Show ABOUT SUGAR RATIONING there should be a law forbidding cIlL editors tors from writing open letters but bu as no such statute yet exists we are going to use our pic PIE and address one to leon henderson opa chife with a few suggestions about the sugar ration rationing inZ program omitting the usual formalities such as a salutation etc we are going to di dive right into our bur letter cowit 1 if you mr henderson desire thi full cooperation of the housewives yo you should revise your definition of a sugar hoarder press releases emanatian ema to any and oil who mhd have more than two pounds advance supply ori on hand with your office frightening people people about an impending sugar shortage for the last three months all the while fumbling around trying to put a rationing system into effect it would indeed be an improvident housewife who had less than two pounds of sugar on hand the washington grange news puts it whoever heard of a farm housewife b buying uy ing sugar in less than 50 or loo pound lots in normal times timea understand and many a householder the editor included has a sugar carry over from last canning season when the most logical and economical econ mical way to ta purchase sugar was in pound sack these people are perfectly ready an ani w willing to have you tear out all the coupons you wish from their hitherto non existent rationing books but they resent being called boarders hoarders hoar hoax ders 2 if you really want to save soma sugar and at the sarre same time keep the retail price down your rationing system should be changed to permit housewives to purchase their quotas on oil a monthly basis any will tell you he ha loses lobbs two or throe three pounds in transferring the contents of a ICO pound bag into two awu pound sacks some of this loss can be ba charged up to errors in ia weighing but a lot of it goes on the floor this loss will be ba increased when it becomes necessary to put it up in half pound and pound bags the cost to the consumer in like manner must necessarily increase on a short mar margin n commodity like sugar no can afford to a cost of patting it in tiny paper sacks the lost sugar incident to the operation the labor involved and the paper sacks themselves must be charged up to the housewife these extras could be reduced 75 per cent if the system ft nere ere placed on a monthly basis we ve almost forgot to mention the saving in a paper which could iv 13 made assume the average householder will ne na purchasing for a family of four under your system of weekly quotas sugar purchases alone would require thirty uree three million paper bags every seven days if our arithmetic is correct this will amount to one billion seven hundred bundred and sixteen million paper bags the first year this could be cut to four Th hundred undred and twenty nine million bag bags P L under a monthly burch purchase ase system editors have no business fooling around with numbers that run over three figures but mr henderson we wonder how hov many pound demolition bombs could be packed for shipment with the material required to make a t fb billion illion and a quarter paper bags 3 one last suggestion I 1 mr ir liander a son bun there has been a lot of loose talk r going on of late that a million or so tons of cuban sugar is to be converted into industrial alcohol to make smokeless powder the people are wondering if alcohol made from our surplus gra gran stocks would not work just as well they are also wondering about statements appearing in the press that the rum distilleries in cuba owned by uncle sam must continue producing liquid dynamite so as not to dislocate the cuban labor situation the people dont dent know much about such things but if alcohol from cuban sugar the best smokeless powder they are curious cariou a to know why these government owned distilleries do the job and keep the cuban labor situation on an even keel at the same time without making rum ruin we are not going to be obstinate about the foregoing suggestions mr air henderson and if you fail to see ee any merit in them lets forget the whole thing youre the boss and what you say goes we believe we can speak for the faral far people of america in saying that they will cooperate per cent with a program which will contribute toward bringing this and su successful war to a quick conclusion W also belive hoever they are deserving of your confidence corl to and a few fireside chats the nation via radio by yourself woul not come amiss at this time |