Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-11-13
SUGAR ALLOWANCE
RAISED A POUND
Food Administration Allows
Distribution Of Three Pounds
Per Capita Per Month

NEW MEATRULING
Liver and Bacon Have Happy Re.
union While Club Sandwiches
Come Back Into Their Own
Montpelier, Nov. 1:-Frank H.
Brooks, Federal food administrator
for Vermont, this morning announ-
ced that beginning to-day house
holders will be permitted to purchase
and use sugar on the basis Of three
pounds month per member of the
family while hotels, restaurants and
other public eating houses may pur-
chase and use sugar on the basis of
three pounds per ninety meals. This
is an increase Of one pound a month
| over the allowance that has been
granted for several months.
Another important announcement
| to-day at the food Offices was that
general order No. 4, which limited
in hotels, etc., the service of one
kind Of meat to customer, had been
amended. One effect of this will be
a reunion of those old companions,
liver and bacon, which a few days
ago were separated for what looked
like the duration Of the war. Club
sandwiches, which were also under
the ban may now be served without
violating the regulations as may
chicken and Virginia ham. A var
iety of sandwiches containing differ
ent kinds of meat may also be sold
at one time.
This modification, which restores
liver and bacon and the other mem
toned combinations to the active
list, also makes proper Thanksgiving
provision for mince pies, it being
ruled that "mince pie. larded sweet
breads, larded dlet of beef, hash,
goulash, meat cakes, scraps and
trimmings may be served without
violating general order No. f." Mr..
Brooks says, "It is hoped that this
will bring about happy elimination
to the proceedings that temporarily
divorced the public and these favor
ed dishes from a mutual and happy
relationship"
The reasons for this unexpected
| but welcome announcement in regard
to the sugar allotment are given by
Mr.. Brooks as follows:
1.-THE rapid manufacture of the
new crop Of beet sugar in the West,
the new crop of Louisiana cane SUI
gar in the South, together with the
freer railway transportation condi-
tons, the reductions that we have
made in the consumption Of sugar
| in the manufacturing trades, and the
| patriotic conservation in the past
four months, permits an increase in
the household allowance of sugar
from two pounds per-person-per-
month to three pounds per-person-
| per-month, with the same ratio to
public eating places. This makes
good on the promise to increase the
household allowance of sugar at the
earliest possible moment that sup
plies would justify. 1t makes it pos
| sible for the householder to more
| freely use the apple, cranberry and
| grapefruit products and to use the
| fruits canned during the summer
| without sugar.
1.-The regulations are also revised
| to the extent that any person may
purchase his whole family monthly
! allowance at one time if he so de-
| sires, or a person may purchase a
half months supply for the entire
| family in one purchase. This, there
FORE permits a choice between the
two permissible purchases, the half
months supply, or the supply for the
entire month.
1T is provided that in no case
shall there be served to any one per-
| son at any one meal sugar to exceed
one half ounce service of one tea
spoonful or it's equivalent for tea or
coffee and one teaspoonful for fruit
| or cereal but not teaspoonful for
both fruit and cereal and one small
lump for demitasse may be served.
"Ships heretofore carrying food,
are temporarily Transporting other
| army supplies. A cessation of the
| cereal movement of the country has
| largely increased the ability to han
de that, being thus able to largely
increase food supplies, it has no
right to withhold them from the
| householder. The ship situation al
so is one that by use Of wooden
ships, the prospective large Cuban
sugar crop can be transported moro
| promptly than it was thought pos
| sible but a short time since.
All this is the result of splen-
did patriotism on the part of ship
builders, railroad employees, and
| others in combined effort that has
| produced results far ahead of expec-
tations. The fact that this announce
ment is possible is due to an unpar-
alleled cooperation on the part Of
the householder and the public in