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Show SUGAR SITUATION IN BRIEF Some idea of how lavishly the United States is using sugar, compared com-pared with her associates in the war, may be seen from the following figures: fig-ures: England is now giving her people per capita 2 1-6 pounds of sugar per ! month "whenever it is possible for the Government to furnish that much." The French and Italians are allowed only 1 1-10 pounds per I month whereas the comparable per capita household use of sugar in the United States for 1917 was about 4 3-4 pounds. Germany, with by far the largest larg-est part of sugarheet growing sections sec-tions of Europe in her control is giving giv-ing her people a ration of 25 to 35 ounces per month or about one ounce per day. j Large Luxury vse Tn IT. 8. i The problem of growing sugar (either cane or beet) touches only a limited number of American farmers, yet the sugar question is one to be seriously considered in every American Ameri-can home. Our annual consumption per capita, including both household and commercial use, has advanced from about 66 pounds in 1900 to 79 pounds in 1916; and in 1917 It was 84 pounds per person. The extravagant extrav-agant use of candies and soft drinks in this country consumes no inconsiderable incon-siderable amount,- Allies' Normal Supply Cut Off Great Britian produces no sugar. Prior to the war sue obtained two-thirds two-thirds of her supply from the Teutonic Teu-tonic powers. The crop in France has been reduced from 800,000 tons to one-fourth or one-fifth of this norma! amount. Italy is now reduced to two-fifths of her pre-war sugar crop. As an inevitable result our Associates Asso-ciates in this war have to look to the western continent for their main supply. sup-ply. Where they drew 300,000 tons from America and the West Indies before the war, last year they received re-ceived between four and five times as much. They also secured in 1917 about 400,000 tons from the East Indies. If we in our homes can make a dollar's worth of sugar last a fourth longer than usual St will help relieve the critical French and Italian shortage, short-age, give us plenty for ourselves and avoid a further drain on our short shipping. |