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Show SUGAR SHOWED ; OUR JJACKBONE I , .' . American Willingness to Give Up Luxury Demonstrated Nation's Na-tion's War Conscience. STAND WITH THE ALLIES. - ' It By, Reducing Consumption People of the United State Averted a ! ' t, v Famine at Home In Spite II lift of Low Supplies. j The fnijt that the people ot the ' United States were Able to reduce by more' than one-half million tons (heir July, August, September and October consumption of sugar jproves conclusively conclu-sively that their war conscience was thoroughly awakened and that the country as o, whole stood ready to follow fol-low the Injunctions of the Government. Our normal consumption of sugar In the- four-month period beginning with July has been 400,000 tons per month, a' total of 1,000,000 for the quarter II , year, r- . '1 r ' ft July, when oar sugar stringency II began to reach Its height, .consumption I " reduced to 200,000' tons. In An- 1 t trlbuUon aid In September oTfly ZTVr- I 000 tons, Irj October tbe distribution . fell to 230,000 tons. . 4 If the general public had failed is "' observe the Injunctions of the Food Administration this country, would ' have been In the throes of a sugar famine before the end of August. Our j . visible supplies were so low as to bring great anxiety to those familiar with , tbe sugar sltuntlon. They feared that It, would, be absolutely Impossible to reduce consumption to a point where sugar would no longer be a mere lux, ury In the American diet Few accomplishments of the Food Administration will stand forth so predominantly pre-dominantly as this reduced consumption consump-tion of sugar, lly It we have been able to bridge over the period of stringency nntll the new beet ami Louisiana ran sugar crops w.re In sight. , I i Now the untlon Is In a position so that If we choose we may return to i our normal home uso of sugar, am) Europe, with the release of ships to go far nflcld, can maintain Its recent restricted re-stricted rations. If, however, those nations are to Increase their us of sugar very considerably It must bo by ' our continued sharing with lliotn , through limiting our own consump- "' tlon. I |