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Show 'Dealing With The Sugar Shortage, h High prices for sugar are unpleas-j ant to general public because its.j members have come accustomed s through a long period of years to oh- i I aining sugar more cheaply than al- ; most any other commodity of general i tse such as shoes, clothing, flour,;! rice or potatoes. ' '. Being of such general interest, an ncrease in the price of sugar ap-'' peals irresistibly to the type of j italesman who-;e methad oi dealing 1 vith problems of this sort is to make ' 'i speech demanding that somebody pe sent to jail. To attribute the ad- vance in prices primarly to specula- . ion, or to a concerted attempt on ' '..he part of the sugar trade to ex- '. ' )loit the public, is clearly at variance ; with simple and easily ascertainable facts. The rise in prices is due primarily o the fact that demand has far outstripped out-stripped supply, not only in the United States, but in every part of he world. Attempts to enforce lower prices iy lesgislation would defeat themselves. them-selves. Foreign holders of sugar cannot be coerced into selling to the CJnitted States at a sacrifice any I'.rovermental or other artifical ac-ion ac-ion that reduced prices materially n this market world automatical-y automatical-y cut off supplies from outside sources and would result in an aggravated aggra-vated shortage. There are two simple remedies 'or the situation, we must produce t.nore sugar or eat less. |