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Show SUGAR SELLING AT SiE PRICE No Need for Alarm, Over Any Shortage in Ogden, Says Edgell "Alarmist reports of sugar scarcity do no good to any community at all," said S. M. Edgell, vice president of tho Amalgamated Sugar company, this morning. -y "The situation at the prosent time a not very dlfferentr from any time during the war. The Cuban ouiput of sugar is the fact that dominates the sugar market ot the world. We would have been better off at the present time if tho administration in power could have seen its way to buy up the Cuban output for this year, as was suggested by the chairman of the board of equalization, at the rate or $6.50 per hundred. The government however, saw fit to let the recommendation recommen-dation leave them cold, and consequently conse-quently we are now facing a serious diminution in the sugar crop for this year with high prices being offored for the commodity. Here In Utah, how-over, how-over, we have continued to sell our sugar 'at the price fixed by the government govern-ment of ?13.73, and we are doing our best to stabilize conditions here" and meet tho demands of the local market mar-ket fairly. Scare head lines of a scarcity mean that many people rush to the grocery stores to buy moro sugar than they need and people with moro money to spend than others reap an Unfair advantage." ad-vantage." nn |