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SUGAR RATIONING RULES Under the new sugar rationing rules which go into effect on August 1 domestic consumers are to be limited to two pounds a mouth for each member of the family proprietors of eating houses can serve two pounds with every ninety meals and in ¬ dustrial users are restricted to fifty per cent of their consumption last year Moreover the food administration urges that In canning and preserv ¬ ing fruit sugar be omitted but added later when the fruit is eaten and sugar is more plentiful plentifulUnquestionably Unquestionably these regulations will imiwse great inconvenience on confectioners bakers and other in ¬ dustrial consumers of sugar but there is no reason to believe that anybody will be ruined by them Already the proprietors of such establishments have shown much ingenuity in meeting the situation caused by the shortage of sugar and there is no reason to believe that they have reached the limit of their capacity capacityFor For individual consumers we arc not able to see any real hardship In this country it is estimated that twofifths of all the sugar consumed has been eaten iir the form of candy The confectioners is a great trade with us and under normal condi ¬ tions it deserves every encouragement But candy wholesome and nutritious though it is cannot be classified as a necessary of life It is a luxury and in the day of stress it must be sacrificed Cer ¬ tainly no American man woman or child will com ¬ plain because his or her candy allowance is cut down in order that the allies may have a little sweetening to meet the minimum requirements of their diets What can be accomplished in the re ¬ duction in the use of sugar is astonishing England formerly consumed ninetythree and a half pounds a person each year it has brought this down to twentysix pounds and there has been nothing to indicate impairment of the public health because of the sacrifice sacrificeIt It will be interesting to observe the effect of the War Savings Stamp and Thrift Stamp campaigns on the sale of candy Thousands of pounds of sweets are bought every day by children and their elders for im ¬ mediate consumption without regard to its food value or anything else except the satisfaction of the sweet toofh In many if not in most cases these indulgences might well be omitted for healths sake If those who have never hesitated about buying a quarters worth of gumdrops rot for purposes of Arctic exploration can be induced to put their cash into thrift stamps instead their stomachs will be benefited and the philosophy of saving goods and services that underlies one of the most interesting financial operations of the war will be illustrated in the most gratifying way wayOn On behalf of the canners however we think a word should be said Last year they were taught not to be stingy with sugar If the government wants them to economize on it this season it should pub ¬ lish directly to that effect which should include specific instructions as to the course to be pursued A new way of doing a thing once learned is not al ¬ ways easily acquired and the gentlemen and ladies who represent Mr Hoover in the kitchens of several million homes should be told what to do New York Sun
