Show MORE SUGAR THAN I LAST YEAR YEI WHO TOLL HAS IT ALL Government Bureau Says Figures Show No Reason Reason Rea Rea- eason ea- ea son for Shortage hortage WASHINGTON Oct 6 Apparently Apparent nobody in xie le he government o can explain the great at sugar mystery I With more sugar actually produced than last harLe year jear t widespread es complaints I come I here from consumers everywhere e cr that they thoy cannot get sugar The department of agriculture says the I figures on sugar production product dont don't furnish any reasons for foi shortage The department department department depart depart- ment of justice says It has found no evi evidences evidences evi- evi dences of hoarding The United States Mates sugar equalization board which controls all the raw sugar In I this countr country and Cuba comes nearest givIng riv- riv riving ing a R. It reason says early in ln the year ear i people were warne warned Q CD huy buy sugar but did not The result was much was shipped I abroad At the i height of the canning canting season sea sea- son ra raw w sugar could not be shipped from Cuba for three weeks because of the shipping ship ship- i ping strike Furthermore the English I royal rojal committee enforced its rights to get I third one-third of the Cuban crop i Also the people of ot this country since booze went out have hi increased the conn conI consumption con con- I n of sugar from eighty-eight eighty to toI I two ninety pounds per capita per year us But even aJl ail these statements don dont don't t tell ten tellus tellus tenUs I us why sugar should be higher than be be- be tore fore and also scarcer I For tor eleven months ending June 30 last the actual production of cane and beet I sugar in this country was over o 1000 pounds A Ae We e Imported pounds This made d a grand total t of S 8 I O Ol pounds nd of fa which hd J we exported rt d only pounds There was thus I left for foi home consumption 00 pounds as compared with 8 I pounds last year And yet et conditions as asto asto to sugar are worse this year vear than last The suggestion has been thrown opt o that some of the big packers and canners canners canners can- can ners with large laige stocks of f last jear years year's s pack on their shelves have managed to corner corner corner cor cor- ner part of the American sugar supply with the purpose 0 of preventing I l hou housewives house house- e- e n. n I wives s from doing their h tr g canning and d thereby thereby there there- I by bringing about an increased demand derrand foi for canners goods I T have seen some figures figures figures fig fig- ures which show that some of the big wholesale grocers are going to ask about 50 per cent more for jams than the they did la last In January 1913 the the wholesale price of sugar in New York was 3 48 cents per perI pound In August of this year sear ear It was 7 I cents |