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Show HOOVER SAYS 10 " RAISE MOKE BEETS France Has 226 Sugar Factories and Nearly All of These Are in the War Zone Soldiers Need Energy Deprived De-prived From Sugar French Soldiers , Are Now Very Short of This Energy Producer. The war has brought many stirring appeals, but Washington has sent out no call that deserves the sober thought of the people more than the recent personal per-sonal appeal from Mr. Hoover, United States Food Administrator, asking the beet growers to aid him in meeting the serious sugar shortage that now exists throughout the world. The Federal Food Administrator for Utah has sent out men who have distributed dis-tributed striking and persuasive posters, post-ers, calling attention to our national sugar needs and appealing to the beet growers to increase their acreage for 1918. Especial attention is directed to the campaign here in Utah because this state is one of only four states in the Union that has as many as fifteen beet sugar factories and these factories are now running at an average of less than two-thirds of their capacity. Some communities are growing about their maximum acreage of beets, but other districts can increase their beet acreage acre-age without an injustice to other needed crops. In Utah a special committee has been appointed to aid the Food Administration Admin-istration in this sugar drive. This committee is comprised of Dr. E. O. Peterson, President of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural College and chairman of the food committee of the State Council of Defence; D. D. McKay, President of the Utah State Farm Bureau, and James W. Jones, in charge of commercial com-mercial sugar problems in the northwest north-west for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Ag-riculture. J. Edward Taylor Is serving serv-ing as secretary of this committee. The shortage of sugar throughout the world can be accounted for when the war map of Europe is studied. France has 826 beet sugar factories and they are nearly all located in the northern war zone. A recent report stated that forty factories had been dynamited by the Boches, after looting all of the brass and bronze parts. It takes only a few minutes for a skilled dynamiter to upset a tall smokestack. Many more factories were badly damaged. dam-aged. Where the 'Allied armies have beaten beat-en the Germans back toward their own frontier lines, only vast areas of what was onee fertile fields are now worse than a barren waste. Shell craters demand a great deal of work to- relevel and then it is likely to require re-quire several seasons to bring the soil back to a condition for profitable crops. So much of the sub-soil has been brought to the surface that crops will have a hard struggle until the soil ia again conditioned. At the present time the French soldier sol-dier has a sugar allowance scarcely one-fifth as much as our own soldiers receive. The French soldiers' dally allowance al-lowance of sugar Is just about the equivalent of the weight of a silver dollar. Sugar has a larger energy-sustaining energy-sustaining value, weight for weight and dollar for dollar, than any other ration now served. ... , It is evident that this community will do its just share in responding to this war-time need. i - |