The Mena weekly star., 1918-06-27
CLANP|NC THE LID
 ON SUGAR USERS
covernment's New Rationing Plan More Restrictive Than Any Ever Before Applied in United States
 I Lbs Per Person Per Month.

| seecial to The Star.
 Little Rock, June 25.--Never in the h;storv of the United States has the government taken greater precau- sions to control the sale of sugar than k seen in the new rationing plan for this product, which has been received from the United States food adminis- tration. Washington. by Hamp Will jams. federal food administrator for Arkansas and by him made public to- day.
 Under the new regulations every one buying sugar must have cer- tifcate, which can only be obtained from the state food administrator. Refners are not permitted to sell to iohbers or wholesalers unless the lat ter have made proper aplication and been granted certificate.
 Hotels, restaurants and public eat ing places must also have the sugar certificate. Bakers are also put into the certificate class before they can buy sugar. Retailers must get cer- 4ifcate before they can buy sugar from jobbers or wholesalers.
 Sugar certificates, it is announced, will be issued only for the July al- Iotment. This is due to the shortage of sugar and to prevent overcrowding of sugar refineries.
 Marked Reduction Announced.
 Manufacturers of less essentials, who were previously allowed 80 per cent of their consumption for three months last year, have been reduced to 50 per cent. This class includes all manufacturers of beverage syrups, candies, cereals, chewing gum, cocoa and chocolate, condiments, confec- tions, favoring extracts, invert sugar, syrups, soda water, soft drinks, sweet pickles and wines.
 Tobacco which was permitted un- der the previous ruling to be classed as essential, is placed in the less es- sential class and manufacturers of tobacco are cut from 100 per cent to 50 per cent supply of sugar.
 Manufacturers of ice cream are also taken from the essential list and placed in the less essential class. Their allotment of sugar, however, is scheduled at 75 per cent, except where made at candy or soda water stands, which are allowed but 50 per cent sugar.
 Supply for Hotels.
 To illustrate: If any public eating place serves 150 guests day for thirty days, that place would serve l,50o meals a month. Dividing that number by thirty, representing the month, it is seen that establishment would be entitled to 150 pounds of sugar.
 Ii estimating the smaller places of business in this line, and for further illustration taking thirty persons served as daily average, such al place would serve 900 meals 6 month, which would entitle it to thirty pounds of sugar. Such places should make true and faithful report in filing application for the sugar cer- tifcate.
 State Food Administrator Hamp Williams has given the following of- fcial interpretation and ruling on sugar to be allowed to hotels, res- taurants and all other public eating places.
 The three pounds per ninety meals served means that the amount of sugar secured under that ruling from Washington represents the allot- ments for all purposes It includes the supply for cooking and for what ever sugar is used in pies, pastry or deserts, as we'll as for individual serv- Ice to guests"
 Sugar for Bakers.
 All sugar allotments for bakers will be based on three months peril od, comprising July, August and Sep tember. It must be understood, how ever, the food administrator declares, that only one-third of that supply may be drawn in July. Bakers in computing the amount of sugar they are entitled to may do one of two things.
 First, they may take TO per cent of the amount of sugar they used in July, August and September, 1917, as their allotment for the same corre- spending months this year. second, they may take 70 per cent of the amount of sugar they used in June 1918, multiply that by three for their allotment during July, August and September.
 Retailers Also Restricted. Retailers in purchasing sugar must take into careful consideration the amount of sugar they would sell un- der the three pounds per person per month rule during July, August and