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Show PAPER ! U will no doubt be news to the ' general public that paper Is third in the list of products essential to man. Only flour and meat, among . the chief staples, show a greater per capita consumption than paper. The following compiled from government gov-ernment figures for 1918 shows the average consumption for each inhabitant, inhab-itant, in pounds. Flour iso Meat 7r Pulp and paper 1J8 S:Jgar 70 Cotton 38 Butter 14 Coffee 10 Wool 7 Rubber ,j Everyone has a fairly good idea of 'iov. the vast supplies ot wheat and livestock are produced, and it excites no wonder to be told that ISO pounds of flour or 17S pounds of meat are eaten every year by every individual; but it will cause surprise to know that 'vhile the average inhabitant of the United States is eating 180 pounds ot flour he is sitnultaneausly using 130 pounds of paper. City Sealer Morris Eiler of Chicago at a recent hearing on living costs, said that the people of Chicago paid $2,000,000 a year for wrapping papar v |