Evening star., 1923-05-22
SEE VAIN WEAPON
| IN SUGAR BOYCOTT
Leaders Say Bulk of Com
modify Is in Candy, Cake
and Such.
H,ecisl Dispstch to The Star.

Epecial Dispst tch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 21.-Sugarless
Mondays, sugarless Tuesdays. sugar
less weeks and the boycott of the
corner grocer may do something to-
ward stopping the upward march OF
the sugar market, but they cannot
be q controlling factor because II
has just been discovered by the
leaders in the boycott movement
that less than one-haif of the sugar
consumed in the United States Is
bought direct as sugar. AS a mat
ter of fact, only about 40 per cent
passes through the kitchen and the
sugar bowl on the dining room table.
The great bulk of the sugar con-
sumed in America--and the consump-
tion per capita is greater here than
anywhere on earth--is contained in
soda water, ice cream, chewing gum,
candies. cake, bread. condensed milk
and a thousand and one other things
that cater more or less to the sweet
tooth.
1t is figured by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce in
Washington that fully 60 per cent
of the sugar consumed cannot be al
fected by the present boycott move
ment.
Government "At Loss
The government at Washington
seems to be at a loss as how to pro-
ceed further against the sugar
trust" other than to take an appeal
from the recent adverse decision on
it's application for an injunction
against the sugar exchange, and If
teerS it would seem that no relief IS
in sight until the domestic pro'luc-
tion of beet and can sugar comes
upon the market i'll the early fall
Heretofore the advent Of this crop
always has been signal for lowered
prices. The increases have been
made this time, as usual, when the
eastern refiners. through their con-
troll of the Cuban product. can abso-
lutely dictate the price. not only in
the United States, but in the greater
part of the rest of the world.
The housewives. who stormed the
Offices of the refinerS here, and were
told to take their troubles to Wash
tngton; that the high tariff was re-
sugar, have begun to be Ilisillusioned
on that score. They have received
word from the tariff commission at
Washington that whereas the tariff
was increased 16 cents a hundred
. pounds last September, the price of
sugar has risen So hundred
pounds since that time. In praying
for a removal of the extra duty, the
housewives are worrying how they
can account for the BIZ rise above
the tariff differential.
Years Consumption.
Sugar consumption last year is
roughly figured by the bureau of
domestic commerce at 5,100,0G0 tons.
More than 100000 tons of this amount
was utilized in the manufacture OF
foodstuffs in bakeries, candy kitchens,
soft drink factories and the like.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
tons were used by candy makers. not
Including the homemade fudge or
taffy. according to the bureaus esti-
mate. Nearly 12S,0o0 tons more went
into the manufacture of chocolate
and ice cream.
The bakers Of the nation also are
big sugar consumers. Every year
they put about $4,000 tons of sugar
into bread, $4,000 tons into crackers,
$4,000 tons into Sweet dough- 50.-
600 tons into pies and about 10000
tons into cakes. Frosting for the
cakes and other odds and ends called
for the use of about 10000 tons ad-
ditional, bringing the total consump-
tion of sugar by commercial bakeries
up to approximately $50. 1000 tons.
Fourteen thousand makers of soft
drinks sold at soda fountains in the
cities and corner groceries in the