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Show lEffi PRAISES ; ileum Says the Two Men Prevented Pre-vented Sugar From Soaring Soar-ing to $1 a Pound. By International News Service. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. H. George H-Barle. H-Barle. Jr., one of the leading independent sugar refiners.. tonight issued a statement praising Food Administrator Hoover and George M. Rolph, head of the sugar division, di-vision, for their work and bitterly assailing as-sailing Clans Spreckels. "It was only the efforts of the food administration that prevented sugar from soaring to the height of S- cents or even ?1 n pound," he declared. A part of Ills statement follows: "Of course Mr. Ploover and Mr. Rolph have cut the profits of sugar refining to pieces and equally, of course, under ordinary ordi-nary circumstances, no refiner could like that. "After the closest contact with the sugar situation I must bear testimony to the fact that I have never seen such loyal, unselfish, patient or enthusiastic devotion to patriotic duty as that being displayed by Hoover and Rolph, They are not only working to the point of exhaustion ex-haustion without compensation, but I know that Rotph has voluntarily subjected sub-jected his company to enormous losses of what would be gained, the people get sugar cheaper and our fighting men being properly supplied. If ever a departure from the laws of trade has been justified, justi-fied, it has been so far as the sugar question Is concerned, and I say this, although I am anxious about the interference inter-ference with natural law by artificial edict. "When these two gentlemen took charge of the matter I see by the press the poor were being robbed by having to buy sugar by the ounce and at 5 cents, "which Is SO cents a pound and I believe it would have been sold at a dollar a pound. "Through the efforts of Hoover and Rolph the refiner has been kept at $8. IS and bv voluntary agreement Mr. Spreck-els Spreck-els being the last man to agree." |