MERICAS
LIMIT U
Must Use No Mon
Per Person a Mc
Meagre Allie<
Is Mai
Stocks Will 13e Short
Year--Ration May
Tvo pounds of sugar a month-hal
a pound a week-that is the sugar ra
tion the U. S. Food Administratloi
has asked every American to obs.erve
until January 1, 1919, in.order to make
sure there shall be enough for our
Army and Navy, for the Allied armies
and for the civilians of those nations.
By New Year's the world sugar sit
uation will be relieved somewhat by
the new crop. Cuban sugar of this
yp.ar's crop will be arriving in this
country.
Every available sugar source will be
drawn on by the Food Administration
during tho next winter months to main
tain sufficient stocks here to keep up
our national sugar supply. During Oc
tober the first American beet sugar
wil arrive in the markiets. By the
middle of November some of our Lou
islana cane crop will bq available. All
of this sugar and more may be needed
to keel) this nation supplied on a re
duced ration and to safegi~uard the Al
lied sugar ration from still further
Frenich 5ugrl
. %
France must 'nport sugnr today,
most of it from this side of the ocean,
because the lanrge'st Portion of F'rench
sugar beet land is in Glerman hands.
As a result, the French people have
been placed on a sugar ration of nhout
18 poundls a year for domestic use;
a pound and n half a month. Tis
photograph -hbows how thie Germani
.A.IAN .
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AMERICAN familiest woul
people of war torn Fra
on our home-grown sugar st
Approximately 75 per <
to our shores. We produce i
a year. Our imports from a
000 tons a year in normal ti;
The United Statcs Foo
family to limit its use of sug
per person for household us<
mands that every available s
of the Army or Navy. WI
shippnmg.
OSKED IU
SE OF SUGAF
. Than Two Pound
nth if the Present
I Sugar Ration
ntained.
Until Beginning of Nev
Be Enlarged Then.
reduction. In Europe the present ri
tion Is already re(luced I) a minimnumn.
Our Situation.
The situation which the Unite
States faces in its efforts to Iaintat
a fair distribution of sugar to the A
lied world is as follows:
Sugar supplies throughout the cour
try, in homes, stores, factories an
bakeries are at a low ebb. We mus
make Increased sugar shipments to th
Allies.
Production of American beet an
Louisiana cane crops have been disai
pointing.
Porto Rico crops have been cui
tailed.
Immense sugar stocks in Java car
not be reached on account of the shil
ping shortage; ships are needed fa
troop movements and munitions.
Army and Navy sugar requiremeni
have Increased as well as those frot
the Allies.
Most industries using sugar have ha
their allottnent reduced by one-half
sonic will receive no sugar.
Households should make every ei
fort to preserve the fruit crop withot
sugar, or with sinall anounts of sugai
Later, when the sii'-a supply is larl
er, the canned fr' may be sweetene
as it is used.
77i7b7es7oyedj
A A
troops dest royed Frenuch sugair miii
Thanks to the French ra tioning, sy
temii the annual consumption has heem
cut to 600,000 tons, according to re
ports reaching the United States Fool
Adlminlist ratilon. Before the war Franc
hand an average sugar crop of abou
'750,000 touns oif sugar and~ had som
left over for export.
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d have less sugar than the
rice, if we depended entirely
ocks.
ent. of our sugar is shipped
,bout 1,000,000 tons of sugar
>road amount to over 3,000,
di A dministration asks each
ar to two pounlds per month
.The military situation de..
hip be placed at the disposal
en we save sugar,.v we o
120 miIo
Alieyr
RAlt eat
t
e United States Food Adminintration
War Time Sweeteners
MERICA has several excellent war time sweet
eners that will be used largely during the
shortage in the sugar supply.
S.They are maple sugar, syrups, honey and
molasses and may be used in preparing des
serts and other dishes requiring sweetening.
When a cup of syrup or honey is used
to replace a cup of sugar the liquid in the
recipes should be decreased one-fourth.
d One-third of a cupful of sugar is equivalent
to one-third of a cup of honey, about one
half cup of syrup and about one-half cup of corn sugar.
One-fourth of a cup of sugar is equal to about one-half
cup of syrup or one-third cup of corn sugar. One table
spoon of sugar is equal to one tablespoon of honey, about
one and one-half tablespoons of syrup and one and one
third tablespoons of corn sugar.
Sugar may be saved by the use of raisins, dates, figs,
dried pears and fruit pastes used on the breakfast cereals.
Fruit marmalades, butters and jellies should be used
to take the place of the ordinary sweetening at a meal -and
not as accessories to it. Fruits may be preserved without
sugar. It may be added when sugar is more plentiful.
Preservmng demnands this year a thin syrup instead o>f a
heavy syrup.
If sugar is used one-half of the amount may be replaced
by another sweetener.
Drying is a means of preserving (without sugar) ap
ples, cherries, strawberries and black caps.
When ready to use they may have added the needed
sugar in the form of a syrup. When sugar is more plentiful
fruit juices may be made into jellies or may be used as
cruit juices with or without sugar, as beverages, fruit
gelatins and frozen desserts.
Fresh fruits supply the place of sugar in the diet. They
should be used freely. Desserts where sugar is scarce
may be made of gelatins, junkets, custards, )uddings and
cakes.
A BOX FROM H
Nrw yGa
Foo saig7fmlin fAercn uigorGa
4* 1'
Aip ed to Europe. We inreased our meat and fat shipmentc
Allinicas box from home" to our army abroad and the civil
SHA"E-OUR- 8UGAR
WITH THE ALLIES
British Get Two Pounds a Month.
French Pound and Half,
Italians One Pound.
GERMAN SUPPLY PLENTIFUL.
All Nations Permit Use of Sweetening
for Home Preserving Purposes.
America's now sugar ration of two
pounds a month per person is equita
ble when compared with the sugar ra
tion enforced by rigid governmental
order in Enghand, France and Italy, na
tions with which we are sharing sugar.
Each Allied nation-in the matter of
sugar consumption--is sharing on near
est possible etI'ual terms the hardships
imp~osed by greatly alt.ered conditions
in the world sugar situationl.
Formerly classed as a luxury, sugar
Is now a war time essential. The fairl
and just division of this essential ki
in the hands of the via riouis Allied
food controllers.
The United States Food Administra
tion has asked this nation to obs9erve
a voluntary sugar ration of two
pounds per person i month.
lit the other collitries at war with
Germany sugar is one o the senre
articles on every imen-i- -whether in
the households of both rich and poor,
or in the hotels.
England today has a sugar ration
of two pounds per inoijth per person.
in France the ration is i pound and a
half and in Italy it is one pound a
month. And the prices in allied coun
tries are from two to three times ats
high as in America.
If you go to a hotel in England or
France these days and order tea or
coffee they serve absolutely no sugar
with it. If you wvant sugar you must
bring it with you. -
In England it in allowable to use
one-seventh of an ounce of sugar In
the preparat ion of each luncheon. In
France many persons carry little sae
charine tablets about With them for
ulse inl hotels anad in England rich and
poor Imist like their sugar wit Ih then
If they wish to have sweetened tea
while visiting friends.
Before the wvar started France had
G25,00t0 nteres devoted to sugir produc
Ion. By 1917 the French sugar acre
nge had (IcrensedI to 180,000 acres.
Todtay the rentch tm or wonan with a
sigar (ard ha, its no aSitace whatever
that le or she will be abie to actulily
huy suTr. To buy it, one must Ilrst
find it.
Italy Has "State Sugar."
ESp(cilly dralstle regulations govern
the uist- of sugar in italy. Its manu111lt
facture, (list ributi 1n111(d sile are close
ly o'ntrolled, and lit irt actually
takent o1v(eir by the istite.
sne(harin e is terillittoed to be soiil
and Ised as :a subst it lit, for suigar anid
the governienit innnufact tires a mix
ture of sneeharine and sugar enlld
"State Sigar." wh i lar ey used.
German Sugar Ration Adequate.
Gerlany, before the Ir, producd
fa great 11rpllu11s of sligat and ( exported
large quantiti1 es. Today the Ge'rans
have virtualliy gon~e ot ofi the export
businiess, but have pl'n ty or chienyj
sugarl i for home use1.
Whlale pi I'rie's I prevae(n t in 1 he
Aliled na1 tins, ac('oring i; to informta
t in t'e('( Ived by te Uit ed Staites
Food Adlininist rat ion are ats follows.
Enigland, 10) ('ents ai pound ;Franice',
12 ''cnts: It aly. 26 ccens.
Wii'letese high iprices are bItIng
Ipitbi 2'Oroad thle Amer''ienn1i whol1esznit
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SHOWER BATHS
FOR CHILDREN
Low Wash Basins and Little
Shower Baths Adapted for ihe
Use of the Tots.
CHATEAU DES HALLES
NOW CHILDREN'S HOSP1'AL.
One of the Most Complete -s.
tablishments of Its Kin a
France, With Jolly Playr .
and Toys to Amuse Patie.,.
Up in the mountains, where' tJM
snow falls early and lies'deep, 80 1Ite
from Lyons, is the little French 1Ae
of Les Hlles-a story book vimc,
with its massive stone church eta- -nof
sentinel over two long rows of ftim,
blue-gray plaster cottages. And v. n'P
farther on is the chateau des ?': '.
where your Red Cross has estab::,1i#w
a home for 200 sick children.
Mangin) built the clijiteau. S
gint was the man who built the :
road along the Riviera and man
er railroads In France. And
odd years ago he built this cas
In the mountains for his country
But soon after his two children
Then he died, and when his wide
]owed him she left the chateau
city of Lyons to be used as a he
for children.
The War's Wreckage.
Then caie the wiar. A little
of the war's wreckage began to
in at 10vian-"repatries," elder!
and women, children, even babi<
had once lived in the parts of
eigule(i by the German tid'
whom the Germans, finding the
less, were beginning to ship ba
France by way of Switzerland.
uially tils rivulet swelled. Soo
of these unfortunates were r
at Evian daily. And fully I
them were children, undernoi
thinly clad, dirty, slekly and,
grim, spiritless, wilh faces ti -
forgotten how to smile.
To care for these children
task your Red Cross at once a
Working with the French nut
the lted ,Cross secured permi
make use of the old and (a111mos
ten Chauteau des lialles up t
the mountains. For years tI
had been closed. No effort i
been madec to fit It up as a
Your lied Cross had to beglb
very begInning.
Rooms BIg and Jolly.
But what a wonderful tasi
accomplished I The Chate
Ulles, transformed Into a,
hospital and rest home in
haste under the terrible pre
wvar needs, with little time
twice and no time to retries
Is not only one of the most
establishments of its kind;1 it
the best children's hospita
France. The twvo rooms y.
arriving children are isolat'
fewv days are lig, jolly ro
what Is need to efface from.....
ones' mInds the memories of
dlays behind the GJermuan i
big play room Is strewvn wl
horses and1( wonderful smi.
parrots and other toys carv.
wounded pOilus.
And so you strafy from row
and ev'erywhere you find a. i
dences of thIs wa tchful co ' *
then1 you reach the bathrooxr*
chateau was bullt by a man 4o
Its plumbing w'as excellent, tm.
has been strIpped out and r
with lIttle, low wvash basins
showver baths that the chlldre
more comfortably.
That Is howv your lied Cr
and cares for France's child;
HER WEIGHT IN OG
An A "tor's Lette r. CINU