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 



