Show AMERICAN SUGAR SENT TO FRANCE American Price i iby Rigidly Regulated by United States Food Administration CONSUMERS HERE PAY ge Sugar Cost 33 35 Cents a Pound During Civil War War Refiners Refiners Refiners' Profits Profit Now Curtailed Sugar Is selling to today 10 throughout America at nt from rom S' S 8 to 0 U cents u a pound aund to the consumer even though there is a It world shortage which has Ims rc reduced this tills nations nation's sugar allotment to JOi doper r cent of normal gh gli the efforts of ot the United Stat l ll administration the sugar market has hus been regulated as ns far as ns the producer and wholesaler is concerned The Tho food tood administration has no power to regulate retail prices I except by hy public opinion Even en though h more than tons of ot sugar have been beel shipped to France Prance In the tho last tot four r months the tine retail grocers grocer's sugar nr price Is around 8 to 8 cents He should sell this sugar at 8 to 9 D cents the food administration believes beHaves and asks the American housewife topa to pa pay no more than this amount Lost AU August when the food admin admin- was organized the Ole price of ot otI sugar ar rose suddenly to 11 cents a 8 pound During the Civil War sugar sugarcoat I cost coat the consumer 3 35 cents a pound D By re regulation of ot the sugar ar market and reducing the price to 81 and 9 0 cents and keeping it ft from advancing t to 20 cents t. t the food fond administration has saved saved sav sav- saved ed the American public at IC least st In four our months according to toa toa toa a stati statement ment made by Herbert Hoover Hoo the Ule other ther day It Is our stern stem dut duty to feed te-ed the nl- nl ties Mca to maintain their health heRlth and strength at any cost to ourselves Mr Hoover declared There has hns not riot been nor will be he as we see It It enough b sugar ragar for tor even their present mea meagre ro roand and depressing ration unless they send ships to remote mote markets for It It If It we wean wem to m our greed and gluttony forge force tor them either er to further r reduce d ce their ration or to send these ships we will m have done dOM damage to our abilities to win thus this wa war r. r If Hit we send the ships to Java for tons of or sugar next year we will have necessitated the employment employment employment em em- of eleven extra ships for tor forone forone one year These ships ships ships-If If used In transporting troops would troops would take I to men to France Franc t Reason for World Shortage As Aa Mr Hoover lr pointed out the United Stales States Canada and n I-n England were ere sugar sugar Importing countries before the th war while France and Italy were T very tery nearly self solf supporting The main a of or flit flit- worlds world's sugar supply I was was' and neighboring pow powers JS J'S the West the West Indies and tin the Rest t Indies German sugar a r is m no fill i longer available t us ns It I Is H ISI entirely In Germany which hrh also tl o absorbs sugar r of or sur surround surrounding ing l countries England cum oui no ao longer lunger I r buy 1 long tons of sugar en Hi year sear from German The French su ir production tion has his dropped from froth 7 7 to 10 00 tons Till The Italian production hn has fallen from JOU tons ton to ton tons Thus three e ies were wr thrown upon Ease and West Nest Indian sources for 19 tons annually to maintain their normal l consumption Because of ot the worlds world's shipping shortage e th the allied nations started c drawing on the West Indies for sugar East Indian sugar took tool three times the number of ships since the distance distance dis dis- tance was Vas three times as ns great reat Sady Suddenly Sud denly lenly the west was called on to fu futh fur furnish nish and did furnish tons of ot sugar to Europe when tons a 11 year was the tho war pre-war demand The fhe allies ames had drawn from Java JI tons before the shipping situation became became be he- came acute In spite of ot these shipments Mr Sir Hoover stated staled the other day dllY the English government o In August reduced the household sugar ration to a basis of 24 2 pounds per annum per capita And In September the French government govern govern- went ment reduced their household ration to 13 2 10 pounds a year or n a hit bit over o 1 pound of su sugar r a n month Even E this yon z-yon on could not be filled by bythe the we Jc vr government It was found early In the the- fall America was then naked for tor tons of ot Ru sugar ar and succeeded dEt In sending tons by br December 1 1 The French request was granted h because ause the American household house house- bold hold consumption was then at least 55 ri pounds per person and It was considered considered consid consid- ered the duty of ot maintaining the I Trench Preach morale made our course clear Today the sugar sugar situation may maybe maybe maybe be summarized by stating that If I America will reduce Its sugar consumption consumption con con- 10 to 15 per cent this nation will be able to send more soldiers soldier to France Sugar today sells at seaboard refineries re- re fineries at a n bU hundred llred pounds The he wholesale grocer glocer has lias agreed to limit his profit to 25 cents a hundred plus freight and und the tile retail grocer Is supposed to take no more than 50 W cents a n hundred pounds profit This regulation regu regu- lation was made by the Ule food tood administration administration adminis adminis- which now asks the housewife I r 1 to reduce sugar consumption as muchas much I as us possible using other sweeteners and also reminds her that she should pay pap no more than 0 D cents a n pound for tor forr I sugar x r Control of Cano Cane Refiners Refiners' Profits I Immediately upon the establishment establish I food administration Mr ment anent o of the t i t. t i I Hoover HoO said Raid an examination WIn I made of or the costs and profits of refining log ing and It was finally d determined t that the spread between the cost of or raw and the sale of refined cane sugar should be lie limited to per hundred pounds The Tito war pre-war differential had avera averaged cd about 85 cents and increased costs were found to have hae been Imposed ed by the war In Increased cost coat of refining refining re re- I fining losses cost of ot bags labor Insurance Insurance ance Interest and other things rather more than cover cr the difference After Atter prolonged ed ne negotiations the refiners were placed d under agreement establishing establishing lishing these thes limits limite on October 1 I and an anything over this amount to be a agreed reed extortionate under the lawIn lawIn lawIn law In the course of these Investigations It was waH found by canvass cnn of the Cuban producers that their su sugar ar had during the first nine months month of ot the past year sold for an average of about 1424 per hundred f f. f 0 o. o b. b Cuba to which h duty mid and frel freight ht added to the refiners refiners' cost amount to about iG per hundred The rhe average sale price of granulated by hy various refineries according according ac ae- ac- ac cording to our Investigation atlon was about per hundred or a differential of 18 1614 In reducing the fliP differential to there was a n sll ln saving to the public of or 54 5 cents per hundred Had such a differential differential dif dif- been In use rise from the 1st of ot January 1017 1917 the public would have haveR R saved sated In fn the first nine months of ot the year about Next Year Year With a view to more efficient organIzation organization organization organ organ- of the trade In imported sugars next year oar two committees have been formed by the tIle food administration 1 A committee comprising representatives representatives representatives of ot all nil of ot the tho elements of oi American cane refining groups The principal duty of or this committee Is to divide the tho sugar Imports pro rata to theIr heir various arlous cap capacities and see Bee that absolute Justice la le done to every refiner re to- finer 2 A CO committee comprising three representatives representatives rep rep- of ot the English French and Italian lan governments two representatives s of ot the American refiners with a member of ot the UlI food tood Ion tion Only two of ot the tho committee have arrived from Europe but they represent sent ent the allied governments The dales duties duties da du- du- du ties les of ot this committee are to determine the most economical sources from a transport point of ot view of all aU the alles al- al allies allies lies les to arrange transport at uniform rates to distribute the foreign sugar between the United U States and allies subject to the approval of ot the American Amerlan Anion Amerl- can an J. J English French and Italian gov- gov This committee while holding strong stron views as IlS to the price to be paid for tor Cuban su sugar has not bad had the final voice olce This voice olce has rested In the tho O concerned together with the he Cuban government and I 1 wish to state tate emphatically that all aU of the gena gentlemen gen concerned as good commercial men wen have un Endeavored l. with tho patience and skill to secure a r price and their persistence has bas reduced reduced re- re Cuban Cuba l demands by 15 uS cents per pel hundred undred The The price agreed upon is about bout per hundred pounds f. f 0 o. o b b. b Cuba uba or equal to about 0 G duty paid New few York This price should eventuate Mr Hoover said to about per hundred for refined sugar from the refiners at seaboard points or should place sugar in the hands of tho consumer at from 2 8 to 9 cents per pound depending upon locality and conditions of trade or at from 1 to 2 cents below the prices of August last and from one ono half to a cent per pound cheaper than today 1 There Is now an elimination of or speculation peculation extortionate profits and andIn andin In n the Ule relining refining alone the American people will save over of ot the he refining charges last year A part of these savings goes oes to the Cuban HawaIIan Porto RIcan pecan and producer and part to the consumer Appeals to prejudice a against ain t the food administration have been made because the Cuban price Is 34 cents above that of ot 1 1917 1317 17 It Is said In effect that hat the Cubans are at our mercy that hat we could get sugar a cent lower louver We Ve made exhaustive e study of the cost of producing sugar in Cuba last year through our own agents in Cuba and we find It averages a 33 while white many producers are at a higher leveL We found bund that an average profit of ot at least cant t a n cent per pound was wa necessary lu in u order to maintain and aud stimulate production or that a minimum price of ot was necessary and even this would stifle some producers The price ultimately agreed was 23 cents above 0 these figures or about one- one fifth of ot a n cent per pound to the tho American Ameri Ameri- can consumer and more than this amount has been saved by our reduction reduce U thin tion n In refiners' refiners profits If It we wish to stifle production In Cuba we could take that course just at the time of all times In our history when we want wont production for tor ourselves and the Ute al al- al- al lies Further than that the state department department department de de- will assure you that such a course would produce disturbances In Cuba and destroy even en our present supplies but beyond nil all these material reasons Is one of ot human buman Justice This great country has bas no rl right ht by the might of ot Its position to stran strangle le Cuba I Therefore there Is no imposition upon the American public Charges have be been n made before this committee commit commit- tee that Mr Rolph endeavored to benefit benefit ben hen the California refinery of which It he was mana manag manager r h by this 34 4 cent Increase e In Cuban price Mr Ir Rolph did dill not fix the price It does dous dOl raise the price to the Hawaiian n fanner fanner about that amount It does not raise mise the profit of ot the California refinery refiner because their charge for tor refining is IR la like all other refiners refiners refiners re re- finers limited to per pcr hundred pounds plus the freight differential on the established cu custom tom of the trade Mr Rolph has not one penny of Interest In Ur terest In that refinery |