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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH I rr AMERICAN SUGAR SENT TO FRANCE American Price Rigidly Regulated by United States Food Administration. CONSUMERS HERE PAY 9c. Sugar Cost 39 Cents a Pound During Civil War Refiners' Profits Now Curtailed. will take a Dersonal interest in you when je learns that you are saving some of your pay? Start a Savings Account With Us 1 your employer and youll soon be getting ahead in the world. Money means opportunity for you. HYRUM STATE BANK Sugar is selling today throughout to 9 cents & America at from 8 to the consumer, even though pound there Is a world shortage which has reduced this nations sugar allotment to 70 per cent, of normal. Through the efforts of the United States food administration the sugar market has been regulated as far as the producer, refiner and wholesaler is concerned. The food administration has no power to regulate retail prices except by public opinion. Even though more than 85,000 tons of sugar have been shipped to France In the last four months the retail grocers sugar price Is around 8 to 8 cents. He should sell this sugar at 84 to 9 cents, the food administration believes, and asks the American housewife to pay no more than this amount. Last August when the food administration was organized the price of sugar rose suddenly to 11 cents a pound. During the Civil War sugar cost the consumer 35 cents a pour,d. By regulation of the sugar market and reducing the price to 8V2 and 9 cents and keeping It from advancing to 20 cents the food administration has saved the American public at least in four months, according to a statement made by Herbert Hoover the other day. It is our- stern duty to feed the allies, to maintain their health and strength at any cost to ourselves, Mr. Hoover declared. "There has not been, nor will be as we see it, enough sugar for even their present meagre and depressing ratify unless they send ships to remote markets for It. If we in our greed and gluttony force them either to further reduce their ration or to send these.ips we will have done damage to our abilities to win this war. If we send the ships to Java for 250, 0C0 tons of sugar next year we will have necessitated the employment of eleven extra stops for one year. These ships if used in transporting troops would take 150,000 to 200,000 ien to France." Reason for World Shortage. As Mr. Hoover pointed out, the United States, Canada and England were sugar importing countries before the war, while France and Italy were very nearly self supporting. The main sources of the worlds sugar supply was Germany and neighboring powers, the West Indies and the East Indies. German sugar Is no longer available, as It Is used entirely in Germany, which also absorbs sugar of surrounding countries. England can no longer buy 1,400,000 long tons of sugar each year from Germany. The French sugar production has dropped from 751W)00 to 210,- 000 tons. The Italian production has ftfilen from 210,000 tons to 75,000 tons. Thus three countries were thrown upon East and West Indian sources for 1,925,000 tons annually to maintain their normal consumption. Because of the worlds shipping shortage the allied nations started drawing on the West Indies for sugar ; Eist Indian sugar took three times the number of ships, since the distance was three times as great. Suddenly the west was called on to furnish and did furnish 1,420,000 tons of sugar to Europe when 300,000 tons a r demand. The year was the allies had drawn from Java 400,000 tons before the shipping situation became acute. In spite of these shipments, Mr. Hoover stated the other day, the English government In August reduced the household sugar ration to a basis of 24 pounds per annum per capita. And In September the French government reduced their household ration to 13 pounds a year, or a bit over 1 pound of sugar a month. Even this meagre ration could not be filled by the French government It was found early In the fall. America was then asked for 100,000 tons of sugar and succeeded In sending 85,000 tons by December 1. The French request was granted because the American household consumption was then at least 55 pounds per person, and It was considered the duty of maintaining the French morale made our course clear. Today the sugar situation may be summarized by stating that If America will reduce Its sugar consumption 10 to 15 per cent, this nation will be able to send 200,000 more soldiers to France. $180,-000,0- a ii - Save Money T0 BUY 8 Thrift Stamps By Doing Business With Us The popularity of our business is based on two things. The Superiority of our work, and the saving effected by doing business with us. Then too, we have the largest and perhaps the best equipped office in the country. We want to add you to the ever increasflow of clients into our office. ing Come and be convinced that it pays, and that if it is service you are looking for, you get it here. Drs. Ensign and Smith 85 North Main. l :- --m : n p Logan, Utah. r GOOD LUMBER IS AT THE BOTTOM t of success. Low price smay help some, butits the fine quality of our lumber that brings our customers back time and again. It pays us to sell good lumber. It will pay you better to buy it. It lasts Jonger and is more satis- factory to work up. Try us with an order and youll come back when you mant more. Smith Bros. Lumber Co. LOGAN AND HYRUM, UTAH. pre-wa- 0 Subscribe. For The South Cache Courier JOB PRINTING - f- Sugar today sells at seaboard reand more than this fineries at $7.25 a hundred pounds. can consumer, Seen saved by our reducamount has The wholesale grocer has agreed to tion in refiners profits. If we wish to limit his profit to 25 cents a hundred stifle production In Cuba we could plus freight, and the retail grocer Is take that course just at the time of all supposed to take no more than 50 cents times In our history when we want a hundred pounds profit. This reguourselves and the alfor production lation was made by the food adminislies. Further than that, the state detration, which now asks the housewife such a to reduce sugar consumption as much partment will assure you that In disturbances would course produce as possible, using other sweeteners, our even and present Cuba destroy and also reminds her that she should all these material pay no more than 9 cents a pound for supplies, but beyond Is one of human justice. This reasons sugar. great country has no right by the Control of Cane Refiners Profits. might of Its position to strangle Cuba. Immediately upon the establish Therefore there Is no Imposition ment of the food administration, Mn Hoover said, an examination was upon the American public. Charges made of the costs and profits of refin- have been made before this commitbening and It was finally determined that tee that Mr. Rolph endeavored to which of he California efit the refinery the spread between the cost of raw and the sale of refined cane sugar was manager by this 34 cent Increase should be limited to $1.30 per hundred In Cuban price. Mr. Rolph did not fix r differential had the price. It does raise the price to pounds. The averaged about 85 cents and increased the Hawaiian farmer about that amount. It does not raise the profit of costs were found to have been Imposthe California refinery, because their ed by the war In Increased cost of reInsurcharge for refining Is, like all other refining, losses, cost of bags, labor, ance, Interest and other things, rather finers, limited to $1.30 per hundred more than cover the difference. After pounds, plus the freight differential on prolonged negotiations the refiners the established custom of the trade. Mr. Rolph has not one penny of Inwere placed under agreement estabIn that refinery. terest and on these October limits 1, lishing T.TCT anything over this amount to be agreed extortionate under the law. In the course of these investigations It was found by canvass of the Cuban producers that their sugar had, during the first nine months of the past year, sold for an average of about $4.24 per hundred f. o. b. Cuba, to The Senate rejected the bill to which duty and freight added to the refiners cost amount to about $5.09 have the Federal Trade Commission per hundred. The average sale price take over production and distriof granulated by various refineries, ac- bution of print paper. cording to our investigation, was about An amendment of or differential a $7.50 per hundred, placing this in$1.84. in the hands of the Presidustry In reducing the differential to $1.30 dent also was defeated and the inthere was n saving to the public of 54 in difthe open list. cents per hundred. Had such a dustry left ferential been In use from the 1st of Newspapers generally considered January, 1917, the public would have the bill vicious in its purpose, saved In the first nine months of the and the more it was discussed the year about $24,800,000. more they seemed to oppose it. Next Year. Senators Harding and Hitchcock, With a view to more efficient organization of the trade In Imported sugars both newspaper owners, opposed next year two committees have been the measure on the ground that it : administration food formed by the 1. A committee comprising repre- would only embarrass publishers. sentatives of all of the elements of Senators King and Fernald arAmerican cane refining groups. The that it was not a war measure gued principal duty of this committee Is to divide the sugar imports pro rata to but a bill to turn over private their various capacities and see that enterprises to the government. absolute justice is done to every Senator Reed called it a dis- 2. A committee comprising three rep- grace to the government, and resentatives of the English, French Senator Smoot declared it would be and Italian governments; two reprethe greatest censorship ever imsentatives of the American refiners, with a member of the food administra- posed. tion. Only two of the committee have The Federal Trade Commission arrived from Europe, but they repreof Justice are sent the allied governments. The du- and Department fix to news to determine seeking ties of this committee are print prices by the most economical sources from a an agreement the manuwith transport point of view of all the al- facturers. lies to arrange transport at uniform rates, to distribute the foreign sugar between the United States and allies, Park City output was $110,000 in subject to the approval of the Ameri- the past week. can, English, French and Italian govSalina A new roller mill is planernments. ned here. This committee, while holding strong A modern picture theater Moab views as to the price to be paid for Cuban sugar, has not had the final building is to be erected here soon. voice. This voice has rested In the governments concerned, together with the Cuban government, and I wish to state emphatically that all of the gentlemen concerned as good commercial men have endeavored with the utmost In order that a proper account patience and skill to secure a lower be kept on the records of price, and their persistence has re- may 15 cents duced Cuban demands by per Hyrum City it is desired that relhundred. The price agreed upon Is atives or other interested parties about $4.60 per hundred pounds, f. 0. b. in send names of the those who to $0 about or duty paid Cuba, equal pre-wa- Paper Prices To be Fixed Notice are in the service of their country New York. This price should eventuate," Mr. Hoover said, to about $7.30 per hundred for refined sugar from in the present war, giving time of enlistment and branch of ser- vice. the refiners at seaboard points or John W. Jensen, should place 6ugar in the hands of the consumer at from 8J2 to 9 City Recorder. cents per pound, depending upon locality and conditions of trade, or at from 1 to 2 cents below the prices of August last and from to a cent per pound cheaper MAGAZINE than today. ) There Is now an elimination of speculation, extortionate profits, and Authority In the refining alone the American Years I For Nearly people will save over $25,000,000 of Jon the 1,300,000 women who turnfash-to the refining charges last year. A part McCALLS every month for correct of these savings goes to the Cuban, ions, for patterns, for economical buying, for fancy needlework, for good stories tor Hawaiian, Potto Rican and Louslanian pleasure, for help, for style. to and consumer. the part producer McCALL Patterns fit. "Appeals to prejudice against the pod administration have been made because the Cuban price is 34 cents above that of 1917. It Is said in effect that the Cubans are at our mercy; that we could get sugar a cent lower. We made exhaustive study of the cost, of producing sugar In Cuba last year through our own agents In Cuba, and we find It averages $3.39, while many producers are at a higher level. We found that an average profit of at SEND A POSTAL CARD AND ASK FOR least a cent per pound was necessary !tLK Copy of MeCALT8; or $10A0 TIN In order to maintain and stimulate im.Y Wlr to Worn or List of (JIMS riven ti.oiii n.ffc or UH'M'LK Offer to Hon nn. production or that a minimum price of PATTERN rATATXNHE. or Hur tr to aGKNTS: or $160.00 Pm oirer to ii $4.37 was necessary, and even this .,ir rnuni. Address would stifle some producers. T.:: McCALL CO., 235250 West 37th Street, New York, N. Y. The price ultimately agreed was 23 cents above these figures, or about I'Ni of 4 cent per pound to the Amerl- , one-ha- lf M? CALLS Fashion 50 -- rm , 11. . one-fift- h t |