Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1919 — PUBLIC SUGAR BOWLS ARE TO AGAIN DISAPPEAR. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC SUGAR BOWLS ARE TO AGAIN DISAPPEAR.

Restaurants, hotels and other pubi lie eating places in Indiana were : directed Tuesday by Stanley Wyck- ’ off, in charge of sugar distribution ;in the state, to remove all sugar ■bowls from their counters, and to ■ serve sugar to their customers only Tin ainbunts? This action was I taken when it was found that sugar 1 was being used excessively >»nd that i-in many places customers have been taking lumps of sugar or small envelopes of granulated sugar away with them when they left the eating places. Because of this these places have been using abnormal quantities ' of sugar, Mr. Wyckoff declared. Restaurant and hotel managers in Indianapolis were being notified during the day of Mr. Wyckoff’s or- , der, and it was planned to get word to managers in the state as soon as I possible. Some of the Indianapolis eating places will now serve small >tion- sugar to their customers as they did during the war. I— The sugar situation became mqre critical today, when Mr. Wyckoff received a telegram from New York, ' announcing that 1,000,000 pounds of sugar imported from Canada ' and hold in bond in New York City, which had been contracted for by rlndiana firms, had not been shipped, as was'supposed, and, besides, would not be shipped. Determined to see , that Indiana is not discriminated

against in the distribution of sugar, Mr. Wyckoff at once sent telegrams the- sugar equalization board, the department % of justice, asking . that ' steps be taken to prevent this sugar from being diverted to other domestic trade. He arranged a conference with L. Ert Slack, United ■States district attorney, at 1:30 this afternoon,, to take up the matter. He declares that he' will leave no _stone_ unturned to get this supply of sugar to Hns~state,~as was promised. Mr. Wyckoff was to obtain this Canadian sugar only by paying the import duty of 1 % cents per pound. His agent at New York was instructed to do this Monday. Mr. Wyckoff declares that the firm sell-ing”-'this - sugar ’to Tndiana’ distributors has deliberately broken. its have been done because the firm believed it could get more money for its sugar elsewhere. If so, Mr. Wyckoff declares that it is time for Thedepartmentofjusticetaact;