The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-01-11
SUGAR
WLLNOI END'S00N
Supply WIN BE Less Than De-
rnand Even When Exipencies
:, of War Have Passed

| j. W. knight, the director Of the
News Bureau Of the Republic Of Cuba,
submits his views on the coming Cuba
sugar crops In the following carefully
prepared statements. He says:
~ When a few days ago Cuban sugar.
planters, who will raise go percent Of
this years sugar cane crop, buried
hatebet with H. @. Hoover's 1nterna-
tional Sugar Commission, they pledged
| themselves to loose upon the markets
Of our allies the greatest output the
world has ever known. Three and q
| half million tons Of sugar will go from
Cuban ports IN the next six months to
ease the aching world 8 sweet tooth.
Cables brought the news that the great
sugar mills at the Centrales Palma and
Manati had already begun to crush the
juiee from the eane--the earliest rec
orded date for the starting up Of the
mills. Soon more than 200 other mills,
from Pinar del Rio to. oriente, win be
active. ttf ~ +. la y
Shortage to Continue ~. r #
"The worlds sugar shortage, some
statisticihns tell us, Is ut an end. Yet
the fact repains that today, and for
years to come, the world will be short
Of sugar. its price may be regulated,
its use may be conserved, production
may increase, but for decade after
the wars end herewith still be a sugar
scarcity. Whether the situation be
viewed as econimic or social. the needs
Of the world, excluding the Central
Powers, cannot be solved this year, or
next or ns19lD or 1920, or for the next
decade. With the coming Of peace
German and Austrian beet sugar pro-
duetion win be resumed ON a mighty
scale. Favorable weather may come to
gladden. the Louisiana Ind Western
American planters; Java will again
send her sugar to the world g market,
but il win require ten years or more
for the world ts-realign its sugar pro
duction to its needs. u - 4.
Land Barely sufices ~
Had there been no war the situa.
ton would have been almost the same.
It Is q fact which agrarian economists
long have realized that the world s.
land available for sugar production
satisfy normal demand. Food needs.
lin the West indies, the United States,
f0oImhnyt Aunhia hhu ing nanny
Archipelago 50 greatly that the sugar
producing domains IN these countries,
with oubas exception, were feeling the
eneroaenment OF tiiage for other 1000
peIore she WAT lpegsn. Inc war only
1asteheu tne hecessity lor tne prop
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world Situation which the writer has
eonclpded. m eooperation with Euro-
peaii authorities. impels the conviction
that the housewife must abandon for
ever the hope of what used to be call.
ed cheap sugar.. n
DIR. II. @. Prinseh, Geerliss, Of Am
sterdam, Enfope's leading sugar au-
thority and for years director of the
Royal Dutch experiment station in
West Java, as well as George Marti-
neau, the English sugar expert, agree
that permanent economies ! in sugar
manufacture and consumption are mr.
gently necessary. To lower the price
the grower receives will only curtail,
production, there being today such an
opposed status and potential equili-
brium, of sugar needs and other food
needs as TO permit of no price reaction.
Continued high prices to the sugar pro-
Queer, and the regulation and eventual
elimination altogether of the refner
90 as to safeguard the consumer, com
prise the only solution of the problenf
'''The British reflneries,' Mr. Mar
tineau writes in a letter, certainly are
not, even. when at full work. capable
Of supplying the British consumer with
all the refined sugar he cqnsumes. The
foreigner, before the war, sent to us
every year nearly 100000 tons, and
the British refiner supplied the balance,
about 100000 tons Mr.. Martineau be-
lieves that the consumer in the near
future will rely upon either old-fash-
Toned brown sugar OF plantation
qranulated' To meet the craving Of his