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Show SUGAR CONTROL SAVEDMILLIGNS American Consumer Profited by $180,000,000 French Situ-! Situ-! atioh Helped. HOME PRICE HELD'AT 9 CENTS. This Natlan'a Sugar Suf ply ftedueerf to Savmty Far Cnt f Narmal. ' Java Stock Unavailable I Sugar control baa saved the American Amer-ican public $180,000,000, Herbert Hoover, Hoov-er, United States food administrator, declared tbe other day. He pointed out that sugar was selling sell-ing for 11 cents n pound last August and that It would have advanced to 20 cents a pound, with the world shortage short-age as a stimulus, had not the food administration secured the co-operation of the reflners and wholesalers and fixed a sugar price that today enables en-ables housewives to buy sugar at' from 8ft to 9 cents a pound. "Every 1 cent raise ln sugar from September 1 to January 1 mcana $18,-000,000 $18,-000,000 to the American consumer," Mr. Hoover said. "Numbers of gentlemen gen-tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar would have prevailed and the public robbed of 9180,000,000 this year If wo had not taken these actions." Later Mr. Hoover called attention to the fact that uncontrolled sugar advanced to 85 cents a pound during the Civil War. Franc Got Our Sugar. Today the American public has been allotted 70 per cent oflts normal supply. sup-ply. Before the war the- average annual an-nual household consumption here was 55, pounds n person. In England the nnnual consumption during the war Is 24 pounds, and in Franco each person Is allotted a llttlo over one pound a month. "In August the French government found Itself unable to maintain oven ( this ration," Mr. Hoover declared. "An appeal was made to America. France needed 100,000 tons. Wo agreed to fill this demand nnd up to December had shipped 85,420 tons. In the meantime an appeal was made to the American public to reduce Its sugar sug-ar consumption, nnd requests were made to distributors to supply tho confectionary and sweet drinks trade with 60 per cent of normal supply. This has been generally followed, although al-though such regulations were voluntary, volun-tary, as the food administration had no authority 'to Impose them." Domestic Fries I t't to 9 Cent. Itetall 'grocers throughout the country coun-try are supposed to take a profit of no more than SO cents a hundred half a cent a pound on sugar. By reason of food administration regulations, binding bind-ing refiners and wholesalers, the re-taller re-taller I able today to buy sugar1 at from 8 to 8M cents a pound. This enables him to sell to the housewife at 8H to 0 cents a pound. There hao been some violations ot the sugar rulings. Mr. Hoover, said recently: "Sales ot sugar from 10 to 20 cents per pound have been reported nnd followed up vigorously and stopped stop-ped and Is evidence Itself of tho prices at which consumers uoulfl have been mulct had wo not Intervened. We ha e forfeited wholesalers' licenses In aggravated ag-gravated cases, nnd wo lmvo Issued warnings to first offenders In n great many Instances through our local nd-1 mlnlstrntors." Effect op Military Situation. Amerlcun sugar slocks could bo fill, cd to normal ery,somi If thlps could bo sent 'to Jnvn"", where" 250,000 ton's ot sugar Is waittngfor shipment. But the shipping situation Is so acuto that the nation cannot spare tho eleven ships needed to pnnsport this suar, It would tako tho -boats one jenr to haul 2.")0,CQQ tiiiib, In the tunic time they could 1q used for transporting 200.000 boUllens to France, Tho food administration IicIIpvch that (he American public will diminish Its sttgnr consumption by 10 or 15 per cent, when It Is mado dear that Mich sugar saving Is a patriotic net and wlicn it Is understood that theio are plenty of aweeti'iieM nallable to tnko tho, plnce of hUgur, Mich ns honey or corn Bjrup, Why Shortao Exists. Tho three great sugar ptodnclng renters ren-ters of tho world nto Gcrnitny, tho W'vhi. nnd Hast Iiulfes. German Mismr Is, of coutsts used at home. The rus Indian sugar Is uoaittllablo because of the ship bhortnge. Whllo U boats made big Inroads on the world's shipping, Franco nnd Italy ceased to be fcelf sustaining In tmgnr manuructnrc. England In tio meantime mean-time was cut ott from Qcrainn sugar 1,400,000 tons a year because of the war, The result Jtau been that the nl-lied nl-lied potions hno been forced to turn lo America and tho West Indies for their sugar. |