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Show Pulling the Sweet Tooth On the fifteenth of August, 1911, Amu. - -lea lost Its sweet tooth. It was pulled by Dr. Sugar Ration, th-new th-new dentist, and England, France and Italy, who had been through the ordl themselves, stood by and aald, "Cheer up. It won't hurt much, and you'll feel better . when it's out." Hefore the war A marl cane ate ninety pounds of eugar each during the year. That waa equivalent to aeven and a half pounds each month. Now tha augar ration ra-tion cute our Individual allowance to two poundo a month leaa than a third our usual ration and ae one will suffer. The food administration also haa forbidden candy merchants and makers to eel I rum e than one pound at a time te each customer. cus-tomer. There le no limitation on the number of pounds one may buy ta a week or a month but the oon science o the purchaser ahould be the guide which adds "a week" or "a month" te the oae- -pound rule. The eugar ration la not unreaaonahle It le directly traceable to the fact that Germany, Russia and Austria, which produced pro-duced the major portion of the world's sugar, are out of the market for the period pe-riod of the war; to the fact that the eugar beet fie I da of Krance and Belgium are "otherwise occupied" and are not pro. duclng augar; to the fact that our usual Importa of eugar from tropto cane fieuts are cut to the minimum by the withdrawal with-drawal of trading ships for use In transporting trans-porting soldiers and supplies te Kurope. and to the faet that our own exports of augar to Kurope era nineteen times greater thaa In prewar yeare. We had to make up te Italy, France, Kngiand and all our allies the sugar shortage pro-! pro-! duced by the war. We will continue to : make up that shortage while war goea ! on. Our eupply to aend to Europe de-1 de-1 pends entirely on our savings In America, The new augar ration Is the practical solution of a brass tack problem, whs seeds sugar most civilian or eoklier? ' -14 lackers whine and complain at the new rstlon lovsl dtlnens -v ' |