The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-02-22
SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS.
American Consumer Profited by
$4,000, 0OO-FrenCh Stu
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTS,
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced
to Seventy Per Cent. of Normal.
Java Stocks Unavailable

Sugar control has saved the Amer
can public $lS0,0OO,O 900, Herbert Iloov-
er. United States food administrators,
declared the other day.
He pointed out that sugar was sell
ing for Ii cents a pound last Angus
and that II would have advanced to 20
.ents a pound, with the world short
age as "a stimulus, had not the food
administration secured the co-opera-
lion Of the reiners and wholesalers
ana fxed.a sugar price that today en-
ables housewives TO buy sugar at from
Sh TO 8 cents a pound.
Every l cent raise In sugar from
September ! to January l means SlS,
000,00O 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 S1S0,OOO,OO . this year II we
had not taken these actions Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention TO the fact
Mat uncontrolled sugar advanced to
20 NtIlN q lpullh huilhB tut Ni'H
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 30 per e OF its normal sup
ply. Before the war the average an
nual household consumption here was
x pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war is
- pounds, and in France each person
is allotted a little over one pound a
month.
"Iu August the French government
found itself unable to maintain even
his ration" Mr.. Hoover declared.
An appeal was made to America.
! France needed 100000 tons. We
agreed to fill this demand and up to
December had shipped S5,426 tons. In
I've meantime an appeal was made 10
, he American public to reduce its sug-
ar consumption, and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
with 80 per cent. Of normal supply
This has been generally followed, al,
= hOugh such regulations were volun.
airy, as the food administration had
6 40 authority to impose them"
Domestic Price is sH2 to 9 Cents.
Retail grocerS throughout tile coun
I Try are supposed 10 take q profit OF NJ
more than 30 cents II hundred-half ,
cent a pound-On sugar, BY reason %
God administration regulations, bind
3 ne r%einers and wholesalers, the re
o 'ailer is able today to buy sugar a
i from 8 TO S19 cents Il pound. Thl:
! ,nables him 10 sell TO the housewife a
81 to 8 cents a pound.
. There have been some violations Ot
The sugar rulings. Mr.. Hoover said
, recently SALES Of sugar from rs tC
20 Gems per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and sop
, ped and is evidence itself OF he price,
Y at which consumers would have beer
mulct had we not interviewed. We hav,
forfeited wholesalers licenses in az
. gravated cases, and we have ISSUED
warnings TO first offenders In a grca
I many instances through our local nd
illustrators"
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could he MI
n I'd to normal very soon IL ships coul,
he sent to Java, where 2lO,OO0 IONS o
> sugar is waiting for shipment. Bu
he shipping situation is so acute Ina
tI. .uNt.v, nm o. ttn ata.sa
ships needed to transport this sugar
U { would take the boats one year &,
: haul 100000 tons. In the same tim,
hey could be used for transportin.
10000 soldiers to France.
The food administration believe
, hat the American public will Diminish
It's 9 consumption by 10 or 10 pc
cent. when it is made clear that SucI
sugar saving Is a patriotic act an'
when II is understood that there ar
plenty Of sweeteners available to tax
he place of sugar, such as honey o
-orn syrup
Why Shortage Exists.
y The three great sugar producing cen
ars Of the world are Germany, IN
Vest and East Indies. German Suga
;. of course, used at home. The Eas
indian sugar is unavailable because o
he ship shortage,
While u boats made big inroads o
he worlds shipping, France and ltal
eased to he self sustaining in Su-a
manufacture. England in the NEAR
lime was cut of from German sugar
LA0JOO0 tons a year--because Of III
war The result has been hat the a
led nations have been forced TO tur
10 America and the West Indies fc
h.'r sugar.