The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-07


sugar interests Of Hawaii, the
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cubo
and the West Indies, and lotin
America generally. All right,
look what it got you. AS soon
as the war came olong-- ship
ping was shot and you had to
ration supplies. Also, you had
TO step UP beet sugar Produo-
ton. Why not get smart and
prevent crisis of that kind
developing oeoin9 Why not
shut out oil this imported su-
eor, develop the home indus
try, put idle lands to work, or
reduce the acreage now pro-
duoine too much cotton. corn
and wheat, develop the domes-
tic beet sugar industry as an
outlet for postwar employ
mento In short, why not write
yourself insurance against any
possible sugar shortoees?"
This is on old line, but it is
not without its socchorine po-
litiooI sex-oppeol. The cane SUI
eor lobby recognizes the po-
tenoy Of the argument. and is
scared. And when the so-coIl-
ed sugar trust lobby in Wash
ineton is scared, thot's some-
thing. It hos been damned and
branded, trom the w h it e
House and Department Of Az
riculture on down, as the most
vicious and pernicious OF oil
Hobbies, so the coming struggle
between the beet and the cane
should be intro industrial strife
at its competitive tops.
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FUEL FOR FEUD
On. foctor that will lend
support 10 the couse OF the
cane sugar people is the theory
Of the international new deoI-
ers and free troders that in
this perfectly planned post war
world, there must be no inter-
national trode barriers and the
worlds goods must be equito-
bly, divided and supplied SO
thot every producer country
and every consumer coun-
try con do business. Ap-
plying those brood prin-
cipIes to the sugar industry
means thot the Philippines,
Hawaii and Cuba, built largely
on sueorcone. producing econo-
my, should be given every op-
portunity to d eve p their
Number One industry to the
fullest extent. And the selfish
interests Of the beet sugar peo-
pie may have TO take q back
scot TO that. All this will odd
political fuel TO the coming
feud.
Just how much more impor.
tont is the role Of beet sugar
can be eoueed by u. S. con-
sumption and production fig.
ures. In lo4l, beet sugar pro-
duction wos approximately W
million tons, or Is per cent Of
the 81 million ton total. For
1912, the estimates ore thot
beet sugar will furnish two
million tons, or as per cent OF
the 4.3 million ton total.
This 49, million tons esti-
mated u. s. consumption is q
little more than half Of the
production that would be ovoil-
able for u. S. consumption il
there we're no war, il there
we're no shipping problem. il
there we're no stocks to be ship.
ped abroad by lend-leose.
West Indies ports ore bulg-
ing with raw sugar waiting tor
boats and sugar people oil over
the western hemisphere ore sit.
ting up nights, trying to figure
out woys to increase ship.
ments. Ships oren't running to
the usual refinery ports OF Boil
timore, Boston, New York and
Philadelphia. Instead, t h r
ore quick trips from the West
Indies to Florida ports. But ev-
cry shipIood Of raw su9 o.
dumped at q southern port
means approximately one 90.
cor freight troinlood to be
hauled north, and thot's G
strain on the country's olreody
stroinine transportation sys-
tenn. Also, rehondlino twice,
ond costly roll transportation.
hos TO be odded 70 the price Of
sugar per pound.
clIHA0 nv BADGE
u. s. Maritime Commission
hos come forward with one ex-
perimentol effort which ma,