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Show THE PRESS-BULLETI- ' "editorials (By C. D. McNeeley) RESTRICTIONS .01 -- l SUGAR FOROANNING Federal ' Food Administrator Issues Notice of Diminution v of .Allotments. jThe Allotment Per Capita Per Month for Utahns Has Been Reduced for the Month of August to Two Pounds for Each Person. r- - ment. and you are advised that a very iccurate check must be kept by you. ' The food administrator to allot the sugar In as equitable a manner as possible In each com-munity, and It Is possible that errors may creep in and one uiercbanj: re-ceive less sugar than he feels that he is entitled to, but you must realize that this- - Is not Intentional, and youw., are urged, as far us possible, to buryTT' trade jealousies and to work together for the common good, . In case you feel that you have been allowed less sugar than your trade warrants,' you can call upon four county food admin- - , tstrator and he will endeavor to ad-Ju- st the matter., r , Sugar for Household Purposes. Sugar for household purposes must be sold only on the basis of two pounds per capita per mouth, and a thirty days' supply for each family can be sold at one time. This cancels the for-jui-rule permitting sales of sugar hisi ten-- and , twenty-five-poun- d lots for f ' household purposes. ;. If a family hire laborers for haying or threshing, or other farm work, ' whom the head of the family Is re-quired to temporarily board, then the head of such family must accurately compute the number of meals to be served for this purpose, In addition to the meals for regular members of his family, and sugar should be allotted him on the' basis of two pounds for , every ninety meals served to suchf hired help. - - No sugar for household purposes should be gold ynjess the" Ijead of the --- sr family" signs for the amount sold uu ' the blank furnished you by this of-fice. This, blank is a certificate as to the acts tmd" is for your protection, in selling EU2"ar In the amouuts request--' Ufl according to the number of mem-bers In the family. ;' ' Sugar for Home Canning. The federal food, administrator has put further restrictions on sugar allot-ments for canning during the month of August The step has only been taken after considerable , correspon-dence with Washington, In which the local food administration has protested up to the last moment before giving In. The last of a series of telegrams be-tween Washington and Salt Lake puts the entire matter concretely as fol-lows: , "We have aready allotted your state nipre than any oher on basis of popu-jutfo- h and Industries and therefore can-not see our way clear to Increase your allotment and be fair to the rest of the country." Ui't!ilir fnom the na-tional capital also develops the fact that sugar Is now a war commoditj umler the direct juridictlon of the ami of which, therefore, only the smallest possible portion must now be used by the civilian pepulation. The retailer hirs now be-come merely the dispenser of that war commodity and must distribute It not as a profit-makin- g article, but on the most equitable and' saving terms. The August allotment and distribu-tion for Utah was delayed by reason of the fact that the state food administra-tor did not receive the announcement of the allotment from Washington until July 20. The present allotment, based on two pounds per capta, was thou put Into effect in every unit, a unit used In this sense by the local food admin-istration to mean a city, town, hamlet of point of distribution. An arrange-ment was made as during July for home canning to take care of a given proportion " of the heads of families la each community. The sugar was then allotted to the retailers on a basis of normal trade In each communi-ty as disclosed by the retailer's state-ment filed with the food admlnlstator. A statement was also asked of the merchants as to the amount of sugar on hand on July 30 or in transit, and this amount was deducted from the August allotment. The equitable distribution of the al-lotment was and Is still In the hands of the retailers and in case It Is not fairly done, the federal administrator reserves the right to step In and re-distribute " between the dealers. On top of this arrangement came grumb-lings from Washington that Utahiu were getting more- - than their fair share" of sugar and, although the matter has been thrashed out over and over again by the local and nation-- . l food officials,-th- e government re-mains firm in Its stand that Utahns must do with less of the precious food-stuff. Owing to the extreme shortage of sugar, the food administrator has been compelled to,. reduce the allowance of sugar to each family for home can-ning purposes, and sugar will be dis-tributed on pledge cards on tho fol-lowing basis: 1 All families who received 10O pounds of sugar. In June ore .not entitled to any more sugar for this season for this purpose. if a family did or did not purchase twenty-fiv- e pounds of sugar in July for home canning,' they are only enti-tled to the following amount of sugaf during the month of August for this purpose: . . - A family consisting of four people or under, six pounds of sugar. A family consisting of over four and -- v s including six, ten pounds of sugar. f A family consisting of over six and " Including nine, fifteen pounds of sugar. A family consisting of more than nine, twenty-fiv- e pounds of sugar. You are hereby Instructed to enter on each pledge card the date the sugar Is sold and the number of members of the family, and the purchaser at -- time of signing must Insert the amount sold by you on such card. No replac-me- nt certificates will be Issued to you J unless this lnfomatlon is on the pledge card over your signature. This rule must be strictly adhered to. Please Inform your customers that the food administrator regrets this necessity In the reductlp'n jb) sugar allotments for home canning, but he is compelled to put this Into effect owing to the national shortage of sugar, and because he has received definite Instructions from Washington so to do. Consequently, no requests for extra Allntttl.tr.. a ItA rt.ttltrfu1 hr fhia ft Cut Not Really Serious. The present cut In the canning dis-tribution Is not considered, however, nearly as serious as it might have been in the ear.lier mouths, for in August but few fruits are on the market for canning. Twenty-fiv- e pounds of sugar, It Is estimated, can easily take care of 100 quarts of peaches for instance, an amount of one fruit which few housewives care to conserve. Jellies calling for sugar on the fifty-fift- y basis will simply have to he stricken from the August canning list. ' A spirit of nelghborllness and fair-pla- y will have to be developed among Utahns in the matter. Families of two or three do not need the same amount of sugar for canning as those of a larger sire and perhaps with smaller pocketDooks. These smaller families are afcetl, therefore, to use only just what they need, even if the amount fur uuderreaches that allowed by the food administration, and to leave their unneeded share to the larger gronp next door. The administrator also re-minds guests that it may now not be out of place when dining at the home of friends to tafce their sugar with them. M has long been .the custom in some of the allied nations, since every spoonfol served at the table means so much less for the family sugar bowl. The new reflations will, of course, It Is estimated, put a ban on many food ftnnrie, but such a consideration cannot, of course, even be counted flee, until , such request, have been submitted to and have received the approval of the county food adminis-trator. " r Your August allotment is based on the population of your community, and the number of this population that you serve reckoned as fairly as possible, from your statement and those of the other merchants In. your community. You have been allowed sufficient sugar to take care of your customers on th basis of two pounds per capita per month, with a sufficient reserve to take cart of your home canning cards, which canning card should be mailed into this office regularly. Certificate Tor August allotment will be mailed . you within twenty-fou- r hours, provid-ing our records show you are entitled to any for this month, and provided you have certified to us the amount of sugar you have had on hand or lu tran sit as of date July 30, 1918. ' Blanks and Pledge Cards. Forms are being mailed to you on which you will record al! sales for household purposes. No-- sugar, what-soever, can be sold unless yon obtain the signature ol the purchaser, either on this form or a the pledge cards for canning' purpoee. No exceptions i can be made to this rule. f New cnrd have been printed read- - j Ing "August Issue." If you have on hand any unused cards of the July f issue substitue the word August and t use tfc?se car A for the current month. Do not report sugar sold In lots for J home canning purposes on the grocer's K weekly report. You will report these t sales separately as you return the H pledge cards for replacement. 1 We expect your In view of th alwve more strict ration-ing of sugar yon will undoubtedly be deluged with complaints from your customers, and ouly by sensing this as a national issue can they be brought to realize the situation. We quote for your Information and use In answering complaints, the following: "In France the weekly allowance of siicar U about four ounces per head. when thonsajds In the allied nations arc starving for sugar. In English hotels for the Diont part no desserts are served but fruits, no sugar can be used for manufacturing In Kugland ex-cept in the case of Jams and condensed milks. No confectionery requiring sugar can be made in Franoe or Italy, nor Ice cream in France or England. rtHhns, according to the attitude taken !by Washington have no moral right to consider the sugar within the state as their own. It now belongs in part to the hungry masses In France, Eng-land and Belgium. The text of the new regulations sent out to retailers Is as follows: This amounts to about thirteen pounds per year as against the normal Amer. can consumption of more than eighty pounds. The reduction suggested by the United States food administration Is two pounds per capita per month for household use, I. e., twenty-fou- r pounds per year." This should Impress your customer! with the fact that even with tho re-duced allowance of sugar they ar getting twice as much as our allies. Impress upon your customers that this Is a war measure; that the sugar Is not yours; that you are only acting as distributor, aud that as you mut account for every pound of sugar allot-ted you, you must be satisfied that your distribution is strictly In line with your orders. W. W. ARMSTRONG. Federal Food Administrator for Utah. Special Instructions. Under the new rules and regulation governing sugar, the allotment per capita per month has been reduced for the month of August to two pounds as against three pounds during the month of July. Your attention is called to this per-tinent fact, namely, you must consider, yourself part of the national scheme of sugar distribution, and you are therefore virtually acting In the ca-pacity of a distributor of sugar for the United States government: In other words, you must recognize that the sugar belongs to the Unlt"d States government and that you are allowed 1 cent per pound profit for distributing this sugar to the ultimate consumer. You will, therefore, be very careful In accounting for every pound of sugar that you receive for your August allot-- inspection"' j kEEP YOUH SHOES MEAT - . "1,I,J',U K LIQUIDS AND PASTES. FOR BLACK, WHITE, TAN, DARK BROWN OR D SHOES. PRESERVETHE LEATHER. A F. F. PALLET CORPORATIONS. LIMITED. BUFFALO, M. T. " ! '' (Formerly Budweiser) Pocket Billiards ' ---., First Class Cafe, Modern Rooms in Connection. Tobaccos, Cigars, Drinks, 499 MAIN STREET " i! ' J. W. MATTHEWS, Manager. I CANDY I I Soft Drinks Light Lunches I 8 and a delightful place to spend your leisure time. We are always pleased to have you visit our place ' and assure you the most ' courteous treatment. The Chocolate Shop CALL FOR NEW DEPUTIES " A call has been made for the stationing of a deputy sheriff at Copperfield and one at Highland Boy. These are two large towns in the county, and there is no question but thTpeSpTe of those communities are entitled to some protean. The matter has been taken up by the committee that body has petitioned the sheriff and county com-mis- Ss to place a deputy at both these places. Copperfield Sid Highland Boy are both towns nearly as large as Bingham . ftself and has absolutely no patrol protection at all Bingham police force and in addition to this four deputies are sta-Son- ed here. Copperfield and Highland Boy have no police and n iburiSSmen of those places are" asking for assistance. - Everybody knows that a resident officer can do much m enforc-ing law .without having to make arrests. His mere presence vital Effect. When the violators know that an officer is rfffht at more careful and the people of the com-- - " ' mS thaveVrotLtion, The way it is now those communities ' Sh their large populations of many nationalities have abso--' lutelv no protection at all of this kind. . The committee on public safety has done well to call attcn-tio- n to the sheriff and county commissioners to this fact The sheriff and the commissioners were probably unaware of this and t is likely that they will take steps at once to afford the nee relief. We understand that there is a great deal of gam-bling essary and other violations of the law taking place and there, is no one preset to molest the evil doers It isi not hkely that any-where else in the state can places of half the size of either of these towns be found that have no police protection. GLORIOUS NEWS It is glorious and inspiring news that comes from the front. All along the line from Rheims to the Lys valley in Flanders the allied hosts that fight for liberty are striking hard and push-ing forward French, British and Americans. Everywhere the " Germans are retiring in defeat, and the retirement m some in-stances is precipitate and attended with heavy losses of men and matFoch is holding the offensive gained in the splendid counter attack on the Marne salient. There are strong indications that" the big drive for victory which was expected to be made next spring has been advanced by eight months and that its begm- - '.. nings ere now under way. - . If this is indeed the program the one thing that has made it possible is the amazing speed with which American troops have been transported across seas and the superb fighting quali-ties they have exhibited. It is highly possible that the efficien-- ! cy of the boys from the United States has surprised Foch and his war council and resulted in a radical change in plans. It would have been only reasonable if the allied commanders had enter-tained some doubt as to .whether the American soldiers, with little training and no experience, would so soon after their ar-rival be able to measure up to the tried veterans of France and Britain. But they have been tried and found magnificent. A Z million and a third of them are already on the ground, and " others are coming Ht the rate of nearly 300,000 a month-v- . Why ' wait? Why delay till next year for the big offensive when the 1 opportunity now presented is so favorable, when the Germans are already under the cloud of defeat, when their morale is sink-ing, and when, by constantly striking, and striking on a broad front, they' can be denied all opportunity to recuperate and in-sti- ll fresh courage in their shattered divisions? ; , We have no way of knowing what the near future is cj bring. Forces of colossal strength are face to face, each under skilled leadership, and it may be that for some months to come, as during the years that have passed, the tide of battle will ebb and flow. The German military power is still enormous. But everything we know tells us that it is dwindling while our own is mounting. We know that it is no longer our armies but theirs that are on the defensive, and we have a full right to confidence . : in the strategy of Foch and in the valor of the millions of heroic men who act under his directing genius. Dispatches from London say that the victorious advance in Picardy is regarded "as the turning point in the year's campaign and perhaps even the turning point of the war." And it is added generously, that "It is not too much to say that the American . army has been the chief factor in this result." ' This, too, makes us feel good. But we shall not take such pride in the achievements of our own American boys as to detract by one jot or tittle from the splendid bravery and en-durance of the French and the British. After more than four years of war, after losses running into the millions, they still are fighting with a dogged devotion that will command the 'admiration of mankind as long as history is read. Theirs has s been the lion's share of the fighting and the suffering, and we can only feel proud and grateful if now, at so critical a juncture, our American armies can vie with them in heroism and share with them the glory they have so nobly earned. ' f rtT U Vts 5T srlsttoVtitoig-fW- l fripet d sTsoMi T fisasV fOO & Bits swr & ,mt n feel sure that conditions would be greatly improved in the road of thi3 state and at a much less expense. The idea of having a itate road commission is perhaps correct but the practical work-ing of this theory is far from satisfactory. In this connection we might commend the eternal and ever-lasting kicking which the Eureka Reporter keeps going to the tate road commission and at the same time inform that gentle-man that the Tintic road is a state highway and is directly un-der the jurisdiction of that commission and not under the board of commissioners of Utah County. If he does not believe th i he had better investigate before spouting off again because the people who know only laugh at such gross ignorance on the part of a newspaper man. W Ps W UTAH SHOULD HAVE BETTER ROADS An automobile traveler has just made a trip to Canada and " back and states that he has returned to Utah almost ashamed of the roads in this state as compared with the other states through which he passed on this trip. We believe that this is largely true, and if it is Utah should get busy. One of two things must be true. First, we are not getting proper results from our road tax expenditures, because our road builders do not under-- rtand building lasting highways. In the second ' place there seems to be a continual wranje over the jurisdiction of the 'State Highway Commission and that of the Board of County Commissioners. The laws of this state should either be amended xloing away with this body or else turning practically all of the work of constructing the roads over to them; We think this commission was created in the first place to give a few politicians a job, and if this is found to be the case let's do away with it. On the other hand if the state highway commission can handle all ' of the road taxes of this state to a better advantage than the respective county commissioners let's have them do so. At any rate let's get busy and bring our roads up to the standard of ' our sister states. If this requires permanent hard surfaced " highway let's construct them, but in any event let's have better l.roadye feej sure that the county commissioners of Utah County now better than the state road commission where the roads need repairing and where new roads should be built But un-der the present arrangement all state roads must be built or v repaired under the supervision of the state road commission. This necessitates much delay in action and oftimes what is a small defect in the road becomes a huge one before the state commission gets into action and gets a man or a number of men on the road which needs the work. Then too, there seems to ' be considerable overlapping in authority between the state road supervisor and the county road supervisor where these individ-uals are not the same man. The expense of maintaining the state road commission is very expensive, and if this body was done away with entirely and the road building and repairing placed exclusively in. the hands of the county commissioners W( ' w V Prizes for the best home canned vegetables will stimulate competition, but the home gardener will find sufficient reward in seeing it on the table this winter. ft n Lloyd George talks like a man who knew something more than he is telling right now. Perhaps it sounds that way to the Germans. ft The Foch strategy of hitting the enemy when his arm is raised to strike seems to be working pretty well. f n. n That smash in Picardy indicates that our British allies are ! going to add to their share of the glory, i id a loi ; Teamwork in France, the best the world has ever known, is ! doing the business. . . |