The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-27
Shortage of Crop Causes
Ounce and Half Order
By Administrator Hoover
ORDER TO CONTINUE
NEXT SIX MONTHS
Manufacturers of Sweets Are the Hard
est Hit-Substitutes Viii Be Used
Wherever It Is Found Possible-Hos
pitfalls Are Included.

WASHINGTON, June 27-The re
striction of the American peopleeto one
and half ounces of sugar a day for
each individual during the next six
months was ordered yesterday by Food
Commissioners Herbert Hoover The
amount is about one teaspoonful at each
meal 4 shortage in she sugar crop
IN this country, together with the alb
sence of merchant vessels to import
hundreds of thousands of tons of sugar
from the Philippine Islands, Java and
other sugar producing countries, is men
toned as the reason for the curtail-
ment
Mr.. Hoover's allotment is three
pounds a month to each person. This
IS at the rate of 10 ounces for each 80
meals, or about one-half ounce to each
meal The reduction is estimated TO
amount to % per cent below the nor
mai consumption of sugar
As close an estimate as we can make
indicates reasonable expectation from
all sources of about 1,600 200 tons of
sugar for United States consumption
during the last half of the present
year, said an official statement issued
from Mr.. Hoover : Office This is based
upon the maintenance of the present
meagre allied ration. An improvement
IN shipping conditions would of course
relieve this situation, as quantities of
sugar are in unavailable markets. We
must base the distribution of sugar dur
ha
footing. After that period the new
West Indian crop viii be available =
Confeetloners, schewing gum makers,
soft drink and &obaeeo manufacturers
and wine makers will be hit hardest in
the allotment scheme. Substitutes will
be introduced wherever it is found pos
sible
Certificates of distribution based upon
the relative Importance of the con
sumner Of sugar viii be issued in the fol
lowing groups:
Fifty per cent eduction.-Candv
makers, soft drinks, soda fountains.
chewing gum makers, chocolate and
cocoa manufacturers, tobacco manufac-
turers, fiavoring extracts, invert sugar.
syrups. sweet PICKLES anti Ws,iiies. nofg I
cream makers viii be allowed 10 per
cent OF their normal sugar supply.
Other groups into which cansumers
are divided for purposes of carrying out
the order and subject to curtailments of
% per cent are:
Group B.-Commereial Gamers, vege-
tables, fruits, milk, medicines. expio-
sives and glycerins. These concerns
may have sugar for their necessary re-
quirements, but resales will not be made
to them.
Group C.-Hotels, restaurants, clubs.
dining cars, hospitals, public institu
tons and boarding houses. These con,
sumers viii be allowed three pounds of
sugar for each 80 meals served.
Group D.-Bakers and cracker man
ufacturers. These firms will be allowed
10 per cent of their former eonsump-
tion of sugar
Group E.-Retail stores and grocers.
Merchants viii receive certificates for
the average amount Of sugar sold during
April, May and June. They are limited
to selling two pounds to a town Gus
toner and five pounds to a country
customer.
Wholesalers and refners will not be
permitted to sell any sugar until sugar
certificates issued by the local food adj
ministrators have been filed with the
orders. Consumers of each of the five
groups must Immediately file statements
OF their sugar consumption in recent
months as a basis for issuing sugar
certificates in the future