OCR Text |
Show SUGAR SHOWED OUR BACKBONE American Willingness to Give Up Luxury Demonstrated Nation's Na-tion's War Conscience. STAND WITH THE ALLIES. y Reducing Consumption People ef the United states Averted a Famine at Hems In Spite ef Lew Supplies. The fact that the people of the United States were able to reduce by ( store then one-half million tons theh July, August, September and Octobei conausapttoo of sugar proves condu eltely that their war conscience was 'thoroughly awakened and that tht .country as a whole stood ready to fol low the Injunctions of the Oovemnienu Our normal consumption of sugar In 4hefor-monta-period beginning with July has been 400,000 tons per month,' 'a total of 1,000,000 for the quarter Tear. i In July, when our sugar stringency began to reach Its height, consumption was reduced to 200,000 Jons. In Au susl only 8'Jo.OOO toes Went Into dls trlbutlbn and In September only 270,-XX) 270,-XX) tons. In October the distribution fell to 230,000 tons. It Ihe gcncrnl public had failed te obscrvo tho Injunctions of the Food Administration this country would linvo been In the throes of a buriii famine before tba end of August. Otn visible supplies were so low as to bring srent anxiety to those fumlllnr nltli the sttgnr sltuntlon. Tlicy feared that It uotild bo nbsolutcly Impossible to reduce consumption to a point where suenr would no longer bo a mere luxury lux-ury In the Anieilcnn diet Pew jiccoinpllsliinoiits of Iho I'ood AilinTrrTstrntlon will stand foith so pre domlniintly as this reduced consmnp tlon ot huenr. My It we liavo been able to bridge over tho pcilod of stringency until the now beet and Louisiana cunt sugar crops Wt.ro In sight Now the nation Is In a position su that If wo chooso wo may return to our normal homo uso of suenr, and Kurope, with tho relenso of ships to go far nflcld, can maintain Its recent restricted re-stricted rations. If, however, those nations aro to Increase their uso of sugar very considerably It must be by our continued sharing with them through limiting our own consumption. |