Show ITALY NE IDS SUGAR VIRY BADLY sugar is ig aawar a war time requirement tully fully as essential as guns guna and almun the united states stales food administration has a gigantic task on hand to provide our own armies and those of our Luru european associates in the war with food dl nualla ls Is ordinarily y a large brodu I 1 pr ot of beet sugar as welt well as their field production has haa broken down after the unfortunate condition in tho the russian developed the national sugar committee seized pounds of sugar wl jiri had been bought by tho the government tor for export to that thaC country this sugar was then stored stared lit in tho the vicinity of new york city of course tile the sugar was paid tor for and gladly too tor for the people of our eastern states were anxious to get even moderate allowances low ances most cities having been receiving only restricted allowa allowances lie ea for or weeks those thoe familiar with european sugar production find new thrills in almost every dispatch from the front belgium and F franco rance have lost a large part of their sugar factories and their beet fields havo have been terribly devastated now italy la Is in trouble with her 38 factories mos blos of the italian beet fields and factories are located in tho the northern disare nine factories in the province immediately south of venetia Is emilia with seventeen factories sugar production has already been restricted in hi italy during the past two years and now our italian friends are looking to the federal food ion fun committee to give them relief fortunately their relative needs are arc bess than those of 0 our other associates in tile the war because tho the people of italy have never used as much sugar per capita as have the people of other nations nevertheless wo we must give iliam help |