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Show RESTRICTIONS .01 -l SUGAR FOROANNING ! Federal ' Food Administrator i Issues Notice of Diminution v of .Allotments. jThe Allotment Per Capita Per Month I for Utahns Has Been Reduced for i the Month of August to Two i Pounds for Each Person. r- ment. and you are advised that a very iccurate check must be kept by you. ' The food administrator is-endeavor-Ing to allot the sugar In as equitable a manner as -possible In each community, com-munity, and It Is possible that errors may creep in and one uiercbanj: receive 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-Just ad-Just 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-juier for-juier rule permitting sales of sugar hisi ' ten- and , twenty-five-pound 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 required 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 office. 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 members mem-bers In the family. ;' ' Sugar for Home Canning. The federal food, administrator has put further restrictions on sugar allotments allot-ments for canning during the month of August The step has only been taken after considerable , correspondence 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 between be-tween Washington and Salt Lake puts the entire matter concretely as follows: fol-lows: , "We have aready allotted your state nipre than any oher on basis of popu-jutfoh popu-jutfoh and Industries and therefore cannot can-not see our way clear to Increase your allotment and be fair to the rest of the country." Ui't!ilir orre-srKmdence fnom the national na-tional capital also develops the fact that sugar Is now a war commoditj umler the direct juridictlon of the j-government ami of which, therefore, ! only the smallest possible portion I must now be used by the civilian pepulation. The retailer hirs now become be-come merely the dispenser of that war commodity and must distribute It not as a profit-making article, but on the most equitable and' saving terms. The August allotment and distribution distribu-tion for Utah was delayed by reason of the fact that the state food administrator 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 i In this sense by the local food administration admin-istration to mean a city, town, hamlet of point of distribution. An arrangement 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 community communi-ty as disclosed by the retailer's statement 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 allotment 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 redistribute re-distribute " between the dealers. On i top of this arrangement came grumblings 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,-the government remains re-mains firm in Its stand that Utahns must do with less of the precious foodstuff. Owing to the extreme shortage of sugar, the food administrator has been compelled to,. reduce the allowance of sugar to each family for home canning can-ning purposes, and sugar will be distributed dis-tributed on pledge cards on tho following 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-five pounds of sugar in July for home canning,' they are only entitled 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-five 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-ment replac-ment 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. I Consequently, no requests for extra Allntttl.tr.. a M-fll ItA rt.ttltrfu1 hr fhia ft Cut Not Really Serious. The present cut In the canning distribution 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-five 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-fifty basis will simply have to he stricken from the August canning list. ' A spirit of nelghborllness and fair-play fair-play 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 reminds 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 administrator. 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-four hours, providing 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, whatsoever, 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 co-operation- In view of th alwve more strict rationing 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 except 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, England 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-four pounds per year." This should Impress your customer! with the fact that even with tho reduced 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 allotted 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 pertinent per-tinent fact, namely, you must consider, yourself part of the national scheme of sugar distribution, and you are therefore virtually acting In the capacity 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- |