The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-01
. BEHIND THE SCENES
-IN WASHINGTONe

throwing cold voter on beouti.
full plans, pointed out thot
whereas raw, brown suoor is
cosy to store indefinitely, re-
fined sugar is hard to store ex-
cept in exceedingly dry or dir
conditioned warehouses. Let
three or four damp days come
along in the ordinary ware.
house, and all this refined sue.
or in boes will tend to lump or
coke. II it gets wet it's syrup.
Either way its defective, hos to
be sold off the top price, boos
have to be rolled to break
Jumps or the sugar hos to be
reboeoed. RehondIino repre-
sents extra cost, and with
prices frozen, who takes the
losses?
SUGGEST SUBSIDY
The best answer thought up
for this one, so for, is to grant
q subsidy to the people who
store the sugar. Under this
plan, the government would
poy up to around 50 or so
cents per 100 pounds for sugar
domoeed in Storage. The com.
pIiootions ore rother obvious.
Inspection, determination Of
worrying losses dependent on
Storage conditions, settlement
of claims, would entail q good
bit Of administering.
Sugar industry men have
another suggestion which the
government men, who throw
cold voter on the beautiful
pIons of-business men, don't
seem inclined to give in on.
Sugar people suggest storing
this stookpiIe in smaller quon-
titles and at lower levels.
Under normal sugar bust
ness conditions, raw suoor is
stored at the refineries. As
white sugar orders come in,
this raw is refined and shipped
out to meet the demand. Un.
der favorable price conditions,
wholesalers, bakers confec-
TONERS, hotels, grocery stores
and even q few consumers buy
oheod and put in reserve whot
is known as the invisible"
stock. But under the wartime
rotionine system, this privote
stockpi|ino is frowned on. In
foet, the government has STEP
ped in to seize some Of these
privately held supplies, such
as the as 900 tons supposed to
have been taken owoy from
Pepsi.Colo, while housewives
who had more than their shore
in boards had the family ro-
ton cut down.
Sugar dealers ore screaming
about this no end. Their con-
tention is thot the proper place
to stockpiIe white sugar is in
private bins and pontries. II
the stuff goes Iumpy in the
fomily sugar bowl, pop con
mash it before measuring out
the spoonsfuI for his coffee,
NOM can reduce it TO eroins
before sprinklin9 it on Juniors
mush.
CAN'T CAN ENOUGH
Furthermore, canning seq
son is in full sway, and the
sugar men point to the terrific
loss suffered by the strowber-
ny growers this yeor because
peopI didn't have enough sugar
to put up the usual amount Of
strawberry jam. The sugar
people therefore soy larger al
lowonces should be made to all
consumers now - to cover
proportionoteIy longer ~periods
Of time perhaps - but any,
how, to reduce stocks piIing up
at the refineries.
The other side Of this orou-
ment is that to reduce the
government : controlled sugar
reserve now would be q mis-
toke. It's only enough for
three or four months. Some
shipping is getting through
now, but supposin9 thot has to
be withdrawn - where's your
sugar coming from? And the
sugar industY's proposal is
looked on os O plot to increase
soles and force the govern
ment to convoy sugar shipment
il necessary.
Maybe so.