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Show I SUGAR SHOWED OUR BACKBONE American Willingness to Give Up Luxury Demonstrated Nation's Na-tion's War Conscience. STAND WITH THE ALLIES. ' ty Reducing Consumption Ptopla of 'the United States Avcrtod a Famine at Homo In Splto U, of Low Supplies. Tba fact that tho peoplo of ths United Btateo wore aide to reduce by tear than one-naif million tons their Jaly, Auffuat, September and October eoawumptlon of aur proveo conclusively conclu-sively that their war conscience was thoroughly awakened and that, tho country as a whole stood ready to follow fol-low the Injunctions of the Government Our normal consumption of sugar In J the four-month period beginning with I July has been 400,000 tons per month, a total of 1,000,000 for the quarter year. In July, when our sugar stringency, began to reach Its height, consumption was reduced to 200,000 tons. In Au-gust Au-gust only 029,000 tons went Into distribution dis-tribution and In September only 270,-000 270,-000 tons. In October tho dlstrlbuUou fell to 230,000 tons. If the general public bad failed to observe the Injunctions of the Food Administration fills country would have been In tho throes of a sugar famine before tho end of August Our visible supplies were so low aa to bring great anxiety to those familiar with tho angar situation. They feared that It would be absolutely Impossible to reduce consumpUon to a point where sugar would no longer bo a mere lux. ury In the American diet Few accomplishments of tho Food Administration will stand forth so predominantly pre-dominantly aa this reduced consumpUon consump-Uon of sugar. By It we have been able to bridge over the period of stringency until the new beet and Louisiana cane sugar crops were In sight Now the nation Is In a position so that If we chooso we may return to our normal home use of sugar, and Europe, with the release of ships to go far aflold, can maintain Its recent restricted re-stricted raUons. If, however, those nations are to Incresse their use of sugar very considerably It must be by our continued sharing with them through limiting our own consumption. |