Show FARMERS MUST RAISE MORE BEETS the war has brought many stirring appeals but washington has sent ott no call that dri deserves serves the sober thee of tile the people moro more than tho the recent personal perso ial front from mr hoover states F food administrator asking ashing the beet growers to aid litin him lit in meeting ali alio llio e serious sugar shortage sh that now exists throughout tile the world tho the federal Te doial rood food administrator toi for utah lias has sent out men who hay havo distributed striking and persuasive persua ahi posters po calling attention to our ilat national sugar needs and appealing to the boot beet growers to increase Inci caso their acreage for 1918 especial attention la is directed to the campaign here in utah because accous this state la is one of only tour four states in ill ill the union that has ais as many as beet sugar factories and thele t Pac ac tories are aio now running iiii ining at an overage of loss lesa than two thirds of their ca capacity some communities al abc 0 I 1 growing about their maximum acero ago of beets but other districts con increase inci easu their beet acreage without art an injustice to other needed crops in utah a special committee hn hai been appointed to aid tho the rood food A ad ministration in this sugar dri delvo v 0 this committee Is comprised of ui dr E G Il eterson Pe torson president of tile the U A C and chairman t f tha food of 0 the state council of defense I 1 1 D mckay BIc ICay president of the ua anni a I 1 I 1 state aarin bureau and camei W jones lit in charge of commercial sugar I 1 problems in the northwest for tho the U S department of agriculture J edward ta lor Is serving as aa secre sec tari of this the shortage ot of sugar throughout the world can bo be accounted tor for when tho the war map of europe Is studied franco lias has beet sugar fato factories ries anil and they are nearly all located in tho noi northern them war zone A recent report stated that 40 f factories ft had been dynamited by tile the doches bodies after looting all of the brass brasa and bronze parts it talis takes only a few minutes for a skill cd dynamiter to upset a gayy smokestack many more factories were badly damaged where tile the allies alalea havo have beaten the germans back to their own ft frontier lines only vast ahrews of what was once fertile fields are now worse than a barren waste shell craters domand demand malls a great deal of work to rele irel and then thell it Is likely to require sever a seasons to bring tile the soil bach to condition for profitable crops so 90 much of the subsoil sub soil has been brought to the surface that crops will have a hard struggle until tho the soil Is agalli again conditioned at tho the pr present t iam ill the fron french didier lias has a sugar allowance scarcely one olle fifth as much as our own soldiers receive tile tho french soldiers dally daily allowance of sugar Is just about the equivalent of tho the weight or of a silver dollar sugar has a larger concluded on oil page S i FAR A alu W S 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 t RAI ier M 6 lid ETC 6 3 1 I 1 1 I 1 t r 1 I 1 I 1 from fago 3 I 1 I 1 nofa orgy austaIn sustaining Ipg values weight for glit and dollar alai than any other ompy ge ration ratIo I 1 iiii tig q Served 1 r F itis it is evident 1 at uil ht 1 alt 1 4 db t otest ficaro in ind io to i th is I 1 ar war alma need I 1 I 1 I 1 16 8 f |