After all, as "Facts About Sugar" reminds us, our principal saccharine substance is not selling at $1 a pound, as it did in the Napoleonic wars. If this seems too historically remote to be consoling it is worth reflecting that sugar is from 15 to 20 cents a pound in Europe today, and much more scarcely obtainable than it is here. We have sugar from California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan and Ohio; from the Louisiana and Texas cane fields and mills, from Porto Rico and from Hawaii, as well as Cuba; with the result that there is no month in the entire year in which American-grown sugar is not being harvested and moved to market.

Mr. Hoover asks for voluntary rationing in the nation's households, with a maximum allowance of three pounds a person a month. This, applied to every individual, would cut our year's consumption in two. There is no difficulty in getting along in the home on the amount the Food Administration specifies. Thousands do regularly with much less per capita. New York Sun