The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1918 Page: 2 of 6
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T1IE INDEPENDENT.
9o Unto Others as You Would
Wish Them to do Unto You."
Is an old adage that is believed in by nearly every-
body, and our believing in this OLD GOLDEN RULE
is one reason, together with others, that has caused
us to change our methods of doing credit business,
for we wish to have others do unto us as we do un-
to them.
A Few Words of Explanation
Our custom in the past has been in some instances to ex-
tend unlimited credit to our customers, not because it was
profitable but because it was a syseem that has long been in
vogue. But times and business methods have changed and
experience today in having to buy our merchandise toi cash
and on a very limited time, has taught us to know that we
will have to change our credit system.
The government has told us we must do and must not do
certain things and we are under obligations to abide by its
rules. The wholesale houses have shortened all their time
credits with us and that means that we must in turn ask
all our customers to shorten their time credits with us. There-
fore, we ask your co-operation and feel confident that you
will do your part
Beginning Sept. 1, 1918, and on the first of each month
thereafter, all accounts shall become due and settlement must
be made by cash or bankable note at that date regardless o*
the amount of the account whether large or small.
[t is not our intention to impose a hardship on anyone but
to improve the conditions most favorable to a 1, and when
you receive a statement for an account that was due and
should have been paid on the FIRST OF THE MONIH,
please do not be offended by it for that will just serve to re-
mind you of our change of CREDIT servis, and the other
fel.ow will get his also, regardless of his financial standing.
Thanking you for past patronage and soliciting a continu-
ance of the same, with the assurance that you will be served
in the best possible manner, we beg to remain.
HENRY BORKLUND
W. A. CLIFT
AMERICANS ASKED TO
. UMIT USE OF SUGAR
Must Use No More Than Two Pounds
Per Person a Month if the Present
Meagre Allied Sugar Ration
Is Maintained.
The Thrift Car
We have left just one 90-T and one 85-4
which will go at the old price.
SAVE
Hoover Says
By buying while we have cars you save
the advance in price.
FEDERAL TIRES
S. B- Stewart
Stocks Will Be Short Until Beginning of New
Year—Ration May Be Enlarged Then.
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Dealer
J. R. POLLOCK
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office Hours 8 to 11 a. m., 5 to 7 p. m.
A.11 work given prompt and careful attention. By ob>f-r> n.v
the above office hours yon can depend upon finding mi at nn
offioe, and tvoid waiting. Day Phonf* 25. Night I hf-nt 44
Two pounds of sugar a month—half
a pound a week—that Is the sugar ra-
tion the D. S. Food Administration
has asked every American to observe
until January 1, 1919. in order to make
•lire 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
year's crop will be arriving iu this
country.
Every available sugar source will be
drawn on hy the Food Administration
during the next winter months to main-
tain sufficient stocks here to keep up
our national sugar supply. During Oc-
tober the tirst American beet sugar
will arrive In the markets. By the
middle of November some of our Lou-
isiana cane crop will be available. All
of this sugar and more may be needed
to keep this nation supplied on a re-
duced ration and to safeguard the Al-
lied sugar ration from still further
reduction. In Europe the present ra-
tion is already reduced to a minimum.
Our Situation.
The situation which the United
States fnces in its efforts to maintain
a fair distribution of sugar to the Al
lied world is as follows :
Sugar supplies throughout the coun-
try, in homes, stores, factories and
bakeries are at a low ebb. We must
make increased sugar shipments to the
Allies.
Production of American beet and
Louisiana cane crops have been disap-
pointing.
Porto Rico crops have been cur-
tailed.
Immense sugar stocks In Java can-
not be reached on account of the ship-
ping shortage; ships are needed for
troop movements and munitions.
Army and Navy sugar requirements
have increased as well as those from
the Allies.
Most industries using sugar have had
their allotment reduced by one-half;
some will receive no sugar.
Households should make every ef-
fort to preserve the fruit crop without
sugar, or with small amounts of sugar.
Later, when the sugar supply is larg-
er, the canned fruit may be sweetened
as It is used-
French Sugarlllills Desired
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France must Import sugar today,
most of it from this side of the ocean,
because the largest portion of French
sugar beet land Is in German hands.
As a result, the French people have
been placed on a sugar ration of about
18 pounds a year for domestic use;
a pound urn' a half a month. This
photograph hows how the German
troops destroyed French sugar mills
Thanks to the French rationing sys-
tem the annual consumption has heen
cut to 600.000 tons, according to re-
ports reaching the United Slates Food
Administration. Before the war Fram e
had an average sugar crop of about
750.000 tons of sugar and had souie
left over for export.
SAV
120 million Allies must eat
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Garnett, A. J. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1918, newspaper, August 29, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107764/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.