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CRafa Eugene A. Pharr, Ulysse
LAB,' j. c. LeBourgeois and
BSest Burguieres. After days
III delay and argument between
this committee and the National
Food Administration, the commit
fee was in a mood to accept $500
per hundred pounds.
Mr.. Parker maintained that this
price was unsatisfactory and
that $3.50 should be paid. He
at once waited upon Mr.. Hoover
and insisted that the latter figure
be paid for all refining grades of
raw sugar, and proportionate
increase for all sugar of a higher
quality manufactured during the
current year in Louisiana. As d
result of his representations and
vigorous stand, Mr.. Hoover
agreed to fix the price at $685. per
hundred pounds, which was done,
and the Louisiana planters thus
effected substantial saving
through Mr.. Parker's efforts.
In 1918 Mr. Parker was not
called upon by the Louisiana
planters to in any way aid in price
fixing, and the disposition Of the
Louisiana crop of 1918 was placed
entirely by the National Food Adj
ninistration under the direction
of committee in the City of
Washington, whose rules were ex-
ecuted under the direction of the
Sugar Control Committee Of Lou
isiana, composed entirely Of rep
resentatives of the various sugar
and cane interests of the State.
Singular that you and another
Stubb's orator are the only ones,
so far as I know, who have re-
ferred, in public speeches, to Mr..
Parker's unfriendliness to the SUI
gar people. And Tat you,
though planter. are politically
interested. while the other party
is Mr.. James Wilkinson, who is
not a planter nor farmer. But
Messrs. Horace and Theodore Viii
kinson, the brothers of the latter, |
are cane growers, and they are
supporting Mr.. Parker. The
propaganda in our section is
spread secretly by emissaries who
visit the farmers for the pur-
pose. i
Again, I want to reproduce
what DR.. R. G. Young has said |
about Mr.. Parker:
'In 1917 said DR.. Young.
1.-THE sugar planters of the State
of Louisiana were very much con-
cerned regarding the price fixed |
for their product by the National
Food Administration, and in or
der to present their side of the
question and do whatever was
within their power to obtain their |
just dues, they appointed COM
mittee of five to visit Washington
and see il such prices could not
be obtained for their product as
would justify their remaining in |
business.
Mr.. Parker, having been made |
acquainted with the facts, volun-
teered to accompany this commit |
tee to Washington, and do what
ever was within his power to see
that justice was done Louisiana |
sugar planters. After days Of |
consultation and argument, the |
committee had about made up it's
mind to come home, as it did see
a chance of obtaining what, i'll
their Judgment. was considered al
fair price for our sugars.
AT the last moment--just be-
fore leaving Parker. having |
been told by our representatives |