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Show HOUSEWIFE SHOULD REFUSE TO BUY SUGAR AT INFLATED PRICES, SAYS LOCAL EXPERT; COST WOULD DROP "Less than 25 per cent of tho sugar needed by the United States is produced pro-duced in thin country," according to Fred J. Taylor, general manager of the Amalgamated Sugar company this morning. He said: "Tho major portion of our needed supply is supplied by Cuba and Hawaii Ha-waii The world is faced with a shortage of sugar. During the next few months wo will face the greatest great-est sugar shortage this country has .experienced since the civil war. That I point needs to bo clearly borne In mind by all who discuss the sugar sit-.uation sit-.uation just now. I "Further, we were compelled here by government regulation to keep our sugar moving to the consumer in the months of October, November and December De-cember last and without any hesitation I can affirm that enough sugar went to the retailers here to keep the populace popu-lace abundantly well supplied for all .its needs during the entire year. Woj 'were held down to a small price, much below that which was being paid in tho east with the result that speculators specula-tors g6"t busy aud though you might find it difficult to find tho chief sinner, sin-ner, you would find on close investigation investiga-tion that the sugar passed through a good many hands, and went to the higher priced eastern market, also that a number of peoplo have made good round buiub of money out of the fact that Utah sugar producers were compelled to put their sugar on the market at a lower price than was j beinsc asked and given in other parts j of the country." "What is the best practicable method meth-od to follow at the present time," he was asked, "would you propose a federal fed-eral government rationing ' scheme again, as during the war." "No, from experience of that method, meth-od, I would not.' It takes too long to set the machinery going, and the machinery ma-chinery for such a method has been scrapped since we got out of tho war. The best method is voluntary rationing ration-ing by the housewife. Let the American Ameri-can housewife cut down tho demand jfor sugar and refuse to buy at the present inflated prices and unodubted-ly unodubted-ly a real relief will come about in what is a serious situation for the producer as it is Cor tho consumer." |