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Show THE SPRECKELS BOMB. Claus A. Spreckels, president of the Federal Sugar Refining company, was called to "Washington to talk sugar and dropped a lighted bomb. When the smoke clears away we shall be able to list the casualties. It may then appear that Mr. Spreckels himself bears some wounds. At all event's the investigation should have a salutary efiect. There can be no accuracy in price fixing or in distribution until it is determined whether or uot a shortage exists. Mr. Spreckels declares there is :;o shortage in production of raw sugar. In the east, where evidences of scarcity are on every hand, there may be some skepticism regarding his statements, but in the west, where there has been no actual scarcity, there wilt be a disposition disposi-tion to agree "with Mr. Spreckels. If. as the witness states, the world production this year is 1,323,000 tons greater than ever before in history, the problem of conservation is virtually eliminated and oniy the problems of distribution dis-tribution and price fixing remain. Mr. Spreckels admits that there is a shortage in this country, but says that it has been caused by the food administration's administra-tion's embargo on raw sugar from Cuba and by the difficulties which the administration ad-ministration has put in the way of obtaining raw sugar for the refiners. According to his testimony. Canada has hern enabled to outbid our refineries for raw material and after producing j t)ae refined sugar has shipped it through t the I'nired Stages to foreign ports. lb' a!.;o see- something sinister in the fact ' l.e i v. ; ej- Motion a ! committee selected to U;y the unrld crop for tho allies is i Loaded by an Ilnglish refiner who has it in his power to prevent the Federal i companv frum obtaining the raw mate- ! rkd. ' ! H is quire possible that Mr. Spreckels : is looking hi the whole situation from ; the narrow viewpoint of his own bui- ne-s and, in his irritate'! state of mind, is dl.-tori ing, if not the fact?, the con- ! elusions to be derived from the fact-, i lie ha-i s;:i.J enough to whet the cur!- t-ity of the country, and there wit! be : a general demand that the sugar ques- j tion be probed to the bottom. j |