The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1918-01-25
SUGAR CONTROL
! SAVED MILLIONS
american Consumer Profted BY
$4,000, o00-FrenOh Stu
/ alton Helped.
HONE PRICE HELD,AT Q CENTS,
ThlS NAtlsN's sugar supply Reduced
- Seventy Per Cent Of Normal
Java stocks Unavailable.

SuEpP control has saved the Amer.
iiOaA public G1S0,O0O,OOO, Herbert HOOv.
~, UHitSd States food administrator.
Declared the other day.
He pointed out that sugar was sell
ilAs for IL cents a pound last August
lGAd that 1t would have advanced to 20
IcSnta a pound, with the werld short
are as q stimulus, had net the food
'aaministrs ton secured the cO-Opera-
ltIOR Of the reflners and wholesalers
and Axed a sugar price that today en-
.Ables housewives to buy sugar at from
tSh to Q cents a pound.
every ] cent raise in sugar from
September ! to January means $751;
90 900 to the American consumer"
~. Hoover said. Numbers Of gen
ltlotaen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed Of S1Se,O0OOO0 this year II we
RAA not taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
% cents q pound during the Civl War,
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 20 per cent. Of Its normal sup;
ply. Before the war the average an,
HHal household consumption here wac
IS pounds a person. In England the
annual consumption during the war Is
- pounds, and In France each person.
10 allotted little over one pound a
IRShth.
I'm August the FreRch government
found itself unable to maintain even
thIs ration" Mr.. Hoover declared.
IA appeal was made to America.
France needed 100000 tons. We
agreed to ill this demand and up to
December had shipped SO, 428 tOns. In
the meantime an appeal was made to
the American public to reduce Its sug-
aF consumption, and requests wera
made to distributors to supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
with SO per cent. OF normal supply.
This has been generally followed. al
though such regulations were volun-
tary, AZ the food administration had
no authority to impose them"
DOmSstIe Price Is ega to 9 cents.
Retail grOcers throughout the cOun-
try are supposed to take profit OF no
more than 90 cents hundred-half
cent 4 pOund-On sugar b. reason of
fe0d administration regulations, bind.
tag renners and wholesalers, the re-
taller is able today to buy sugar at
from TO 91S 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
aRd followed w vigorously and stop
ped and 10 evidence Itself of the prices
ct which consumers would have been
Rulct had we net interviewed. We have
forfeited wholesalers licenses In az
EravateA cases, AID we have Issued
warnings to first offenders ia a great
many instances through cur LEGAL ad-
illustrators"
EffSet on Military Situation.
American sugar stocks could be NIL
ed TO normal very soon II ships could
be sent to Java, where 25OOOO tons of
sugar Is waiting for shipment But
the shipping situation Is so acute that
the nation cannot spare the eleven
ships needed to transport this sugar.
II wOHld take the boats one year to
haul 10000 tons. In the same time
they could be used for transporting
10000 soldiers to France.
Tho food administration believes
khaN he TT,
it, sugar consumption by 10 or IS per
cent when It Is made clear that such.
sugar saving Is a patriotic act and
when u is understood that there are
plenty Of sweetsners available to take
the place OF sugar. such as honey or
cSrR syrup.
Why Shortage Exists.
The three great sugar producing cen
tiers Of the world are Germany, the
West and East indies. German sugar
IL, OF course, used at home. The East
Indian sugar is unavailable because Of
the ship shortage.
While q boats made big inrOada on
the worlds shipping, France and italy
ceased to be self sustaining in sugar
manufacture. England In the mean,
time was cut or from German sugar
100000 tons year-because OF the
war. The result has been that the al
lied nations have been forced to turn
70 America aHd The West Indies tOF