in az sravated cases. and we haze issued warnings to first offenders in a great many instances through our local ad- ministrators."
 Effect on Military Situation.
 American sugar stocks could be fill ed to normal very soon if ships could be sent to Java, where 2J0OO0 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. Ii would take the beats one year Co haul 25OOOO tons. In the same time they could be used for transporting 2OO.OOO soldiers to France.
 The food administration believes that the American public will diminish its sugar consumption by 10 or 15 per cent. when it Is made clear that such sugar saving Is a patriotic act and when 1t Is understood that there arc 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 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 of from German sugar 100000 tons e year-becauSe of the war. The result has been that the ai lied nations have been forced to turn to America and the West Indies fol their sugar.