Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-27
Restaurants and Hotels to BE Limit
cd to Three Pounds for Each
Ninety Meals Serycd--Cuudym maxi
crS' Supply Is Reduced.

d.
10 retailers. hotel. restaurants. board
rE-houses, bakeries, etc, into effect.
you will he permitted to extend the
period for certificates to be furnished
you until July 10. Please keep sep
arate record of those sales, as they
y must apply on the July allotment
This extension OF time is granted TO
avoid any hardship on those various
classes. but they are not TO be given
any excess amounts of sugar.
No penalties are announced FOR prl
= waite families exceeding the three
" pounds allowance. ii being a matter of
patriotic appeal.
III would east the government So
100000 10 nut the householder on
ration card" said Food Administrator
Hoover. AMI take the services of 1ou,-
g 600 persons 10 carry it out. We can
not afford the labor or the money"
But drastic action is foreshadowcd
against users of sugar for commercial
purposes who fail 10 comply with the
regulations. The purpose OF the new
Z regulations is 20 save the allies their
= present sugar rationS which are less
than half the new allowances to the
; United States. The new United states
allowance is about IS per cent OF it's
normal CO assumption.
NUMEROUS CAUSES
MAKE REDUCTION NECESSARY
: The need for reduction has come
a result OF a smaller production OF do
: nestle beet and louisiana crops and
in the West indies, loss of sugar from
submarines. destruction OF beet sugar
factories in the war In France and Il
transfer of tonnage from the sugar
transportation to supplies for the
United States Army in France. There
= are quantities of sugar in unavailable
markets, which may be released by
improved shipping conditions
The state Food Administration made
the Following Statement Yesterday.
I'm order to secure Justice in dis
tribution and to make the restrictive
plans as effective as possible no Inani!-
facturer or wholesaler of sugar Will
be allowed after July to sell any
/, sugar except to buyers who secure
certificate from the local food admits
traitors. indicating the quantity they
may buy. For the purpose of issuing
these certificates III. various users OF
sugar are divided into the following
groups:
U.l Candymakcrs, sof, drinks. soda
= fountains. chewing gum. chocolate an
, cocoa manufacturers. tobacco ranufac-
r tGrers, favoring extracts, invert sugar
fsyrups. sweet pickles. wines, etc.
OBJ Commercinl Gamers, vcgeta bles
: fruits, milk, medicinal purposes. ex-
plosivcs, Elyccrine. etc.
,'c) Hotels. restaurants, clubs. dining
. cars and steamships, boarding houses.
4, hospital public intitutions and public
6 eating places generally. in which term
are included all boarding houses who
take care Of twenty-five persons or
more.
td) Bakers and cracker manufactur-
crs Of all kinds.
(c) Retail stores and otkers selling
for direct consumption.
MUST FILE STATEMENT
OF SUGAR on HAND
= Every person in these categor!cs
smust. before July I. or as soon there
CATER as the local Aleod administrators
: determines. make.-a statement upon a
= form that will be provided showing the
,1sugar they hold or have in transit on
NJuly ].
In the case Of Group A.-that is
candy. sof; drinks, etc. must show the
amount of sugar used during tho
months OF July. August. and Scptcm-
Der. 1917. and certificates will. IL the
statements are correct. he based upon
80 per cent OF such average use. Ice
Cream makers Will be entitled to 10
per cent a certificate viii he issued sep
aratcly for each months purchase.
= Group B-that is commercial can
ncrs. etc, will be given certificates for
their necessary requirements bu; any
resale Of sugar by them except under
the express direction OF the local fosd
administrator Will constitute "A viola
ton OF the regulations and subject
them 10 closing Of business for the war
season must he placed al the disposal
. OF the local administrator. The admin
istration appeals 10 this group TO econ
omize on consumption in every dircc-
s ton.
8 Group Chat is public eating places.
will be issued certificates upon the
basis Of three pounds for each ninety
meals served. This includes all pub
lie eating places using sugar
GROUP D-that is, bakers. will re-
z ceive certificates for 20 per cent of the
q average amount used during July. Au-
gust and September, 1917. or alternate
ly 30 per cen; Of that used in the month
Of June. 1873
Group That is. retail stores will
I. receive for July purchases certificates
ba sed upon the average OF sugar sold
asduring the combined three months,
April May and June. 1915 Retailers
I. must not sell sugar TO any OF the
!. other groups, that is. TO no one exccpt
= householders. without taking up the
certificates Of such persons. They must
. not sell more than two pounds at any
: one time 10 any town customer or more
than FIVE pounds a; any one time 10
any country customer The latter NAV
S-however. be varied by the local admin
istrator to persons remote from town
The retailer will do his best not 10
sell more than three pounds per per
son per month TO householders whose
cooperation with the retailer is earn
estly sought.
Retailers may. as at present. sell
2. twent?-hHe pounds OF sugar TO any
F. one household for home canning upon
= the householder's certifying that ne
has not bought elsewhere and agree
!, ing 10 return any balance unused for
: this purpose The househ older can oh.
.. tain more than twenty-five pounds upon