The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-01-26
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Proflted by
$4,000 OO-French Stu
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 8 CENTS.
This Nations Sugar Supply Heduceo
to Seventy Per Cent. OF Normal
Java Stocks Unavailable.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 8 CENTS

Sugar control has saved the Amer
lean public $4,000 900, Herbert HooV-
or. United States food administrator
| declared the other day.
| He poInted out that sugar was sell
Ing for IL cents pound last August
and that It would have advanced to ~
| cents a pound, with the world snort
age as a stimulus, had not the 1000
administration secured the co-opera-
lion Of the refiners and wholesalers
and fixed a sugar price that TO-DAY en-
ables housewives to buy sugar at from
81 to o cents pound.
Every / cent Njse In sugar from
September l to January 1 means Slo,-
OOO. 600 to the American consumer,
Mr.. Hoover said. Numbers OF gen
tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed of $3.50. OOO, 900 this year II we
had not taken these actions Later
MFR. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced TO
35 cents pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 70 per cent. OF its normal sup
MY Before the war the average an
nual household consumption here was
50 bounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war Is
"a pounds, and In France each person
IL allotted a little over one pound a
| month.
"In August the French government
found itself unable to maintain even
this ration" Mr.. Hoover declared.
IAN appeal was made to America.
France needed 100000 tons We
agreed to ill 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 We're
made to distributors to supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
| with 80 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 10 ga to Q Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take profit Of no
more than 80 cents hundred-half a
cent pound-On sugar BY reason Of
food administration regulations, bind
Ing refiners and wholesalers. the re-
taller IL able today to buy sugar at
| from to 81 cents a pound. This
enables him to sell to the housewife at
| ST. to 0 cents pound.
There have been some violations of
| the sugar rulings. Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales Of sugar from 16 to,
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop
pod and 10 evidence itself of the prices
at which consumers would have been
mulct had we not interviewed. We have
forfeited wholesalers licenses In ag-
grayated cases, and we have issued
warnings to first offenders in a great
many Instances through our local adj
illustrators"
effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be fill
ed to normal very soon IL ships could
be sent to Java, where 100000 tons Of
sugar IL 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 boats one year to
haul 100000 tons. In the same time
they could be used for transporting
\ 200, 900 soldiers to France.
The food administration believes
mat the American public will diminish
Its sugar consumption by 10 OF 10 per
cent. when 1t Is made clear that such
sugar saving Is patriotic act and
when It 10 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
tsrs OF the world are. Germany, the
West and East Indies. German sugar
In. OF course, used at home. The East
indian sugar IL unavailable because Of
the ship shortage. 4
While y 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 q year--because OF the
war. The result has been that the al
lied nations have been forced to turn
to America and the West Indies for
their sugar.