Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1918 — AMERICANS ASKED TO LIMIT USE OF SUGAR [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS ASKED TO LIMIT USE OF SUGAR

MtistUse No More Than Two Pounds Per Person a Month if the Present ’Meagre Allied Sugar Ration Is Maintained. ■ . * Stocks Will Be Short Until Beginning of New Year May Be Enlarged Then.

Two pounds of sugar a month —half a pound a week —that Is the sugar ration the U. S. Food Administration has asked every American to bbserve until January 1, 1919, in order to make inire there shall be enough for oUr Army and Navy, for the Allied armies and for the civilians of those nations. By New Year’s the world sugar situation will be relieved somewhat by the new crop. Cuban sugar of this year’s crop will be arriving in this country. BVery available sugar source xtlll be drawn on by the Food Administration during the next winter months to maintain sufficient stocks here to keep up our national sugar supply. During October the first American beet sugar will arrive In the markets. By the middle of November sothe of our LouI iris Us carte crop will be available. All of'this sugar fend more may be needed to keep this nation supplied on a reduced ration and to safeguard the Allied sugar ration from still further

reduction. In Europe the present ration is already reduced to a minimum. Our Situation. The situation which the United States faces in its efforts to maintain a fair distribution of sugar to the A) lied world is as follows: Suoar supplies throughout the country, in homes, stores, factories and bakeries are at a low ebb. We must make increased sugar shipments to the Allies. Production of American beet and Louisiana cane crops have been disap pointing. * Porto Rico crops have been cur tailed. _ Immense sugar stocks in Java cannot be reached on account of the shipping shortage; ships are needed for troop inovements and munitions. Army anti Navy sugar requirements have increased as well as those from the Allies. Most industries using sugar have had their allotment reduced by one-half; some will receive no sugar. Households should make every effort to preserve the fruit crop without sugar, or -’> t h small amounts of sugar. Later, w. n the sugar Supply is laig er, the canned fruit may be sweetened as it is us*d.