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Show SUGAR CLAIMED AS YARDSTICK OF PROSPERITY Americans Consume 101 Pounds Per Capita Russians Rus-sians But Nine. COLUMBUS, ' O., Jnn., 13. (TJ.P.) Sugur is the world's yardstick yard-stick of prosperity, according to It. F. Taber, an Ohio State university economist. "Snpar, as much as any one product; pro-duct; tells how prosperous the leading lead-ing nations of the world are," says Taber. - "With sugar as the yardstick, the United States leads the world in prosperity and Russia is near the bottom of the list." Taber explains that although a certain amount of sugar will he used as a necessity, all sweets over a certain point are regarded as luxury. lux-ury. "Assuming, therefore, that the craving for sugar is proportional to the craving for other luxuries and human indulgences, we get a fairly accurate idea of a nation's prosperity prosper-ity from its per capita consumption of sugar." Recent statistics show that the average person in the United States eats 101 pounds of sugar every year. England stands next with a per capita consumption of 93. Germany records 53 pounds per person every year, Italy 14, and Russia 9. |