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Show FOOD ADMINISTRATION MIKES Mill Representative of Mr. Armstrong's Office Visits Southern Utah to Get First -Hand Facts. Mr. P. M. Macgregor, an employee of the office of Food Administrator Armstrong, accompanied by Wm. H. I Davenport, operative in charge of the j U S. Secret Service in this state, was I in Cedar City the early part of this week, investigating the conditions in the southern end of the state, both in relation to the sugar situation and other food problems. He talked with local merchants and others who are handling sugar, and has promised relief re-lief in the matter of sugar for canning pin poses. In the first place, the al lotment for canning has been in-. in-. m -ased from two pounds per capita a month to four pounds; anil in the next place the pledge card has been abolished, abol-ished, together with other red tape, and Mr. Macgregor assures us that we will be better treated from now on. as a great deal of the cause of complaint was due to a lack of understanding un-derstanding of the conditions in this part of the state, whith which the de liaitment is now familiarizing itself. Mr. Macgiegor further stated that with the increased allowance granted to candy manufacturers they would only k-iii- one-half their normal consumption, con-sumption, and that there wus un absolute ab-solute freedom from all favoritism in the administration of the dutit-s of their office Thi editor of The Record had an opportunity of unburdening bis mind of a lot of things on this knotty problem, prob-lem, and if the people of the south don't get some relief in the near fu Hire it will be through no neglect on our part. Incidentally Mr. Macgregor's explanation ex-planation of the situation averted a nice "roust" of the food administration administra-tion in Utah, upon which wc had centered cen-tered our vituperous eye. i |