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Show MEETS THE SITUA- ' TION IN ADVANCE In Colorado tho sugar companies est'lmato that tho 191S-19 sugar cam palgn will fall off about 4,000,000 sacks or about 20 per cent lo:s than last year. Early In tho planting Eoason thoio vas an organized campaign to ro duco beet acrcago to forco high prices. pric-es. To moot this situation tho food administration appointed a commission commis-sion to decldo what price should ho .paid farmers. This decision was so long dolayed that many fanners turned to other crops. PrcsB reports state that tho nonpartisan non-partisan league of Weld, Colorado, has already started a movement to forco tho Jirlco of beets up from $10 i a ton to at least $15 a ton for 1919:. H Inasmuch as tho government has. H sot tho prlco of sugar, our country H should not consider such an nrbltra- H ry demand of growers. Tho leaguo H campaign It pushed will slmpley H mean a further curtailment of sugar production by creating dissatlsfac- H tlon among the farmers and bank- l rupttng small refineries which can- H not operate on as cIobo a margin as t B the few larger companies. ' H Now Is tho tlmo to build up and" H straighten tho western beef sugar. H Industry rather than discourage lt-L . "jjU |