The diagram on the sugar-bowl represents 

 the comparative total consumption of 

 sugar of the eight countries mentioned 



SWEETS are the true food for fighting 

 men, as sugar is almost instantly 

 converted into heat and energy. 

 It is pure fuel for the human furnace 

 and it burns without ashes. Mosso, 

 the distinguished Italian physiological 

 chemist, through experiments in Naples 

 many years ago, proved this v/ith the 

 ergograph, a contrivance which measures 

 the fatigue that ensues when the hand is 

 opened and shut, for example. He demon- 

 strated that from three to five ounces of 

 sugar eaten in the afternoon between the 

 hours of five and seven o'clock restored 

 the vitality which lags always at that 

 period of the day and practically started 

 the human machine going with the same 

 force which it had in the early morning. 



The German Army Fights with Sugar as 

 Well as with Bullets 



Germans, always on the alert to utilize 

 the discoveries of science, have, in eflFect, 

 claimed the work of Mosso as their own 

 and put it into practical application at 

 their army maneuvers. Soldiers under 

 special rations of sugar withstood the 

 hardship of forced marches much better 

 than did those who had none or even a 

 normal amount. 



With the declaration of war, the 



Our War Sugar Bowl 



Sugar is a quick-action food, and that is 

 why armies must have it to restore energy 



By John Walker Harrington 



amount of sugar consumed by each per- 

 son in Germany rapidly increased, and the 

 army got most of it. In the meantime, 

 the vast beet fields of France and Belgium 

 had been devastated, and the whole cane 

 sugar trade which had been supplying 

 Great Britain with such enormous quanti- 

 ties was much disturbed. Of the 

 18,000,000 tons of sugar which the world 

 produces a little more than half is cane 

 and the balance beet. In making esti- 

 mates the sugar derived from the maple 

 tree and other insignificant sources is 

 not considered. 



Australians Have the Sweetest 

 Tooth of All 



Although the United States is out- 

 stripped in both beet and cane growing by 

 six nations, she leads in the world's sugar 

 marts. We consume nearly 4,000,000 

 tons a year and each person eats an 

 annual allowance of 86 pounds, according 

 to the returns for 1917. Although the 

 American sugar barrel demands the most, 

 the American sugar bowl, that is, the 

 amount eaten by each person, is not so 

 large as in some countries. The less 

 sugar a nation produces, the more, rela- 

 tively, it is likely to eat. The Australians 

 have the most eager sweet tooth, for 

 each one of them in twelve months con- 

 sumes 106 pounds. 



Denmark, which is small in population, 

 suddenly rose to a per capita consump- 

 tion of 93.48 pounds a year in 1914-15, 

 an excess which perhaps her Teuton 

 neighbors can explain. The United 

 Kingdom, that is England, Ireland and 

 Wales, is credited in that period with an 

 annual per capita consumption of 89.49 

 pounds, while for the same season every 

 American was eating sugar at the rate 

 of 84.40 pounds a year. The Germans 

 had been having before 1914 forty pounds 

 a year each. Owing largely to needs of 

 the army and also to the fact that the 

 Teuton countries which had been ex- 



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