The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-01-29
CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited BY
$4,000, 900 French Stu.
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD At Q CENTS.
The NatlsN's Sugar Supply Hsduesd
- seventy Per Cent 81 Normal
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- Seventy Per Cent 81 Normal
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Sugar control has saved the Amer
lean public $3.50. 1000 900. Herbert Hocv-
or, United States food administrator,
declared the other day.
He pointed out that sugar was SELL
ing for II cents pound last August
and that II would have advanced to 20
cents q pound. with the world short
age as a stimulus, had not the food
administration secured the cO-opera.
ton Of the refiners and wholesalers
and fixed q sugar price that today en-
ables housewives to buy sugar at from
Sh to Q cents pound.
"Every 1 cent rnise In sugar from
September to January means $751;
100000 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, OO0. 900 this year II we
had not taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
IS cents pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 70 per cent. Of Its normal sup
ply. Before the war the average an
nual household consumption here was
IS pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war IL
"a pounds, and IN France each person
Is 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 All this demand and up to
December had shipped 85.428 tons. In
the meantime an appeal was made to
the American public to reduce Its sug-
ar consumption, and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
i 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 "a 70 . Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun.
1 try are supposed to take profit Of no
more than 90 cents a hundred-half q
cent a pound--on sugar. BY reason Of
food admlhistratlon regulations, bind
Ing refiners and wholesalers. the re-
taller 10 able today to buy sugar at
from to S1t cents a pound. This
enables him to sell to the housewife at
81 to 0 cents a pound.
There have been some violations Of
the sugar rulings Mr.. Hoover said
recently: "Sales of sugar from 10 to
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop
! ped and Ia evidence itself Of the prices
at which consumers would have been
mulct had we not interviewed. We have
| forfeited wholesalers licenses in az
| gravated cases. and we have issued
warnings to first offenders In great
many instances through our local I'D
illustrators"
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be fill
ed to normal very soon If ships could
be sent to Java. where 100000 tons OF
sugar Is waiting for shipment. Blu,
the shipping situation Is so acute that
the nation cannot spare the clever
ships needed to transport this sugar
II worad tako the boats one year L
haul 10000 tons. In the same tim,
they could be used for transportin;
100000 soldiers 10 France,
The food administration believe,
that the American public will diminish
its sugar consumption by 10 or 10 pei
cent. when II Is made clear that sucl
sugar saving is patriotic act ant
when il Is understood that there ar,
plenty OF sweeteners available to TAKE
the place OF sugar, such MS honey o.
corn syrup,
Why Shortage Exists.
The three great sugar producing cen
iers of the world are Germany, th,
| West and East Indies, German suga
is. OF course used at home. Pie ms
Indian sugar is unavailable because 0
the ship shortage.
/ While u boats made big inroads OF
the worlds shipping, France and Ital,
ceased to be self sustaining In suga
manufacture. England in the mean
time was cut Off from German sugar
400, 600 tons year-because of tn
war. The result has been that the al
lied nations have been forced to tur
TO America and the West Indies 70
their sugar.
EvApE RIGID FOOD CONTROL.