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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.. APRIL 24, 1942
Impending Sugar Shortage Necessitates
Government Rationing of U. S. Supply
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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
tom 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 ho£rd—
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 fj.mily
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. 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.”
Vitamins Won’t Give You
‘New Eyes for Your Old’
Warning against the false hope
that a box of vitamin pills will pro
vide “new eyes for old” was sound
ed recently by M. J. Julian, presi
dent of the Better Vision institute.
The average person following normal
eating habits, he says, obtains ade
quate amounts of vitamins for eye
health, adding that dosage with vita
mins 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
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.
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.
O VER 40 years ago a kid came
out of Bucknell university who
was better known as a football star
than any baseball wonder. He was
a big, knock-kne jd blond who ham
mered lines and kicked field goals.
But he turned out later to be a
pretty fair country pitcher. His
name was Christy Mathewson. May
be you remember him as Old Per
centage or Big Six.
Turning from the Matty of 1902
to the New York Yankees’ Spud
Chandler of 1942, it suddenly oc
curred how few college football
stars had ever taken a firm grip or
grab on big league baseball fame.
There have been a few—Matty of
Bucknell and the Giants, Orvie Over
all of California and the Cubs, Frank
Frisch of Fordham and the Giants,
Mickey Cochrane of Boston univer
sity and the Athletics, Lou Gehrig
of Columbia and the Yankees, Sam
Chapman of California and the Ath
letics, plus a few others But not
so many in a 40-year roundup.
SPUD CHANDLER
ball players carry away too many
kinks in shoulder, knee or ankle
to be good ball players. And too
many are also muscle-bound.”
With Georgia’s Best
Chandler was a star back and a
star kicker at Georgia around 10
years ago. He went north with three
Georgia teams that beat good Yale
teams three years in a row. His
Georgia teams also made it two out
of three from N.Y.U. when Chick
Meehan had the Violet at a violent
tide. Those were among the best
teams Georgia ever turned out.
“I was lucky,” Spud said. “I was
never hurt although we played tough
schedules every year. I didn’t take
any battering that ever cracked a
ligament or strained a muscle.”
Now at the age of 32 it would not
be any too surprising to see Chand
ler stepping into his best season.
Last season, although pitching well,
he dropped his first four starts. Then
he won his next ten straight.
The Georgian, now living at Moul
trie, has a husky son who is just
nine months old.
“Laughing, he wakes me every
morning at six o’clock,” Spud says.
“He laughs all the time.”
Which shows in these times what
a wonderful thing it must be to be
nine months old.
After the football-baseball argu
ment had subsided, someone opened
another debate, namely, what is the
easiest job to handle on a ball club?
Bill Dickey picked right field. At
which point some indignant right-
fielder named catching. Words flew
in various directions until the final
verdict pointed directly at third
base.
Mel Ott, who has played many
jobs, voted for third. So did Jimmy
Foxx who has also caught, played
first and third. Their angle was that
at third you either do—or you don’t.
It’s either a hit—or an out.
“The toughest play a third base-
man has to make is handling a
swinging bunt,” Bill Dickey said.
“But there are not so many of those.
And, when they come off they are
generally hits, anyway.”
The Rebuttal
This final decision failed to lift any
cheers out of the third basemen in
sight.
“A third baseman has to be set
for the two opposites,” one of them
said. “Either a smoke ball or a
bunt. The majority of those balls
driven, down our way leave a tail of
fire behind. They are moving in a
hurry. And we have to move in a
hurry to kill off the hit.
“At the same time we have to
be ready to come in fast on bunts
or slow-hit balls. We haven’t the
time a shortstop or a second base-
man has. And we have a longer
throw to make—a throw that often
has to be made iff a hurry.”
In that football-baseball debate we
overlooked Eddie Collins, a good
quarterback at Columbia before he
went to the Athletics.
But such crack football players as
Sammy Baugh, Ernie Nevers, Har
ry Hopp, Jim Thorpe, Dixie Howell
and many others couldn’t make the
grade. They couldn’t hit.
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