Can Not Use Her Fruit Because Sugar Is Lacking From The Spokesman-Review, Aug. 3, 1946

To the editor of The Spokesman-Review:

I would like to add my voice to the protests against sugar rationing. It is time that the American people wake up to the fact that we are being exploited by the the rest of the world. We are doing without, while the sugar and wheat that we need lie in musty warehouses or go to feed our former enemy as well as the little which goes to the “needy children of Europe.” I too would like to see these needy people of Europe fed, but surely not at the expense of providing for so many unworthy ones first.

The President has made the statement that he would rather see livestock starve than people. He will see both starve if we have to continue slaughtering our livestock to feed the graft in Europe. I do not mean to say that we should not play an important part in the rehabilitation of the world, but let’s use some common sense about it. Our own people come first.

This last spring we bought a little place out in the country and for the first time in our lives we are able to raise an abundance of our own fruit but can not make full use of it due to lack of sugar. We have two growing boys who need it. We are encouraged by the government to can fruit. Perhaps the government will also tell us how, without sugar. Let’s try to do something about this by uniting. Mrs. Bernt Melum Chattaroy

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