Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-22
URGES CLOSING OF SODA
STANDS To SAVE SUGAR
Berkeley u. Adams Offers Solution OF
Present Shortage of Canning
Essentials.
SAYS MUCH FOOD is WASTED
Claims Farmers Cannot Preserve
Their Products and Advocates
Curtailing Soft Drink Plants as
Means of Solving Difficulty.

Berkley d Adams OF the State Cor
pora;ion Commission. and president OF
the Virginia Board OF Agriculture and
immigration. believes the menace of
!, serious cutting down OF the food
supply in Virginia due TO the inability
of prospective Gamers and Dreservers
10 secure needed quantities OF sugar,
has become so acute as 10 Justify tho
proper authorities in curtatling and;
If necessary. closing for q limited
period those fountains and manufac-
turing establishments which use sugar
for the making Of unnecessary pro-
ducts.
BY the same power he thinks this
channels OF trade in which 1t now IS
used and he dedicated TO the use OF
10 the food supply
MI. Adams said YESTERDAY mat the
TO his attention through countless
complaints from citizens throughout
the State. who, in 2 TINE ., exoTo;ian n',
with the entire loss OF the produce OF
their farms because there IS available
Contrasts Conditions.
II am told by reliable persons re-
Gently returned from Europe" ne said.
that even in the warstriCken coun-.
I tries provisions have hecn made ana
are now IN eHec; tina, enable house
wives TO secure sugar in sufficient
!. auantities 10 save their fruits. even
though the soft drink staelishmenis
-4and similar nonessentials have 10 close
! down for while ..
there and in NirEilia are strtkinS
nond and ind Al abundance Of sugar
IN ali restaurants and hotels for use
in coffee ;e, ice cream Hno pa paF ~,
rnents husy as bees serving the public
with every kind 81 drink imasinahle.
tioa presents :. woeful 'aconsistency
we are cont-onte; with = very Sc
rio7s situation From every quarter
OF the State the c-y tor some adjust
high COS: o. living Is critically acute.
Attention o. LEGISLATORS and the cNeCu
tive DEPARTMENTS az The state nd ma
.Ioaal governments has been called 70
1t Bills des! Ened % relieve the st-!1-
Ssncy have been Introduce: IN the
Legislature 81 Virginia
Would Stop Soft Drinks.
THE inability 70 Obtain scsa- is
from che fault .: oI- system Of dis
1-tbut:or one thing. however, is GER
tain, --ez; part O: the supply goes
into me production OF sol; drinks.
no; essential 20 he ..+e OF the state.
OUTSIDE az ne homes there does not
appe4- Or ~ surface real scarcity.
U'hiie ,ae housewife !s to.ed ouT
mere c!:tzuc- @: one o. TWO pounds 81
VERY -.-= intervals. ;as-e manufacture
lag plants and public places seem 70
cei Al they Ts-c-
"ou, n ~ eou1--y districts thou
sands % pounds o: farm produce are
going = VASE I-stsz6 o: being used
- 5r<z- ths 900 st-1ge-cy and bria-
COW. - lz-E= measure he a!E5 cost %
!iyIa. 8: becomes dead LOSE. TIE
scussr.te las cultivated, sprayed and
fsrt.!tz=- re o--1z-c. and nov she =
rcbtst q he :-Ii-s 9: nsr labor, and
the people = -z-Ee are robbed Of 4
s-.zi source o: food supply ~A=a she
is denies sugar fo- preserving and
canai-=
This situation H.s come despite he
ureen, -tq-es: az tie govern -neat rtat
patriotic CITIZENS everywhere bend
their Efforts toward Q-o9ucing as much
as possible OF .hs farms and il the
gardens, taat he food situation = ne
United STATES nigh. not become acute,
and taat "e ass.s, sufferers II foreign
countries"