anaheim-gazette 1918-02-07

SUGAR CONTROL SAVED MILLIONS American Consumer Profited by $180,000,000—French Situation Helped. HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTS. This Nation's Sugar Supply Reduced to Seventy Per Cent of Normal Java Stocks Unavailable. Sugar control has saved the American public $180,000,000, Herbert Hoover, United States food administrator, declared the other day. He pointed out that sugar was selling for 11 cents a pound last August and that it would have advanced to 20 cents a pound, with the world shortage as a stimulus, had not the food administration secured the co-operation of the refiners and wholesalers and fixed a sugar price that today enables housewives to buy sugar at from 8½ to 9 cents a pound. "Every 1 cent raise in sugar from September 1 to January 1 means.$18,-000,000 to the American consumer," Mr. Hoover said. "Numbers of gentlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar would have prevailed and the public robbed of $180,000,000 this year if we had not taken these actions." Later Mr. Hoover called attention to the fact that uncontrolled sugar advanced to 85 cents a pound during the Civil War. France Got Our Sugar. Today the American public has been allotted 70 per cent of its normal supply. Before the war the average annual household consumption here was 55 pounds a person. In England the annual consumption during the war is slightly lower than France each person. TURN CASH INTO GUNFIRE We fought and won the Spanish war with 150,000 soldiers and a $200,000,000 bond issue says Frank A. Vanderlip. In men under arms we now have ten times that number. We issued ten time at that amount of bonds in the first Liberty loan. We are proposing to spend and loan to the allies in the first fiscal year of the war $19,-000,000,000. From now until the end of this fiscal year the treasury anticipates needing $300,000,000 a week—that is, the treasury has got to fight financially, a Spanish war every four days. That indicates a money measure of the size of this work, but that is not the real measure. We have just seen that one might have plenty of money, but an empty coal bin. In just the same way the government can have plenty of money, but an unequipped army. This army cannot be equipped as modern warfare demands if the man power of the country is at the same time called upon to produce all of our ordinary comforts and luxuries. It is as plain as two and two that all of us must make personal sacrifices, must give up comforts and luxuries, even necessary expenditures that can be postponed, if there is to be labor and matreial enough to equip the army in time for it to fight while it will do some good to have it fight. In war the only effort that is of any value is that which is ultimately translated into gun fire on the field of battle. The gun fire that will win this war cannot be delivered until all America recognizes individual responsibility, until the whole people join in the effort by giving up things that they can do without, so that the labor that would have been employed in making those things can do work that will ultimately result in gun fire. The government has offered the opportunity to... tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar would have prevailed and the public robbed of $180,000,000 this year if we had not taken these actions." Later Mr. Hoover called attention to the fact that uncontrolled sugar advanced to 85 cents a pound during the Civil War. France Got Our Sugar. Today the American public has been allotted 70 per cent of its normal supply. Before the war the average annual household consumption here was 55 pounds a person. In England the annual consumption during the war is 24 pounds, and in France each person is allotted a little over one pound a month. "In August the French government found itself unable to maintain even this ration." Mr. Hoover declared. "An appeal was made to America. France needed 100,000 tons. We agreed to fill this demand and up to December had shipped 85,428 tons. In the meantime an appeal was made to the American public to reduce its sugar consumption, and requests were made to distributors to supply the confectionary and sweet drinks trade with 50 per cent. of normal supply. This has been generally followed, although such regulations were voluntary, as the food administration had no authority to impose them." Domestic Price is 8½ to 9 Cents. Retail grocers throughout the country are supposed to take a profit of no more than 50 cents a hundred—half a cent a pound—on sugar. By reason of food administration regulations, binding refiners and wholesalers, the retailer is able today to buy sugar at from 8 to 8½ cents a pound. This enables him to sell to the housewife at 8½ to 9 cents a pound. There have been some violations of the sugar rulings. Mr. Hoover said recently: "Sales of sugar from 16 to 20 cents per pound have been reported and followed up vigorously and stopped and is evidence itself of the prices at which consumers would have been malet had we not intervened. We have forfeited wholesalers' licenses in aggravated cases, and we have issued warnings to first offenders in a great many instances through our local administrators." Effect on Military Situation. American sugar stocks could be filled to normal very soon if ships could be sent to Java, where 250,000 tons of sugar is waiting for shipment. But the shipping situation is so acute that the nation cannot spare the eleven ships needed to transport this sugar. It would take the boats one year to haul 250,000 tons. In the same time they could be used for transporting 200,000 soldiers to France. The food administration believes that the American public will diminish its sugar consumption by 10 or 15 percent when it is made clear that such sugar saving is a patriotic act and in war the only effort that is of any value is that which is ultimately translated into gun fire on the field of battle. The gun fire that will win this war cannot be delivered until all America recognizes individual responsibility, until the whole people join in the effort by giving up things that they can do without, so that the labor that would have been employed in making those things can do work that will ultimately result in gun fire. The government has offered the opportunity to translate at once every one's personal patriotism into the sort of help that will win the war. Forego buying something that is unnecessary; loan the money you would have used to the government by buying $5 war savings certificates. You will thus have released labor, you will have given credit to the government, you will have acquired the best security in the world, a United States government bond. REVOLUTION WILL END WAR Opinion that unless the war ends within the year 1918 there will be a revolution which will overthrow the Hohenzollerns in Germany was expressed by the Rev. Aloysius Danials of Hewitt, Wis., upon his arrival in America, from Germany by way of Switzerland, Saturday. "The people of Germany are starving," said Mr. Daniels, who for three years has been studying in Westphalia. "There are few left who are more than 50 years old, all succumbing to lack of nutrition, while the death rate among the children is frightful. "President Wilson is anathematized throughout the empire, but hardly worse than is the emperor, while what is said openly of the crown prince is not fit to repeat. "I believe they will quell this incipient revolution, but there will be another unless the war ends before next year, and that one will be the end of the Hohenzollerns. The Germans are tragically short of all sorts of food." ed to normal very soon if ships could be sent to Java, where 250,000 tons of sugar is waiting for shipment. But the shipping situation is so acute that the nation cannot spare the eleven ships needed to transport this sugar. It would take the boats one year to haul 250,000 tons. In the same time they could be used for transporting 200,000 soldiers to France. The food administration believes that the American public will diminish its sugar consumption by 10 or 15 per cent when it is made clear that such sugar saving is a patriotic act and when it is understood that there are plenty of sweeteners available to take the place of sugar, such as honey or corn syrup. Why Shortage Exists. The three great sugar producing centers of the world are Germany, the West and East Indies. German sugar is, of course, used in home. The East Indian is unavailable because of the ship shortage. While 4 cents made big inroads on the world's shipping, France and Italy ceased to be self-sustaining in sugar manufacture. England in the mean-time was cut off from German sugar—1,400,000 tons a year—because of the war. The result has been that the allied nations have been forced to turn to America and the West Indies for their sugar. EVADE RIGID FOOD CONTROL Food is Bought in Germany Surreptitiously in Violation of Automatic Rullings. Even the automatic food control of Germany has been powerless to prevent surreptitious sales, according to semi-official reports reaching the United States food administration. Illegal sales of butter are being made in Germany at prices ranging from $1.75 to $2.25 a pound. Eggs sold contrary to the German food regulations are bringing 10 to 15 cents apiece, according to these reports. And bacon or ham is bringing from $2.25 to $3.25 a pound. THE NATIONS AT WAR The following quotation from Current History for November, 1917, furnishes reliable and up to date information regarding the belligerents in the great war. We would suggest that this be preserved by our workers for future reference: "By action of Peru and Uruguay in breaking off relations with Germany, the number of nations now in that stage of belligerency is seven, while eighteen others are now at war with Germany and her allies. The following summary and dates are from the Official Bulletin. At war with Germany or her allies: "Serbia, Russia, France, Great Britain, Montenegro, Japan, Belgium, Italy/San Marino, Portugal, Rumania, Greece, Cuba, Panama, Slam, Liberia, China and the United States. Diplomatic Relations broken with Germany: "Brazil, Bolivia, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay." Declarations of war made: Austria vs. Belgium, Aug. 28, 1914. Austria vs. Montenegro, Aug. 9, '14. Austria vs. Russia, Aug. 6, 1914. Austria vs. Serbia, July 28, 1914. Bulgaria vs. Serbia, Oct. 14, 1915. China vs. Austria, Aug. 14, 1917. China vs. Germany, Aug. 14, 1917. Cuba vs. Germany, April 7, 1917. France vs. Austria, Aug. 12, 1914. France vs. Bulgaria, Oct. 18, 1915. France vs. Germany, Aug. 3, 1914. Germany vs. France, Aug. 3, 1914. Germany vs. Portugal, Mr. 9, 1916. Germany vs. Russia, Aug. 1, 1914. England vs. Bulgaria, Oct. 16, 1915. England vs. Austria, Aug. 12, 1914. England vs. Germany, Aug. 5, 1914. England vs. Turkey, Nov. 5, 1914. Greece vs. Bulgaria, Nov. 28, 1916. Greece vs. Germany, Nov. 28, 1916. Greece vs. Bulgaria, July 2, 1917. Greece vs. Germany, July 2, 1917." Save 25% to 33½% on Building No need to pay high prices on building material. 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The Kaiser’s sharks will have to speed up. They are being woefully outdistanced in the race between construction and destruction. One of the livest farm center sections in the Los Angeles county farm bureau that of the Antelope valley. An effort is being made to break the center up into three separate organizations. The Indio levee district has been prevented from continuing work on its storm water protection levee by a ruling of the superior court, as the court maintained the plans of district were inadequate to control flood waters. WHY WE MUST SAVE FOOD. The 1917 wheat crop in France was less than half normal, using the crop of 1913 as a basis of comparison. There was a shortage of 176,000,000 bushels, or 53.3 per cent. The potato crop was only within one-third of normal. The sugar beet crop showed a deficit of 67.9 per cent. Her meat herds in the early fall showed a shortage of 1,800,000 animals. Those are a few of the reasons America must feed her associates in the war. They are no longer able to feed themselves, and unless we come to the rescue we face with starvation. And starvation means defeat in the war. HASTENED RUSSIAN COLLAPSE “We must not overlook the fact that Russia collapsed, not because of the Germans on her borders, but because she failed to organize and feed her own citizenship,” the food administration announced. “We must be warned that if we are to emerge victorious from this war we cannot risk the collapse of another of our associates in this war from this cause. “Anybody that is looking for the collapse of the German people on the food question had better turn around and look at the moon, because the results will be the same. Germany is in no more danger of collapsing on that score than we are, if as much.” Food will win the war He who wastes PRINTING zette Office is equipan up-to-date JOB nt. Our work is firstour prices right. Let you figures on your We guarantee a good lowest price possible. FOOD will win the war He who wastes a crust of bread prolongs the war don't waste it! SLACKER IN JAIL A. Casteneda, a Mexican, was sentenced to serve ten days in the county jail by Police Court Judge Lawrence after it was proven that he refused to fight forest fire and attempted to persuade other men hired by the forest supervisors to refuse says the San Bernardino Sun. In pronouncing the sentence, Judge Lawrence made it plain that all persons are subject to be drafted for fire fighting if necessary by the state. In cases where the fire is not too serious the persons are not taken unless they are out of work. They are paid 25 cents an hour, given transportation and food. If they have a good excuse, they are allowed to be exempted. Casteneda stated he was looking for work, but when he found that only 25 cents was being paid for each hour's work he refused and attempted to discourage other fighters. JAPANESE THRIFT Amon gthe Japanese, thrift is a virtue in high esteem. 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That the full names and places of residence of all members of such co-partnership are respectively as fol- The undersigned do hereby certify that they are co-partners conducting the business of dealing in produce and sacks, at No. 302 East Center Street in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California,-under the fictitious name of Anaheim Produce Company. That said co-partnership firm is composed of the following persons, to-wit: Harry Eugene Carter, whose place of residence is No. 512 East Center Street, in the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California; and Charles Edson Waffle, whose residence is Orange, Orange County, California. WITNESS our hands this 18th day McClellan Simpson and George Arnold Waterman are coportners transacting business in the State of California, under a fictitious name, or a designation not showing the names of the persons interested as partners in such business; that the name under which said persons are transacting such business is Simpson and Waterman, and that their place of business is No. 116 West Center Street in the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California. That the full names and places of residence of all members of such co-partnership are respectively as follows: Germanicus McClellan Simpson, whose place of residence is No. 431 South East Street in the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California; George Arnold Waterman, whose place of residence is No. 949 South Los Angeles Street in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands this 8th day of January, 1918. GERMANICUS M. SIMPSON, GEORGE ARNOLD WATERMAN! STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) County of Orange ) On this 8th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, before me, Homer G. Ames, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Germanicus McClellan Simpson and George Arnold Waterman, known to me to be the persons described in, and whose names are subscribed to the annexed instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the day and year in this certificate first above written. (Notarial Seal) HOMER G. AMES, Notary Public in and for said Orange County, California. Nearly 70 per cent of travel oranges are running over size. Poultry producers of Southern California has addressed a letter to its members in which the facts of a recent law suit against a violator of contract of the association are stated and members are urged to stand true to the organization, which is necessary if the industry is to live. Cabbage aphis is still devastating many fields.