Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1918 — Must Purchase Sugar Every 15 Days Instead of Weekly [ARTICLE]

Must Purchase Sugar Every 15 Days Instead of Weekly

Approximately 20,000,000 pounds of sugar will be saved per year by a new ruling of the food administration which will prevent anyone from obtaining more than two pounds of sugar pef month. Many people were unconsciously breaking the regulations regarding the distribution of sugar by purchasing their sugar on the basis of one-half pound per capita per week. On this basis of four weeks to the month there would be only 48 weeks to the year, or 336 days. This would leave 29 days, or practically another month, during which sugar would be consumed on a basis of two pounds per capita. With a population of 100,000,000 people this * would require about an additional 200,000,000 pounds of sugar. The new regulation requires the consumer to purchase his allotment of sugar every fifteen day&, or semi-monthly, rather than every week.