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Impending Sugar Shortage Necessitates
Government Rationing of U. S. Supply
Citizens Must Apply
For Ration Books
Early in May.
Sugar can’t swim! Whether
you take one lump or two, this is
the primary reason why War
Ration Book No. 1, to be issued
by the Office of Price Adminis
tration, will cover sugar.
Sugar beet is cultivated in no
less than 19 American states
from Ohio to the Pacific coast.
Cane sugar is produced in Flori
da and Louisiana. Yet, less than
29% of our sugar requirements
were raised within the bounds of
this country. More than 71%
came to the United States from
off-shore area.
Cuba is famed as the “sugar
bowl” of the world. But in 1941
no more than one-third of our
7.989.000 ton deliveries came
from that country.
Puerto Rico supplied us with
about 16 per cent of our sugar last
year. Hawaii and the Philippines
each sent us nearly an equal per
centage. The small balance came
from the Virgin Islands, Peru and
other miscellaneous and outlying
sources. -
War in the Pacific, Axis subma
rine action in Atlantic and Carib
bean waters and necessarily cur
tailed shipping has interrupted the
sugar supply column from these off
shore areas.
Register May 4,5, 6 and 7.
So Mr. and Mrs. America will reg
ister for ration books at their local
elementary schools May 4,5, 6 and
7. Industrial concerns, wholesalers,
retailers, grocers, restaurants and
hotels already have registered.
From April 28 until the second day
after individual registration begins,
all sugar sales have been suspend
ed throughout the nation, OPA has
announced.
Services of approximately 1,400,-
000 registrars and facilities of some
245.000 elementary schools will be
employed in the rationing procedure.
In addition, work of the registrars
will be supplemented by more
than 7,500 local rationing boards,
with a membership of some 23,000.
A registration card and ration
book containing 28 stamps will be
issued for every man, woman and
child in the country, with the ex
ception of members of the armed
forces, inmates of institutions, per
sons temporarily or permanently in
hospitals, convalescent homes, etc.,
and persons with hoards so large
to disqualify them.
Each household will be allowed to
have on hand two pounds of sugar
for each person at registration.
Hoarders will be penalized, either
by not getting a book at all or by
having from one to eight stamps
torn from their books before they
receive them. Carry the book to
your grocer. The stamp must be
torn out in the store keeper’s pres
ence and detached stamps will not
be accepted.
Stamps will be numbered for pur
chases in a specified period and
when the time limit is reached the
stamp will be voided. In this man
ner no one can save—or hoard—
stamps for use at a later date.
One adult must register for each
family unit, although the head of the
family may register for all family
members. Servants, lodgers and oth
ers who may live in a household,
must register individually. General
ly speaking, a family unit consists
of persons related by blood or mar
riage and living and eating under
the same roof.
She’s a young ’n, all right. Rut
she knows how to lop down the sugar
cane, in her spare time she also
likes to chew on some of the stalks,
for they make good tasting “sugar
sticks.”
Vitamins Won’t Give You
‘New Eyes for Your Old’
'■Varning against the false hope
“ ia t a box of vitamin pills will pro
vide “new eyes for old” was sound
'll recently by M. J. Julian,* presi
dent of the Better Vision institute.
’ ne average person following normal
eating habits, he says, obtains ade
quate amounts of vitamins for eye
ealth, adding that dosage with vita-
Jjuns usually is disappointing as a
cure all” for common visual de
fects.
After the first registration, late
comers may obtain their ration
books from local rationing boards
after a two-week period following the
May 4-7 registration. Those away
from home may register in the near
est elementary school if they know
the number of their local rationing
board.
Provisions for Preserving, Canning.
Special provisions will be made to
provide householders with sugar for
home preserving and canning, cer
tain persons who have it for medici
nal reasons, and for farmers, ranch
ers, etc., who customarily buy sugar
in bulk for use over prolonged pe
riods.
One thing is certain. Rationing is
necessary, but a sugar shortage is
all a matter of what country you
live in. Prospective per capita Unit
ed States consumption (including in
dustrial use) may run as high as
77 pounds. Compare this with nor
mal, peacetime per capita consump
tion in all other lands during the
1937-38 season. It was less than 31
pounds per capita.
There are many drains upon
America’s sugar supplies. Cuba also
must supply our Allies, countries
which formerly drew heavily upon
the Ukraine and Java sources
which are not now productively
available to them. Russia, which
counted on a good share of the 1942
Philippine crop, now must rely upon
some Cuban supplies arriving by
way of Archangel, if possible.
In addition, a large amount of Cu
ban sugar will be required this year
for the manufacture of high-test mo
lasses from which alcohol can be
made for war needs. In 1941 the
equivalent of more than 1,300,000
tons of Cuban sugar was used for
this purpose. A slightly larger
amount may be needed for this use
during 1942, particularly for explo
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Here is the final step in the sugar industry before you see it on your
table at home, or in the restaurant. This is one of the many storage cen
ters throughout the nation where sugar is kept until it is rationed out.
sives and for other war require
ments.
Best posted sugar trade and Wash
ington quarters recently added up
the “tote” for the 1942 sugar barrel.
The result was an estimate of some
5.515.000 short tons available from
all points or roughly one-third less
than the amount used last year.
In 1941 our mainland sugar pro
ducers (beet and cane combined)
managed to account for 2,348,000
short tons. We can count on only
2.200.000 short tons from them this
year. It certainly is not that pro
ducers here lack price incentive—
since the OPA ceiling level for raw
sugar—3.74 cents per pound New
York, cost and freight duty paid—
is the most attractive that has pre
vailed since 1929.
Beet Sugar Shortage,
However, distribution of beet sug
ar from domestic areas will fall
short of the 1941 figure as there are
smaller inventories to draw on than
existed a year ago. Sugar beet
processing starts in the fall. While
farmers will co-operate to the ut
most with-the U. S. department of
agriculture “all-out” supply pro
gram, there are definite limitations
on the quantity of new crop sugar
that can be delivered to users be
fore year-end.
Admittedly, our domestic sugar
supply arm may be improved ma
terially in 1943. As on offset, how
ever, the calculations have taken
into account such non-recurring sup
ply items as frozen stocks, as well
as 500,000 tons estimated to come
through from Hawaii. Effects of
the war on shipping, labor and har
vesting will make their imprint. Or
dinarily, Hawaiian sugar is ground
| Vitamins are important to the
photo-chemical action that takes
place in the retina in the transfor
mation of light impulses into nerv
ous signals to the brain. The amount
of vitamins required by the retina,
however, is extremely small.
If there are enough vitamins in
the diet for the general well-being
of the body, a person may rest as
sured that his eyes have an ample
supply. Even in night blindness,
which has been widely publicized
as a condition resulting from vita
min A deficiency.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
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Ah—watch it! Two’s enough. Two
will do instead of the usual three.
on a 24-hour per day basis. Be
cause of blackouts, night operations
are unlikely this year. Retention of
all relatively ‘clear shipping lanes
during the period preliminary to the
marshalling of our full, peak re
sources for the maximum offensive
effort also is a controversial point.
All these factors call for careful
husbanding—but not hoarding—of
sugar supplies.
In 1941, some 5,641,000 tons of sug
ar used in this country came from
off-shore areas. This year, possi
bly a maximum of 3,315,000 tons will
show up from such points.
One must picture this sugar prob
lem in terms of shipping and the
competitive need for space on the
boats for other materials, in either
the raw or finished form.
When War Broke Out.
When the war broke out in Sep
tember, 1939, there were 69,440,000
gross tons of world merchant ship-
ping (vessels of 100 tons and over).
At the end of 1939, vessels of 2,000
tons and over (representing most of
the sea-going bottoms) totaled 51,-
988,000 gross tons.
The United States total was 7,880,-
000 tons. However, only 2,094,000
tons of the American merchant ma
rine were used for foreign com
merce, the remainder working in
coastal and intercoastal shipping
and on the Great Lakes. Some of
these ships doubtless have been
pressed into service on longer hauls,
where possible. Furthermore, new
merchant marine construction is
perking up and, according to best
estimates available, by the end of
1942 construction of new shipping is
expected to proceed at the annual
rate of nearly 2,500,000 gross tons.
Translated into terms of sugar,
shipping is a most important factor.
The general freighter working the
Cuban run averages some 4,000 tons
and can carry about 4,000 tons of
sugar as its cargo. It can make
about nine trips per year. In other
words, each average freighter can
account for roughly 36,000 tons of
sugar—providing it carries nothing
else in its homeward bound cargo.
To carry the 1,285,000 tons indicat
ed for Cuban shipments to the Unit
ed States in raw sugar form, there
fore, would require the services of
36 ships, of 144,000 tons total. Add
about 120,000 tons in shipping ton
nage needed to bring in the Puerto
Rican crop and—without any other
off-shore points—we would tie up
more than 10 per cent of our entire
ocean - hauling merchant marine
(based on 1939 tonnage estimate)
for sugar needs alone.
This estimate is predicated on
the theory that shipping losses
thus far largely have offset the
amount of new ships already
launched for ocean-going hauls.
Naturally,—as now seems likely
—should the rate of shipbuilding
increase faster than war ton
nage losses, and if more vessels
are taken from intercoastal and
Great Lakes run onto longer
hauls, then the shipping situa
tion may very well show im
provement. Actually, it proba
bly has done so already to
some extent.
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1. What is the meaning of tele
as used in the word telegraph?
2. Sanskrit is the ancient sacred
and literary language of what
country?
3. What is called the first law
of nature?
4. For what sentence of four
words is the word “good-by” a
contraction or abbreviation of?
5. Is Alaska larger than Texas?
6. What does pettifogger mean?
7. What is the difference be
tween astrology and astronomy?
8. How do pearls range in size?
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1. Far off.
2. India.
3. Self-preservation.
4. God be with ye.
5. Yes. Alaska, 590,884 square
miles; Texas, 265,936 square miles.
6. A lawyer who practices in
petty cases.
7. Astrology is the art pursued
of foretelling or forecasting the
future of mankind by reference to
the influence supposed to be ex
erted by the stars. Astronomy is
the study of the heavenly bodies.
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tiny “dust” specimens which
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