Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1920 — HOOVER TALKS ABOUT SUGAR [ARTICLE]

HOOVER TALKS ABOUT SUGAR

Washington, May Hoover, foisner food sdadnistimtoz' and candidate for the republican nomination for president, gave Ida views to congress .today on the sugar «nd industrial 1 situation. Appearing, / before a house committee investigating the sugar situation aMr. Hoover declared that the world*.shortage, of the product was likely to. continup two or three years. The pressing .need was rationing, he said, with immediate government action to control the supply through commercial not legalistic methods. Although the hearing related primaaily, to the action of Attorney General Palmer in approving a maximum price for the Louisiana crop, it reached out into a broader field after Mr. Hoover said he could give only*an Moffhand” opinion as to that proceeding. Mr.-Hoover said, however, that the government should have bought the Louisiana crop last year, pocketing the lose or else selling to the hany tsada at.onodyance. y