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Show THIS BUSINESS fkjpj SUSAN THAYER jfyj . w L A MATTER OF COMPARISON wnen uiinga were still goin in a fairly normal way, age Frenchman ate' ' pounds of sugar per year" 55 of all their wonderful lit'ti SPitt eas" and fancy ch ' "gat. cotions. The Russians ate C011" pounds per person and thl!y 28 28. The Dutch, whom ways thought of as lJ , & well, ate about 64 pounds' gar each year. In Great p Su they had a much sweets,81" with 109 pounds per Cer , tu( Australia did even better btt 113 pounds each. But th6?""1 still well below the a average. So, you-.see it's all a matter comparison. And Americans war time live better than m' Europeans in the days of !' We've taken too many 0f vantages for granted and too J overlooked the fact that our industrial system has made used to a standard of Hvine dreamed of in many lands "Hold on there!" said I to my daughter last Saturday morning when I saw ner getting out the big yellow crock and the wooden spoon and the sugar preparatory to making our Sunday cake. "Perhaps "Per-haps we'd better have ginger bread or fruit for dessert instead. You know there's a shortage of sugar and we've got to go mighty easy." "But we have been going easy," she reminded me. "No chocolate sauce for our ice cream last night. No candied apples with the pork the other day and never any candy. can-dy. Besides, they say we'll be allowed al-lowed 77 pounds of sugar for each of us this year and that's quite a lot." "What do you mean 'quite a lot,' " I asked her. "It's a lot less than we're used to and everybody is warning us to be careful." "Well, it all depends on how you look at it," my philosophical daughter, now a junior in high school, declared. "If you compare it with what we used to have here in the United States when the sky was the limit, it isn't much. But when you compare it with what they ate before the war in other countries, we're still rolling in sugar." "Do you happen to know how much they did eat in these other countries?" I asked, pinning her down. "It's all in my school notebook. Just wait until I get it." And in another few minutes she was giving giv-ing me chapter and verse on the world sugar situation. Maybe you will be surprised as I was at the actual facts. It seems that in 1937 and 1938 |