TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. AUGUST
MUST USE LESS SUGAR
ALLIED NEEDS GROW
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Americans Asked to Use No More Than
Two Pounds Per Person
Per Month.
Shortage May Last Until Beginning of 1919,
When New Sugar Crop Arrives.
After making n careful survey of the
The sugar supplies throughout the
world sugar situation the U. S. Food country, In homes, stores, factories and
'Administration has asked the Ameri bakeries, are at low ebb; the produc
can public to USB NO MORB THAN tion from the American beet and
TWO POUNDS OF SUGAR PER PER Louisiana ease crops have been disap
SON A MONTH until January 1, 1910. pointing; the yield In Porto Rico has
Increased sugwr demands freai the likewise been smaller than anticipat
Allied nations—who*« th. present Mig ed, and ths inability of the United
ar ration is already radneed to the States and the Allies to secure sugar
lowest possible level—and the need of from Java and other distant sources
> keeping our army and navy supplied oa aeseunt of ths Imperative call for
! are two of the lending eanfles Of the ships ter the movement of troops and
1 curtailment of America's sugar ration. thetr supptlee has materially reduced
Americans am requested to make the supply frean such quarters. Added
two ponnda of sugar per person (half to thio already difficult situation, the
a pound a week) servo ffir all sugar quantity needed by the Army and
uses In ths Jionseheld—inalodtng eoob- Navy greatly exceeds earlier esti
ing and all sugar served at the tabla.
mates; we must senri a targe amount
Public rating places, as won as to Frasea and Italy to take the place
housewives, will ho reqirtrod to Malt of the great velums lost through ths
their use of snpar to two pounds for •erman and Austrias Invasions, dur
every ninety meals Mrwd. fn the ing which mosh beet land was over
U. H. Food Administration's oafetertn run and ssany faetorlas destroyed; we
at Washington, wbera corp ley ees of the have to supply oertatn quantities to
' Food Administration take fhetr noon neutral nations under agreements; and
meal, one pound of sugar Is used »or Bnalty ever fifty million pounds were
every 120 meals »erred.
loot recently through submarine sink-
The U. S. Food Admtntatratton Is Ings off our Atlantic «oast.
confident that the American public will
'llx Food Adnilplntratinn is confi
heartily agr«e to reduce* household nee dent that the American people, with
of sugar here to a level more nearly the record of wheat savings behind it,
equal to the present restrictions having by voluntary savings pent 140,-
among the Allied nations.
000,000 bnnhels nf wheat to the Afiles
Tbe situation which the United after practically every bushel had been
States faces to its efforts to maintain exhausted from our normal surplus,
a fair distribution of sugar to the Al will with the name spirit save the
lied world is as follows:
sugar situation of the world.
GENERAL SUGAR CONSERVATION
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Is sugar necessary in the diet 7
Neither cane nor beet sugar is aeaassary. In the
average American diet alltheBugar needed may ordi
narily be supplied by using honey, sirups, fresh, pre
served aiul dried fruits.
What tose the genera I sugar saving niiee?
Use all sugar sparingly and wherever possible use
other sweeteners. Be sparing of confections and
nweet cakes. The American people last year spent
enough money for candy to feed all Belgium for two
years. Supplement sugar with honey and sirups.
Cultivate a taste for fruit tn its natural sweetness.
Sugar is a fuel food. Get fuel from potatoes and
other starchy foods rather than from sugar. Sugar
excels them as an energy-food only because it pro
duces energy more quickly. They excel sugar since
they supply more than merely the fuel need.
How may the sugar ration be expressed in quantities
known to everyone?
Two pounds per month means about 8 ounces per
week, or a little more than 1 ounce a day. This daily
ration is a trifle more than 2 tablespoons level full.
It should be remembered that this is to include all
sugar used for any purpose whatsoever—for table
use, cooking, in ice cream and desserts, on cereals or
fruit, in sugar sirups used on griddle cakes, etc.
Learn to Get Along Without Sugar
It has been done before. A hundred years ago re
fined sugar was unknown. Our ancestors used honey and
you can use honey also. Besides there arc syrups. The
natural sugars of fruits will serve today as they did cen
turies ago. You will get all the sugar you need in this
way. The Allies do it now. England, which before the
war u«ed more sugar than we did, has but two pounds
per head a month now; France one and a half pounds,
and Italy only one. Show yourself a patriotic American
and use less than your ration. This is but a slight sacri
fice as compared with all that the Allies are doing. Do it
yourself.
FRANCE AND BELGIUM
GET AMERICAN SUGAR
Ninety-five per cent of all refined
sugar sent from the United States to
the Allied nations went to France and
Belgium during the first live months
of this year.
France got 72 per cent., or nearly
W.lXxi.<k)O itoumls. and Belgium receiv
ed uearly 11,000.000 pound*, or 23 per
cent
In each country this sugar was doled
out by a strict rationing organisation.
The entire amount to the Allies In
these five month» 23.791 tons, h I most
half of which wa« shipped in May—•«
only altout one-balf of 1 per cent of
our total annual consumption.
SUGAR EXPORTS SMALL
TO NEUTRAL NATIONS
Only TV* tons of relined sugar were
shipped from America to neutral na
tions during the first five months of
this year. This amounted to only 3 2
per cent of the total exports to all
countries, Mexico received more than
we exported to nou-
half the amount
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trail.
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Sugar means Ship»—
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Ships mean Soldiers—
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Soldiers mean Victory.
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1918.
UNCLE SAM’S PARTNER
CLOTHLNQ ROUTINE.
Soldiers Have No Choice Whatever
in Selection of Garment».
The soldier has little or no choice
In clothing and the conditions of
campaigning are such that soldiers
are seldom ideally dressed. The
changes of temperature that western
Europe can experience in 48 hours
completely baffle anyone who posses
ses a restricted wardrobe and who is
obliged to l^ve in the open. Yet the
soldier in France must be prepared
for anything in the line of weather.
In the British army, the seasons
ire regulated by official routine
rather than by any slavish adherence
to climate. The first signs of spring
aie army orders commanding that
I ’special heavy winter clothing,
such as trench coats, furs and sweat
ers shall be handed in by April 1."
And handed in these comforts duly
are, whereupon the weather forth
with turns wintory again and the
middle of April is perhaps marked by
a three days’ blizzard and a sharp
frost.
Garment by garment the winter
clothing disappears into the store
shirts,
houses—sweaters, winter
trench gloves and mittens, leather
coats—all inexorably return to the
ordinance department. During the
summer this clothing is cleaned, re
paired, sterilized and repacked in
bales ready for the succeeding au-
tumn and winter issue»
The clothes collected are replaced
by Issues of lighter stuff, more suit
able for warm weather, for in the
summer, fighting is hot work, and
gunners prefer to serve their guns in
knee-high underwear and a shirt.
During some battles in the hottest
days the men have stripped even
father than this, and worked bare to
the waste, as their grandfathers
served the guns in Nelson’s day.
Wool and flannel seem heavy stuff
for summer wear, but the British
army is old in experience and knows
the best all-round materials. Cotton
though excellent In comfort, Is said
to swell the sick list rapidly, for
when soaked through with prespira-
tion It dries In such a way to chill
the wearer, while the heavier wool,
though less pleasant to wear, dries
without 111 effect..
UFI
The same standard outer uniform
serves the British soldier for all con
(Courtesy of Life and Charles Dana Gibson.)
ditions of marching. It does not
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get hard from repeated
Planting home gardens, producing more food, and saving food are all war-time efforts of shrink or
ia extraordinarily
this government in which the women of America have co-operated loyally, We are all is the washing, , and
durable.
home army; the home army here must help the fighting force* and heme armies ev
there;
British army clothing may not be
120 rail li an Allies must eat.
handsome or even well cut, but It Is
most carefully designed to furnish
the maximum of practical use com
bined with the first hygiene quali
ties. The best testimony to its ex
cellent quality and design is the fact
that the soldier himself acknowledg
es that "ration clothes" are the best
that can be found for army wear.
(Lfhipr sr fugarti
Crops Are 40 Per Cent. Less
Than Pre-War Average—Cen
tral Powers Hit Hardest.
War and Wheat.
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CANE
SUGAR
IS
ISOLATED
Allied Beet Production Falla One-third
In Rigid War Economy
Practiced.
The world today is producing forty
per cent, less beet sugar titan the pre-
wur average.
Counting the American, Allied and
German-Austrian crops, as well as the
neutrals, the U. 8. Food Administra
tion has estimated that the world
shortage created by the light crop of
1917-1018 Is at least three and a half
million tons.
That the 1017-1918 crop of cane sug
ar was two million tons In excess of
the previous year does not relieve the
general shortnge.
Cuba and Java produce one-half of
the world cane crop, and the Java sug
ar Is too far removed from America to
transport when shipping is badly need
ed to transport and maintain the mili
tary forces 111 Frunce.
In Java a large part of the old sugar
crop Is still awaiting shipment. Since
It requires 150 to 100 days for each
boat that Is sent to Java, the possibili
ties of obtaining adequate shipments
I of Java sugar this season are remote.
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Allies* Production Falls.
Tnklng the Allied nations as a group,
official reports show that beet sugar
production Is less by one-third than the
pre-vtar average.
French beet sugar Industry has suf
fered most by tbe war. The French
yield of beet sugar is now only 29.1
per cent, of the pre-war average.
For the five years preceding the out
break of hostilities In Europe. France
produced an average of 752,542 tons of
sugar each year. For 19X7-18 the
French production was 219,419 tons
With 81 factories operating, as com
parad with more than 200 that were
In existence before the war »rd before
the general campaign of destructive
ness launched by the German armies.
France nevertheless managed to manu
facture more beet sugar In 1917-18
than In 1018-17, when the total output
was 203,415 tons.
Italy In 1917-18 produced 100.800
tone of beet sugar, which was 58.000
tons less than the previous year and
110,250 leas than the annual output of
sugar for the five year pre-war pe
riod.
One of the great difficulties experi
enced In ttaly's beet sugar industry
was fiuding sufficient labor to handle
the crop. Thousands of men usually
employed In beet sugar production
were called for military service. The
yield per acre amounted to approxi
mately half of the usual quantity of
beets harvested.
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WITH TWO
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TONS OTBU&AB EACH YEAB.
VER 75 per cent, of the sugar used in the United
O States is delivered by ships. There is produced
about 800,000 tons of beet sugar and 250,000 tons of
cane sugar in Louisiana. The total consumption of the
United States is about 4,500,000 tons of raw sugar, which
makes about 4,250,000 tons of refined sugar.
If our coasts were blockaded as Germany’s now are,
we would have available for the use of the people of the
United States only one pound of sugar for every four we
use. Under such circumstances there is no doubt that the
American people would get along on this limited supply
without complaint.
The United States Food Administration is asking
every American household to use not more than two
pounds of sugar per person each month for domestic
use. Reducing our sugar consumption here means that
we will be able to help supply the needs of France, Eng
land and Italy. Sugar conservation on the American
table also means conservation of ships.
The Army and Navy have sent out an *'S. O. S.” call
for ships. “Save Our Ships to Transport Troops and
Munitions to France, in order that we may keep the fight
ing front where it now is and not allow it to extend to
our own homes,’’ is the message.
Thare is ample sugar in the world for all require
ments—in fact, there is a large surplus, but on account
of the ship shortage it is not available for use in this
country.
Java, which produces 15 per cent, of the world’s
cane crop, ‘a too far removed. It requires 150 to 160
days for a «hip to go to Java and return.
To what an extent the war is now
a' struggle of the combatant nations »
to subsist in spite of each other is
dramatically told in the battle news
from France. In the German retreat
from the Marne the German soldiers
made every effort to reap the grain
in the fields abandoned by them,
while the French farmers pushed in
after their advancing armies to har
vest what grain the invaders could
not take. When the British soldiers
bwept over the German lines in Pic
ardy a German battalion was caught
harvesting wheat which the enemy
had grown since April. These inci
dents symbolize the sharp conflict
for bread in Europe today.
There is every indication that in
this struggle the central powers are
steadily losing. The entente nations
have increased their own wheat pro
duction this year over last year by
about 10 per cent, thanks’somewhat
to the introduction of American farm
tractors. They will have in reserve
an export surplus from the United
States and Canada of between 400,-
000,000 and 500,000,000 bushels.
There is also more shipping in sight
to carry them the surplus of Argen-
tina and Australia. The central
powers, it is estimated, will show a
further decline from last year in
wheat production, while Russia Is
virtually a complete failure as a
soiree of supply on account of the
anarchy, the ruin of farm machinery
and the hostility of the peasants of
the Ukraine to the Germans.
Allied Fleet Stupendous.
Congressman Charles H. Randall,
of California, who, with several
other American representatives, re
turned to London after visiting the
entente allied grand fleet, issued a
statement saying he was profoundly
impressed with the stupendous array
of fighting craft.
The line of battleships and cruisers
alone extends over a distance of 78
miles, the congressman said, and
there were between 400 and 5000
destroyers and smaller vessels of all
source of supply on account of the
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night about the British isles. In con
clusion Representative Randall de
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clared:
Ask Anyone Who has Used It.
Registered Calves For Sale.
"We are convinced that this Hun
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horror is eliminated as a serious fac-
There are families who always aim
Having sold my ranch, will sell tor.”
to keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s three high grade heifer calves, one
Notice.
Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy In the year old this fall—from choice cows,
house for use In case it is needed, also three full blood bull calves, sub
To whom it may concern. I have
and find that It is not only a good ject to register, from choice COWS. sold my interest in the Tillamook
also
one
yearling
bull,
from
W.
S.
Investment but saves them no end
Feed Co. to Geo. Williams, who will
of suffering. As to Its reliability, ask Ladd Estate.
pay all bills against the company
If you want something A-one and collect all accounts.
anyone who has used It For sale by
cheap, call at postoffice or Todd
Lamar's Drug Store.—Feld Adv.
Charles Kunze.
Hotel.
P. W. Todd.
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