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Show WASHINGTON. One-half of 1 r?r cent. It seems, applies to many sott drinks these das as well as to alcoholic al-coholic leverages, For Instance, government chemists announce that some of the new orange drinks" offered the public contain much less than hulf per cent of orange content. These Imitations, I'ncle Sum finds, "usually are concotcd of sweetened, artificially carbonated water, rolored with a dye to Imitate orange juice and flavored with ;i l.tth oil from the peel of the orange." Orange Juice is one of the most healthful of all beverages and s of special medicinal and nutritive value for Infants and Invalids. These Imitations, Imi-tations, however, while they ma not contain ingredients Injurious to healthy heal-thy adults, lack the medicinal Qualities of the real Juice and should not be substituted for babies, children or the sick When orange Juice Is desired as part of diet the only dependable way le to buy the fruit and squeeze the Juice. Probably no economic barometer is more dependable than a nation s employment and payroll figures, if that li true, the public may profitably 9tudy figures just gathered by the bureau of labor statistics covering employment and wage conditions In 14 lines of industry for the months of June and July Just past Only three of the 14 Industries show an Increase in personnel employed. I'apcrhanglng leads with an increase of 3 per cent; cotton manufacturing Is second with 1.8 per cent and automobile making third wlm 1.2 per cent. Decreases ranged from ,l per cent in cigar making to 17 per eenl in car building and repairing (while nr shortages were tying up ratlwaj shipments on every road in the country coun-try i and 50 per cent in woolen manufacture manu-facture John Kramer, prohibition commte-I commte-I sioner, may Ut able to get some new Ideas on dry law enforcement at the I Coming International Congress Against Alcoholism, to be held In Washington Sept. '2l-2b For one of the delegates I in attendance will be Lr Kramer of Finland the only other official any- where In ihe world charged with go -jcnlng e whole nation's beverages |