Show r SORTS SUGAR PRICE E RAISE INEVITABLE WOMEN'S CLUB TOLD REASON T FOR INCREASE Committee Finds Profiteering Profiteering Profiteer Profiteer- ing by hy Local Individuals Was Cau Fam- Fam Rapidly Caning w g a 1 ine me in n Intermountain We W e S Sugar gar prIces prices prices' In the Int territory were vere kept ept at a lower margin margin mar mar- gin In than the balance of ot the countr country until profiteering b by local individuals forced the prices up according to a L report presented yesterdays yesterday at th the conen conference conference con con- ference en nce of of the City Federation lon o of oC Women's omens clubs by Mrs GU Guy Stirling chairman of or the sugar investigating J I corn committee committee- rn i t I ee Mrs Stirling stated that a canvass of oC l local Ocal merchants confectioner wholesale dealers and officials of ot tl tI tIM o Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company had har been beef made and according t to the data secured sc- sc cured tho the present raise in the sugar price was inevitable 1 if enough sugar was to o. o be bo kept copt in tho the territory to supply the thc customers at atan an any price IAn Loiter r JI Here r Than I After fLer fter estimating the amount of ot s su ar sold in this territory las your year Mrs Irs Stirling tl the sugar rugar company officials of or as is saying sacks were stored to be delivered at stated In Intervals Intervals In- In to to regular ular customers It w x w x selling at 1 18 S a hundred wholesaler wholesale when on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts it was selling selling- for 23 23 and in the tIt MM territory for even cen highel- highel prices If It that amount of ot sugar ha been kept kepi in this district it would l' l have been ample to supply the tho de demand de mand until the fall production came on said Mrs Irs Stirling However she I t aIrL after a 1 o Sr i l in b tho d r ii by the tho sugar a company and th the tho fair price commission it was sound found that people were ere buying the sugar at the tho relatively small price charged chars here and shipping it to eastern points realizing realizing ing a margin of or profit It was im Ins impossible impossible possible to to stop this condition alu Ml lid lidin in order to make It possible for tor suga nl to be bc obtained d at any price it w wa Imperative the price be r raised t to th general level lc The Fhe general sugar situation n according ac ne- cording to Mrs Stirling's report goer goN back In the In-the the history of politics to la last t fall when President ll b authorize government t purchase of th the Cuba crop As a result European speculators secured that output and the sugar which ordinarily comes to supply the American markets is missIng missing missing mis mis- sing this year car Supply Cut Off on Sugar production in France will not be bo normal for two years cars Much of t the sugar suar u used ed to come from rom That sources is Is' now no cut off Germany German also med to 0 supply a large market on the eastern coast and that source having ha been cut of off during the period of the I war var tho the real crux of or the tho matter Is is stated Mrs Stirling there thero is no sugar Another failure on l President resident Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's pai pa pait t which helped to bring about the present prices was the tho purchase of or the Louisiana crop last fall for cents a pound when the regular rico price was 10 and H it cents This started tho the upward raise However cr cr In both oth In In- In r stances the tho purchase of or the Louisiana crop at those prices and the failure to purchase the Cuba crop crop was due lee leeto I to misinformation afforded the Pres i ident ent I There will be bo no actu actual l sugar fa famine famine famine fa- fa mine but prices will go 10 still higher before the new crop comes on Oil Mrs Ir I Stirling Stirling- Rioted quoted sugar Jus-ar company compan of officials officials orI or- or I as saying I The final meeting or of tho Cit City Federation Fed Fed- cration for this year car will be bo next month Election of or officers for Cor tho the next nex year ear will be bc made mado and annual reports read |