SUGAR CONTROL
SAVED MILLIONS
American Consumer Profited by
$180,000,000—French Situ-
ation Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTS.
This Nation's Sugar Supply Reduced
to Seventy Per Cent. of Normal.
! Java Stocks Unavailable.
Sugar control has saved the Amer-
ican public $180,000,000, Herbert Hoov-
er, United States food administrator,
declared the other day.
He pointed out that sugar was sell-
ing for 11 cents a pound last August
and that it would have advanced to 20
cents a pound, with the world short-
age as a stimulus, had not the food
administration secured the co-opera-
tion of the refiners and wholesalers
and fixed a sugar price that today en-
ables housewives to buy sugar at from
81% to 9 cents a pound.
“Every 1 cent raise in sugar from
September 1 to January 1 means S18,-
000,000 to the American consumer,”
Mr. Hoover said. “Numbers of gen-
tlemen wiil tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed of $180,000,000 this year if we
had not taken these actions.” Later
Mr. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
35 cents a pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
ailotted 70 per cent. of its normal sup-
ply. Before the war the average an-
nual household consumption here was
55 pounds a perscn., In England the
annual consumption during the war is
24 pounds, and in France each person
is allotted a little over one pound a
month.
“In August the French government
found itself unable to maintain even
this ration,” Mr. Hoover declared.
“An appeal was made to America.
France needed 100,000 tons. We
agreed to fill this demand and up to
December had shipped 85,426 tons. In
the meantime an appeal was made to
the American public to reduce its sug-
ar consumption, and requests were
made to distributors to supply the
confectionary and sweet drinks trade
with 59 per cent. of normal supply.
This has been generally followed, al-
though such regulations were volun-
tary, as the food administration had
no authority to impose them.”
Domestic Price is 8), to 9 Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take a profit of no
more than 50 cents a hundred—half a
cent a pound—on sugar. By reason of
food administration regulations, bind-
ing refiners and wholesalers, the re-
tailer is able today to buy sugar at
from 8 to 81% cents a pound. This
enables him to sell to the housewife at
81% to 9 cents a pound.
There liave been some violations of
the sugar rulings. Mr. Hoover said
recently : “Sales of sugar from 16 to
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed up vigorously and stop-
ped and is evidence itself of the prices
at which consumers would have been
mulet had we not intervened. We have
forfeited wholesalers’ licenses in ag-
gravated cases, and we have issued
warnings to first offenders in a great
many instances through our local ad-
ministrators.”
Effect on Military Situation.
American sugar socks could be fill-
ed to normal very soon if ships could
be sent to Java, where 250,000 tons of
sugar is waiting for shipment. But
the shipping situation is so acute that
the nation cannot spare the eleven
ships needed to transport this sugar.
It would take the boats one year to
haul 250,000 tons. In the same time
they could be used for transporting
200,000 soldiers to France.
The food administration beliéves
that the American public will diminish
its sugar consumpiion by 10 or 15 per
cent. when it is made clear that such
sugar saving is a patriotic act and
when it is understood that there are
plenty of sweeteners available to take
the place of sugar, such as honey or
corn Syrup.
Why Shortage Exists.
The three great sugar producing cen-
ters of the world are Germany, the
West and Fast Indies. German sugar
is, of course, used at home. The Bast
Indian sugar is unavailable because of
the ship shortage.
While U boats made big inroads on
the world’s shipping, France and Italy
ceased to be self sustaining in sugar
manufacture. England in the mean-
time was cut off from German sugar—
1,400,000 tens a year—because of the
war. The result has been that the al-
lied nations have been forced to turn
to Adnerica and the West Indies for
their sugar.
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Food Administration Declares it Is ar
Absolute Sin to Waste Food—Focd
Has Become Sacred.
Europe is still sending an insistent
call for more food. We must send it
if the war is to go on efficiently. It
we eat it all we cannot ship it, and
the food administration has already
tried to picture how much that wheat
is needed by people who will starve if
they do not get it, the food administra-
tion states.
“For the least bit eof heedlessness
| on your part in food conservation some
one somewhere in the world must suf-
fer privation,” an official statement
declares. “The food administration
has mastered the problem of Ameri:
ca’'s food in such a way that every |
ounce of food conserved and kept in
the currents of trade goes to an empty
stomach in Europe.
“It is an absolute sin to waste food.
Food has become sacred.
“Food means life; it means some-
body’s life, and you cannot escape re-
sponsibility.
“There is no waste of food among
the allied nations.”
WAR BREAD COSTLY TO
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Every year the British government
pays $200,000,000 toward the cost of
that nation’s war bread. That is the
principal reason why English bread
vrices are lower today to the consumer
than in America. Incidentally the
British bread is much poorer than the
American.
Great Britain has taken over all
liome grown grain, bought at an arbi-
trary price, and -all imported wheat
bought in markets of the world at pre-
vailing prices. This is turned over to
the mills by the government at a price
that allows the adulterated war bread
loaf of four pounds to sell at 18 cents.
The two pound loaf costs 9 cents, and
the one pound loaf sells for 5 cents.
In milling, however, 14 per cent.
more flour is extracted from the wheat
than in America. And there is a com-
pulsory adulteration of 20 per cent.
and an allowable adulteration of 50
per cent.
Compared with American bread, the
British product is only about 65 per
cent. pure at its best.
In France, under conditions some-
what similar, but with a larger extrac-
tion, the four pound loaf sells for 16
cents.
AMERICAN SAVINGS WILL
MEASURE WHEAT EXPORTS
“We have already exported the
whole of the surplus of the 1917 wheat
harvest, over and above the normal de-
mands of our own population. It is
necessary, therefore, for the food ad-
ministration to restrict export of wheat
so as to retain in the United States
sufficient supplies to carry our own
people until the next harvest.
“Therefore all exports of wheat
from now forward are limited entirly
to volume of saving made by the Amer-
ican people in their consumption of
wheat and wheat products.
“We continued wheat shipments for
December as far as our situation al-
lowed, but even with all the conserva-
tion made we were still unable to load
several hundred thousand tons of food
stuffs urgently required’ by the allied
nations during the month of December
alone.”
HERBERT HOOVER.
WHEAT-CORN YEAST BREAD.
Wheat-corn bread is more nutritious
than bread baked with wheat flour
alone. Thousands of American fam-
ilies today are using this mixed flour
beead, and in so doing are enabling
America to provide more wheat flour
for the allies. Here's a tested recipe
for this bread: Take one and a half
cups of milk, water or a mixture of
the two; one-half cake compressed
veast, one and a half teaspoons salt,
one tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon
of fat if desired, one cup cornmeal
and two cups wheat flour.
Put one and a half cups of water,
the cornmeal, salt, sugar and fat (if
used) inte a double boiler and cook
twenty minutes. The water is suffi-
eient only to soften the meal a little.
Allow the meal to eool to about the
temperature of.the room and add the
flour and yeast mixed with the rest
‘of the water. Knead thoroughly,
‘make into loaf, place in pan of stand-
ard size, allow to rise until nearly
fills the pan and bake 45 or 50 min-
utes. It is hardly practicable to use
a greater percentage of cornmeal than
this even in emergencies, for bread so
made differs very little from baked
mush. Less cornmeal can be used
and in sucn a case the general meth-
od given above may be followed.
It is possible to make a yeast raised
corn bread without first cooking the
cornmeal. In thig case not more than
one cupful of meal should be used to
four cupfuls of fleur. In other re-
spects the bread ig mixed and baked
as in the above recipe,
The American fTouse Manager is
today a member cof the army that
is fighting to save democracy in
the world. More than 11,000,000
managers of American homes
have enlisted for the duration of
the war and pledged themselves to
support the fighting men by the
way they buy, cook and serve food.
Food will win the war, and these
women will heip to win it. Amer-
ica must send food to Europe.
The armies cannot hold out if we
fail to send it. Only ecrtain foods
WHY WE MUST SAVE FOOD.
The 1917 wheat crop in France was
less than half normal, using the crop
of 1913 as a basis of comparison.
There was a shortage of 176.000.000
bushels, or 53.3 per cent. The potato
crop was only within one-third of nor-
mal. The sugar beet crop showed a
deficit of 67.9 per cent. Her meat
herds in the early fall showed a short-
age of 1,800,000 animals.
Those are a few of the reasons
America must feed her associates in
the war. They are no longer able to
feed themselves, and unless we come
to the rescue are face to face with
starvation. And starvation means de-
feat in the war.
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Courtesy cf Life and Charles Dana Gibson.
can be shipped—those that ‘pack
the most food value into the small-
est shipping space. These fdods
are wheat, meat, fats, sugar. We
cannot gat them and send them
too. We cannot eat them and
send others. We must send these
foods, and in order to do that we
must eat other foods ourselves.
The American House Manager
will see to it that no food comes
into her home that does not do its
full duty under her management
in winning the war.
HASTENED RUSSIAN COLLAPSE
“We must not overlook the fact that
Russia collapsed, not because of the
Germans on her borders, but because
she failed to organize and feed her
own citizenship,” the food administra-
tion announced
“We must be warned that if we are to
emerge victorious from this war we can-
not risk the collapse of another of our
associates in this war from this cause.
“Anybody that is looking for the col-
lapse of the German people on‘the food
question had better turn around and
look at the moon, because the results
will be the same. Germany is in ne
more danger of collapsing on that
score than we are, if as much.”
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