Our Sweet Tooth 



When we realize that sugar costs 

 only in the neighborhood of five or 

 six cents per pound and that the 

 other items listed run upward in 

 price as high as forty cents per 

 pound, most of them ranging be- 

 tween twenty and thirty cents, it 

 will be seen why economy impels us 

 to eat as much sugar as we can in 

 connection with the other foods 

 necessary to make a perfectly bal- 

 anced ration. 



That sugar is no longer considered 

 a luxury can be convincingly read, 

 also, from the statistics of candy 

 consumption. 



Our national candy bill runs well 

 in excess of $500,000,000 a year. 

 It amounts to more in a single 

 twelve-month than the entire recent 

 Anglo-French loan. It represents a 

 per capita expenditure of more than 

 five dollars a year. For many years 

 we have been not only unapproached 



