Illinois Valley News. Thursday, April 23. 1942
Impending Sugar Shortage Necessitates
Government Rationing of I. S. Supply
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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
Administration, will cover
sugar.
Sugar beet is cultivated in
no less than 19 American
states from Ohio to the Pacific
coast. Cane sugar is pro
duced in Florida and Louisi
ana. 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 AUantic 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
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ence and detached stamps will not
be accepted.
Stamps will be numbered for pur I
chases in a specified period and
when the time limit is reached the j
stamp will be voided. In this man I
ner no one can save—or hoard—
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stamps for use at a later date.
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-
Maybe you ate too fast! Worked lata.
Were too hungry. Normal stomachs are
slightly acid, but hurried eating, when ex*
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Tablets contain Bismuth and Carbonates fap
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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 3,3'5.000 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.
1. Far off.
2. India.
3. Self-preservation.
4. God be with ye.
5. Yes. Alaska, 590,884 square
miles; Texas, 265,986 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.
8. Pearls range in size from the
tiny "dust” specimens which
weigh less than one-twenty-fifth of
a grain up to the giant paragons
which have been known to weigh
as much as 337 grains, or about
8,500 times more.
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MORE PRODUCTION
When War Broke Out.
When the war broke out in Sep
tember, 1939. there were 69,440.000
gross tons of world merchant ship-
bX u > p pro-«» ■'wbr°
can see they’re more golden. And you can
the difference.”
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.
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
Warning against the false hope j mation of light impulses into nerv
that a box of vitamin pills will pro ous signals to the brain. The amount
vide "new eyes for old" was sound- | of vitamins required by the retina,
ed recenUy by M J Julian, presi however, is extremely small.
dent of the Better Vision institute.
If there are enough vitamins in
The average person following normal the diet for the general well-being
eating habits, he says, obtains ade of the body, a person may rest as
quate amounts of vitamins for eye sured that his eyes have an ample
health, adding that dosage with vita supply
Even in night blindness, '
mins usually is disappointing as a which has been widely publicized
"curz all” for common visual de as a condition resulting from vita
fects
min A deficiency.
Vitamins Won’t Give You
‘New Eyes for Your Old’
Who knows nothing in his thir
tieth year, is nothing in his for
;
tieth, has nothing in his fiftieth,
? learns nothing, is nothing, and
comes to nothing.—French Prov
erb.
"I’ve smoked all the beat-known brands, bu
Raleighs seem milder and finer-tasting than tie
others That’s because they’re made from the
In 1941 our mainland sugar pro
One adult must register for each
family unit, although the head of the ducers (beet and cane combined)
family may register for all family i managed to account for 2,348.000
We can count on only
members. Servants, lodgers and oth short tons.
ers who may live in a household, 2,200.000 short tons from them this
must register individually. General year. It certainly is not that pro
ly speaking, a family unit consists ducers here lack price incentive—
of persons related by blood or mar since the OPA ceiling level for raw
riage and living and eating under sugar—3.74 cents per pound New
York, cost and freight duty paid—
the same roof.
"She s a young n, all right. But
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.”
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THAT STOMACH ACAI«
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?
Provisions for Preserving, Canning.
Special provisions will be mede 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.
Nothin" to Nothin"
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The Questions
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.
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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 noth ng
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 lar 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 it more vessels
are taken from intercoastal and
Great Lak«** run, onto longer
hauls, then the shipping situa
tion may very well show im
provement. Actually, it proba
bly has done so already to
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